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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... stanzas in Best Remembered Poems are repeated here. Please do not write to ask why a certain gem has been omitted until you check to see if it is in the earlier collection. Of course there are thousands of poems admired by our ...
... stanzas in Best Remembered Poems are repeated here. Please do not write to ask why a certain gem has been omitted until you check to see if it is in the earlier collection. Of course there are thousands of poems admired by our ...
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... stanzas are seldom given entire. The first two lines are quoted from Oliver Goldsmith's The Hermit, which appears in The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). The Wants of Man “Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.” 'Tis not ...
... stanzas are seldom given entire. The first two lines are quoted from Oliver Goldsmith's The Hermit, which appears in The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). The Wants of Man “Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.” 'Tis not ...
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... stanzas not contained in the scrapbook's clipping. Where lines differ, I have selected those that scan the best. Granger's Index to Poetry says the poem has been attributed to J. W. Pruitte, but I have never seen it with this byline ...
... stanzas not contained in the scrapbook's clipping. Where lines differ, I have selected those that scan the best. Granger's Index to Poetry says the poem has been attributed to J. W. Pruitte, but I have never seen it with this byline ...
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... stanza. It is known as mumblety-peg or mumble-the-peg. A pocket knife is flipped off each finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder, chin and other parts of the body so that it falls and sticks in the ground. The loser is obliged to pull out with ...
... stanza. It is known as mumblety-peg or mumble-the-peg. A pocket knife is flipped off each finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder, chin and other parts of the body so that it falls and sticks in the ground. The loser is obliged to pull out with ...
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... stanza between the fifth and last: Yon floweret nodding in the wind Is ready plighted to the bee; And, maiden, why that look unkind? For, lo! thy lover seeketh thee. As Burroughs himself realized, dropping this stanza greatly improves ...
... stanza between the fifth and last: Yon floweret nodding in the wind Is ready plighted to the bee; And, maiden, why that look unkind? For, lo! thy lover seeketh thee. As Burroughs himself realized, dropping this stanza greatly improves ...
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JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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