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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... pure pleasures of parochial life . What though no crowd of clients , at his gate , To falsehood and injustice bribe his tongue , And flatter into guilt ? -what though no bright And gilded prospects lure ambition on To legislative pride ...
... pure pleasures of parochial life . What though no crowd of clients , at his gate , To falsehood and injustice bribe his tongue , And flatter into guilt ? -what though no bright And gilded prospects lure ambition on To legislative pride ...
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... pure hope which fadeth not away . Innocent teacher of the high And holy mysteries of Heaven ! How turn'd to thee each glazing eye , In mute and awful sympathy , As thy low prayers were given ; And the o'erhovering spoiler wore , the ...
... pure hope which fadeth not away . Innocent teacher of the high And holy mysteries of Heaven ! How turn'd to thee each glazing eye , In mute and awful sympathy , As thy low prayers were given ; And the o'erhovering spoiler wore , the ...
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... pure sentiment - the highest qualities that ever distin- guish the poetry of women . She is now but about twenty years of age . THE PRESENCE OF GOD . O , THOU who flingst so fair a robe Of clouds around the hills untrod- Those mountain ...
... pure sentiment - the highest qualities that ever distin- guish the poetry of women . She is now but about twenty years of age . THE PRESENCE OF GOD . O , THOU who flingst so fair a robe Of clouds around the hills untrod- Those mountain ...
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