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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... PLAYS IN ENGLISHTRANSLATION, Angel Flores (ed.) (26898-5) $10.95 THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD, William Morris. (22791-X) $8.95 RALPH THE HEIR, Anthony Trollope. (23642-0) $7.95 THE BELTON ESTATE, Anthony Trollope. (24815-1) $7.50 CASTLE ...
... PLAYS IN ENGLISHTRANSLATION, Angel Flores (ed.) (26898-5) $10.95 THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD, William Morris. (22791-X) $8.95 RALPH THE HEIR, Anthony Trollope. (23642-0) $7.95 THE BELTON ESTATE, Anthony Trollope. (24815-1) $7.50 CASTLE ...
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... play, And flowers and fruits commingled grow, All Eden to display. I want, when summer's foliage falls, And autumn strips the trees, A house within the city's walls, For comfort and for ease; But here, as space is somewhat scant, And ...
... play, And flowers and fruits commingled grow, All Eden to display. I want, when summer's foliage falls, And autumn strips the trees, A house within the city's walls, For comfort and for ease; But here, as space is somewhat scant, And ...
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... play-ground, which shelter'd you and me; But none were there to greet me, Tom, and few were left to know, That play'd with us upon the grass some twenty years ago. The grass is just as green, Tom—barefooted boys at play, Were sporting ...
... play-ground, which shelter'd you and me; But none were there to greet me, Tom, and few were left to know, That play'd with us upon the grass some twenty years ago. The grass is just as green, Tom—barefooted boys at play, Were sporting ...
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... playing some old game, beneath the same old tree— I do forget the name just now; you've play'd the same with me On that same spot; 'twas play'd with knives, by throwing so and so, The loser had a task to do, there, just twenty years ago ...
... playing some old game, beneath the same old tree— I do forget the name just now; you've play'd the same with me On that same spot; 'twas play'd with knives, by throwing so and so, The loser had a task to do, there, just twenty years ago ...
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... play'd, just twenty years ago. ANONYMOUS SLASON THOMPSON, in his 1899 book The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse 1870 to 1885, includes this anonymous tearjerker. It would be interesting to know when and ...
... play'd, just twenty years ago. ANONYMOUS SLASON THOMPSON, in his 1899 book The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse 1870 to 1885, includes this anonymous tearjerker. It would be interesting to know when and ...
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JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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