The Poets and Poetry of AmericaRufus Wilmot Griswold Carey and Hart, 1845 - 476 páginas 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. 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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... pale ; The waving ringlets of the flowing hair , The snowy bosom , and the killing air ; Their sable brows in beauteous arches bent , The darts which from their vivid eyes are sent , And fixing in our easy - wounded hearts , Can never ...
... pale ; The waving ringlets of the flowing hair , The snowy bosom , and the killing air ; Their sable brows in beauteous arches bent , The darts which from their vivid eyes are sent , And fixing in our easy - wounded hearts , Can never ...
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... pale moon embraced you with her beams- Adieu to all ! To all , that charm'd me where I stray'd , The winding stream , the dark sequester'd shade ; Adieu all triumphs here ! Adieu the mountain's lofty swell , Adieu , thou little verdant ...
... pale moon embraced you with her beams- Adieu to all ! To all , that charm'd me where I stray'd , The winding stream , the dark sequester'd shade ; Adieu all triumphs here ! Adieu the mountain's lofty swell , Adieu , thou little verdant ...
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... pale , Dipp'd in the torpid fount of Lethe's stream , That shroud with night each intellectual beam , And quench the immortal fire , in deep Oblivion's wave . Yet draw the thick , impervious veil O'er all the scenes of tasted wo ...
... pale , Dipp'd in the torpid fount of Lethe's stream , That shroud with night each intellectual beam , And quench the immortal fire , in deep Oblivion's wave . Yet draw the thick , impervious veil O'er all the scenes of tasted wo ...
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... Pale tufts of purple topped the silver flame , And many - colour'd forms on evening breezes came . " Thin , twilight forms , attired in changing sheen Of plumes high - tinctured in the western ray ; Bending , they peep'd the fleecy ...
... Pale tufts of purple topped the silver flame , And many - colour'd forms on evening breezes came . " Thin , twilight forms , attired in changing sheen Of plumes high - tinctured in the western ray ; Bending , they peep'd the fleecy ...
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... pale and dreadful Rose the long terrors of the dark - red fires ; Torches , and torrent sparks , by whirlwinds driven , Stream'd through the smoke , and fired the clouded heaven ; As oft tall turrets sunk , with rushing sound , Broad ...
... pale and dreadful Rose the long terrors of the dark - red fires ; Torches , and torrent sparks , by whirlwinds driven , Stream'd through the smoke , and fired the clouded heaven ; As oft tall turrets sunk , with rushing sound , Broad ...
Términos y frases comunes
art thou beam beauty beneath bird blue born bosom breast breath breeze bright brow CASTINE charm cheek clouds cold Connecticut dark dead death deep dost dream earth fair fear feel flowers gaze gentle gleam glory glow grave green hand Harvard College hath hear heart heaven hills holy hope hour land leaves life's light lips living lone look look'd lyre morning mountain muse Nashaway neath never night Norridgewock o'er pale pass'd poems prayer pride rapture rills rock ROSALINE round seem'd seraph shade shadows shine shore sigh silent sing skies sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit spring sprite stars storm stream sunny sweet swell tears tempest thee thine thou art thought tree vex'd voice wake wandering waters wave weary ween wild wind wings woods Yale College young youth ZOPHIEL
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Página 125 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 133 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 294 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 236 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Página 342 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Página 125 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 134 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers...
Página 134 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Página 471 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Página 384 - In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow; (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago...