School Poetry for Oral ExpressionEdwin Du Bois Shurter, Dwight Everett Watkins Noble and Noble, 1925 - 264 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 32
Page 9
... clear sound Leaks upward slowly from the ground , While on the wing the bluebirds ring Their wedding bells to woods around . The flirting chewink calls his dear Behind the bush ; and very near , Where water flows , where green grass ...
... clear sound Leaks upward slowly from the ground , While on the wing the bluebirds ring Their wedding bells to woods around . The flirting chewink calls his dear Behind the bush ; and very near , Where water flows , where green grass ...
Page 13
... clear call that may not be denied ; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying , And the flung spray and the blown spume , and the sea - gulls crying . I must go down to the seas again , to the vagrant gypsy life , To the ...
... clear call that may not be denied ; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying , And the flung spray and the blown spume , and the sea - gulls crying . I must go down to the seas again , to the vagrant gypsy life , To the ...
Page 14
... clearly , but do not neglect the musical rhythm . I AM fevered with the sunset , I am fretful with the bay , For the wander - thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay . There's a schooner in the offing , With her topsails shot with fire ...
... clearly , but do not neglect the musical rhythm . I AM fevered with the sunset , I am fretful with the bay , For the wander - thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay . There's a schooner in the offing , With her topsails shot with fire ...
Page 22
... Clear to the ground . He always kept his poise To the top branches , climbing carefully With the same pains you use to fill a cup Up to the brim , and even above the brim . Then he flung outward , feet first , with a swish , Kicking his ...
... Clear to the ground . He always kept his poise To the top branches , climbing carefully With the same pains you use to fill a cup Up to the brim , and even above the brim . Then he flung outward , feet first , with a swish , Kicking his ...
Page 33
... clearly shown by due emphasis , while the rhythm of the whole should not be neglected . THE rain was over , and the ... clear , As though one saw it in a crystal sphere . The rusty sumac with its struggling spires ; The golden - rod ...
... clearly shown by due emphasis , while the rhythm of the whole should not be neglected . THE rain was over , and the ... clear , As though one saw it in a crystal sphere . The rusty sumac with its struggling spires ; The golden - rod ...
Contents
3 | |
11 | |
18 | |
20 | |
27 | |
28 | |
45 | |
47 | |
143 | |
151 | |
160 | |
168 | |
183 | |
184 | |
193 | |
203 | |
54 | |
60 | |
73 | |
80 | |
92 | |
100 | |
126 | |
134 | |
212 | |
231 | |
237 | |
244 | |
252 | |
261 | |
263 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alexander Beaufort Meek Alfred Domett Alfred Tennyson beautiful beneath biographical note concerning Bliss Carman Blynken born Break breath Cale Young Rice calm Captain Carcassonne Charles Scribner's Sons cloud concerning the author Copyright dark dawn dead death deep died dream earth Edward Rowland Sill Edwin Markham Eugene Field eyes fair flowers galloped gray green hand hath hear heart heaven hills Lady Street land last stanza Laughter light Little Boy Blue live Lochinvar Lord Louis Untermeyer ment moon night o'er poem poet poetry published rain rendezvous with Death Reprinted by permission rhythm Richard Le Gallienne ride Ring road sail silence sing skies slow smile song soul special arrange spirit stars strong sweet sword tears thee thine things thou thought tone trees Tubal Cain verse voice wave wild wind Wynken York young Lochinvar
Popular passages
Page 170 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Page 190 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Page 177 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Page 188 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Page 169 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys ; and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 103 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Page 217 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port" is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 240 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Page 224 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image.
Page 171 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.