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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... wrong . Backward look across the ages and the beacon - moments see , That , like peaks of some sunk continent , jut through Oblivion's sea ; Not an ear in court or market for the low foreboding cry Of those Crises , God's stern ...
... wrong . Backward look across the ages and the beacon - moments see , That , like peaks of some sunk continent , jut through Oblivion's sea ; Not an ear in court or market for the low foreboding cry Of those Crises , God's stern ...
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... wrong that round me lies , I feel the guilt within ; I hear , with groan and travail - cries , The world confess its sin . Yet , in the maddening maze of things , And tossed by storm and flood , To one fixed trust my spirit clings ; I ...
... wrong that round me lies , I feel the guilt within ; I hear , with groan and travail - cries , The world confess its sin . Yet , in the maddening maze of things , And tossed by storm and flood , To one fixed trust my spirit clings ; I ...
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... wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but , Lord , Be merciful to me , a fool ! " " Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right , O Lord , we stay ; ' Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven ...
... wrong to white as wool ; The rod must heal the sin : but , Lord , Be merciful to me , a fool ! " " Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right , O Lord , we stay ; ' Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven ...
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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