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... side of the child's nature . We cannot make school reading an effective means of education un- less we make it a pleasure as well : we must recognize the activity of the imagination in childhood . Myths are closely akin to fairy tales ...
... side of the child's nature . We cannot make school reading an effective means of education un- less we make it a pleasure as well : we must recognize the activity of the imagination in childhood . Myths are closely akin to fairy tales ...
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... sides were covered with thick , green woods ; and it was so high that its peak seemed to pierce through the clouds , up , up into the sky , till the eye could scarcely follow it . None of the people of Greece had ever climbed to the top ...
... sides were covered with thick , green woods ; and it was so high that its peak seemed to pierce through the clouds , up , up into the sky , till the eye could scarcely follow it . None of the people of Greece had ever climbed to the top ...
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... side , while her fleet hounds sped on in front of her , and a train of young girls and wood nymphs followed . As Apollo was the most beautiful of all the gods , so Venus , the queen of love and beauty , was the fairest of the goddesses ...
... side , while her fleet hounds sped on in front of her , and a train of young girls and wood nymphs followed . As Apollo was the most beautiful of all the gods , so Venus , the queen of love and beauty , was the fairest of the goddesses ...
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... side . There he saw Proserpine standing in the center of a ring of laughing young girls who were pelting her with flowers . The stern old king felt his heart beat quicker at sight of all these lovely maidens , and he singled out Proser ...
... side . There he saw Proserpine standing in the center of a ring of laughing young girls who were pelting her with flowers . The stern old king felt his heart beat quicker at sight of all these lovely maidens , and he singled out Proser ...
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... side . But in spite of her splendor , her cheeks were pale and her eyes were heavy with weeping . I can stay no longer now , O Ceres , for I must leap into the sunshine . The bright sky calls me , and I must hasten away . " Then Ceres ...
... side . But in spite of her splendor , her cheeks were pale and her eyes were heavy with weeping . I can stay no longer now , O Ceres , for I must leap into the sunshine . The bright sky calls me , and I must hasten away . " Then Ceres ...
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Page 139 - BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 142 - I breathed a song into the air, I i. fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong. That it can follow the flight of song • Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend, SONNETS.
Page 29 - THE FOUNTAIN INTO the sunshine, Full of the light, Leaping and flashing From morn till night ; Into the moonlight, Whiter than snow, Waving so flower-like When the winds blow ; Into the starlight Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day ; Ever in...
Page 24 - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song ! Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
Page 37 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 139 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 30 - Full of the light, Leaping and flashing From morn till night; Into the moonlight, Whiter than snow, Waving so flower-like When the winds blow; Into the starlight Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day; Ever in motion, Blithesome and cheery, Still climbing heavenward, Never aweary; Glad of all weathers, Still seeming best, Upward or downward, Motion thy rest; Full of a nature Nothing can tame, Changed every moment, Ever the same; Ceaseless aspiring, Ceaseless content, Darkness or sunshine...
Page 61 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 62 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Page 37 - 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 for ever.