The Hundred Best English PoemsThe Hundred Best English Poems is a compilation of classic poems by various authors. Excerpt: "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease." |
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... shore. Then come down. She will not come though you call all day. Come away, come away. Children dear, was it yesterday We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far ...
... shore. Then come down. She will not come though you call all day. Come away, come away. Children dear, was it yesterday We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far ...
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Various Adam L. Gowans. In the little grey church on the shore to-day. 'Twill be Easter-time in the world—ah me! And I lose my poor soul, Merman, here with thee." I said; "Go up, dear heart, through the waves. Say thy prayer, and come ...
Various Adam L. Gowans. In the little grey church on the shore to-day. 'Twill be Easter-time in the world—ah me! And I lose my poor soul, Merman, here with thee." I said; "Go up, dear heart, through the waves. Say thy prayer, and come ...
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Contents
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD | |
LORD BYRON | |
THOMAS CAMPBELL | |
WILLIAM COWPER | |
THOMAS GRAY | |
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY | |
BEN JONSON | |
CHARLES LAMB | |
LADY NAIRNE | |
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