Famous Poems from Bygone DaysMartin Gardner Courier Corporation, 20/02/2013 - 208 páginas Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, from Hugh Antoine d'Arcy's "The Face on the Barroom Floor" to Phila Henrietta Chase's "Nobody’s Child," rich in rhythm and rhyme, filled with feelings and stories about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell. Introduction. Brief biographies of each poet. Alphabetical indexes of titles and first lines. |
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Martin Gardner. And her father assures me, each time she was there, That she and her friend Mrs. Harris, (Not the lady whose name is so famous in history,1 But plain Mrs. H., without romance or mystery) Spent six consecutive weeks ...
Martin Gardner. And her father assures me, each time she was there, That she and her friend Mrs. Harris, (Not the lady whose name is so famous in history,1 But plain Mrs. H., without romance or mystery) Spent six consecutive weeks ...
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... there will be time enough For that sort of thing; but the bargain must be That, as long as I choose, I am perfectly free, For this is a sort of engagement, you see, Which is binding on you but not binding on me.” Well, having thus wooed ...
... there will be time enough For that sort of thing; but the bargain must be That, as long as I choose, I am perfectly free, For this is a sort of engagement, you see, Which is binding on you but not binding on me.” Well, having thus wooed ...
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... there; But really and truly—I've nothing to wear.” “Nothing to wear! go just as you are; Wear the dress you have on, and you'll be by far, I engage, the most bright and particular star On the Stuckup horizon”—I stopped, for her eye ...
... there; But really and truly—I've nothing to wear.” “Nothing to wear! go just as you are; Wear the dress you have on, and you'll be by far, I engage, the most bright and particular star On the Stuckup horizon”—I stopped, for her eye ...
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... there's nothing could strike it As more comme il faut—” “Yes, but, dear me, that lean Sophronia Stuckup has got one just like it, And I won't appear dressed like a chit of sixteen.” ”Then that splendid purple, that sweet Mazarine; That ...
... there's nothing could strike it As more comme il faut—” “Yes, but, dear me, that lean Sophronia Stuckup has got one just like it, And I won't appear dressed like a chit of sixteen.” ”Then that splendid purple, that sweet Mazarine; That ...
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... there exists the greatest distress In our female community, solely arising From this unsupplied destitution of dress, Whose unfortunate victims are filling the air With the pitiful wail of “Nothing to wear.” Researches in some of the ...
... there exists the greatest distress In our female community, solely arising From this unsupplied destitution of dress, Whose unfortunate victims are filling the air With the pitiful wail of “Nothing to wear.” Researches in some of the ...
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JULIA A FLETCHER CARNEY 18231908 | |
SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN 18761959 | |
SARAH DOUDNEY 18431926 | |
WILLIAM WESCOTT FINK 1844? | |
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