Alaskana: Or, Alaska in Descriptive and Legendary PoemsPorter & Coates, 1892 - 366 Seiten |
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Alaska Aleuts ashes bear beasts beauty bend beneath Bering's beside the ocean billows birds blankets body bold bosom bounding brave bright calling Chilkats crags creature dancing daring dark deepest blue distant dwelling earth echo eyes fair fastened fearful feast fierce fish forever friends frowning gather gaze glaciers gleaming glistening glory graceful grasses grew grow hand heart held hold INDIAN RIVER islands islet kelp labret land lichen light lingered lonely lovely mighty mosses MOUNT EDGECUMBE mountain MUIR GLACIER natives note in Appendix numbers O'er onward painted pale phlox potlatch quivering raven REESE LIBRARY rest ripples river roaring rocks Round rushes sacred safe sails shades shadows Shaman shining shore silent silver Sitka slender smiling sound spirit strange stream sweet T'linket tell tender thunder tints tiny toss totem touch trembling tribes turn UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA valleys verdure voice waiting walrus wander watched waters waves weary weird wild wildly winds Yehl
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 353 - Glowing wide and bright, then narrow, And then flashing broad and golden, Sending long, bright crimson fingers Far across the cloudless ether. Rosy lights grow clear and vivid, Pale to tints of faintest blushes, Then burst out in glorious shading Close beside the soft, blue azure Where the sharp, clear edges mingle In the softest shades of purple. Pale-green shafts shoot out and quiver In the glorious golden brightness ! Flaming pencils touch the hill-tops, Sending slender rainbow arches Down their...
Seite 12 - I saw — a country added To a glory-crowned republic ! Not a blood-stained, cowering tribute Lowering under smouldering ashes, — Under ashes holding embers That but wait a hand to fan them Into fierce, rebellious flaming, Into fires too hot for quenching, — But a land made ours by purchase ! Bought, without a crimson signing Of the title-deed that makes it Part of this most noble Union.
Seite 315 - TTERE the channel's waters spreading Turn toward the land, and find it So entrancing in its fairness, — So stupendous in its grandeur ! Find its ice-bound coast so willing To receive their bright advances, That they lie in sheets of silver At the...
Seite 353 - Catch the gleam of gold and crimson And throw out swift, starry flashes Toward the gay, auroral brightness ! In the north a glorious archway Casts its glancing rays and shafting And uplifts a glittering halo...
Seite 41 - Yet these soul-warped people ever Live to rules firm set and guarded, By which tribes and subdivisions Know and hold the land assigned them, Certain that the bold encroacher Pays most sadly for his folly.
Seite 41 - Claiming nearly all the coast-line And the islands near adjoining ; — Save where here and there the Indians Have and hold small coast possessions, Which they won by force or cunning.
Seite 327 - But behold the glorious glacier ! Like a grandly ancient city O'er which death has thrown his mantle, And at once preserved its beauty — Cold, imperishable, lovely...
Seite 85 - While it hides away unconscious Of its clear and gentle fairness, Of its sweet, transparent beauty — As the violet, whose sweetness Breathes among the fallen...
Seite 322 - Silence reigns ! the awful stillness Like a phantom presence lingers, All unseen, but felt so plainly That it seems to touch the senses.