The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for Recitation Extracted from the Poets of the Nineteenth Century |
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... The Genius of Death The Hour of Death We Die Alone ............... .................. .............. The Child of Earth ............... The Three Warnings . Weep not for me Mrs. Hemans ...... J. Montgomery Crabbe Croly .... 105 20 ...
... The Genius of Death The Hour of Death We Die Alone ............... .................. .............. The Child of Earth ............... The Three Warnings . Weep not for me Mrs. Hemans ...... J. Montgomery Crabbe Croly .... 105 20 ...
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... hours , In gathering stores from learning's flowers ; For these will ever last : These mental charms will fill the place Of ev'ry beauty , ev'ry grace , When smiling youth is past . MRS . HEMANS . THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS , AND HOW HE ...
... hours , In gathering stores from learning's flowers ; For these will ever last : These mental charms will fill the place Of ev'ry beauty , ev'ry grace , When smiling youth is past . MRS . HEMANS . THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS , AND HOW HE ...
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... hour remains , there is but one , How many a grief and many a tear , Through endless ages , must atone For moments lost and wasted here ! HEBER . THE DAISY THERE is a flower , a little flower , With silver crest and golden eye , That ...
... hour remains , there is but one , How many a grief and many a tear , Through endless ages , must atone For moments lost and wasted here ! HEBER . THE DAISY THERE is a flower , a little flower , With silver crest and golden eye , That ...
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... brother is in heaven . " " And has he left the birds and flowers , And must I call in vain ? And through the long , long summer hours Will he not come again ? - And by the brook , and in the glade B 4 THE MODERN SPEAKER . Barton.
... brother is in heaven . " " And has he left the birds and flowers , And must I call in vain ? And through the long , long summer hours Will he not come again ? - And by the brook , and in the glade B 4 THE MODERN SPEAKER . Barton.
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... DEAR is the hallow'd morn to me , When village bells awake the day ; And , by their sacred minstrelsy , Call me from earthly cares away . CLARE . And dear to me the winged hour , Spent in 8 THE MODERN SPEAKER . Mrs Hemans 274.
... DEAR is the hallow'd morn to me , When village bells awake the day ; And , by their sacred minstrelsy , Call me from earthly cares away . CLARE . And dear to me the winged hour , Spent in 8 THE MODERN SPEAKER . Mrs Hemans 274.
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AUBREY DE VERE BARRY CORNWALL beauty beneath bird bloom blossoms blue Boabdil breast breath breeze bright brow CAROLINE FRY child clouds Clusium dark dead dear death deep delight earth ev'ry fair fear flowers friends Gelert gentle gleam gloom glorious glory glow grave green grief hand hast hath hear heart heaven Henry of Luxembourg hill hope horned owl hour JOANNA BAILLIE king land Lars Porsena light lone look look'd Lord lov'd morn mother mountain night o'er pale pass'd Pompeii Populonia prayer pride rest rill rock rose round seem'd shade shine shore sigh silent sing sleep smile snow song sorrow soul sound spirit spring star stood storm stranger's heart stream sweet tears thee thine Thou art thought Tiber tomb tree turn'd Twas Venice voice waves weep wild wind wing youth