Famous Poems from Bygone DaysMartin Gardner Courier Corporation, 20. feb. 2013 - 208 sider Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, from Hugh Antoine d'Arcy's "The Face on the Barroom Floor" to Phila Henrietta Chase's "Nobody’s Child," rich in rhythm and rhyme, filled with feelings and stories about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell. Introduction. Brief biographies of each poet. Alphabetical indexes of titles and first lines. |
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... illustrated with amusing photographs of men and women in elocutionary poses. Before free verse took over, the love of poetry was also reflected in the high quality of song lyrics by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and many ...
... illustrated with amusing photographs of men and women in elocutionary poses. Before free verse took over, the love of poetry was also reflected in the high quality of song lyrics by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and many ...
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... illustrated twelve-page edition of the poem, titled Somebody's Mother, was printed in Bavaria and distributed in America by Dutton in 1891. I can't help recalling the joke about the boy scout who came home with a black eye. When his ...
... illustrated twelve-page edition of the poem, titled Somebody's Mother, was printed in Bavaria and distributed in America by Dutton in 1891. I can't help recalling the joke about the boy scout who came home with a black eye. When his ...
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... illustrations by Augustus Hoppin. The poem was widely reprinted in America, England and France. It spawned endless imitations, parodies and book titles such as Nothing to Do, by Horatio Alger, and Nothing to Say, by Mortimer Thompson ...
... illustrations by Augustus Hoppin. The poem was widely reprinted in America, England and France. It spawned endless imitations, parodies and book titles such as Nothing to Do, by Horatio Alger, and Nothing to Say, by Mortimer Thompson ...
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... illustrated with eight plates by W. E. Mears. In a preface to this edition Carleton wrote: Letters have often been written me by repentant sons and daughters, acknowledging their error of indifference to the parents who had reared and ...
... illustrated with eight plates by W. E. Mears. In a preface to this edition Carleton wrote: Letters have often been written me by repentant sons and daughters, acknowledging their error of indifference to the parents who had reared and ...
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JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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ain’t American anonymous anthologies Anthony Trollope ballad beautiful snow Ben Bolt Best Remembered Poems bird Bludso blue Bolt book of verse born boys Bret Harte byline Chambered Nautilus City dead dear death dream drink E. A. Wallis Budge Edgar Allan Poe edited EDWARD ROWLAND SILL eyes face fair famous poem grandfather’s gray Gustav Stickley head heart heathen Chinee Hell-Bound Train hill I’ve illustrations included John Keep a-goin kiss lady lips that touch living lyric Mad Carew mother never touch newspaper night novels o’er Old Aunt Mary’s Paramore parodies photographs play poet poetry poor-house published rain recited river Robert Service sing smile Somebody’s song soul Speaker’s Garland stanza stars stories Straub sweet Alice There’s things thought titled to-night touch liquor twas Water-Mill wear what’s William wind wings woman wrote York Yukon