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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... sound , Better than all treasures That in books are found , Thy skill to poet were , thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know , Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow , The world should ...
... sound , Better than all treasures That in books are found , Thy skill to poet were , thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know , Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow , The world should ...
Page 84
... sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan . And the people -- ah , the people- They that dwell up in the steeple , All alone , And who tolling , tolling , tolling , In that muffled monotone , Feel a glory in so ...
... sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan . And the people -- ah , the people- They that dwell up in the steeple , All alone , And who tolling , tolling , tolling , In that muffled monotone , Feel a glory in so ...
Page 100
... sound of laughter Was heard amongst the foes . A wild and wrathful clamor From all the vanguard rose . Six spears ' lengths from the entrance Halted that mighty mass , And for a space no man came forth To win the narrow pass . But ...
... sound of laughter Was heard amongst the foes . A wild and wrathful clamor From all the vanguard rose . Six spears ' lengths from the entrance Halted that mighty mass , And for a space no man came forth To win the narrow pass . But ...
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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