101 Famous PoemsRoy Cook Nature, man and human history are reflected on in the verse of English and American poets and such prose works as the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence. |
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... face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful ? Oh , a trouble's a ton , or a trouble's an ounce , Or a trouble is what you make it . And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts , But only how did you take it ? You ...
... face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful ? Oh , a trouble's a ton , or a trouble's an ounce , Or a trouble is what you make it . And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts , But only how did you take it ? You ...
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... Face to face with her he talks , Part and parcel of her joy , - Blessings on the barefoot boy ! Oh , for boyhood's time of June , Crowding years in one brief moon , When all things I heard or saw , Me , their master , waited for . I was ...
... Face to face with her he talks , Part and parcel of her joy , - Blessings on the barefoot boy ! Oh , for boyhood's time of June , Crowding years in one brief moon , When all things I heard or saw , Me , their master , waited for . I was ...
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... face : A grave is such a quiet place . The rain , I said , is kind to come And speak to me in my new home . I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain , To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line , To ...
... face : A grave is such a quiet place . The rain , I said , is kind to come And speak to me in my new home . I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain , To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line , To ...
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April 23 arms beauty bells beneath Bettmann bird blessed Born April Born August Born December brave breast breath Christmas cloud Copyright cuddle doon dark dead death died April 23 died July died October door doth dream dust earth EDWIN MARKHAM EUGENE FIELD eyes face February 27 feel feet flowers glory hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hills of Habersham Horatius James Whitcomb Riley Keep a-goin Lars Porsena laugh light live look Lord March 24 moon moonlight never Nevermore night Nokomis o'er Old Aunt Mary's pass plants a tree Poems rain rendezvous with Death riding round sail shore silence sing sleep smile song soul stars stood sweet thee thine things Thou shalt thought truth turned VACHEL LINDSAY valleys of Hall wall WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind