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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... dying ! From photogravure by Goupil , after a painting by Édouard Détaille . NATHAN HALE " Neath the 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 ...
... dying ! From photogravure by Goupil , after a painting by Édouard Détaille . NATHAN HALE " Neath the 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 ...
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... dying , shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung , Unwept , unhonored , and unsung . SIR WALTER SCOTT . MY COUNTRY . THERE is a land , of every land the pride , Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside , Where brighter ...
... dying , shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung , Unwept , unhonored , and unsung . SIR WALTER SCOTT . MY COUNTRY . THERE is a land , of every land the pride , Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside , Where brighter ...
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... dying country's cries- No more I weep . They do not sleep . On yonder cliffs , a grisly band , I see them sit , they linger yet , Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony they join , And weave with bloody hands the ...
... dying country's cries- No more I weep . They do not sleep . On yonder cliffs , a grisly band , I see them sit , they linger yet , Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony they join , And weave with bloody hands the ...
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... dying and the dead . Summer came in the country , Red was the heather bell ; But the manner of the brewing Was none alive to tell . In graves that were like children's On many a mountain head , The Brewsters of the Heather Lay numbered ...
... dying and the dead . Summer came in the country , Red was the heather bell ; But the manner of the brewing Was none alive to tell . In graves that were like children's On many a mountain head , The Brewsters of the Heather Lay numbered ...
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... dying day To win the martyr's crown ! " There is a chamber far away Where sleep the good and brave , But a better place ye have named for me Than by my father's grave . For truth and right , ' gainst treason's might , This hand has ...
... dying day To win the martyr's crown ! " There is a chamber far away Where sleep the good and brave , But a better place ye have named for me Than by my father's grave . For truth and right , ' gainst treason's might , This hand has ...
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