The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical IntroductionCarey and Hart, 1842 - 468 Seiten 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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... rest ! Stranger , their humble graves adorn ; You too may fall , and ask a tear : " Tis not the beauty of the morn That proves the evening shall be clear . They saw their injured country's wo ; The flaming town , the wasted field ; Then ...
... rest ! Stranger , their humble graves adorn ; You too may fall , and ask a tear : " Tis not the beauty of the morn That proves the evening shall be clear . They saw their injured country's wo ; The flaming town , the wasted field ; Then ...
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... rest . Happy , as man may be , Stretch'd on his back , in homely bean - vine bower , While the voluptuous bee Robs each surrounding flower , And prattling childhood clambers o'er his breast , The husbandman enjoys his noonday rest ...
... rest . Happy , as man may be , Stretch'd on his back , in homely bean - vine bower , While the voluptuous bee Robs each surrounding flower , And prattling childhood clambers o'er his breast , The husbandman enjoys his noonday rest ...
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... rest . Proud nursling of the tempest ! where repose Thy pinions at the daylight's fading close ? In what far clime of night Dost thou in silence , breathless and alone- While round thee swells of life no kindred tone- Suspend thy ...
... rest . Proud nursling of the tempest ! where repose Thy pinions at the daylight's fading close ? In what far clime of night Dost thou in silence , breathless and alone- While round thee swells of life no kindred tone- Suspend thy ...
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