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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... stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee , Like a swarm of golden bees , When I widen the rent in my wind - built tent , Till the calm rivers , lakes , and seas , Like strips of the sky fallen through me ...
... stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee , Like a swarm of golden bees , When I widen the rent in my wind - built tent , Till the calm rivers , lakes , and seas , Like strips of the sky fallen through me ...
Page 47
... stars sang in their spheres . The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf ; and now She spoke through the still weather . Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang ...
... stars sang in their spheres . The sun was gone now ; the curled moon Was like a little feather Fluttering far down the gulf ; and now She spoke through the still weather . Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang ...
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... stars . Oh , London is a man's town , there's power in the air ; And Paris is a woman's town , with flowers in her hair ; And it's sweet to dream in Venice , and it's great to study Rome ; But when it comes to living there is no place ...
... stars . Oh , London is a man's town , there's power in the air ; And Paris is a woman's town , with flowers in her hair ; And it's sweet to dream in Venice , and it's great to study Rome ; But when it comes to living there is no place ...
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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