The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J. D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
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... cheek like a warm white rose ? Something better than any one knows . Whence that three - cornered smile of bliss ? Three angels gave me at once a kiss . Where did you get that pearly ear ? God spoke 4 POEMS OF HOME .
... cheek like a warm white rose ? Something better than any one knows . Whence that three - cornered smile of bliss ? Three angels gave me at once a kiss . Where did you get that pearly ear ? God spoke 4 POEMS OF HOME .
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... " Softly the echo goes around : The father laughs at the tiny girl ; The fair young mother sings the words , While grandmother smooths the golden curl . And stooping above the precious thing , Nestles a kiss ABOUT CHILDREN . 5.
... " Softly the echo goes around : The father laughs at the tiny girl ; The fair young mother sings the words , While grandmother smooths the golden curl . And stooping above the precious thing , Nestles a kiss ABOUT CHILDREN . 5.
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... kiss within a prayer , Murmuring softly " Little one , Grandfather did not weigh you fair . " Nobody weighed the baby's smile , Or the love that came with the helpless one ; Nobody weighed the threads of care , From which a woman's life ...
... kiss within a prayer , Murmuring softly " Little one , Grandfather did not weigh you fair . " Nobody weighed the baby's smile , Or the love that came with the helpless one ; Nobody weighed the threads of care , From which a woman's life ...
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... kiss , we think , A baby's feet . Like rose - hued sea - flowers toward the heat They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet . No flower - bells that expand and shrink Gleam half so heavenly sweet As shine on ...
... kiss , we think , A baby's feet . Like rose - hued sea - flowers toward the heat They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet . No flower - bells that expand and shrink Gleam half so heavenly sweet As shine on ...
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... kiss , one tear she shed , And sunk upon her snowy bed . At dawn a traveller passed by , And saw her ' neath a snowy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye , Her cheek was cold and hard and pale . He moved the robe from off the child ...
... kiss , one tear she shed , And sunk upon her snowy bed . At dawn a traveller passed by , And saw her ' neath a snowy veil ; The frost of death was in her eye , Her cheek was cold and hard and pale . He moved the robe from off the child ...
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