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earth grew dim and wavered in a golden mist as rose not paper leaves i kissed
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donne you forgive i let you keep her precious comment poet deep
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easy as loving easy as kissing easy as well let me ponder as missing known since the world was by scarce two or three
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tap me in indian summer i should run a juice to make rock-candy of but then we get such weather scarce one year in ten
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i've known the fellow for years my button i've wrenched from his clutch man i shudder whenever he nears
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like a long-disembodied idea he stands there you fancy you see a coeval of teniers or douw
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the rapture's in what never was or is gone that we missed them makes helens of plain ann elizys for the goose of to-day still is memory's swan
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'hee-haw ' cried he 'i hearken ' as who knew for such ear-largess humble thanks were due
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who tunnels bring not cisterns for my lay none but his peers the poet rightly hear nor mete we listeners by their length of ear
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swiftly the politic goes: is it dark he borrows a lantern slowly the statesman and sure guiding his steps by the stars
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and with commissioned talons wrench from thy supplanter's grimy clench his sheath of steel his wings of smoke and flame
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more than when first i singled thee this only prayer is mine that in the years i yet shall see
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nay shudder not i should bestow it so brimming full she couldn't blow it
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gill gives a northern origin to geaun for gown and waund for wound lovelace has waund but
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the contraction more'n i find in the old play 'fuimus troes ' in a verse where the measure is so strongly accented as to leave it beyond doubt
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'tis possible to climb to kindle or to slake although in skelton's rhyme
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and there i leave the matter being willing to believe that the saint the martyr and even the poet were as careful of god's honor as my critics are ever likely to be
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furrer furrow metaphorically to draw a straight furrow is to live uprightly or decorously
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snake crawled like a snake but to snake any one out is to track him to his hiding-place to snake a thing out is to snatch it out
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wal well spoken with great deliberation and sometimes with the a very much flattened sometimes very much broadened
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a b information wanted concerning
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angels providentially speak french conjectured to be skilled in all tongues
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antonius a speech of by whom best reported
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ardennes wild boar of an ancestor of rev mr wilbur
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d y letter of
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family-trees fruit of jejune a primitive forest of
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faneuil hall a place where persons tap themselves for a species of hydrocephalus a bill of fare mendaciously advertised in
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f f singular power of their looks
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france a strange dance begun in about to put her foot in it
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gay s h esquire editor of national antislavery standard letter to
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gomara has a vision his relationship to the scarlet woman
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idea the southern its natural foes the true american
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lewis philip a scourger of young native americans commiserated
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officers miraculous transformation in character of anglo-saxon come very near being anathematized
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o'phace increase d esq speech of
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rantoul mr talks loudly pious reason for not enlisting
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robinson mr john p his opinions fully stated
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rough and ready a wig a kind of scratch
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thacker rev preserved d d
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time an innocent personage to swear by a scene-shifter
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tuileries exciting scene at front parlor of
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beloved in the noisy city here beneath the trees bowing thyself in dust before a book
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ef i a song or two could make entranced i saw a vision in the cloud ere pales in heaven the morning star
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hers all that earth could promise or bestow hers is a spirit deep and crystal-clear how strange are the freaks of memory
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how struggles with the tempest's swells how was i worthy so divine a loss hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill
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nor deemed he lived unto himself alone not always unimpeded can i pray not as all other women are
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unconscious as the sunshine simply sweet unseen musician thou art sure to please untremulous in the river clear
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what countless years and wealth of brain were spent 'what fairings will ye that i bring what gnarled stretch what depth of shade is his
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ye little think what toil it was to build ye who passing graves by night yes faith is a goodly anchor
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birdofredum sawin esq to mr hosea biglow
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bradford c f to
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e g de r
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garrison w l to
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giddings j r to
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for a memorial window to sir walter raleigh set up in st margaret's westminster by american contributors
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letter a from a candidate for the presidency in answer to suttin questions proposed by mr hosea biglow inclosed in a note from mr
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letter a from mr ezekiel biglow of jaalam to the hon joseph t
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buckingham editor of the boston courier inclosing a poem of his son mr hosea biglow
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miss d t to
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on an autumn sketch of h g wild
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on receiving a copy of mr austin dobson's 'old world idylls on the capture of fugitive slaves near washington
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to j r giddings
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to m o s
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to m w on her birthday
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to a c l
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to c f bradford
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to h w l
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to w l garrison
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wild h g on an autumn sketch of
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[footnote : the wise scandinavians probably called their bards by the queer-looking title of scald in a delicate way as it were just to hint to the world the hot water they always get into
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[footnote (if you call snooks an owl he will show by his looks that he's morally certain you're jealous of snooks
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[footnote (and at this just conclusion will surely arrive that the goodness of earth is more dead than alive
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[footnote turn back now to page goodness only knows what and take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot
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let us allow even to richly deserved misfortune our commiseration and be not over-hasty meanwhile in our censure of the french people left for the first time to govern themselves remembering that wise sentence
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[footnote : the word occurs in a letter of mary boleyn in golding and warner milton also was fond of the word
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[footnote : which whether in that form or under its aliases witch-grass and cooch-grass points us back to its original saxon quick
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collected poems by henry newbolt
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drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand miles away slung atween the round shot in nombre dios bay an' dreamin' arl the time o' plymouth hoe
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drake he's in his hammock till the great armadas come slung atween the round shot listenin' for the drum an' dreamin arl the time o' plymouth hoe
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there'll be many grim and gory there'll be few to tell the story but we'll all be one in glory
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now the sunset's breezes shiver and she's fading down the river but in england's song for ever
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the victory led to her flag it was due but lord nelson he hailed them with masterful grace cap'n harvey i'll thank you to keep in your place
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to our battering next the redoutable struck but her sharpshooters gave us the worst of the luck lord nelson was wounded most cruel to tell
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when the captain reported a victory won thank god he kept saying my duty i've done
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o dying carthage so their passion raved would nought but these the conqueror's hate assuage
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it fell in the year of mutiny at darkest of the night on his way to delhi fight
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he thought what he must do and he sent to the rajah fair greeting to try if he were true
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the captains rode in state they came to the house of john nicholson and stood before the gate
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never give in he cried and he heard them shout and grappled with death as a man that knows not doubt
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think ye the guides will barter for lust of the light the pride of an ancient people in warfare bred honour of comrades living and faith to the dead
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ye have robbed said he ye have slaughtered and made an end take your ill-got plunder and bury the dead what will ye more of your guest and sometime friend
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he laughed: if one may settle the score for five i am ready but let the reckoning stand til day i have loved the sunlight as dearly as any alive
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he saw the dark wainscot and timbered roof the long tables and the faces merry and keen the college eight and their trainer dining aloof
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england wilt thou dare to-night pray that god defend the right
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gird thee with thine ancient might forth and god defend the right
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drake from his long rest turned again victory lit thy steel with lightning devon o devon in wind and rain
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when lieutenant murray fell the only words he spoke were 'forward grenadiers ' -press telegram
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'twill fade lad 'tis true but stone and all may perish with little loss to you
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twice three hundred boys were we long ago long ago where the downs look out to the severn sea
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some were for profit and some for pride long ago long ago some for the flag they lived and died
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