Best Remembered PoemsMartin Gardner Courier Corporation, 19 հնս, 2012 թ. - 240 էջ The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley’s homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." |
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... soul-wealth away, Weary of sowing for others to reap— Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and ...
... soul-wealth away, Weary of sowing for others to reap— Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, Mother, O mother, my heart calls for you! Many a summer the grass has grown green, Blossomed and ...
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... soul and the world-weary brain; Slumber's soft calms o'er my heavy lids creep— Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old; Let it drop over my ...
... soul and the world-weary brain; Slumber's soft calms o'er my heavy lids creep— Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old; Let it drop over my ...
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... soul! 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death' Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my ...
... soul! 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death' Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my ...
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... soul that lives withdrawn In the peace of my self-content, Far from the fumes of the cars and trucks That pollute the firmament. There are souls that love to congest the paths Where once the rabbits ran, Butlet me live far away from the ...
... soul that lives withdrawn In the peace of my self-content, Far from the fumes of the cars and trucks That pollute the firmament. There are souls that love to congest the paths Where once the rabbits ran, Butlet me live far away from the ...
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... souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran— Butlet me live by the side ...
... souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran— Butlet me live by the side ...
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