School Reading by Grades: First [-eighth] Year, Book 1American Book Company, 1897 - Children's poetry |
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Annie Annie's Annie's baby ants apple blossoms apple tree asleep baby birdie blew blue bird bright brook busy bees busy to play butterfly buzz corn doll ducks eggs fairy land fast field Find a little flew Flora Frank friends garden George glad go home Good-bye Grace grapes grass grasshopper grow hear hill horse Jack Frost larks leaf leaves LELAND STANFORD let me fly Let us play little birdie little girl meadow moon morning mother muddy water nest night papa peach peep pleasant river plum pretty book quack rain river road robin roll hoop rose rose buds round Rover sail season sheep shining sing snow spider stalk sticks summer sunny hour swim tall tell things to-day wagon wake walk warm sun west wind white ship Wind blows window wings wolf woods
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Page 103 - THE SWING HOW do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue ? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do ! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside — Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown — Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down ! XXXIV TIME TO RISE A BIRDIE with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: "Ain't you 'shamed,...
Page 74 - What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby say, In her bed at peep of day ? Baby says, like little birdie, Let me rise and fly away.
Page 113 - BED IN SUMMER IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day...
Page 105 - Little Boy Blue Come, blow your horn. The sheep are in the meadow, The cows are in the corn.
Page 103 - SWING HOW do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue ? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do ! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside — Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown — Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down ! XXXIV TIME TO RISE A BIRDIE with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said : ' Ain't you 'shamed,...
Page 128 - KIND hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the blossoms, Kind deeds are the fruits; Love is the sweet sunshine That warms into life, For only in darkness Grow hatred and strife.
Page 127 - A MILLION little diamonds Twinkled on the trees; And all the little maidens said: " A jewel, if you please ! " But while they held their hands outstretched To catch the diamonds gay, A million little sunbeams came, And stole them all away.
Page 127 - A million little diamonds Twinkled on the trees ; And all the little maidens said, " A jewel, if you please ! " But while they held their hands outstretched To catch the diamonds gay, A million little sunbeams came And stole them all away.
Page 128 - To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.
Page 126 - For the first year the size of the type should be at least 2.6 millimeters and the width of leading 4.5 millimeters, as shown in this example: — Then there is a turn in the road. The long train runs over the bridge and swings round behind a hill. The children cannot see it now. For the second and the third year, the letters should not be smaller than 2 mm., with a leading of 4 mm. Some of the more carefully made books for the second and the third years are printed in letters of this size, as shown...