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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... Whitcomb Riley begins and ends with this stanza: He is the morning's poet— The bard of mount and moor, The minstrel fine of dewy shine, The dawning's troubadour. A Vagabond Song There is something in the autumn that is native to.
... Whitcomb Riley begins and ends with this stanza: He is the morning's poet— The bard of mount and moor, The minstrel fine of dewy shine, The dawning's troubadour. A Vagabond Song There is something in the autumn that is native to.
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... ” Emily once wrote, “I know that is poetry.... Is there any other way?” A poetic tribute to Emily by Ruth Brandes de Bedts ends with this stanza: What great travail was yours To make your lines run straight Beneath the freight they.
... ” Emily once wrote, “I know that is poetry.... Is there any other way?” A poetic tribute to Emily by Ruth Brandes de Bedts ends with this stanza: What great travail was yours To make your lines run straight Beneath the freight they.
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... stanza of “The American Flag.” Drake rated six pages in an 1881 Cyclopedia of American Literature, but only this poem of his is remembered today. Halleck wrote an elegy to Drake that opens: Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my ...
... stanza of “The American Flag.” Drake rated six pages in an 1881 Cyclopedia of American Literature, but only this poem of his is remembered today. Halleck wrote an elegy to Drake that opens: Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my ...
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... stanza inscribed on the monument. The monument and the hymn commemorate the events of April 19, 1775, when the farmers of Concord fired on advancing British troops. The poem appears in Emerson's first collection of verse, Poems (1847) ...
... stanza inscribed on the monument. The monument and the hymn commemorate the events of April 19, 1775, when the farmers of Concord fired on advancing British troops. The poem appears in Emerson's first collection of verse, Poems (1847) ...
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... stanza.” The penultimate line of the final stanza originally read: “That they never have seen our Little Boy Blue.” Slason Thompson, America's founder and editor, changed the line to its published form. Thompson had earlier edited a ...
... stanza.” The penultimate line of the final stanza originally read: “That they never have seen our Little Boy Blue.” Slason Thompson, America's founder and editor, changed the line to its published form. Thompson had earlier edited a ...
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