The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J. D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
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... blue morn , the sunny morn , He dies upon the tree , And he mourns that he can lose But one life for liberty . " From photograph of the Statue by Frederick Macmonnies , in New York City Hall Park . EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN After a ...
... blue morn , the sunny morn , He dies upon the tree , And he mourns that he can lose But one life for liberty . " From photograph of the Statue by Frederick Macmonnies , in New York City Hall Park . EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN After a ...
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... blue , And in the liquid ether The eye of God shone through : Yet a black and murky battlement Lay resting on the hill , As though the thunder slept within , - All else was calm and still . The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl ...
... blue , And in the liquid ether The eye of God shone through : Yet a black and murky battlement Lay resting on the hill , As though the thunder slept within , - All else was calm and still . The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl ...
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... Blue Bonnets are over the Border ! Many a banner spread Flutters above your head , Many a crest that is famous in story ! — Mount and make ready , then , Sons of the mountain glen , Fight for the queen and our old Scottish glory . Come ...
... Blue Bonnets are over the Border ! Many a banner spread Flutters above your head , Many a crest that is famous in story ! — Mount and make ready , then , Sons of the mountain glen , Fight for the queen and our old Scottish glory . Come ...
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... Blue Bonnets came over the Border . SIR WALTER SCOTT . THE EXILE'S SONG . OH ! why left I my hame ? Why did I cross the deep ? Oh ! why left I the land Where my forefathers sleep ? I sigh for Scotia's shore , And I gaze across the sea ...
... Blue Bonnets came over the Border . SIR WALTER SCOTT . THE EXILE'S SONG . OH ! why left I my hame ? Why did I cross the deep ? Oh ! why left I the land Where my forefathers sleep ? I sigh for Scotia's shore , And I gaze across the sea ...
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... blue , And the kerns from the hills and the glens and the scaur Marched after the banner of conquering Hugh— Led into the fray by a piper like you , O , Turlough MacSweeney ! And surely no note of such music shall fail , Wherever the ...
... blue , And the kerns from the hills and the glens and the scaur Marched after the banner of conquering Hugh— Led into the fray by a piper like you , O , Turlough MacSweeney ! And surely no note of such music shall fail , Wherever the ...
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