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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... law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence , in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill , And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest , He ...
... law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence , in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill , And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest , He ...
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... laws for the accommo- dation of large districts of people , unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legis- lature a right inestimable to them , and formidable to tyrants only . He has called together ...
... laws for the accommo- dation of large districts of people , unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legis- lature a right inestimable to them , and formidable to tyrants only . He has called together ...
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... laws in a neighboring province , establishing therein an arbitrary government , and enlarging its boundaries , so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies : For ...
... laws in a neighboring province , establishing therein an arbitrary government , and enlarging its boundaries , so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies : For ...
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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