The Golden Journey: Poems for Young PeopleLouise Bogan, William Jay Smith Reilly & Lee, 1965 - 275 pages "Fresh, delightful, and perennially new" poems written in English but in many distant lands and selected for the enjoyment of discriminating readers by two outstanding poets. Selections range from Rabindranath Tagore to Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins to Elinor Wylie. |
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Page 165
... chamber door . " " Tis some visitor , " I muttered , " tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more . " Ah , distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December ; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor ...
... chamber door . " " Tis some visitor , " I muttered , " tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more . " Ah , distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December ; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor ...
Page 167
... chamber door- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door- Perched , and sat , and nothing more . Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling , By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore ...
... chamber door- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door- Perched , and sat , and nothing more . Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling , By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore ...
Page 168
... chamber door , With such name as " Nevermore . " But the Raven , sitting lonely on the placid bust , spoke only That one word , as if his soul in that one word he did outpour . Nothing farther then he uttered - not a feather then he ...
... chamber door , With such name as " Nevermore . " But the Raven , sitting lonely on the placid bust , spoke only That one word , as if his soul in that one word he did outpour . Nothing farther then he uttered - not a feather then he ...
Contents
BIRDS BEASTS AND FLOWERS | 61 |
THEY WENT TO SEA IN A SIEVENonsense Verses | 143 |
ALL THATS PAST | 195 |
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A. A. Milne beautiful Belloc best fits bird blow boy's chamber door cold Collected Poems Crack and Flossie dance dark dream Dylan Thomas ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS eyes fish fits a little Flossie Snail flowers Golden Journey gone grass hear heart hills James Stephens Johnnie Crack lamb land laugh LĂ©onie Adams light long thoughts look Macmillan Company merry Minnaloushe moon morning mysterious cat Nevermore night Noroway pale Poems by William poems reprinted poetry RALPH HODGSON Reprinted by permission rhymes riding ROBERT FROST roses round sail ship Sieve silver sing sleep song soup stare stars sweet T. S. Eliot thee Theodore Roethke things thoughts of youth trees W. B. YEATS W. H. Auden walk Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams William Jay Smith wind wind's wings wood X. J. Kennedy yellow youth are long