A Literary History of America

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C. Scribner's sons, 1900 - 574 頁
 

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第 134 頁 - Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair !
第 213 頁 - And travellers now within that valley Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody ; While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh — but smile no more.
第 198 頁 - cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief ; Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers." To a generation familiar with all the extravagances of nineteenth-century romanticism, a feeling so
第 194 頁 - given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us
第 248 頁 - from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying ; the impetuous charge ; the steady and successful repulse ; the loud call to repeated assault ; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance ; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war
第 485 頁 - safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won ; Exult O shores, and ring O bells ! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold
第 397 頁 - it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings. And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest,— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
第 365 頁 - But let its humbled sons instead, From sea to lake, A long lament, as for the dead, In sadness make. " Then pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame ; Walk backwards, with averted gaze, And hide the shame ! " In 1850 no man condemned Webster more fiercely
第 387 頁 - Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and sombre and still. And lo ! as he looks, on the belfry's height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light ! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns
第 194 頁 - poem on the death of Drake, written in 1820: — " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." In 1811, Halleck and Drake contributed to the New York " Evening Post " a series of poetical satires entitled " The Croaker Papers-," and Halleck published a mildly satirical poem entitled " Fanny,

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