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A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest.

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A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown; A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the darkness; Our army foil’d with loss severe, and the…

A Leaf for Hand in Hand.

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A LEAF for hand in hand! You natural persons old and young! You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! You friendly boatmen and…

A Hand-Mirror.

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HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?) Outside fair costume—within ashes and filth, No more a flashing eye—no more a sonorous voice…

A Glimpse.

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A GLIMPSE, through an interstice caught, Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove, late of a winter night—And I unremark’d seated in a corner;…

A Farm-Picture.

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THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

A Clear Midnight.

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THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing,…

A child said, What is the grass

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A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it is any…

A Carol of Harvest, for 1867

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1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms—a song of the soil of fields. A song with the…

A Broadway Pageant.

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1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek’d two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive, Ride to-day through Manhattan. Libertad! I do not…

A Boston Ballad, 1854.

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TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early; Here’s a good place at the corner—I must stand and see the show. Clear the way there, Jonathan! Way…