Famous Poems Explained: Helps to Reading with the Understanding, with Biographical Notes of the Authors RepresentedNoble and Noble, 1909 - 237 pagini |
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... King Solomon and the Ants .... John Greenleaf Whittier The Destruction of Sennacherib .... George Gordon Byron Robin Hood .... 91 ..John Keats 96 Joaquin Miller 76- ... Bret Harte 80 .Henry W. Longfellow 81 87 The Night before Waterloo ...
... King Solomon and the Ants .... John Greenleaf Whittier The Destruction of Sennacherib .... George Gordon Byron Robin Hood .... 91 ..John Keats 96 Joaquin Miller 76- ... Bret Harte 80 .Henry W. Longfellow 81 87 The Night before Waterloo ...
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... king . They pleaded for their lives , and each promised the king that if his life were spared he would bring rich and wonderful gifts to the king . The king consented and the two princes started out to seek for the gifts . One of them ...
... king . They pleaded for their lives , and each promised the king that if his life were spared he would bring rich and wonderful gifts to the king . The king consented and the two princes started out to seek for the gifts . One of them ...
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... king , but fate was against him . The two princes went back to the king at the time agreed upon , the one with his choice gifts , in obtaining which he had made no effort whatever , the other with empty but bleeding hands . The king ...
... king , but fate was against him . The two princes went back to the king at the time agreed upon , the one with his choice gifts , in obtaining which he had made no effort whatever , the other with empty but bleeding hands . The king ...
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... king was sad , the king was mute ; At last he slowly said : " My son , True treasure is not lightly won . 8 " Your brother's hands , wherein you see Only these scars , show more to me Than if a kingdom's price I found In place of each ...
... king was sad , the king was mute ; At last he slowly said : " My son , True treasure is not lightly won . 8 " Your brother's hands , wherein you see Only these scars , show more to me Than if a kingdom's price I found In place of each ...
Pagina 21
... King Edward II . and the Scots in command of Robert Bruce . It resulted in a decisive victory for the Scots , and later in the recognition of Scotland as a kingdom independent of England . The struggle for Scottish independence had been ...
... King Edward II . and the Scots in command of Robert Bruce . It resulted in a decisive victory for the Scots , and later in the recognition of Scotland as a kingdom independent of England . The struggle for Scottish independence had been ...
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Aladdin's Alfred Tennyson angel Armageddon army Arnold von Winkelried Baal battle battle of Blenheim beauty bird break Captain chamber CHAMBERED NAUTILUS Cromwell dark dead death died door echoes England English Excelsior eyes fall famous victory fate father fire flag forest forever Forever-never Freedom's George Gordon Byron gleaming glory Greece hands heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Honor ideal imagination Isles Isles of Shoals Killingworth king knew lamp land Lenore Light Brigade lines literary literature lived Longfellow Lord meaning Nelly Gray never Never-forever Nevermore night o'er picture poem poet poetry Quoth the Raven Raven Rhodora roar sail sandpiper says Sennacherib shell ship shore sing snow song soul sound stanza Star-Spangled Banner stars storm story sweet Tennyson thee things thou thought tread Tubal Cain Ulalume unto verse voice wave wild wind woods word
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Pagina 94 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Pagina 195 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!
Pagina 193 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Pagina 197 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Pagina 118 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
Pagina 112 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Pagina 204 - Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm...
Pagina 67 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Pagina 112 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Pagina 213 - Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And tempted her out of her gloom, And conquered her scruples and gloom; And we passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb, By the door of a legended tomb; And I said— "What is written, sweet sister, On the door of this legended tomb?" She replied— "Ulalume— Ulalume— 'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!