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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... 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 excludes . Study , indeed , seems ...
... 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 excludes . Study , indeed , seems ...
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... leaves in summer - time their color dare not show , Then I will change the color , too , I wear in my caubeen ; But till that day , please God , I'll stick to wear- in ' of the green . But if at last our color should be torn from Ire ...
... leaves in summer - time their color dare not show , Then I will change the color , too , I wear in my caubeen ; But till that day , please God , I'll stick to wear- in ' of the green . But if at last our color should be torn from Ire ...
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... leaf , - If first to no man else , thou ' rt first to me . New loves may come with duties , but the first Is deepest yet , the mother's breath and smiles ; Like that kind face and breast where I was nursed Is my poor land , the Niobe of ...
... leaf , - If first to no man else , thou ' rt first to me . New loves may come with duties , but the first Is deepest yet , the mother's breath and smiles ; Like that kind face and breast where I was nursed Is my poor land , the Niobe of ...
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... leaf , Her summer time is all too brief . Yet , on her rocks , and on her sands , And wintry hills , the school - house stands ; And what her rugged soil denies The harvest of the mind supplies . The riches of the commonwealth Are free ...
... leaf , Her summer time is all too brief . Yet , on her rocks , and on her sands , And wintry hills , the school - house stands ; And what her rugged soil denies The harvest of the mind supplies . The riches of the commonwealth Are free ...
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... leaves , and scatter , as they pass , A fragrance from the cedars , thickly set With pale blue berries . In these peaceful shades- Peaceful , unpruned , immeasurably old—- My thoughts go up the long dim path of years , Back to the ...
... leaves , and scatter , as they pass , A fragrance from the cedars , thickly set With pale blue berries . In these peaceful shades- Peaceful , unpruned , immeasurably old—- My thoughts go up the long dim path of years , Back to the ...
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