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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... Spirit fierce , My spirit ! be thou me , impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe , Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And , by the incantation of this verse , Scatter , as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes ...
... Spirit fierce , My spirit ! be thou me , impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe , Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And , by the incantation of this verse , Scatter , as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes ...
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... Spirit , that made those spirits dare To die , and leave their children free , Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee . Keep a - Goin ' FRANK L. STANTON ( Born. 134 ONE HUNDRED AND ONE FAMOUS POEMS.
... Spirit , that made those spirits dare To die , and leave their children free , Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee . Keep a - Goin ' FRANK L. STANTON ( Born. 134 ONE HUNDRED AND ONE FAMOUS POEMS.
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... spirit , yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free , And step of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records , promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food , For ...
... spirit , yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free , And step of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records , promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food , 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