Three Years with the Poets: A Text-book of Poetry to be Memorized by Children During the First Years in School, Comp. by Bertha Hazard |
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ALICE CARY apple-tree Autumn bells birds blossoms blow blue Bob-o'-link boughs bright brown CELIA THAXTER chee child Christ CHRISTINA G Christmas cried Dainty little maiden dandelion dark dear earth eyes fairy Father flowers frost gold Good-night grass gray green happy hear heard heart heaven heigh HELEN HUNT JACKSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW honey laden Lady Moon Lady-bird lamb land laugh leaves light little Hiawatha little sandpiper LORD TENNYSON lulla lullaby March merry morning mother mouse nest never night Nokomis Nokomis answered o'er POEMS SEPTEMBER PRETTY COW Pussy rain Ring river ROBERT HERRICK ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robin roses ROSSETTI round sailing shining sing skies sleeps at home snow soft Song of Hiawatha spring stars summer thee THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH thou thrush tree violet wander waves wild WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wind wings winter wood yellow
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Page 206 - Now tread we a measure," said young Lochinvar. • So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'T were better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 137 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling...
Page 96 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born, of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign : — 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.
Page 64 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 144 - Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave...
Page 216 - Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song. Away went Gilpin out of breath, And sore against his will, Till at his friend the calender's His horse at last stood still.
Page 217 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, "It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Page 142 - THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 213 - He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.
Page 205 - Eske river where ford there was none ; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.