"We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses, Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn."
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Poets from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesPainters from the United StatesPeople from Pennsylvania
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The new pastoral Book.
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Thomas Buchanan Read
Thomas Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872), American poet, was a portrait-painter, and lived much abroad. He wrote a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of poetry,
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