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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... human law , Are to a few restricked ; But , och ! mankind are unco weak An ' little to be trusted ; If Self the wavering balance shake , It's rarely right adjusted ! Yet they what fa ' in Fortune's strife , Their fate we should na ...
... human law , Are to a few restricked ; But , och ! mankind are unco weak An ' little to be trusted ; If Self the wavering balance shake , It's rarely right adjusted ! Yet they what fa ' in Fortune's strife , Their fate we should na ...
Page 92
... human trace , surrendering up Thine individual being , shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements ; To be a brother to the insensible rock , And to the sluggish clod , which the rude swain Turns with his share , and treads upon ...
... human trace , surrendering up Thine individual being , shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements ; To be a brother to the insensible rock , And to the sluggish clod , which the rude swain Turns with his share , and treads upon ...
Page 137
... human , raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love , — That better self shall live till human Time Shall fold its eyelids , and the human sky Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb . Unread forever . This is life to ...
... human , raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love , — That better self shall live till human Time Shall fold its eyelids , and the human sky Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb . Unread forever . This is life to ...
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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