Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won