The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literatiRedfield, 1850 |
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... living . She has no children . I need scarcely add that she has always been distinguished for her energetic and active philanthropy . THOMAS DUNN BROWN . I HAVE seen one or two scraps of verse with this gentleman's nom de plume ...
... living . She has no children . I need scarcely add that she has always been distinguished for her energetic and active philanthropy . THOMAS DUNN BROWN . I HAVE seen one or two scraps of verse with this gentleman's nom de plume ...
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... living air- The bane that should work | its dead | ly wo , | The little men | had there ; | In the gray moss cup was the mil | dew brought , | The worm in a rose - leaf rolled , And many things with destruction fraught | That its doom ...
... living air- The bane that should work | its dead | ly wo , | The little men | had there ; | In the gray moss cup was the mil | dew brought , | The worm in a rose - leaf rolled , And many things with destruction fraught | That its doom ...
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... living , nor is it a fact of so deeply transcendental a nature as only to be accounted for by the Emersons and Alcotts . In the first place , we have but to consider that gratitude , surprise , and a species of hyper - patriotic triumph ...
... living , nor is it a fact of so deeply transcendental a nature as only to be accounted for by the Emersons and Alcotts . In the first place , we have but to consider that gratitude , surprise , and a species of hyper - patriotic triumph ...
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... living things Swarms ; the wide air is full of joyous wings ; And myriads still are happy in the sleep Of Ocean's azure gulfs and where he flings The restless surge . Eternal Love doth keep In his complacent arms , the earth , the air ...
... living things Swarms ; the wide air is full of joyous wings ; And myriads still are happy in the sleep Of Ocean's azure gulfs and where he flings The restless surge . Eternal Love doth keep In his complacent arms , the earth , the air ...
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... living , ) has two daughters , ( one of them Mrs. Parke Godwin , ) and is re- siding for the present at Vice - Chancellor McCown's , near the junc- tion of Warren and Church streets , NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE . * THE reputation of the author ...
... living , ) has two daughters , ( one of them Mrs. Parke Godwin , ) and is re- siding for the present at Vice - Chancellor McCown's , near the junc- tion of Warren and Church streets , NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE . * THE reputation of the author ...
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Página 308 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe; For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow!
Página 59 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 174 - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago...
Página 329 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 185 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Página 323 - FULL knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing : Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year, you must not die ; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die.
Página 293 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Página 197 - In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Página 252 - He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public.
Página 210 - And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn, Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn.