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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... stood firm as a rock ; Then kneeling , laid down his gay head on the block ; He kissed a white rose , -in a moment ' t was red With the life of the bravest of any that bled . GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY . GOD SAVE THE KING . GOD save our ...
... stood firm as a rock ; Then kneeling , laid down his gay head on the block ; He kissed a white rose , -in a moment ' t was red With the life of the bravest of any that bled . GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY . GOD SAVE THE KING . GOD save our ...
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... stood aghast in speechless trance : " To arms ! ” cried Mortimer , and couched his quiv'ring lance . On a rock , whose haughty brow Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood , Robed in the sable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet stood ...
... stood aghast in speechless trance : " To arms ! ” cried Mortimer , and couched his quiv'ring lance . On a rock , whose haughty brow Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood , Robed in the sable garb of woe , With haggard eyes the poet stood ...
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... stood the son and father And they looked high and low ; The heather was red around them , The sea rumbled below . And up and spoke the father , Shrill was his voice to hear ; " I have a word in private , A word for the royal ear ...
... stood the son and father And they looked high and low ; The heather was red around them , The sea rumbled below . And up and spoke the father , Shrill was his voice to hear ; " I have a word in private , A word for the royal ear ...
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... stood the father , Last of the dwarfish men . " True as the word I told you : Only my son I feared ; For I doubt the sapling courage That goes without the beard . But now in vain is the torture , Fire shall never avail : Here dies in my ...
... stood the father , Last of the dwarfish men . " True as the word I told you : Only my son I feared ; For I doubt the sapling courage That goes without the beard . But now in vain is the torture , Fire shall never avail : Here dies in my ...
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... bade him pass along . It would have made a brave man's heart Grow sad and sick that day , To watch the keen , malignant eyes Bent down on that array . There stood the Whig west - country lords In balcony 44 POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT .
... bade him pass along . It would have made a brave man's heart Grow sad and sick that day , To watch the keen , malignant eyes Bent down on that array . There stood the Whig west - country lords In balcony 44 POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT .
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