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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... forests , dark and lone , For there the wild 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 ...
... forests , dark and lone , For there the wild 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 ...
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... forests ? In what regions would you see rocks , such as are described in the first stanza ? What things are mentioned in the second stanza as objects of the poet's love ? Name one of the " mighty streams that seaward glide ...
... forests ? In what regions would you see rocks , such as are described in the first stanza ? What things are mentioned in the second stanza as objects of the poet's love ? Name one of the " mighty streams that seaward glide ...
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... forest with its echo . The mouse , 10 recognizing the voice , ran to the spot , and at once set to work to nibble the knot in the cord that bound the lion , and in a short time set the noble beast at liberty ; thus convincing him that ...
... forest with its echo . The mouse , 10 recognizing the voice , ran to the spot , and at once set to work to nibble the knot in the cord that bound the lion , and in a short time set the noble beast at liberty ; thus convincing him that ...
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... forest look like & wreck . But the traveler , though at first he could scarcely keep his cloak on his back , drew it about him more closely 10 than ever . The Wind , having thus tried his utmost power in vain , the Sun began . Bursting ...
... forest look like & wreck . But the traveler , though at first he could scarcely keep his cloak on his back , drew it about him more closely 10 than ever . The Wind , having thus tried his utmost power in vain , the Sun began . Bursting ...
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... forests , hot as fire , Wide as England , tall as a spire , Full of apes and cocoa - nuts . And the negro hunters ' huts ; - Where the knotty crocodile Lies and blinks in the Nile , And the red flamingo flies , Hunting fish before his ...
... forests , hot as fire , Wide as England , tall as a spire , Full of apes and cocoa - nuts . And the negro hunters ' huts ; - Where the knotty crocodile Lies and blinks in the Nile , And the red flamingo flies , Hunting fish before his ...
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Page 41 - 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 15 - 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 127 - 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 84 - 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 25 - The old oaken bucket, the ironbound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. 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 exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the...
Page 286 - 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, 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 85 - 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 265 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 286 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 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, birth, SONNETS.
Page 92 - the Elephant Is very like a rope!" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!