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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... hope for them . We shall find the highest uses of poetry in remembering always that it may at its best come to us as an " Angel of light Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night . " Francis Horey Stiel dard . TABLE OF CONTENTS ...
... hope for them . We shall find the highest uses of poetry in remembering always that it may at its best come to us as an " Angel of light Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night . " Francis Horey Stiel dard . TABLE OF CONTENTS ...
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... happiness consigned , Where my worn soul , each wandering hope at rest , May gather bliss to see my fellows blest . But where to find that happiest spot below , Who can direct , when all pretend to know ? PATRIOTISM . 7.
... happiness consigned , Where my worn soul , each wandering hope at rest , May gather bliss to see my fellows blest . But where to find that happiest spot below , Who can direct , when all pretend to know ? PATRIOTISM . 7.
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... hope confound ! To this great cause of Freedom drink , my friends , And the great name of England , round and round . A health to Europe's honest men ! Heaven guard them from her tyrants ' jails ! From wronged Poerio's noisome den ...
... hope confound ! To this great cause of Freedom drink , my friends , And the great name of England , round and round . A health to Europe's honest men ! Heaven guard them from her tyrants ' jails ! From wronged Poerio's noisome den ...
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... hope on my 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 ...
... hope on my 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 ...
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... hope in the heart of the Spring , O , Turlough MacSweeney ! Play us our Eire's most sorrowful songs , As she sits by her reeds near the wash of the wave , That the coldest may thrill at the count of her wrongs , That the sword may flash ...
... hope in the heart of the Spring , O , Turlough MacSweeney ! Play us our Eire's most sorrowful songs , As she sits by her reeds near the wash of the wave , That the coldest may thrill at the count of her wrongs , That the sword may flash ...
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