Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and VerseWilliam Peterfield Trent |
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... United Dawn and the Peak To Sappho • The Children . MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Wood - words • Rain and Wind Rest Heart's Encouragement Love and a Day Requiescat · Beauty and Art WALTER MALONE . October in Tennessee A Portrait of Henry Timrod ...
... United Dawn and the Peak To Sappho • The Children . MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Wood - words • Rain and Wind Rest Heart's Encouragement Love and a Day Requiescat · Beauty and Art WALTER MALONE . October in Tennessee A Portrait of Henry Timrod ...
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... United States , and as this " True Relation " dealt with " Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia , ” it would seem proper to make his the 1 The first two volumes of Tyler's " History of American Literature ...
... United States , and as this " True Relation " dealt with " Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia , ” it would seem proper to make his the 1 The first two volumes of Tyler's " History of American Literature ...
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... United States " ( 1890 ) and other books furnish clear evidence of the zeal with which Southern scholars are devoting themselves to history . See Deane's edition of the " True Relation " ( 1866 ) and , in Smith's behalf , the late ...
... United States " ( 1890 ) and other books furnish clear evidence of the zeal with which Southern scholars are devoting themselves to history . See Deane's edition of the " True Relation " ( 1866 ) and , in Smith's behalf , the late ...
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... United States ; to take my leave of your Excellency as a public character ; and to give my final bless- ing to that country , in whose service I have spent the prime of my life , for whose sake I have consumed so many anxious days and ...
... United States ; to take my leave of your Excellency as a public character ; and to give my final bless- ing to that country , in whose service I have spent the prime of my life , for whose sake I have consumed so many anxious days and ...
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... United States came into existence as a nation ; and , if their citizens should not be com- pletely free and happy , the fault will be entirely their own . Such is our situation , and such are our prospects ; but notwith- standing the ...
... United States came into existence as a nation ; and , if their citizens should not be com- pletely free and happy , the fault will be entirely their own . Such is our situation , and such are our prospects ; but notwith- standing the ...
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Page 212 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.
Page 213 - Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil ! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore: Is there — is there balm in -Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore !
Page 213 - said I, " thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that bends above us — by that God we both adore — Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven,
Page 211 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 224 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 223 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 210 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 214 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 209 - Up many and many a marvellous shrine Whose wreathed friezes intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down.
Page 224 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.