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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... sleep upon his hillside now . He is among us : -as in times before ! And we who toss and lie awake for long Breathe deep , and start , to see him pass the door . His head is bowed . He thinks on men and kings . Yea , when the sick world ...
... sleep upon his hillside now . He is among us : -as in times before ! And we who toss and lie awake for long Breathe deep , and start , to see him pass the door . His head is bowed . He thinks on men and kings . Yea , when the sick world ...
Page 143
... sleep : No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart - ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to ; ' tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished . To die ; to sleep ; To sleep : perchance to dream : aye , there's the ...
... sleep : No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart - ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to ; ' tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished . To die ; to sleep ; To sleep : perchance to dream : aye , there's the ...
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... sleep - time , When you set your fancies free , Will they pass to where - by death , fools think , imprisoned— Low he lies who once so loved you , whom you loved so , -Pity me ? Oh to love so , be so loved , yet so mistaken ! What had I ...
... sleep - time , When you set your fancies free , Will they pass to where - by death , fools think , imprisoned— Low he lies who once so loved you , whom you loved so , -Pity me ? Oh to love so , be so loved , yet so mistaken ! What had I ...
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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