A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant |
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... thought in its poetic form eddies now to the right and now to the left , wearing away its banks first on one side and then on the other . Some au- thor of more than common faculties and more than common boldness catches the public ...
... thought in its poetic form eddies now to the right and now to the left , wearing away its banks first on one side and then on the other . Some au- thor of more than common faculties and more than common boldness catches the public ...
Page xxix
... thought suffers by too great expansion . Wordsworth was unnecessarily afraid of being epigrammatic . He abhorred what is called a point as much as Dennis is said to have abhorred a pun . Yet I must own that even his most diffuse ...
... thought suffers by too great expansion . Wordsworth was unnecessarily afraid of being epigrammatic . He abhorred what is called a point as much as Dennis is said to have abhorred a pun . Yet I must own that even his most diffuse ...
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... thought , remote from the common apprehension . With regard to the first of these I have only to say what has been often said be- fore , that , however favorable may be the idea which this luxuriance of poetic imagery and of epithet at ...
... thought , remote from the common apprehension . With regard to the first of these I have only to say what has been often said be- fore , that , however favorable may be the idea which this luxuriance of poetic imagery and of epithet at ...
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... thought that any love again might be So deep and strong as that I felt for thee . Faithful and true , with sense beyond thy years , And natural piety that leaned to heaven ; Wrung by a harsh word suddenly to tears , Yet patient to ...
... thought that any love again might be So deep and strong as that I felt for thee . Faithful and true , with sense beyond thy years , And natural piety that leaned to heaven ; Wrung by a harsh word suddenly to tears , Yet patient to ...
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... thought that thou art safe , and he ! - That thought is joy , arrive what may to me . My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned , and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise , The son of parents ...
... thought that thou art safe , and he ! - That thought is joy , arrive what may to me . My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned , and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise , The son of parents ...
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Page 684 - ed to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains, And like a prophetess of May Strewed flowers upon the barren way, Making the wintry world appear Like one on whom thou smilest, dear. Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood
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Page 536 - я fair. Give me but what this ribbon bound," perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the shepherd charms his sheep ; While the birds unbounded fly, •из POEMS OF NATURE. And with music fill the sky, Now, even now, my joys run high. Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for
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