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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... POETRY, Michael R. Turner. (27044-0) $7.95 SMOKE BELLEW, Jack London. (27364-4) $7.95 THE SHIP OF FOOLS, Sebastian Brant. (25791-6) $9.95 GREAT NlNETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SHORT STORIES, Angel Flores (ed.). (26324-X) $8.95 THOREAUAS SEEN ...
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... $4.95 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, Aubrey Beardsley and Alexander Pope. (21963-1) $4.95 SALOME: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. (21830-9) $5.95 JURGEN, James Branch Cabell. (23507-6) $7.95 ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF POETRY.
... $4.95 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, Aubrey Beardsley and Alexander Pope. (21963-1) $4.95 SALOME: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. (21830-9) $5.95 JURGEN, James Branch Cabell. (23507-6) $7.95 ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF POETRY.
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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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... poetry. 2. American poetry. I. Gardner, Martin, 1914– PR1175.F225 1995 821'.008—dc20 94-48822 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501 A Verseman's Apology Alas! I ...
... poetry. 2. American poetry. I. Gardner, Martin, 1914– PR1175.F225 1995 821'.008—dc20 94-48822 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501 A Verseman's Apology Alas! I ...
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... poet, For I've never been guilty of that. A rhyme-rustler, rugged and shameless, A Bab Balladeer on the loose; Of saccharine sonnets I'm blameless, My model has been—Mother Goose. And I fancy my grave-digger griping As he gives my last ...
... poet, For I've never been guilty of that. A rhyme-rustler, rugged and shameless, A Bab Balladeer on the loose; Of saccharine sonnets I'm blameless, My model has been—Mother Goose. And I fancy my grave-digger griping As he gives my last ...
Contents
JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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