Essays And PoemsRead Books Ltd, 2013 M07 8 - 180 pages Jones Very was an American poet and essayist associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. Here stands a wonderful collection on Very's essays and poetry. Essays include: Epic Poetry, Shakespeare and Hamlet. Poems include: To the Humming Bird, To the Fossil Flower, The Tree, Beauty, The New Birth, The Soldier, The Earth and many many more. |
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... Earth The Rose Morning Nature Change The Poor The Clay Who hath ears to hear let him hear To the pure all things are pure He was acquainted with grief The Rail Road The Disciple Time The Call EPIC POETRY. THE poets of the present day ...
... Earth The Rose Morning Nature Change The Poor The Clay Who hath ears to hear let him hear To the pure all things are pure He was acquainted with grief The Rail Road The Disciple Time The Call EPIC POETRY. THE poets of the present day ...
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... earth contains no greater; but which, if we have not, it will continually appear in those petty contests with others by which we do but show our own cowardice. The Greeks, on the contrary, lived only for their country, and drew ...
... earth contains no greater; but which, if we have not, it will continually appear in those petty contests with others by which we do but show our own cowardice. The Greeks, on the contrary, lived only for their country, and drew ...
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... earth, nor throng the untravelled regions of space. Their footprints, which our infant eyes saw impressed on this strange world of ours, and which once conjured up so many and wondrous shapes of beauty or terror, tell us now but of one ...
... earth, nor throng the untravelled regions of space. Their footprints, which our infant eyes saw impressed on this strange world of ours, and which once conjured up so many and wondrous shapes of beauty or terror, tell us now but of one ...
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... earth. Though he has not made the Fall of Man a tragedy in form, as he first designed, he has yet made it tragic in spirit; and the epic form it has taken seems but the drapery of another interest. This proves that, however favored by ...
... earth. Though he has not made the Fall of Man a tragedy in form, as he first designed, he has yet made it tragic in spirit; and the epic form it has taken seems but the drapery of another interest. This proves that, however favored by ...
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... earth is beneath us, and we feel ourselves sharers, for a time, in the same earthly heritage. But for the soul this is not enough. We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which ...
... earth is beneath us, and we feel ourselves sharers, for a time, in the same earthly heritage. But for the soul this is not enough. We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon Dante’s dark death Divine doth e’en earth endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever genius gift give God’s Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iago Iliad impulse influence innocence light live look Lucan Macbeth man’s Menelaus Milton mind’s motive natural action nature’s never night o’er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect physical play poet poet’s Polonius possessed praise present rendered rest robes Sartor Resartus seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare’s mind soliloquy song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sublime sweet tell thee thine things Thou may’st thought tongue tree unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words