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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... birds; And every beast on earth that dwells In solitude or herds. I want a board of burnish'd plate, Of silver and of gold; Tureens of twenty pounds in weight, And sculpture's richest mould; Plateaus, with chandeliers and lamps, Plates ...
... birds; And every beast on earth that dwells In solitude or herds. I want a board of burnish'd plate, Of silver and of gold; Tureens of twenty pounds in weight, And sculpture's richest mould; Plateaus, with chandeliers and lamps, Plates ...
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... Bird and Bough (1906). Whittier, who knew the poem by heart, put it in his anthology Songs of Three Centuries. Burton Stevenson, in Famous Single Poems, reveals that the original poem had an extra stanza between the fifth and last: Yon ...
... Bird and Bough (1906). Whittier, who knew the poem by heart, put it in his anthology Songs of Three Centuries. Burton Stevenson, in Famous Single Poems, reveals that the original poem had an extra stanza between the fifth and last: Yon ...
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... of my neighbors—in spite of my brothers' sneers, And spite of my sisters' caution; who said, as I have heard, That they never could own a brother that had been a prison bird! But I'll bet, when the great bugle rings out its.
... of my neighbors—in spite of my brothers' sneers, And spite of my sisters' caution; who said, as I have heard, That they never could own a brother that had been a prison bird! But I'll bet, when the great bugle rings out its.
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JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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