The Children's Poets: Analyses and Appraisals of the Greatest English and American Poets for Children, for Use in Normal Schools, Library Schools, and Homes |
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... Windy Nights . Read it aloud and ob- serve the rhythmic gallop of the verses , wonderfully sug- gestive of the theme . • Whenever the moon and stars are set , Whenever the wind is high , All night long in the dark and wet , A man goes ...
... Windy Nights . Read it aloud and ob- serve the rhythmic gallop of the verses , wonderfully sug- gestive of the theme . • Whenever the moon and stars are set , Whenever the wind is high , All night long in the dark and wet , A man goes ...
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... wind ? Neither I nor you : But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing thro ' . Who has seen the wind ? Neither you nor I : But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by . If all were rain and never sun , No ...
... wind ? Neither I nor you : But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing thro ' . Who has seen the wind ? Neither you nor I : But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by . If all were rain and never sun , No ...
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... wind , the frost , snow , clouds , the rain and the rainbow , sunlight and shadow , " seedtime and harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and night , ” — all are full of beauty and suggestiveness . And it is in ...
... wind , the frost , snow , clouds , the rain and the rainbow , sunlight and shadow , " seedtime and harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and night , ” — all are full of beauty and suggestiveness . And it is in ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I CHILDRENS POETRY AND CHILDRENS POETS | 1 |
MOTHER GOOSE | 11 |
ANN AND JANE TAYLOR | 49 |
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