W B Yeats Poems

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The Poems Of W. B. Yeats

Selected,Edited, And Introduced By William York Tindall

Illustrated With Drawings By

Robin Jacques

Published 1970 By The Heritage Press In The Series Of British Poets

A Beautiful Pictorial Hardcover 4to Housed In A Clean Entrance And Interior Slipcase

The Book Is In Fine Condition Illustrated With Fine Pastel Shaded Drawings Blank On The Reverse In A Very Good+Slipcase

Publishers Sand Glass Is Laid In

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My Creed

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by Edgar Albert Guest

To live as gently as I can;
To be, no matter where, a man;
To take what comes of good or ill
And cling to faith and honor still;
To do my best, and let that stand
The record of my brain and hand;
And then, should failure come to me,
Still work and hope for victory.
To have no secret place wherein
I stoop unseen to shame or sin;
To be the same when I’m alone
As when my every deed is known;
To live undaunted, unafraid
Of any step that I have made;
To be without pretense or sham
Exactly what men think I am.
To leave some simple mark behind
To keep my having lived in mind;
If enmity to aught I show,
To be an honest, generous foe,
To play my little part, nor whine
That greater honors are not mine.
This, I believe, is all I need
For my philosophy and creed.

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Friendship

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by Anonymous Americas

Friendship needs no studied phrases,
Polished face, or winning wiles;
Friendship deals no lavish praises,
Friendship dons no surface smiles.
Friendship follows nature’s diction,
Shuns the blandishments of art,
Boldly severs truth from fiction,
Speaks the language of the heart.
Friendship favors no condition,
Scorns a narrow-minded creed,
Lovingly fulfills its mission,
Be it word or be it deed.
Friendship cheers the faint and weary,
Makes the timid spirit brave,
Warns the erring, lights the dreary,
Smooths the passage to the grave.
Friendship-pure, unselfish friendship,
All through life’s allotted span,
Nurtures, strengthens, widens, lengthens,
Man’s relationship with man.

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Claire Ambler

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Claire Ambler By Booth Tarkington First Edition Signed

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Claire Ambler

By

Booth Tarkington

True 1928 First Edition,First Printing Hardcover In Dustjacket

Hand Signed By The Author (Booth Tarkington) And Publishers (George H. Doran And Frank Nelson Doubleday)

This Is Stated On The Second Flyleaf In Publishers Ink:

To Commemorate The Founding Of Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, By The Union Of Doubleday, Page & Co. And George H. Doran Company This Volume Over The New Imprint Has Been Autographed By The Author And The Publishers.

The Book Is Bound In Japan Vellum Over Boards

Gilt Single Rule By The Spine

Paper Title Label At The Upper Spine

A Gilt Top Edge And Deckled Edges

Pictorial Pastedowns And Endpages

A Red And Black Title Page

253 Pages Complete Tight Contents Secure At The Hinges

In A Whole Price Intact Upper Front Flap Pictorial Dustjacket

Stated 1928 First Edition On The Copyright Page

A Contemplation of What Has Been Created

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by Jimmy Carter

I tried to fathom nature’s laws
from twirling models and schoolroom sketches
of molecules and parts of atoms,
and nearly believed — but then came quarks,
bosons, leptons, antiparticles,
opposite-turning mirror images,
some that perforate the earth,
never swerving from their certain paths.
I’ve listened to conflicting views
about the grand and lesser worlds:
a big bang where it all began;
of curved, ever-expanding space;
perhaps tremendous whirling yo-yos
that will someday reach the end
of cosmic gravity and then
fly back to where they can restart
or cataclysmically blow apart —
and then, and then the next event.
And will it be an accident?

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