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A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.


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I sing New England, as she lights her fire
In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright
Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night,
She still is there, the guardian on the tower,
To open for the world a purer hour.


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My highway is unfeatured air,
My consorts are the sleepless stars,
And men my giant arms upbear —
My arms unstained and free from scars.


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Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.


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I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me;
If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea.


William Ellery Channing

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William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing
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Born: November 29, 1818
Died: December 23, 1901 (aged 83)
Bio: William Ellery Channing was a Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing. The younger Ellery Channing was thought brilliant but undisciplined by many of his contemporaries.
Known for:
  1. Thoreau, The Poet-Naturalist
  2. Self Culture (1838)
  3. Discourses On War
  4. The Perfect Life In Twelve Discourses

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