Landscape in American PoetryD. Appleton, 1879 - 124 pages |
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... beauty of the country in which we live . Our artists have already done much toward showing the world what American landscape is like , but by the aid of our poets they will do yet more ; for what is the artist's hand without the poet's ...
... beauty of the country in which we live . Our artists have already done much toward showing the world what American landscape is like , but by the aid of our poets they will do yet more ; for what is the artist's hand without the poet's ...
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... beauty of the two rivers . The spot is associated with the memory of the poet's sister - Elizabeth - she of the Large , sweet , asking eyes , who shared her brother's peculiar gift , and has left in verse a brief glimpse of herself ...
... beauty of the two rivers . The spot is associated with the memory of the poet's sister - Elizabeth - she of the Large , sweet , asking eyes , who shared her brother's peculiar gift , and has left in verse a brief glimpse of herself ...
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... beauty of the shy creatures that inhabit our woodlands ; to our own wild - flower growths ; and to the wonder of our own forests , and mountains , and prairies . It was our own June , and not the foreign May - day of Eng- lish verse we ...
... beauty of the shy creatures that inhabit our woodlands ; to our own wild - flower growths ; and to the wonder of our own forests , and mountains , and prairies . It was our own June , and not the foreign May - day of Eng- lish verse we ...
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... beauty , each in its own place and season ; no imported lilies and daisies , but the common native flowers that children know and love - the yellow violet and the squirrel - cup , the late aster , the golden - rod , and the fringed ...
... beauty , each in its own place and season ; no imported lilies and daisies , but the common native flowers that children know and love - the yellow violet and the squirrel - cup , the late aster , the golden - rod , and the fringed ...
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... waves Glance to the sun at once , as when the hands Of a great multitude are upward flung In acclamation . The picture changes from this scene of calm beauty to one of tumult and storm : But who shall bide thy tempest , who shall face 28.
... waves Glance to the sun at once , as when the hands Of a great multitude are upward flung In acclamation . The picture changes from this scene of calm beauty to one of tumult and storm : But who shall bide thy tempest , who shall face 28.
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AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION American poetry amid artist autumn awake and sing beauty Beaver Brook Bells of Lynn beneath beneath the sky birds blending bloom blossoms blue boughs breeze bright brook Bryant charm clouds dark deep delight dream Dryad dusky earth El Capitan Emerson's familiar fancy flash flowers forest gleam glimpse glory glow gold golden grass gray green Hampton meadows hang haunt heart heaven hills human voice lakelet land landscape light Longfellow look Lowell Merrimack mist Monadnock morning mosses mountain Nahant Nature night o'er pines poem poet poet's poetic poetry Powow purple quiet ripple river rivulets rocks round scenery season seems shade shadow shadows fall shine shore sing singer snow snowy white soft song spring stream sunshine sweet thee Thou thrush tints Tis a woodland trees twilight verse vision voice waters wave Weehawken Whittier's wild winds woodland enchanted woods
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Page 52 - WE sat within the farmhouse old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance, night and day. Not far away we saw the port, — The strange, old-fashioned, silent town, — The lighthouse, — the dismantled fort, — The wooden houses, quaint and brown. We sat and talked until the night, Descending, filled the little room; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought...
Page 72 - Ye, who sometimes, in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country, Where the tangled barberry-bushes Hang their tufts of crimson berries Over stone walls gray with mosses. Pause by some neglected graveyard, For a while to muse, and ponder On a half-effaced inscription, Written with little skill of song-craft, Homely phrases, but each letter Full of hope and yet of heart-break, Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter; — Stay and read this rude inscription, Read this Song...
Page 32 - Such as you see in summer, and the winds Scarce stir the branches. Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the cold breezes come not, blooms alone The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at — Startling the loiterer in the naked groves With unexpected beauty, for the time Of blossoms and green leaves is yet afar.
Page 23 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 35 - For number or proportion. Mockingly, On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths; A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn; Fills up the farmer's lane from wall to wall, Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the...
Page 119 - THE HUSKERS. IT was late in mild October, and the long autumnal rain Had left the summer harvest-fields all green with grass again ; The first sharp frosts had fallen, leaving all the woodlands gay With the hues of summer's rainbow, or the meadowflowers of May.
Page 52 - The very tones in which we spake Had something strange, I could but mark ; The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.
Page 39 - This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 34 - Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
Page 76 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own! We sped the time with stories old, Wrought puzzles out, and riddles told, Or stammered from our school-book lore "The Chief of Gambia's golden shore.