TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The pages of thy book I read, And as I closed each one, My heart, responding, ever said, "Servant of ...
The pages of thy book I read, And as I closed each one, My heart, responding, ever said, "Servant of ...
Unmanageable as history: these Followers of Tammuz to the land That offered no return, where dust Grew thick on every ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
Give us a name to fill the mind With the shining thoughts that lead mankind, The glory of learning, the ...
I am ashamed -- I hide -- What right have I -- to be a Bride -- So late a ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Industrious, affable, having brain on fire, Henry perplexed himself; others gave up; good girls gave in; geography was hard on ...
WHILE new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake An' pownies reek in pleugh or braik, This hour on e'enin's edge I ...
I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it ...
OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds, Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap'd-up skeletons of kings, Out of that ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
TURN, O Libertad, for the war is over, (From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the ...
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
WHAT best I see in thee, Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways, Ever undimm'd by time ...
Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
We have no aspiration vain For paradise Utopian, And here in our sun-happy Spain, Though man exploit his fellow man, ...
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