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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Martin Gardner. DOVER. BOOKS. ON. LITERATURE. AND. DRAMA. BEST REMEMBERED POEMS, Martin Gardner. (27165-X) $3.95 VICTORIAN PARLOUR POETRY, Michael R. Turner. (27044-0) $7.95 SMOKE BELLEW, Jack London. (27364-4) $7.95 THE SHIP OF FOOLS ...
Martin Gardner. DOVER. BOOKS. ON. LITERATURE. AND. DRAMA. BEST REMEMBERED POEMS, Martin Gardner. (27165-X) $3.95 VICTORIAN PARLOUR POETRY, Michael R. Turner. (27044-0) $7.95 SMOKE BELLEW, Jack London. (27364-4) $7.95 THE SHIP OF FOOLS ...
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... POETRY AND FINE ART, S.H. Butcher. (20042-6) $12.95 YEKL AND THE IMPORTED BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER STORIES OF YIDDISH NEW YORK, Abraham Cahan. (22427-9) $5.95 AMERICAN LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS FROM WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY JAMES, Herbert ...
... POETRY AND FINE ART, S.H. Butcher. (20042-6) $12.95 YEKL AND THE IMPORTED BRIDEGROOM AND OTHER STORIES OF YIDDISH NEW YORK, Abraham Cahan. (22427-9) $5.95 AMERICAN LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS FROM WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY JAMES, Herbert ...
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... face of Madeleine, painted on the wooden floor of a bar in Central City, Colorado, as a tribute to d'Arcy's famous poem. (Courtesy of the Central City Opera House Association.) FAMOUS POEMS FROM BYGONE DAYS EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY Martin.
... face of Madeleine, painted on the wooden floor of a bar in Central City, Colorado, as a tribute to d'Arcy's famous poem. (Courtesy of the Central City Opera House Association.) FAMOUS POEMS FROM BYGONE DAYS EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY Martin.
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... Famous Poems from Bygone Days is a new anthology, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1995. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Famous poems from bygone days / edited and annotated by Martin Gardner. p. cm ...
... Famous Poems from Bygone Days is a new anthology, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1995. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Famous poems from bygone days / edited and annotated by Martin Gardner. p. cm ...
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... poems I thought were best known today among persons who find time to enjoy verse. The poems here are different. They are poems that in the past were well known to American readers but that today are recalled, if at all, mainly by the ...
... poems I thought were best known today among persons who find time to enjoy verse. The poems here are different. They are poems that in the past were well known to American readers but that today are recalled, if at all, mainly by 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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