101 Famous PoemsRoy Cook Nature, man and human history are reflected on in the verse of English and American poets and such prose works as the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence. |
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... ( Born 1830 ; died 1886 ) Reproduced by permission of Little , Brown & Company If I can stop one heart from breaking , I shall not live in vain : If I can ease one life the aching , Or cool one pain , Or help one fainting robin Unto his ...
... ( Born 1830 ; died 1886 ) Reproduced by permission of Little , Brown & Company If I can stop one heart from breaking , I shall not live in vain : If I can ease one life the aching , Or cool one pain , Or help one fainting robin Unto his ...
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... born Day Is lovely yet ; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been , and other palms are won . Thanks to the human heart by ...
... born Day Is lovely yet ; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been , and other palms are won . Thanks to the human heart by ...
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... born , Born but to struggle , squalid and alone , Broken and wandering in their early years ; When will they make our dusty streets their goal , Within our attics hide their sacred tears ? When will they start our vulgar blood athrill ...
... born , Born but to struggle , squalid and alone , Broken and wandering in their early years ; When will they make our dusty streets their goal , Within our attics hide their sacred tears ? When will they start our vulgar blood athrill ...
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April 23 arms beauty bells beneath Bettmann bird blessed 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 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind