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Side 33
... reflection of the rhyming spirit of the country and the time . In the editor's wan- derings in some of the secluded lanes of letters , he has -escued from oblivion many poems of considerable value . He 3 POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA 333.
... reflection of the rhyming spirit of the country and the time . In the editor's wan- derings in some of the secluded lanes of letters , he has -escued from oblivion many poems of considerable value . He 3 POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA 333.
Side 34
... poems than some which he must have expended much time and labor in obtaining . The vanities and jealousies of his band of authors he was compelled to take into consideration and to forbear giv- ing them unnecessary offence . Among all ...
... poems than some which he must have expended much time and labor in obtaining . The vanities and jealousies of his band of authors he was compelled to take into consideration and to forbear giv- ing them unnecessary offence . Among all ...
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... poem excelling some of the efforts of men of the highest genius . We might select from Mr. Gris- wold's collection many pieces , which are better than some few poems included in editions of Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , and Scott ...
... poem excelling some of the efforts of men of the highest genius . We might select from Mr. Gris- wold's collection many pieces , which are better than some few poems included in editions of Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , and Scott ...
Side 39
... with commerce , and his poems are therefore the products of his leisure . His poetical compositions may be readily livided into two classes : those written for special occasions , and in some degree POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA 39.
... with commerce , and his poems are therefore the products of his leisure . His poetical compositions may be readily livided into two classes : those written for special occasions , and in some degree POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA 39.
Side 41
... poem is , after all , its most enduring excellence . Images , metaphors , subtle and delicate phrases , may glide away ... poems is , as we have aiready stated , very pure and harmonious . The swell- ing diction , the wide command of ...
... poem is , after all , its most enduring excellence . Images , metaphors , subtle and delicate phrases , may glide away ... poems is , as we have aiready stated , very pure and harmonious . The swell- ing diction , the wide command of ...
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Side 262 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Side 332 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Side 345 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this...
Side 293 - But I have lived, and have not lived in vain : My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain, But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire...
Side 289 - Nor look'd upon the earth with human eyes ; The thirst of their ambition was not mine, The aim of their existence was not mine ; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger ; though I wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon.
Side 380 - ... of an intellect defaced with sin and time. We admire it now, only as antiquaries do a piece of old coin, for the stamp it once bore, and not for those vanishing lineaments and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly that must needs have been very glorious, the decays of which are so admirable. He that is comely, when old and decrepit, surely was -very beautiful when he was young. An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Side 346 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Side 346 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Side 61 - Once as I told in glee Tales of the stormy sea, Soft eyes did gaze on me, Burning yet tender ; And as the white stars shine On the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor.
Side 254 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.