. One hundred and one famous poems, with a prose supplement. Not in Vain Emily Dickinson (Portrait taken in childhood) Reproduced by permission ofLittle, Brown & Company If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Page Thirty <§»e |Hi»»i»«it RJtit @«s gRttttum* Querns. Sheridans Ride Thomas Buchanan Read(Born March 12, 1822; Died May 11, 1872) Up from the South at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudd
. One hundred and one famous poems, with a prose supplement. Not in Vain Emily Dickinson (Portrait taken in childhood) Reproduced by permission ofLittle, Brown & Company If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Page Thirty <§»e |Hi»»i»«it RJtit @«s gRttttum* Querns. Sheridans Ride Thomas Buchanan Read(Born March 12, 1822; Died May 11, 1872) Up from the South at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftains door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. And wider still those billows of warThundered along the horizons bar;And louder yet into Winchester rolledThe roar of that red sea uncontrolled,Making the blood of the listener cold,As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray,With Sheridan twenty miles away. But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad highway leading down ; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight; As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with his utmost speed; Hills rose and fell; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen#miles away. Still sprung from those sw
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