Voices for the Speechless: Selections for Schools and Private Reading |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 59
... leaves and tendrils of the vine Hung like a votive garland at a shrine . By chance it happened that in Atri dwelt A knight , with spur on heel and sword in belt , Who loved to hunt the wild - boar in the woods , Who loved his falcons ...
... leaves and tendrils of the vine Hung like a votive garland at a shrine . By chance it happened that in Atri dwelt A knight , with spur on heel and sword in belt , Who loved to hunt the wild - boar in the woods , Who loved his falcons ...
Page 71
... leaves behind , " Lo , " we cry , " the fleeting spirit Doth a newer garb inherit ; Through eternity doth soar , Growing , greatening , evermore . ” But our beautiful dumb creatures Yield their gentle , generous natures , With their ...
... leaves behind , " Lo , " we cry , " the fleeting spirit Doth a newer garb inherit ; Through eternity doth soar , Growing , greatening , evermore . ” But our beautiful dumb creatures Yield their gentle , generous natures , With their ...
Page 77
... leaves are afire on top of the hill . It was not a sound . nor a thing of sense- But a pain , like the pang of the short suspense That thrills the being of those who see At their feet the gulf of Eternity ! The air of the valley has ...
... leaves are afire on top of the hill . It was not a sound . nor a thing of sense- But a pain , like the pang of the short suspense That thrills the being of those who see At their feet the gulf of Eternity ! The air of the valley has ...
Page 87
... like living coals , the apples Burned among the withering leaves . Loud the clamorous bell was ringing From its belfry gaunt VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS . 87 The War Horse Chick-a-dee-dee 144 Pegasus in Pound The Linnet 145.
... like living coals , the apples Burned among the withering leaves . Loud the clamorous bell was ringing From its belfry gaunt VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS . 87 The War Horse Chick-a-dee-dee 144 Pegasus in Pound The Linnet 145.
Page 88
... leaves exhaled . Thus , upon the village common , By the school - boys he was found ; And the wise men , in their wisdom , Put him straightway into pound . Then the sombre village crier , Ringing loud his brazen bell , Wandered down the ...
... leaves exhaled . Thus , upon the village common , By the school - boys he was found ; And the wise men , in their wisdom , Put him straightway into pound . Then the sombre village crier , Ringing loud his brazen bell , Wandered down the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ahura Mazda animals BARRY CORNWALL beast beautiful BELL OF ATRI beneath bless Bobolink brown thrush brutes CELIA THAXTER cheer Cheerily chip Chipperee creatures cried dear DENIS FLORENCE MACCARTHY Division Division II dost doth Draupadi dumb earth eyes faithful fear feet Gelert green H. W. LONGFELLOW happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha horse hound human INDRA kind king knew light little bird Little by little Little lamb living look Lord LUCY LARCOM mercy morning nest never night o'er Ormazd pain pity poor dog Tray Robin round shadow shalt shine sing song sorrow soul sound sparrow spider is spinning spinning his thread steed Stork summer swallow sweet thee thine thing thou thrush toil tree voice wandering weary WILLIAM BLAKE wind wings wood word worm wren's nest ZEND AVESTA
Popular passages
Page 23 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 218 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Page 236 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 102 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 105 - 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. Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched- with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.
Page 83 - — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 36 - The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 235 - 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. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Page 52 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 14 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.