The Eaton Readers: First-[fifth] readerIsabel Moore Eaton & Company, 1906 |
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Alice Cary ants asked beautiful birds blockhouse brave bright brown lark brown thrush Celia Thaxter child climbed cloud cold cried Crusoe dear duck eggs eyes fairy fast father feet flew fly away home Francis Scott Key gardener Gessler girl glad golden apples grass grasshopper green grew HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN happy head heard HELEN KELLER Hercules Hiawatha kind Ladybird lake larvæ laughed learned leaves legs little Gustava live loaf look loved Lucy Larcom mate Mondamin monkeys morning mother nest never night Peep Phoebe Cary Piccola pins pitcher plant pretty Quack Robinson rock ship shot sing sleep song soon star-spangled banner story strong sure swam sweet swim teacher tell thing told took tree ugly UGLY DUCKLING Ulysses wind wings yellow
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Page 189 - 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 188 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 82 - Under the greenwood tree * Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither : Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.* JAQ.
Page 88 - I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky ; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies...
Page 188 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming! And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. 0 say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Page 88 - Like ladies' skirts across the grass — O wind, a-blowing all day long O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid. I felt you push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at all — O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
Page 35 - I love you, mother," said rosy Nell; "I love you better than tongue can tell; " Then she teased and pouted full half the day, Till her mother rejoiced when she went to play. "I love you, mother," said little Fan; "To-day I'll help you all I can; How glad I am that school doesn't keep!
Page 100 - Said, with one long sigh of sorrow, "Take them all, O Hiawatha!" From the earth he tore the fibres, Tore the tough roots of the Larch-tree, Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the frame-work. "Give me of...
Page 77 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 98 - Birch-Tree ! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley ! I a light canoe will build me, Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, That shall float upon the river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily ! " Lay aside your cloak, O Birch-Tree ! Lay aside your white-skin wrapper, For the Summer-time is coming, And the sun is warm in heaven, And you need no white-skin wrapper...