One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement : an AnthologyRoy Jay Cook Contemporary Books, 1958 - 185 pages Well-known poems with a prose supplement that includes the Gettysburg Address, the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and Patrick Henry's famous speech. |
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... Eyes FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON ( Born March 22 , 1852 ; died January 13 , 1921 ) The night has a thousand eyes , And the day but one ; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun . The mind has a thousand eyes , And the ...
... Eyes FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON ( Born March 22 , 1852 ; died January 13 , 1921 ) The night has a thousand eyes , And the day but one ; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun . The mind has a thousand eyes , And the ...
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... eyes are like the diamond bright , but mine are dull as lead . " Alas , alas ! how very soon this silly little fly , Hearing his wily flattering words , came slowly flitting by . With buzzing wings she hung aloft , then near and nearer ...
... eyes are like the diamond bright , but mine are dull as lead . " Alas , alas ! how very soon this silly little fly , Hearing his wily flattering words , came slowly flitting by . With buzzing wings she hung aloft , then near and nearer ...
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... eyes read her face . Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinet turned ; The tallow candle an astral burned ; And for him who sat by the chimney lug , Dozing and grumbling o'er ...
... eyes read her face . Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinet turned ; The tallow candle an astral burned ; And for him who sat by the chimney lug , Dozing and grumbling o'er ...
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April 23 arms beauty bells beneath Bettmann bird Born April Born August Born December brave breast breath Christmas cloud Copyright cuddle doon dark dead death died April 23 died July died October door doth dream dust earth EDWIN MARKHAM EUGENE FIELD eyes face February 27 feel feet flowers glory hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hills of Habersham Horatius James Whitcomb Riley Keep a-goin Lars Porsena laugh light live look Lord March 24 moon moonlight never Nevermore night Nokomis o'er Old Aunt Mary's pass plants a tree Poems rain rendezvous with Death riding round sail shore silence sing sleep smile song soul stars stood sweet thee thine things Thou shalt thought truth turned VACHEL LINDSAY valleys of Hall wall wild WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind