Language Lessons from Literature: Book I-II, Book 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - English language |
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aloud in class answer Apollo apostrophe Autumn barefoot boy beautiful begin Birch-tree bird blue Blynken caduceus canoe capital letter Ceres CHAPTER chariot Christmas CLASS CONVERSATION Clytie comma corn correctly cried dark dictation direct quotation dryad earth exclamation fairy father filling the blanks fir-trees flowers following sentences girls Give the reason golden green Guido heart Helen Hunt Jackson Helen Keller HENRY VAN DYKE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hiawatha JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL laughed Learn looked lyre maize means Mercury Mondamin morning mother never night oral sentences paragraph person or thing Phaethon picture Proserpina punctuation marks questions Read aloud READING AND DISCUSSION Rhocus sailing SECTION seen sentences aloud shining sings Song of Hiawatha spring stanza statement story stream STUDY OF POEM STUDY OF WORDS tell Thomas Huxley thou Tom's tree Water Babies wind wings woods words not quoted Write Wynken yellow yesterday
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Page 100 - A WIND came up out of the sea, And said, " O mists, make room for me." It hailed the ships, and cried, " Sail on, Ye mariners, the night is gone." And hurried landward far away, Crying, " Awake ! it is the day." It said unto the forest, " Shout ! Hang all your leafy banners out ! " It touched the wood-bird's folded wing, And said,
Page 147 - By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, 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.
Page 163 - Where are you going, and what do you wish?" The old moon asked the three. "We have come to fish for the herring fish That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of silver and gold have we!
Page 6 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Page 8 - I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night...
Page 136 - It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving.
Page 175 - And a mother she was, and is, to me ; For I was born on the open sea ! The waves were white, and red the morn, In the noisy hour when I was born ; And the whale it whistled, the porpoise rolled...
Page 140 - A little spring had lost its way amid the grass and fern, A passing stranger scooped a well, where weary men might turn; He walled it in, and hung with care a ladle at the brink; He thought not of the deed he did, but judged that toil might drink. He passed again, and lo! the well, by summers never dried, Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues, and saved a life beside.
Page 174 - THE SEA The sea, the sea, the open sea, The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round ; It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; 5 Or like a cradled creature lies.
Page 135 - STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning : Around it still the sumachs grow. And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal...