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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... existence must seem almost without end, and they live on through life with as little reference to another state of being as we ourselves do in childhood. To minds in this state there was a remoteness in an event which had taken place ...
... existence must seem almost without end, and they live on through life with as little reference to another state of being as we ourselves do in childhood. To minds in this state there was a remoteness in an event which had taken place ...
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... existence assumed an importance in the mind, like that of our immortality, and gave to all without a power and dignity not their own. This it was which imparted an heroic greatness to war which cannot now be seen in it. That far ...
... existence assumed an importance in the mind, like that of our immortality, and gave to all without a power and dignity not their own. This it was which imparted an heroic greatness to war which cannot now be seen in it. That far ...
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... existence for the praise of all coming ages. They have not been disappointed. Worlds to them unknown have read of their deeds, and generations yet unborn shall honor them. They live on a page which the finger of time strives in vain to ...
... existence for the praise of all coming ages. They have not been disappointed. Worlds to them unknown have read of their deeds, and generations yet unborn shall honor them. They live on a page which the finger of time strives in vain to ...
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... existence, he was obliged to ascribe to them. But this is an objection of our own times, of men requiring a more spiritual representation of the mind's action, which, if it cannot be given, must preclude the possibility of another great ...
... existence, he was obliged to ascribe to them. But this is an objection of our own times, of men requiring a more spiritual representation of the mind's action, which, if it cannot be given, must preclude the possibility of another great ...
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... existence to the cold forms of departed days, by bowing down, like the prophet of old, and breathing into them a purer and more ennobling faith, the brighter flame of our own bosoms. To stir the secret depths of our hearts, writers must ...
... existence to the cold forms of departed days, by bowing down, like the prophet of old, and breathing into them a purer and more ennobling faith, the brighter flame of our own bosoms. To stir the secret depths of our hearts, writers must ...
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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