Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 5Jeannette Leonard Gilder O.T. Harris, 1910 - Literature |
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... poets Devote to her tears and songs . The gentle Luna ! womanly minded , Still doth she love her beautiful spouse . Towards the evening , trembling and pale , Peeps she forth from the light clouds around , And looks at the parting one ...
... poets Devote to her tears and songs . The gentle Luna ! womanly minded , Still doth she love her beautiful spouse . Towards the evening , trembling and pale , Peeps she forth from the light clouds around , And looks at the parting one ...
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... poet , novelist , and essayist , born at Cambridge , Mass . , in 1809 ; died 1894. He was educated at Harvard University , gaining while there three medals for dissertations . He started the study of law , but soon gave it up for that ...
... poet , novelist , and essayist , born at Cambridge , Mass . , in 1809 ; died 1894. He was educated at Harvard University , gaining while there three medals for dissertations . He started the study of law , but soon gave it up for that ...
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... poets feign , Sails the unshadow'd main , - The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanter , where the Siren sings , And coral reefs lie bare , Where the cold sea - maids rise to sun their ...
... poets feign , Sails the unshadow'd main , - The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanter , where the Siren sings , And coral reefs lie bare , Where the cold sea - maids rise to sun their ...
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... may be rocked to sleep in . I visit such spots always with infinite delight . My friend , the Poet , says , that rapidly growing towns are most unfavorable to the imaginative and 41 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE.
... may be rocked to sleep in . I visit such spots always with infinite delight . My friend , the Poet , says , that rapidly growing towns are most unfavorable to the imaginative and 41 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE.
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... closely . It is none of my business . - After all , it is the imponderables that move the world , —heat , electricity , love . - Habet . ] THOMAS HOOD THOMAS HOOD , English poet and humorist , 49 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE.
... closely . It is none of my business . - After all , it is the imponderables that move the world , —heat , electricity , love . - Habet . ] THOMAS HOOD THOMAS HOOD , English poet and humorist , 49 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE.
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