Language Lessons from Literature: Book I-II, Book 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - English language |
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aloud in class answer the questions Apollo Autumn barefoot boy beautiful begin bird blue blue weather Blynken bright bumble-bee caduceus called canoe capital letter chariot Christmas CLASS CONVERSATION close comma Copy the following CORRECT correctly describe dictation earth exclamation expression fill the blanks fir-trees flowers following sentences friends fruit girls golden grain green Guido happy harvest heart Helen Hunt Jackson HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hiawatha Indian corn JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Learn looked lyre maize means Mercury Mondamin month morning never oral sentences paragraph person or thing Phaethon picture plural poet Proserpina punctuation marks READING AND DISCUSSION Rhocus sentences aloud shining Song of Hiawatha spring stanza story of Ceres STUDY OF POEM tell thou thought tree vines water-babies wheat Whittier WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind wings woods words not quoted Write WRITTEN SPELLING LESSONS wrote yellow
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Page 9 - Where the wood-grape's clusters shine; Of the black wasp's cunning way, Mason of his walls of clay. And the architectural plans Of gray hornet artisans! — For, eschewing books and tasks. Nature answers all he asks; Hand in hand with her he walks. Face to face with her he talks, Part and parcel of her joy, — Blessings on the barefoot boy!
Page 102 - A WIND came up out of the sea, And said, " O mists, make room for me." It hailed the ships, and cried, " Sail on, Ye mariners, the night is gone." And hurried landward far away, Crying, " Awake ! it is the day." It said unto the forest, " Shout ! Hang all your leafy banners out ! " It touched the wood-bird's folded wing, And said,
Page 149 - By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them ; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
Page 165 - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe — Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. "Where are you going, and what do you wish?" The old moon asked the three. "We have come to fish for the herring fish That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of silver and gold have we!
Page 8 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Page 10 - I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night...
Page 177 - And a mother she was, and is, to me ; For I was born on the open sea ! The waves were white, and red the morn, In the noisy hour when I was born ; And the whale it whistled, the porpoise rolled...
Page 142 - A little spring had lost its way amid the grass and fern, A passing stranger scooped a well where weary men might turn ; He walled it in, and hung with care a ladle at the brink ; He thought not of the deed he did, but' judged that toil might drink. He [Missed again, and lo ! the well, by summers never dried, Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues, and saved a life beside.
Page 84 - From the ground the quills he gathered, All the little shining arrows, Stained them red and blue and yellow, With the juice of roots and berries ; Into his canoe he wrought them, Round its waist a shining girdle, Round its bows a gleaming necklace, On its breast two stars resplendent.
Page 138 - He saw her lift her eyes; he felt The soft hand's light caressing. And heard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing. "I'm sorry that I spelt the word: I hate to go above you, Because...