Famous Single Poems
FAMOUS
SINGLE POEMS
FAMOUS SINGLE POEMS
First Series
Famous Single Poems
And the Controversies Which
Have Raged Around Them
By
Burton E. Stevenson
George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.
First Published in 1924
Printed in the United States of America
I would rather risk for
future fame upon one lyric
than upon ten volumes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
CONTENTS
PAGE 3 John Luckey McCreery 9 Alexander Macgregor Rose 27 Clement Clarke Moore 47 Lizzie York Case 81 Ernest Lawrence Thayer 99 Arabella Eugenia Smith and Ben King 127 John Burroughs 143 Thomas Dunn English 159 John Whitaker Watson 173 William Allen Butler 191 Ella Wheeler Wilcox 223 Elizabeth Akers 243 Sarah Doudney 271 Homer Greene 291 Young E. Allison 315
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