A seventh readerWheeler Publishing Company, 1919 |
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Common terms and phrases
Æsir America armor Asgard Balder battle beautiful birds brave buffaloes called Canary Islands cannon castle child Columbus cried dark dead death Describe door eagle earth Eli Whitney Elnora eyes fear fight fire flowers Gavroche Gavroche's girl grass ground hand happy head hear heard heart heaven hills Holy Grail hope horse Ichabod JOAQUIN MILLER king land leper light lines live Loki look Lord mother never night o'er Odin Old Curiosity Shop pass picture Pilgrim plain poet poor prairie prairie schooner QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Read aloud reading the poem sail sailors ship silence sing Sir Launfal sleep Sleepy Hollow soldiers soul stanza Star-Spangled Banner stood story SUGGESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION Tell thee things Thou thought trees turned Uncle Podger Victor Hugo voice watched waves wheat wind wonderful
Popular passages
Page 119 - For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 361 - Where low.browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high.minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain...
Page 321 - It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown.
Page 310 - 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 382 - Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed: Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed.
Page 69 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 171 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings. He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Page 352 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 310 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Page 355 - 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, now conceals, now discloses?