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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Martin Gardner. To occupy—a square. I want a steward, butler, cooks; A coachman, footman, grooms; A library of well-bound books, And picture-garnish'd rooms; Corregio's Magdalen and Night, The Matron of the Chair; Guido's fleet coursers ...
Martin Gardner. To occupy—a square. I want a steward, butler, cooks; A coachman, footman, grooms; A library of well-bound books, And picture-garnish'd rooms; Corregio's Magdalen and Night, The Matron of the Chair; Guido's fleet coursers ...
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Martin Gardner. Cosmetics for the skin require, And artificial blooms. The civet fragrance shall dispense, And treasured sweets return; Cologne revive the flagging sense, And smoking amber burn. And when at night my weary head Begins to ...
Martin Gardner. Cosmetics for the skin require, And artificial blooms. The civet fragrance shall dispense, And treasured sweets return; Cologne revive the flagging sense, And smoking amber burn. And when at night my weary head Begins to ...
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... night, to ply the task Her cup of bliss to fill. I want the voice of honest praise To follow me behind, And to be thought in future days The friend of human kind, That after ages, as they rise, Exulting ... to the skies Their blessings on my.
... night, to ply the task Her cup of bliss to fill. I want the voice of honest praise To follow me behind, And to be thought in future days The friend of human kind, That after ages, as they rise, Exulting ... to the skies Their blessings on my.
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Martin Gardner. “If ever she's poor and old and gray, When her own dear boy is far away.” And “somebody's mother” bowed low her head In her home that night, and the prayer she said Was “God be kind to the noble boy, Who is somebody's son, ...
Martin Gardner. “If ever she's poor and old and gray, When her own dear boy is far away.” And “somebody's mother” bowed low her head In her home that night, and the prayer she said Was “God be kind to the noble boy, Who is somebody's son, ...
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... Night” and “Pippa's Song.” Perhaps even more admired and anthologized in the nineteenth century was “Prospice,” a ... to music by C. V. Stafford. Prospice Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my fate, When the snows ...
... Night” and “Pippa's Song.” Perhaps even more admired and anthologized in the nineteenth century was “Prospice,” a ... to music by C. V. Stafford. Prospice Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my fate, When the snows ...
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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