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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... human kind , Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness , like a Man inspired ; And , through the heat of conflict , keeps the law In calmness made , and sees what he foresaw ; Or if an unexpected call succeed , Come when ...
... human kind , Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness , like a Man inspired ; And , through the heat of conflict , keeps the law In calmness made , and sees what he foresaw ; Or if an unexpected call succeed , Come when ...
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... human trace , surrendering up Thine individual being , shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements ; To be a brother to the insensible rock , And to the sluggish clod , which the rude swain Turns with his share , and treads upon ...
... human trace , surrendering up Thine individual being , shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements ; To be a brother to the insensible rock , And to the sluggish clod , which the rude swain Turns with his share , and treads upon ...
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... human , raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love , - That better self shall live till human Time Shall fold its eyelids , and the human sky Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb Unread forever . This is life to ...
... human , raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love , - That better self shall live till human Time Shall fold its eyelids , and the human sky Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb Unread forever . This is life to ...
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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