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 132
... things that last , The things that are more excellent . Tired of the Senate's barren brawl , An hour with silence we prefer , Where statelier rise the woods than all Yon towers of talk at Westminster . Let this man prate and that man ...
... things that last , The things that are more excellent . Tired of the Senate's barren brawl , An hour with silence we prefer , Where statelier rise the woods than all Yon towers of talk at Westminster . Let this man prate and that man ...
Page 133
... things that are more excellent . To dress , to call , to dine , to break No canon of the social code , The little laws that lacqueys make , The futile decalogue of Mode , How many a soul for these things lives , With pious passion ...
... things that are more excellent . To dress , to call , to dine , to break No canon of the social code , The little laws that lacqueys make , The futile decalogue of Mode , How many a soul for these things lives , With pious passion ...
Page 166
... things I could not see : These were the things that bounded me ; And I could touch them with my hand , Almost , I thought , from where I stand . And all at once things seemed so small My breath came short , and scarce at all . But ...
... things I could not see : These were the things that bounded me ; And I could touch them with my hand , Almost , I thought , from where I stand . And all at once things seemed so small My breath came short , and scarce at all . 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