- Platt Rogers Spencer
By: Roy Jay Cook, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Phillips Brooks, Eugene Field, William Wordsworth, James Russell Lowell, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ellen H. Gates, Emily Dickinson, Edward R. Sill, Thomas Buchanan Read, Maltbie Davenport Babcock, Joaquin Miller, Francis Miles Finch, Rudyard Kipling, Edmund Vance Cooke, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry Van Dyke, Thomas Hood, Sidney Lanier, James Whitcomb Riley, William Herbert Carruth, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John James Ingalls, John Burroughs, Leigh Hunt, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Gray, Alexander Anderson, John Milton, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ernest Henley, Edward Lear, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Byron, John Greenleaf Whittier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Scott, Alice Gary, Robert Burns, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Alfred Tennyson, Frank Lebby Stanton, Francis William Bourdillon, Sam Walter Foss, Alan Seeger, John McCrae
101 Famous Poems
Excerpt from One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement
Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our todays and yesterdays Ar
