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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... give to God , This monstrous thing distorted and soul - quencht ? How will you ever straighten up this shape ; Touch it again with immortality ; Give back the upward looking and the light ; Rebuild in it the music and the dream ; Make ...
... give to God , This monstrous thing distorted and soul - quencht ? How will you ever straighten up this shape ; Touch it again with immortality ; Give back the upward looking and the light ; Rebuild in it the music and the dream ; Make ...
Page 111
... give pain and gain pleasure , For justice avenges each slight . The air for the wing of the sparrow , The bush for ... Gives all that he hath for her smile . For when from her heights he has won her , Alas ! it is only to prove That ...
... give pain and gain pleasure , For justice avenges each slight . The air for the wing of the sparrow , The bush for ... Gives all that he hath for her smile . For when from her heights he has won her , Alas ! it is only to prove That ...
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... Give thy thoughts no tongue , Nor any unproportion ' d thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried , Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy ...
... Give thy thoughts no tongue , Nor any unproportion ' d thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried , Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy ...
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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