 | Robert Frost - 1979 - 642 pagini
...which this noonday's the beginning hour. THE GIFT OUTRIGHT The land was ours before we were the lands. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what... | |
 | Kenneth M. Failor, Eleonora Hayden - 1972 - 432 pagini
...WHICH HAS ENRICHED THE CULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD. THE GIFT OUTRIGHT The land was ours Before we were the land's. She was...more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours in Massachusetts, in Virginia. But we were England's — still colonials. Possessing what... | |
 | Robert Frost - 1979 - 654 pagini
...Whether time's rewards are fair or unfair. THE GIFT OUTRIGHT The land was ours before we were trie land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, 5 Possessing what... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pagini
...an' pains, Nussed by stern men with empires in their brains. James Russell Lowell The Biglow Papers The land was ours before we were the land's. She was...more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what... | |
 | 1993 - 492 pagini
...serious, young, and resonant the poem he did not have to read, for he knew it by heart. The Gift Outright The land was ours before we were the land's. She was...more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what... | |
 | Luther S. Luedtke - 1992 - 588 pagini
...separate, distinctive society determined to be free. As Robert Frost saw in his poem "The Gift Outright": The land was ours before we were the land's. She was...more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials. There were premonitions... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagini
...NAAL-2; NIP; NoAM; NOBA; OxBA; PPP; Prim; SoSe; TAP; TrGrPo; TW The Gift Outright 49 The land was our (I. 1-3) 50 Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) To... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pagini
...New Jersey, June 9, 1907.— The Papers ofWoodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 17, p. 194. 475 The land was ours before we were the land's. She was...more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1993 - 224 pagini
...authoritative texts. By this text, for instance—Robert Frost's wellknown jingoist lyric "The Gift Outright." The land was ours before we were the land's. She was...more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours, In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pagini
...night? What but design of darkness to appall?— If design govern in a thing so small. THE GIFT OUTRIGHT The land was ours before we were the land's. She was...more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what... | |
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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed... 
