Famous Poems from Bygone DaysMartin Gardner Courier Corporation, 20 лют. 2013 р. - 208 стор. Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, from Hugh Antoine d'Arcy's "The Face on the Barroom Floor" to Phila Henrietta Chase's "Nobody’s Child," rich in rhythm and rhyme, filled with feelings and stories about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell. Introduction. Brief biographies of each poet. Alphabetical indexes of titles and first lines. |
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... he gives my last lodging a pat: “That guy wrote McGrew; 'Twas the best he could do” . . . So I'll go to my Maker with that. —ROBERT SERVICE, from Songs of a Sun-Lover Table of Contents DOVER BOOKS ON LITERATURE AND DRAMA Title.
... he gives my last lodging a pat: “That guy wrote McGrew; 'Twas the best he could do” . . . So I'll go to my Maker with that. —ROBERT SERVICE, from Songs of a Sun-Lover Table of Contents DOVER BOOKS ON LITERATURE AND DRAMA Title.
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... twas twenty years ago. The boys were playing some old game, beneath the same old tree— I do forget the name just now; you've play'd the same with me On that same spot; 'twas play'd with knives, by throwing so and so, The loser had a ...
... twas twenty years ago. The boys were playing some old game, beneath the same old tree— I do forget the name just now; you've play'd the same with me On that same spot; 'twas play'd with knives, by throwing so and so, The loser had a ...
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... twas too true, Whose husband refused, as savage as Charon, To permit her to take more than ten trunks to Sharon. The consequence was, that when she got there, At the end of three weeks she had nothing to wear, And when she proposed to ...
... twas too true, Whose husband refused, as savage as Charon, To permit her to take more than ten trunks to Sharon. The consequence was, that when she got there, At the end of three weeks she had nothing to wear, And when she proposed to ...
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... twas carryin' things too fur; An' I told her once, 'fore company (an' it almost made her sick), That I never swallowed a grammar, or 'et a 'rithmetic. So 'twas only a few days before the thing was done— They was a family of themselves ...
... twas carryin' things too fur; An' I told her once, 'fore company (an' it almost made her sick), That I never swallowed a grammar, or 'et a 'rithmetic. So 'twas only a few days before the thing was done— They was a family of themselves ...
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... Twas easy to discover that there wasn't room for me. An' then I went to Thomas, the oldest son I've got, For Thomas's buildings 'd cover the half of an acre lot; But all the child'rn was on me—I couldn't stand their sauce— And Thomas ...
... Twas easy to discover that there wasn't room for me. An' then I went to Thomas, the oldest son I've got, For Thomas's buildings 'd cover the half of an acre lot; But all the child'rn was on me—I couldn't stand their sauce— And Thomas ...
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JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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