One hundred and one famous poems - PDF by Roy Jay Cook

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One hundred and one famous poems, with a prose supplement

 

From introduction:

A Spirit of daring out of all proportion to any hope of gain must at times possess a publisher. You doubtless have heard the story of the "One Hundred and One Best Songs"; how its publishers printed several hundred thousand books in order that they might be sold at a price so low as to enable every child to have one. 

That, likewise, is the aim of this collection. To that eminent critic of English verse whose painstaking care in proofreading has made this volume authoritative, the publisher acknowledges his gratitude and debt. 

The selections by Emerson, Burroughs, Holmes, Lowell, Sill, Whittier, Cary, Larcom and Longfellow, are used by permission of and special arrangement with Houghton-Mifflin Company, authorized publishers of their works. Grateful acknowledgement is also made to D. Appleton &c Company, F. W. Bourdillon, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, Double day-Page & Company, Little, Brown & Company, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, A. P. Watt & Son, "The Academy," London, and the Librarian, the University of Edinburgh, without whose kind co-operation this collection could not have been made.

Contents:

Sir Patrick Spens 125

Snowstorm, The — Ralph Waldo Emerson 21

Soliloquy from Hamlet — William Shakespeare .' 143

Solitude — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 72

Song of the Chattahoochee — Sidney Lanier 57

Song of the Shirt — Thomas Hood 51

Sonnet on His Blindness — John Milton 91

Spider and the Fly, The — Mary Howitt 145

Thanatopsis — William Cullen Bryant 92

That Time of Year — William Shakespeare 80

Things that Are More Excellent, The — William Watson 132

Time and Eternity (In Memoriam) — Alfred Tennyson 140

To a Skylark — Percy Bysshe Shelley 22

To a Waterfowl — William Cullen Bryant 158

Waiting  — John Burroughs 76

When in Disgrace — William Shakespeare 119

Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness (Henry VHI) — John Fletcher 45

World Is Too Much With Us, The — William Wordsworth. . . 55
Your Mission — Ellen H. Gates . . . .29

Declaration of Independence, The 171

Gettysburg Address — Abraham Lincoln 167

Letter to Mrs, Bixby — Abraham Lincoln' 166

Magna Charta 169

Ten Commandments, The 168

War Inevitable, The — Patrick Henry 170

the book details :

Author: Roy Jay Cook

Publication date: 1916

Company: Chicago, The Cable Company, distributors]

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