The Poets of America: Illustrated by One of Her Painters, Volume 1John Keese S. Colman, 1841 - American poetry |
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... hopes in the human heart May be to ruin hurled ; Like mouldering monuments of art Heaped on a sleeping world : Yet , there is something will not die , Where life hath once been fair ; Some towering thoughts still rear on high , Some ...
... hopes in the human heart May be to ruin hurled ; Like mouldering monuments of art Heaped on a sleeping world : Yet , there is something will not die , Where life hath once been fair ; Some towering thoughts still rear on high , Some ...
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... hopes and memories must depart To sleep with unremembered years . But still that ancient rampart stands Unchanged ... hope or fear to - morrow . Farewell ! I go my distant way ; Perchance in some succeeding years , The eyes that know no ...
... hopes and memories must depart To sleep with unremembered years . But still that ancient rampart stands Unchanged ... hope or fear to - morrow . Farewell ! I go my distant way ; Perchance in some succeeding years , The eyes that know no ...
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... hope her heart to win , Be his of common mould ! But I - though spurs are won no more Where herald's trump is pealing , Nor thrones carved out for lady fair ' Where steel - clad ranks are wheeling- I loose the falcon of my hopes Upon as ...
... hope her heart to win , Be his of common mould ! But I - though spurs are won no more Where herald's trump is pealing , Nor thrones carved out for lady fair ' Where steel - clad ranks are wheeling- I loose the falcon of my hopes Upon as ...
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