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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... 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 elderly ...
... 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 elderly ...
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... of bliss to fill. I want the voice of honest praise To follow me behind, And to be thought in future days The friend of human kind, That after ages, as they rise, Exulting may proclaim In choral union to the skies Their blessings on my.
... of bliss to fill. I want the voice of honest praise To follow me behind, And to be thought in future days The friend of human kind, That after ages, as they rise, Exulting may proclaim In choral union to the skies Their blessings on my.
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... thought of her I loved so well—those early broken ties— I visited the old churchyard, and took some flowers to strew Upon the graves of those we loved, some twenty years ago. Some are in the churchyard laid, some sleep beneath the sea ...
... thought of her I loved so well—those early broken ties— I visited the old churchyard, and took some flowers to strew Upon the graves of those we loved, some twenty years ago. Some are in the churchyard laid, some sleep beneath the sea ...
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... thought of, Or milliner, modiste, or tradesman be bought of, From ten-thousandfrancs robes to twenty-sous frills; In all quarters of Paris, and to every store, While McFlimsey in vain stormed, scolded, and swore, They footed the streets ...
... thought of, Or milliner, modiste, or tradesman be bought of, From ten-thousandfrancs robes to twenty-sous frills; In all quarters of Paris, and to every store, While McFlimsey in vain stormed, scolded, and swore, They footed the streets ...
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... thought, a contingent remainder At least in the property, and the best right To appear as its escort by day and by night; And it being the week of the STUCKUPS' grand ball— Their cards had been out for a fortnight or so, And set all the ...
... thought, a contingent remainder At least in the property, and the best right To appear as its escort by day and by night; And it being the week of the STUCKUPS' grand ball— Their cards had been out for a fortnight or so, And set all 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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