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Introduction | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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A Note on the Texts | |
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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) | |
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from The Columbiad: Book the Eighth | |
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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) | |
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Thanatopsis | |
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To a Waterfowl | |
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Mutation | |
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Hymn to the North Star | |
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To a Mosquito | |
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A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal | |
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The Prairies | |
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The Crowded Street | |
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Not Yet | |
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The Poet | |
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The Death of Lincoln | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | |
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Each and All | |
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The Humble-Bee | |
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The Snow-Storm | |
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Grace | |
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Blight | |
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Motto to "The Poet" | |
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The World-Soul | |
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Mithridates | |
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Hamatreya | |
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Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing | |
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Merlin I | |
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Motto to "Nature" | |
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Days | |
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The Chartist's Complaint | |
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Two Rivers | |
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Motto to "Illusions" | |
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Terminus | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) | |
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Mezzo Cammin | |
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The Warning | |
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The Day Is Done | |
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Dante | |
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Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass | |
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The Fire of Drift-Wood | |
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The Jewish Cemetery at Newport | |
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The Ropewalk | |
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The Golden Mile-Stone | |
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from Hiawatha: The White Man's Foot | |
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Snow-Flakes | |
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The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi | |
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The Rhyme of Sir Christopher | |
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) | |
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The Cities of the Plain | |
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The Farewell | |
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Official Piety | |
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The Haschish | |
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Skipper Ireson's Ride | |
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The Palm-Tree | |
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Brown of Ossawatomle | |
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A Word for the Hour | |
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Barbara Frietchie | |
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from Tent on the Beach: (The Dreamer) | |
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Overruled | |
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | |
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Dreams | |
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Sonnet: To Science | |
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Romance | |
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A Dream Within a Dream | |
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The City in the Sea | |
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To One in Paradise | |
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Silence | |
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The Sleeper | |
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The Conqueror Worm | |
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Dreamland | |
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Stanzas | |
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The Raven | |
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A Valentine | |
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Ulalume | |
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Annabel Lee | |
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Eldorado | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) | |
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Old Ironsides | |
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Our Limitations | |
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Latter-Day Warnings | |
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The Chambered Nautilus | |
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Iris, Her Book | |
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Prologue | |
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Tartarus | |
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Jones Very (1813-1880) | |
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The New Birth | |
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The Son | |
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The Word | |
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The Spirit | |
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The Serpent | |
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The Robe | |
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The Winter Rain | |
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The Cross | |
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The Mountain | |
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The Promise | |
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The Birds of Passage | |
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The Silent | |
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The Indian's Retort | |
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Slavery | |
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The First Atlantic Telegraph | |
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The Slowness of Belief in a Spiritual World | |
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Forevermore | |
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | |
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Sic Vita | |
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Brother Where Dost Thou Dwell | |
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On Ponkawtasset, Since, We Took Our Way | |
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Low-Anchored Cloud | |
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Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze | |
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My Life Has Been the Poem I Would Have Writ | |
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Inspiration | |
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For Though the Eaves Were Rabbeted | |
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Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong | |
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A Winter and Spring Scene | |
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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) | |
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A Contrast | |
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from A Fable for Critics | |
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from The Biglow Papers: The Pious Editor's Creed | |
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The Darkened Mind | |
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Sonnet: On Being Asked for an Autograph in Venice | |
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The Boss | |
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In a Copy of Omar Khayyam | |
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Science and Poetry | |
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) | |
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Song of Myself | |
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | |
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | |
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I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | |
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Cavalry Crossing a Ford | |
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Beat! Beat! Drums! | |
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As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado | |
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Years of the Modern | |
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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Passage to India | |
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Prayer of Columbus | |
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To a Locomotive in Winter | |
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Herman Melville (1819-1891) | |
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Immolated | |
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The Portent | |
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Misgivings | |
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The March into Virginia | |
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The Temeraire | |
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A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight | |
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Stonewall Jackson: Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville | |
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Stonewall Jackson: Ascribed to a Virginian | |
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The House-Top | |
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The College Colonel | |
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The Martyr | |
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The Apparition | |
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Iris | |
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from Part I, canto xiii: The Arch | |
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Part II, canto vii: Guide and Guard | |
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from Part II, canto xxiii: By the Jordan | |
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from Part III, canto xx: Afterward | |
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from Part III, canto xxix: Rolfe and the Palm | |
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from Part IV, canto iii: The Island | |
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Part IV, canto xxxi: Dirge | |
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Part IV, canto xxxiv: Via Crucis | |
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Part IV, canto xxxv: Epilogue | |
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Tom Deadlight | |
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The Aeolian Harp | |
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The Maldive Shark | |
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The Berg | |
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The Enviable Isles | |
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Pebbles | |
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After the Pleasure Party | |
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The Night-March | |
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Art | |
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Herba Santa | |
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In a Bye-Canal | |
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The Attic Landscape | |
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The Parthenon | |
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In the Desert | |
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The Little Good Fellows | |
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The Chipmunk | |
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Time's Betrayal | |
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Rosary Beads | |
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The Rusty Man | |
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Camoens | |
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Fruit and Flower Painter | |
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In Shards the Sylvan Vases Lie | |
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To - | |
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Pontoosuce | |
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Billy in the Darbies | |
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Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) | |
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Sonnets: First Series | |
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Infatuation | |
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Rhotruda | |
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As Sometimes in a Grove | |
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Coralie | |
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The Cricket | |
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | |
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49. I never lost as much but twice | |
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95. My nosegays are for Captives - | |
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77. I never hear the word "escape" | |
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89. Some things that fly there be - | |
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135. Water, is taught by thirst | |
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185. "Faith" is a fine invention | |
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211. Come slowly - Eden! | |
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213. Did the Harebell loose her girdle | |
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243. I've known a Heaven, like a Tent - | |
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249. Wild Nights - Wild Nights! | |
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257. Delight is as the flight - | |
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258. There's a certain Slant of light | |
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281. 'Tis so appalling - it exhilarates - | |
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290. Of Bronze - and Blaze - | |
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301. I reason, Earth is short - | |
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307. The One who could repeat the Summer day - | |
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315. He fumbles at your Soul | |
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326. I cannot dance upon my Toes - | |
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328. A Bird came down the Walk - | |
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338. I know that He exists | |
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357. God is a distant - stately Lover - | |
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410. The first Day's Night had come - | |
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414. 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch | |
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435. Much Madness is divinest Sense - | |
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448. This was a Poet - It is That | |
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501. This World is not Conclusion | |
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502. At least - to pray - is left - is left - | |
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506. He touched me, so I live to know | |
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519. 'Twas warm - at first - like Us - | |
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547. I've seen a Dying Eye | |
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556. The Brain, within its Groove | |
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577. If I may have it, when it's dead | |
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599. There is a pain - so utter - | |
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606. The Trees like Tassels - hit - and swung - | |
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612. It would have starved a Gnat - | |
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613. They shut me up in Prose - | |
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622. To know just how He suffered - would be dear - | |
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629. I watched the Moon around the House | |
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632. The Brain - is wider than the Sky - | |
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640. I cannot live with You - | |
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652. A Prison gets to be a friend - | |
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656. The Name - of it - is "Autumn" - | |
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657. I dwell in Possibility - | |
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670. One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - | |
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754. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - | |
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1053. It was a quiet way - | |
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1712. A Pit - but Heaven over it - | |
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525. I think the Hemlock likes to stand | |
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665. Dropped into the Ether Acre - | |
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709. Publication - is the Auction | |
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771. None can experience stint | |
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812. A Light exists in Spring | |
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824. The Wind begun to rock the Grass | |
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854. Banish Air from Air - | |
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915. Faith - is the Pierless Bridge | |
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925. Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning - | |
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949. Under the Light, yet under | |
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959. A loss of something ever felt I - | |
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997. Crumbling is not an instant's Act | |
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1056. There is a Zone whose even Years | |
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1090. I am afraid to own a Body - | |
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1128. These are the Nights that Beetles love - | |
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1173. The Lightning is a yellow Fork | |
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1235. Like Rain it sounded till it curved | |
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1247. To pile like Thunder to its close | |
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1311. This dirty - little - Heart | |
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1331. Wonder - is not precisely Knowing | |
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1575. The Bat is dun, with wrinkled Wings - | |
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1400. What mystery pervades a well! | |
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1433. How brittle are the Piers | |
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1445. Death is the supple Suitor | |
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1527. Oh give it Motion - deck it sweet | |
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1542. Come show thy Durham Breast | |
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1551. Those - dying then | |
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1670. In Winter in my Room | |
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1718. Drowning is not so pitiful | |
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1751. There comes an hour when begging stops | |
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Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) | |
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The Palace-Burner | |
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A Doubt | |
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This World | |
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In Her Prison | |
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Answering a Child | |
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No Help | |
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In a Queen's Domain | |
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If I Had Made the World | |
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Stone for a Statue | |
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Army of Occupation | |
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A Lesson in a Picture | |
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A Pique at Parting | |
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Her Word of Reproach | |
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Sad Spring-Song | |
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Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) | |
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Song for "The Jacquerie" | |
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Nirvana | |
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To Beethoven | |
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To Richard Wagner | |
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The Revenge of Hamish | |
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To Bayard Taylor | |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) | |
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Walt Whitman | |
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John Evereldown | |
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Luke Havergal | |
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Three Quatrains | |
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The House on the Hill | |
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Aaron Stark | |
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Sonnet | |
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Verlaine | |
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Richard Cory | |
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Cliff Klingenhagen | |
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Reuben Bright | |
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The Tavern | |
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Octaves XV, XIX, XX | |
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Explanatory Notes | |