The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical IntroductionCarey and Hart, 1842 - 468 sidor One of the most important American poetry anthologies of the nineteenth century, including the works of nearly every major and minor poet of the day, selected by Edgar Allan Poe's future literary executor, and rarely encountered in the correct first printing. Poets included are Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Bryant, Emerson, Jones Very, William Gilmore Simms, Christopher P. Cranch, Richard Henry Dana, and an impressive selection of female poets now mostly forgotten: Sigourney, Gould, Brooks, Mrs. Seba Smith, Hall, Embury, Ellett, Dinnies, Welby, Hooper, Davidson. |
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... fire ; Stars , crowded , throng'd , in regions so remote , That their swift beams - the swiftest things that be- Have travell'd centuries on their flight to earth . Earth , sun , and nearer constellations ! what Are ye amid this ...
... fire ; Stars , crowded , throng'd , in regions so remote , That their swift beams - the swiftest things that be- Have travell'd centuries on their flight to earth . Earth , sun , and nearer constellations ! what Are ye amid this ...
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... fire - fly steed again , Ready to follow in its flight The streaming of the rocket - light . XXXVI . The star is yet in the vault of heaven , But it rocks in the summer gale ; And now ' tis fitful and uneven , And now ' tis deadly pale ...
... fire - fly steed again , Ready to follow in its flight The streaming of the rocket - light . XXXVI . The star is yet in the vault of heaven , But it rocks in the summer gale ; And now ' tis fitful and uneven , And now ' tis deadly pale ...
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... fire blazed and spread its dismal sheen . Thou peaceful valley ! when I think how fair Thy various beauty shines , beyond compare , I cannot choose but own the Power that gave Amidst thy woes a helping hand to save , When o'er thy hills ...
... fire blazed and spread its dismal sheen . Thou peaceful valley ! when I think how fair Thy various beauty shines , beyond compare , I cannot choose but own the Power that gave Amidst thy woes a helping hand to save , When o'er thy hills ...
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