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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Page 28
... law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence , in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill , And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest , He ...
... law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence , in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill , And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest , He ...
Page 179
... laws of imme- diate and pressing importance , unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended , he has utterly neglected to attend to them . He has refused to pass other laws for the ...
... laws of imme- diate and pressing importance , unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended , he has utterly neglected to attend to them . He has refused to pass other laws for the ...
Page 180
... laws in a neighboring province , establishing therein an arbitrary government , and enlarging its boundaries , so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies : For ...
... laws in a neighboring province , establishing therein an arbitrary government , and enlarging its boundaries , so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies : For ...
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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