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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... Thy beauty fades Beauty The Wind-Flower The Robin The Columbine The New Birth The Son In Him we live Enoch The Morning Watch The Living God The Garden The Song Love Day Night The Latter Rain The Slave Bread The Spirit.
... Thy beauty fades Beauty The Wind-Flower The Robin The Columbine The New Birth The Son In Him we live Enoch The Morning Watch The Living God The Garden The Song Love Day Night The Latter Rain The Slave Bread The Spirit.
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... 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 one or two centuries before, of which we cannot ...
... 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 one or two centuries before, of which we cannot ...
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... live on a page which the finger of time strives in vain to efface, which shall ever remain an eternal monument of disgrace to those of after times, who, though gifted with higher views of excellence, have yet striven to erect a ...
... live on a page which the finger of time strives in vain to efface, which shall ever remain an eternal monument of disgrace to those of after times, who, though gifted with higher views of excellence, have yet striven to erect a ...
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... live and will ever live unrivalled. It is not our purpose to show the adaptation of the rules of Aristotle to the Iliad, since from this those rules were drawn,—we would only say that according to the spirit of those rules every true ...
... live and will ever live unrivalled. It is not our purpose to show the adaptation of the rules of Aristotle to the Iliad, since from this those rules were drawn,—we would only say that according to the spirit of those rules every true ...
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... live no longer in the faith of reason.” In Dante's time, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven had long been considered as the separate states in which vice and virtue would meet their fitting reward. This belief had been taught by signs and ...
... live no longer in the faith of reason.” In Dante's time, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven had long been considered as the separate states in which vice and virtue would meet their fitting reward. This belief had been taught by signs and ...
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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