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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... Silver bark of beech , and hollow Stem of elder , tall and yellow Twig of willow . EDNA ST . VINCENT MILLAY ELETELEPHONY Once there was an elephant , Who tried to use the telephant— No ! no ! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the ...
... Silver bark of beech , and hollow Stem of elder , tall and yellow Twig of willow . EDNA ST . VINCENT MILLAY ELETELEPHONY Once there was an elephant , Who tried to use the telephant— No ! no ! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the ...
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... silver dawn . four lean hounds crouched low and smiling the merry deer ran before . Fleeter be they than dappled dreams the swift sweet deer the red rare deer . Four red roebuck at a white water the cruel bugle sang before . Horn at hip ...
... silver dawn . four lean hounds crouched low and smiling the merry deer ran before . Fleeter be they than dappled dreams the swift sweet deer the red rare deer . Four red roebuck at a white water the cruel bugle sang before . Horn at hip ...
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... silver trout . When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a - flame But something rustled on the floor , And someone called me by my name : It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossoms in her hair Who called me by my ...
... silver trout . When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a - flame But something rustled on the floor , And someone called me by my name : It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossoms in her hair Who called me by my ...
Contents
BIRDS BEASTS AND FLOWERS | 61 |
THEY WENT TO SEA IN A SIEVENonsense Verses | 143 |
ALL THATS PAST | 195 |
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