Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish poet, essayist, and novelist. His writings are characterized by the happy lighthearted spirit of the author. He always gives one the notion that writing was play for him. But Stevenson's works show the master hand, the skill of the artist. Be sure to read all you can of Stevenson's works.
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL
Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all
I should know what God and man is.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet.
was written in memory of President Lincoln.
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores
a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and
done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
We search the world for truth; we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From graven stone and written scroll,
From all old flower-fields of the soul;
And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers read,
And all our treasure of old thought
In His harmonious fulness wrought
Who gathers in one sheaf complete
The scattered blades of God's sown wheat,
The common growth that maketh good
His all-embracing Fatherhood.
A, an, 184, 186, 388
Abbreviations: rules for use of, 52;
for titles, 53; in business terms,
53; in letters, 96
Abstract noun: definition of, 28;
finding them in sentences, 28;
selecting, 36
Acceptance, note of, 281, 285, 286
Active voice, 310
Adjectival clause, 99, 100
Adjectival phrases, 81, 381, 384
Adjective pronouns, 235, 236
Adjectives: use of, 60, 180, 181;
comparison of, 61; irregular
comparison of, 61; that cannot
be compared, 63; proper adjec-
tives, 63; changing them to
phrases, 105; talking about,
177; uniting, 177; overworked,
178; fewer, less, 179; well, good,
181; definition of, 182; pro-
nominal, 183; definite and
indefinite articles, 184; predi-
cate adjective, 184; adjectives
difficult to spell, 187; summary
of, 402
Adverbial clauses, 99
Adverbial modifiers, 357
Adverbial phrases, 81, 381
Adverbs, 74, 75, 403
Advertisements, answering, 259
A good deal, a great deal, 389
Agreement with antecedent, 242
American's Creed, The, 181
Analyzing sentences, 371
And, but, or, 108, 115, 118
Antecedent, 242
Antonyms, 174, 393
Apostrophe: use of in plurals, 32;
in possessive case, 146, 147; 387
Application, letter of, 257; writing
a, 259; size of paper to use for
a, 259; complimentary close
in, 259
Appositional nouns, 134, 135
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Books: talking about, 59, 71;
making a book report, 72; to
be read to pupils, 87; list of, 72,
190, 247
Boy scouts, 199, 200, 288, 289
Bright Fire, A, 206
Browning, Robert, 9
Bryant, William Cullen, 211
Building and loan, talking about,
367
Business letters: heading of, 254;
writing dates in, 255; inside
address, 255; superscription,
255; salutation, 255, 256; com-
plimentary close, 256; signa-
ture, 257; letter of application,
257; letter of complaint, 260;
how to fold a business letter, 263
But, nor, 115
Capitals: with proper nouns, 26,
64; in paragraphs, 37; with
proper adjectives, 63; with
first word of sentence, 64; in
titles, 64; in months of year,
64; in days of week, 64; in
geographical names, 64; in
names of special days, 64; in
salutation, 93; in compliment-
ary close, 94; in a letter, 123;
summary of, 385
Can, may, 389
Carman, Bliss, 344
Cartoons, 89
Case: nominative case, 142, 143;
predicate nominative, 142, 143;
appositive, 143; possessive, 145;
objective, 148, 151
Cats, talking about, 370
Chariot Race, The, 326
Citizenship, discussing, 351
Civics, 41, 111, 112, 113, 114 158,
174, 181, 199, 201, 205, 287,
289, 351, 356, 368, 213
Class criticism, 12, 15, 46, 71, 73;
145, 154, 157, 158, 159, 195,
200, 207, 262, 329, 349, 356
Clause: definition of, 98, 100;
dependent, 99, 100, 102, 103;
principal, 99, 100; adjectival,
99, 100; adverbial, 99, 100, 102;
noun, 99; appositional, 100;
restrictive, 354; non-restrictive,
355; used as nouns, 357; sum-
mary of, 395
Climax, meaning of, 6
Closing, for friendly letters, 194
Coins, talking about, 140
Collective nouns: definition of,
27; list of, 28, 36
Colon, where used, 290, 294, 388
Comma: in a series, 17; rules
for, 17; writing sentences con-
taining, 18; review of, 37; in
heading of letter, 92; in com-
plimentary close, 94; in super-
scription, 96; in adverbial
clause, 103; with name of
person addressed, 133; with
appositional noun, 135; uses of,
294; in non-restrictive clauses,
355; summary of, 386
Common Errors Corrected, 8, 19,
25, 37, 47, 50, 60, 88, 111, 162,
190, 193, 212, 214, 243, 244, 245,
254, 266, 325, 342, 345, 350, 366
Common noun: definition of, 26;
exercise in finding, 26, 36
Comparative degree of adjectives,
62
Comparisons, 128
Complaint, letter of, 260
Complex sentences, 110, 111, 384
Complimentary close, 94
Composition, 176, 380
Compound nouns, plural of, 32
Compound personal pronouns, 241
Compound phrase, 382
Compound predicate, 49, 382
Compound prepositions, 78
Compound relative pronouns, 233
Compound sentence, 107, 108, 109,
383
Compound subject, 48, 382
Conclusion or closing, 7
Conjugation, 298; to be, 321; see,
322
Conjunction: use of, 115, 120;
coordinate conjunctions, 115,
118; correlative conjunctions,
116; subordinate conjunctions,
116, 117; conjunctive adverb,
119; exercises in finding, 119;
summary of, 403
Conjunctive adverb, 119, 394
Connectives, 119; used in exposi-
tion, 159
Consonants, as word endings, 30
Conversation, 166, 253
Coordinate conjunction, 115
Copulative verb, 57
Copying, 16, 37, 178, 222, 230,
243, 274, 313
Correct usage, 189; foreign words,
251; shall, will, 301
Correlative conjunctions, 115
Crane, Ichabod, 18
Current events: talking about,
111; topics on, 113
Dangling participle, 274
Dative case, 151
Days of the week, capitals used
in, 64
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