| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - History - 1913 - 782 pages
...remarkable for its freshness, its spirituality, its renunciation of artifice, and its unmistakable power. " All I could see from where I stood Was three long...eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and fine, And all I saw from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. Over these things I could not... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1918 - 568 pages
...instance, to the opening poem that begins like a child's thoughtless rhyme or a scrap of nonsense verse: All I could see from where I stood Was three long...my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and une, Straight around till I was come Back to where I'd started from; And all I saw from where I stood... | |
| Vivian Trow Thayer - Periodicals - 1924 - 728 pages
...life both geographical and intangible. The isolation is described in the opening lines of the poem. All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes, I traced the line Of the horizon, thin... | |
| English literature - 1927 - 506 pages
...prolifically to the reviews. "Renascence" itself was startling to literary America. Opening with the frugal lines : All I could see from where I stood Was three...looked another way And saw three islands in a bay . . . It finally reaches a remarkable climax in the lines : The world stands out on either side No... | |
| Clement Wood - Poets, American - 1925 - 418 pages
...still remains her most astonishing product, especially when its date of composition is remembered. All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood ; I turned and looked the other way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin... | |
| William Rose Benét - American poetry - 1925 - 558 pages
...fluid perfection of technique. She has also written short stories under various pen-names. RENASCENCE * ALL I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; •From Renascence and Other Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Copyright, 1917, by Mitchell Kennerley.... | |
| Harry Allen Overstreet - Psychology, Applied - 1925 - 322 pages
...is in the poem the lucid simplicity of genius (another mystical word which sadly needs analysis) : "All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. I turned and looked the other way And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin... | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hughes Mearns - American poetry - 1927 - 36 pages
...place among the fine rare products of a decade of fine rare products. It began with disarming calmness, All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way, And saw three islands in bay. A young girl lies upon the grass and teases her mind with... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1928 - 504 pages
...phrase. Notice how simply the poem begins, how easily it establishes the scene and its backgrounds; All I could see from where I stood Was three long...looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay. And so it proceeds in the very tone of a child's counting-out rhyme. The rhythm is so definite, the... | |
| Schoolmen's Week, University of Pennsylvania - Education - 1928 - 704 pages
...All I could tee from where I flood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way. And saw three Islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and fine. 270 schoolmen's week The One-Room Schools Surveyed. — During the late part of the term 1924-25 the... | |
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