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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... deep and true as one can make it , leaves one the surer that there is a wisdom beyond , which cometh not by study alone . Least of all can the deepest things in poetry be learned by mere study . Poetry deals with feel- ing , which study ...
... deep and true as one can make it , leaves one the surer that there is a wisdom beyond , which cometh not by study alone . Least of all can the deepest things in poetry be learned by mere study . Poetry deals with feel- ing , which study ...
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... circling traffic roared through mart and street , His priests were gods , his spice - balmed kings en- shrined Set death at naught in rock - ribbed charnels deep . Seek Pharaoh's race to - day , and ye shall 8 POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT .
... circling traffic roared through mart and street , His priests were gods , his spice - balmed kings en- shrined Set death at naught in rock - ribbed charnels deep . Seek Pharaoh's race to - day , and ye shall 8 POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT .
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... And others in the seas which are The portals to the East , or by The wind - swept heights of Trafalgar . O wandering graves ! O restless sleep ! O silence of the sunless day ! O still ravine ! O stormy deep ! Give up PATRIOTISM . 25.
... And others in the seas which are The portals to the East , or by The wind - swept heights of Trafalgar . O wandering graves ! O restless sleep ! O silence of the sunless day ! O still ravine ! O stormy deep ! Give up PATRIOTISM . 25.
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... deep ! Give up your prey ! Give up your prey ! And those whose wounds are never healed , Whose weary race is never won , O Cromwell's England ! must thou yield For every inch of ground a son ? Go ! crown with thorns thy gold - crowned ...
... deep ! Give up your prey ! Give up your prey ! And those whose wounds are never healed , Whose weary race is never won , O Cromwell's England ! must thou yield For every inch of ground a son ? Go ! crown with thorns thy gold - crowned ...
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... travels bright The world o'er ! The genius of our clime From his pine - embattled steep Shall hail the guest sublime ; While the Tritons of the deep With their conchs the kindred league shall pro- claim . PATRIOTISM . 27.
... travels bright The world o'er ! The genius of our clime From his pine - embattled steep Shall hail the guest sublime ; While the Tritons of the deep With their conchs the kindred league shall pro- claim . PATRIOTISM . 27.
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