 I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. Tis past, that melancholy dream! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more. Among thy mountains...  Elements of English Grammar - Seite 117von William Franklin Webster, Alice Woodworth Cooley - 1904 - 223 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...her spinning wheel serving as a metonymy for this mingling of domestic and patriotic love: Among the mountains did I feel The joy of my desire; And she...cherished turned her wheel Beside an English fire. The implicit death of Lucy in this poem (as in all of the poems of the Lucy cycle) serves as a reminder... | |
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