Graded Poetry Readers, Issue 3Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1905 |
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Page 76 - 1779-1863 A Visit from St. Nicholas '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; The children were nestled all snug in
Page 80 - And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle; But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, " Happy Christmas to all, and to all a
Page 83 - At daybreak on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept—and, turning homeward, cried, r, " In heaven we all shall meet! " When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. Then downwards from the steep hill's edge They
Page 36 - Ere upon my bed I lay me, Ere in sleep I close my eyelids! " Saw the moon rise from the water, ,\,:. Eippling, rounding from the water, Saw the flecks and shadows on it, Whispered, " What is that, Nokomis? " And the good Nokomis answered: " Once a warrior, very angry, Seized his grandmother, and threw her
Page 77 - and To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall! Now, dash away, dash away, dash away, all! " As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So, up to the house-top the coursers they
Page 10 - Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear. " Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer." So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write
Page 48 - were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street 10 And open fields, and we not see't? Come we'll abroad, and let's obey The proclamation made for May. And sin no more, as we have done, by staying, But, my Corinna ! come, let's go a-Maying.
Page 40 - Through the summit of the Cedar Went a sound, a cry of horror, Went a murmur of resistance; But it whispered, bending downward, " Take my boughs, 0 Hiawatha! " Down he hewed the boughs of cedar, Shaped them straightway to a framework, Like two bows he formed and shaped them, Like two bended bows together.
Page 80 - A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
Page 34 - Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. There the wrinkled old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes,