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Poems of early and after years

Nathaniel Parker Willis · 1848 · Scanned text

68,132 words · about 4 h 46 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1848, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/49035203); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Language
English
Published
1848
Length
68,132 words · about 4 h 46 min
Sections
52 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (52)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Preface under 1 min
  3. Contents about 1 h 34 min
  4. I about 5 min
  5. II about 21 min
  6. IV. A calm and lovely paradise about 1 min
  7. V. I shrink from the embitter'd close about 1 min
  8. VI about 1 h 42 min
  9. VII under 1 min
  10. VIII. Pause while you read, oh, Broadway demoiselle ! under 1 min
  11. IX. And yet the bloom upon the fruit is fair ! under 1 min
  12. X under 1 min
  13. XI. I know this does not work well, and that ours under 1 min
  14. XII. " Free-born Americans," they must have freedom ! under 1 min
  15. XIII. Upon her thirtieth birth-day, Lady Jane under 1 min
  16. XIV under 1 min
  17. XV. And, with his honours not at all unsteady under 1 min
  18. XVI under 1 min
  19. XVII under 1 min
  20. XVIII. I do not mean to say that generally under 1 min
  21. XIX under 1 min
  22. XX under 1 min
  23. XXI under 1 min
  24. XXII under 1 min
  25. XXIII under 1 min
  26. XXIV under 1 min
  27. XXV under 1 min
  28. XXVI. And bounding up the flower-laden stair under 1 min
  29. XXVII. Beyond a gallery extended, cool under 1 min
  30. XXVIII. It was a small pavilion lined with pink under 1 min
  31. XXIX. A singular and fragile little creature under 1 min
  32. XXX under 1 min
  33. XXXI. Her person was dress'd very Kke her soul under 1 min
  34. XXXII. " My dear !" the Countess said, (by this time she under 1 min
  35. XXXIII. " Time has no business in one's house, my dear ! under 1 min
  36. XXXIV under 1 min
  37. XXXV under 1 min
  38. XXXVI under 1 min
  39. XXXVII under 1 min
  40. XXXVIII. " Oh, poor the flattery to call it mine under 1 min
  41. XXXIX. " And so, my dear, — let not the market vary under 1 min
  42. XL. I need not state the ratiocination under 1 min
  43. XLI under 1 min
  44. XLII under 1 min
  45. XLIII under 1 min
  46. XLIV. To these inquiries the Lady Jane under 1 min
  47. XLV. " The poet's on the look-out for a scene under 1 min
  48. XLVI under 1 min
  49. XLVII under 1 min
  50. XLVIII. " In his ideas, I mean. (I really am at a under 1 min
  51. XLIX about 15 min
  52. Canto II. I about 33 min
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Front matter

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Preface

of immature taste, and being incapable of elevation to a high critical standard without a remodelling which would effectually destroy them. Some poems have been restored which had been rejected from other collections, and some left which the author would prefer to have rejected now; the frequent choice of these, for selected miscellanies, and other unmistakeable signs of their popularity, overruling even the possibility of suppressing them.

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