Readings from LiteratureReuben Post Halleck American Book Company, 1915 - 320 pages |
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ADDITIONAL READINGS Alfred Noyes American Literature born Brer Fox Brer Rabbit called Captain Phips child chimney corner cinder-gray Coppy Cruncher doctor door England English Literature ENGLISH THEME SUBJECTS eyes Fritz garden girl Halleck's History Halleck's New English hand head heard heart Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hereward Hildesmuller History of American James Whitcomb Riley John Lady Teazle laugh Lena letter looked Madame Defarge Madison Cawein Miss Allardyce Miss Pross moonlight Nathaniel Hawthorne never night ORAL AND WRITTEN poem poet Robert Louis Stevenson round Rudyard Kipling sezee shepherd Sir Peter snow song spelling and meaning stanza stood story stranger STUDY HINTS Study Study the spelling SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS FOR ORAL teacher to read tell thee things thou took Twice-Told Tales verse Wee Willie Winkie wife William William Wordsworth wind words write WRITTEN ENGLISH THEME young Zenobia
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Page 161 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 142 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 119 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...
Page 262 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 253 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near...
Page 117 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. "And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 185 - I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made ; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
Page 160 - ... if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us!
Page 109 - What did the winds and the sea-birds say Of the cruel captain who sailed away? — Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead!
Page 263 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.