A Treasury of American Verse (Granger index reprint series)

Learned, Walter (editor)

ISBN 10: 0836960815 / ISBN 13: 9780836960815

Published by Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York, 1969

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Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Brown cloth with silver lettering on the spine. 309 historical and poetic pages! "1897 Excerpt: .again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone,--nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world--with kings, The powerful of the earth--the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.--Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings--yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep--the dead reign there alone. So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall l." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Treasury of American Verse (Granger index reprint series)
• Publisher: Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0836960815
• ISBN 13: 9780836960815
• Binding: Brown Cloth
• Edition: Reprint (1897).
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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