Famous Poems from Bygone DaysMartin Gardner 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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... speakers” and huge anthologies that often have the word “gems” in their title. Particularly useful were the ten volumes of The Speaker's Garland, edited by Phineas Garrett, as well as collections of sentimental verse read on popular ...
... speakers” and huge anthologies that often have the word “gems” in their title. Particularly useful were the ten volumes of The Speaker's Garland, edited by Phineas Garrett, as well as collections of sentimental verse read on popular ...
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... Speaker's Garland, 1, no. 3 (1872). Music for the poem, by William Willing, can be found in Heart Songs (1909). I had a great-uncle who taught me the knife game mentioned in the fourth stanza. It is known as mumblety-peg or mumble-the ...
... Speaker's Garland, 1, no. 3 (1872). Music for the poem, by William Willing, can be found in Heart Songs (1909). I had a great-uncle who taught me the knife game mentioned in the fourth stanza. It is known as mumblety-peg or mumble-the ...
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JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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