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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... heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red , Where on the deck my Captain lies , Fallen cold and dead . O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle'trills ; For ...
... heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red , Where on the deck my Captain lies , Fallen cold and dead . O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle'trills ; For ...
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... heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls , Impatient to be where the battlefield calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play , With Sheridan only ten miles away ...
... heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls , Impatient to be where the battlefield calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play , With Sheridan only ten miles away ...
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... heart - strings of a friend . " The ill - timed truth we might have kept- Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ? The word we had not sense to say- Who knows how grandly it had rung ? " Our faults no tenderness should ask , The ...
... heart - strings of a friend . " The ill - timed truth we might have kept- Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung ? The word we had not sense to say- Who knows how grandly it had rung ? " Our faults no tenderness should ask , The ...
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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