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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... rising raptures fill , Yet still he sighs , for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise , Pleased with each good that heaven to man sup- plies : Yet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To see the sum of ...
... rising raptures fill , Yet still he sighs , for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise , Pleased with each good that heaven to man sup- plies : Yet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To see the sum of ...
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... blest as thee Must in their turns to tyrants fall ; Whilst thou shalt flourish , great and free , The dread and envy of them all . Rule , Britannia ! etc. Still more majestic shalt thou rise , More dreadful from PATRIOTISM . 11.
... blest as thee Must in their turns to tyrants fall ; Whilst thou shalt flourish , great and free , The dread and envy of them all . Rule , Britannia ! etc. Still more majestic shalt thou rise , More dreadful from PATRIOTISM . 11.
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... rise , More dreadful from each foreign stroke ; As the loud blasts that tear the skies Serve but to root thy native oak . Rule , Britannia ! etc. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts to bend thee down Will but ...
... rise , More dreadful from each foreign stroke ; As the loud blasts that tear the skies Serve but to root thy native oak . Rule , Britannia ! etc. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts to bend thee down Will but ...
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... rise no more , Doomed by himself so young ? Yes , honor calls ! —with strength like steel He put the vision by ; Let dusky Indians whine and kneel , An English lad must die . And thus , with eyes that would not shrink , With knee to man ...
... rise no more , Doomed by himself so young ? Yes , honor calls ! —with strength like steel He put the vision by ; Let dusky Indians whine and kneel , An English lad must die . And thus , with eyes that would not shrink , With knee to man ...
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... Rise from these crimson seas of war . OSCAR WILDE . AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN . ALL hail ; thou noble land , Our Fathers ' native soil ! O , stretch thy mighty hand , Gigantic grown by toil , O'er the vast Atlantic wave to our shore ...
... Rise from these crimson seas of war . OSCAR WILDE . AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN . ALL hail ; thou noble land , Our Fathers ' native soil ! O , stretch thy mighty hand , Gigantic grown by toil , O'er the vast Atlantic wave to our shore ...
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