 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - 1913 - 782 psl.
...remarkable for its freshness, its spirituality, its renunciation of artifice, and its unmistakable power. " All I could see from where I stood Was three long...eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and fine, And all I saw from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. Over these things I could not... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1918 - 568 psl.
...instance, to the opening poem that begins like a child's thoughtless rhyme or a scrap of nonsense verse: All I could see from where I stood Was three long...my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and une, Straight around till I was come Back to where I'd started from; And all I saw from where I stood... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1924 - 728 psl.
...life both geographical and intangible. The isolation is described in the opening lines of the poem. All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes, I traced the line Of the horizon, thin... | |
 | 1927 - 506 psl.
...prolifically to the reviews. "Renascence" itself was startling to literary America. Opening with the frugal lines : All I could see from where I stood Was three...looked another way And saw three islands in a bay . . . It finally reaches a remarkable climax in the lines : The world stands out on either side No... | |
 | Clement Wood - 1925 - 418 psl.
...still remains her most astonishing product, especially when its date of composition is remembered. All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood ; I turned and looked the other way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin... | |
 | William Rose Benét - 1925 - 558 psl.
...fluid perfection of technique. She has also written short stories under various pen-names. RENASCENCE * ALL I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; •From Renascence and Other Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Copyright, 1917, by Mitchell Kennerley.... | |
 | Harry Allen Overstreet - 1925 - 322 psl.
...is in the poem the lucid simplicity of genius (another mystical word which sadly needs analysis) : "All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. I turned and looked the other way And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hughes Mearns - 1927 - 36 psl.
...place among the fine rare products of a decade of fine rare products. It began with disarming calmness, All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way, And saw three islands in bay. A young girl lies upon the grass and teases her mind with... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1928 - 504 psl.
...phrase. Notice how simply the poem begins, how easily it establishes the scene and its backgrounds; All I could see from where I stood Was three long...looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay. And so it proceeds in the very tone of a child's counting-out rhyme. The rhythm is so definite, the... | |
 | Schoolmen's Week, University of Pennsylvania - 1928 - 704 psl.
...All I could tee from where I flood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way. And saw three Islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and fine. 270 schoolmen's week The One-Room Schools Surveyed. — During the late part of the term 1924-25 the... | |
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All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way, And saw three islands in a bay. 
