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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... dead warrior the moan of la- mentation fitted itself to the slower moving to and fro of the mourner , and hence came the elegy . In its first expression this was but inarticulate , half action , half music , dumbly voicing the emotion ...
... dead warrior the moan of la- mentation fitted itself to the slower moving to and fro of the mourner , and hence came the elegy . In its first expression this was but inarticulate , half action , half music , dumbly voicing the emotion ...
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... dead Who never to himself hath said , This is my own , my native land ! Whose heart has ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe , go , mark him well ; For ...
... dead Who never to himself hath said , This is my own , my native land ! Whose heart has ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe , go , mark him well ; For ...
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... dead , some of them fled , And some stayed to live on the island . Then a very great war - man , called Billy the Nor- man , Cried , " Drat it , I never liked my land . It would be much more handy to leave this Nor- mandy , And live on ...
... dead , some of them fled , And some stayed to live on the island . Then a very great war - man , called Billy the Nor- man , Cried , " Drat it , I never liked my land . It would be much more handy to leave this Nor- mandy , And live on ...
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... dead boy lies . And many a moon and sun will see The lingering wistful children wait To climb upon their father's knee ; And in each house made desolate Pale women who have lost their lord Will kiss the relics of the slain-- Some ...
... dead boy lies . And many a moon and sun will see The lingering wistful children wait To climb upon their father's knee ; And in each house made desolate Pale women who have lost their lord Will kiss the relics of the slain-- Some ...
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... dead , And will not yield them back again . Wave and wild wind and foreign shore Possess the flower of English land— Lips that thy lips shall kiss no more , Hands that shall never clasp thy hand . What profit now that we have bound The ...
... dead , And will not yield them back again . Wave and wild wind and foreign shore Possess the flower of English land— Lips that thy lips shall kiss no more , Hands that shall never clasp thy hand . What profit now that we have bound The ...
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