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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... guns , Unless proud England keep untamed The strong heart of her sons ; So let his name through Europe ring , - A man of mean estate , Who died , as firm as Sparta ' s king , Because his soul was great . SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE . THE ...
... guns , Unless proud England keep untamed The strong heart of her sons ; So let his name through Europe ring , - A man of mean estate , Who died , as firm as Sparta ' s king , Because his soul was great . SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE . THE ...
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... speak to Europe through your guns ! They can be understood by kings . You must not mix our Queen with those That wish to keep their people fools : Our freedom's foemen are her foes ; She comprehends the 30 POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT .
... speak to Europe through your guns ! They can be understood by kings . You must not mix our Queen with those That wish to keep their people fools : Our freedom's foemen are her foes ; She comprehends the 30 POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT .
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... guns , And take your heaven at once ! But we , we empty heart and home Of life's life , love ! we bear to think You're gone , to feel you may not come , To hear the door - latch stir and clink ... Yet no more you , • · nor sink . Dear ...
... guns , And take your heaven at once ! But we , we empty heart and home Of life's life , love ! we bear to think You're gone , to feel you may not come , To hear the door - latch stir and clink ... Yet no more you , • · nor sink . Dear ...
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... gun Send the tidings up and down . How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns , peal on peal , Fling the joy from town to town ! Ring , O bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime . Loud and long , that ...
... gun Send the tidings up and down . How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns , peal on peal , Fling the joy from town to town ! Ring , O bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime . Loud and long , that ...
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... guns clutched in their hands , the headlong Irish broke . On Fontenoy , on Fontenoy , hark to that fierce huzza ! 66 Revenge ! remember Limerick ! dash down the Sacsanagh ! " Like lions leaping at a fold , when mad with hun- ger's pang ...
... guns clutched in their hands , the headlong Irish broke . On Fontenoy , on Fontenoy , hark to that fierce huzza ! 66 Revenge ! remember Limerick ! dash down the Sacsanagh ! " Like lions leaping at a fold , when mad with hun- ger's pang ...
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