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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... leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps ' pollution . No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight , or the gloom of the grave ; And the Star - Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave O ...
... leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps ' pollution . No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight , or the gloom of the grave ; And the Star - Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave O ...
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... leave it , Though filled with the nectar which Jupiter sips ; And now , far removed from thy loved situation , The tear of regret will intrusively swell , As fancy reverts to my father's plantation , And sighs for the bucket which hangs ...
... leave it , Though filled with the nectar which Jupiter sips ; And now , far removed from thy loved situation , The tear of regret will intrusively swell , As fancy reverts to my father's plantation , And sighs for the bucket which hangs ...
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... 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 these verses ? What does he wish to prevent ? Why is the tree dear to him ? Whom does he remember ...
... 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 these verses ? What does he wish to prevent ? Why is the tree dear to him ? Whom does he remember ...
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... leave . " 5 But where was the child delaying ? On the homeward way was he ; And across the dike while the sun was up An hour above the sea . He was stopping now to gather flowers , Now listening to the sound , As the angry waters dashed ...
... leave . " 5 But where was the child delaying ? On the homeward way was he ; And across the dike while the sun was up An hour above the sea . He was stopping now to gather flowers , Now listening to the sound , As the angry waters dashed ...
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... leave the place Where duty holds him fast . 10 The good dame in the cottage Is up and astir with the light , For the thought of her little Peter Has been with her all night . And now she watches the pathway , As yester eve she had done ...
... leave the place Where duty holds him fast . 10 The good dame in the cottage Is up and astir with the light , For the thought of her little Peter Has been with her all night . And now she watches the pathway , As yester eve she had done ...
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Aladdin Ali Baba answered arrows asked Baba beautiful bird Blefuscu boat bright called Captain Cassim cave child cried door Emperor Epimetheus eyes father flowers forest gave give gold Golden Touch green hand head heard heart HELPS TO STUDY Hiawatha horses hundred Inchcape Rock island King Midas knew Kwasind land Laughing lines which tell Little John lived look magician Marygold merry Morgiana morning mother night Nokomis Notes and Questions o'er old oaken bucket Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Read lines Read the lines rich river Robin Hood round sail Sheriff ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR song Song of Hiawatha soon stanza Star-Spangled Banner story stranger STUDY Notes Study PRONUNCIATION sweet things thought told took tree VOCABULARY voyage wild wind wings wood WORDS AND PHRASES
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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!