Elson Grammar School Readers, Book 1Scott, Foresman and Company, 1911 - Basal reading instruction Selections from American and English poets and authors. Includes brief biographical information and "helps to study." |
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... BIRDS : THE BROWN THRUSH .. BIRDS IN SUMMER .. OSING ON , BLITHE BIRD . SPRING AND AUTUMN : SPRING THE VOICE OF SPRING . JACK IN THE PULPIT . .. Robert Southey .. .. Charles Mackay .. Lucy Larcom .. Mary Howitt . William Motherwell ...
... BIRDS : THE BROWN THRUSH .. BIRDS IN SUMMER .. OSING ON , BLITHE BIRD . SPRING AND AUTUMN : SPRING THE VOICE OF SPRING . JACK IN THE PULPIT . .. Robert Southey .. .. Charles Mackay .. Lucy Larcom .. Mary Howitt . William Motherwell ...
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... bird's merry tone , I hear from morn till night ; And there are lovelier flowers , I ween , Than e'er in Eastern lands were seen , In varied colors bright . 4 Her forests and her valleys fair , p Her flowers that scent the morning air ...
... bird's merry tone , I hear from morn till night ; And there are lovelier flowers , I ween , Than e'er in Eastern lands were seen , In varied colors bright . 4 Her forests and her valleys fair , p Her flowers that scent the morning air ...
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... bird which the ancient Egyptians believed visi their country once in several hundred years . They thought this bi burned itself to death and from its ashes sprang a new Phoenix . THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET SAMUEL WOODWORTH Samuel Woodworth ...
... bird which the ancient Egyptians believed visi their country once in several hundred years . They thought this bi burned itself to death and from its ashes sprang a new Phoenix . THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET SAMUEL WOODWORTH Samuel Woodworth ...
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... bird w Phoenix . nd editor , was y trade . He ken Bucket " d . d . it ; The Old Oaken Bucket 29 2 That moss - covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often , at noon , when returned from the field , I found it the source of an ...
... bird w Phoenix . nd editor , was y trade . He ken Bucket " d . d . it ; The Old Oaken Bucket 29 2 That moss - covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often , at noon , when returned from the field , I found it the source of an ...
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... bird sing , And still thy branches bend . Old tree ! the storm still brave ! And , woodman , leave the spot ; While I've a hand to save , Thy ax shall harm it not . HELPS TO STUDY Notes and Questions To whom is the poet speaking in ...
... bird sing , And still thy branches bend . Old tree ! the storm still brave ! And , woodman , leave the spot ; While I've a hand to save , Thy ax shall harm it not . HELPS TO STUDY Notes and Questions To whom is the poet speaking in ...
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Aladdin Aladdin's mother Ali Baba answered arrows asked Baba Badroulbadour bird Blefuscu boat bright Caliph Captain Cassim cave cried door Elson Grammar School Emperor Epimetheus eyes flowers forest gave give gold golden Golden Touch Grammar School Reader hand heard heart HELPS TO STUDY Hiawatha hundred Inchcape Rock island isle King King Midas knew Knight lamp land laugh Lilliput lines which tell Little John lived look magician Majesty merchants Midas Morgiana morning Nokomis Notes and Questions palace Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Read the lines rich Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe round sail School Reader Book Sheriff Sheriff of Nottingham ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR slave soon stanza story STUDY Notes Study PRONUNCIATION Sultan things thou thought told took tree VOCABULARY voyage wild wind wood Words and Phrases
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Page 130 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Page 290 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 89 - He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf; And I laughed, when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Page 45 - Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Page 17 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 290 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 88 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Page 89 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
Page 32 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Page 51 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.