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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... give the feeling which they claim , While she the feeling gives ; She cannot call it gladness or delight ; And yet there seems a richer , lovelier light On e'en the humblest thing that lives . She sees the mottled moth come twinkling by ...
... give the feeling which they claim , While she the feeling gives ; She cannot call it gladness or delight ; And yet there seems a richer , lovelier light On e'en the humblest thing that lives . She sees the mottled moth come twinkling by ...
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... Give me the boon of love ! Renown is but a breath , Whose loudest echo ever floats From out the halls of death . A loving eye beguiles me more Than fame's emblazon'd seal , And one sweet note of tenderness Than triumph's wildest peal . Give ...
... Give me the boon of love ! Renown is but a breath , Whose loudest echo ever floats From out the halls of death . A loving eye beguiles me more Than fame's emblazon'd seal , And one sweet note of tenderness Than triumph's wildest peal . Give ...
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... give me , - That the world's blasts may round me blow , And I yield gently to and fro , While my stout - hearted trunk below And firm - set roots unmoved be . Some of thy stern , unyielding might , Enduring still through day and night ...
... give me , - That the world's blasts may round me blow , And I yield gently to and fro , While my stout - hearted trunk below And firm - set roots unmoved be . Some of thy stern , unyielding might , Enduring still through day and night ...
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