Poems for MemorizingWhitaker & Ray, 1901 - 204 pages |
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... O columbine , open your folded wrapper , Where two twin turtle - doves dwell ! O cuckoo - pint , toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell ! For Memorizing And show me your nest , with the 31 Poems Jean Ingelow.
... O columbine , open your folded wrapper , Where two twin turtle - doves dwell ! O cuckoo - pint , toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell ! For Memorizing And show me your nest , with the 31 Poems Jean Ingelow.
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... clear : It teaches , my child , that it will not do To talk about all you hear . Two eyes and only one mouth have you ; The reason for this must be , That you should learn that it will not do To talk about all you see . Two hands and ...
... clear : It teaches , my child , that it will not do To talk about all you hear . Two eyes and only one mouth have you ; The reason for this must be , That you should learn that it will not do To talk about all you see . Two hands and ...
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... Clearly we shall never do . We shall reach what we endeavor If on Now we more rely ; But unto the realms of never Leads the pilot By - and - by . -Author not known . For Memorizing I ONCE HAD A SWEET LITTLE DOLL . 44 Poems.
... Clearly we shall never do . We shall reach what we endeavor If on Now we more rely ; But unto the realms of never Leads the pilot By - and - by . -Author not known . For Memorizing I ONCE HAD A SWEET LITTLE DOLL . 44 Poems.
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... clear off any sooner Because you scold and frown ? And wouldn't it be nicer For you to smile than pout , And so make sunshine in the house When there is none without ? Suppose your task , my little man , Is very hard to get ; Will it ...
... clear off any sooner Because you scold and frown ? And wouldn't it be nicer For you to smile than pout , And so make sunshine in the house When there is none without ? Suppose your task , my little man , Is very hard to get ; Will it ...
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... clear and cold ; 66 And the mother at home says , Hark ! For his voice I listen and yearn ; It is growing late and dark , And my boy does not return ! " -Longfellow . THE SCULPTOR . Chisel in hand stood a sculptor - boy With his marble ...
... clear and cold ; 66 And the mother at home says , Hark ! For his voice I listen and yearn ; It is growing late and dark , And my boy does not return ! " -Longfellow . THE SCULPTOR . Chisel in hand stood a sculptor - boy With his marble ...
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Abraham Lincoln Alice Cary angel Author not known baby battle beautiful beneath bird blow bob-o'-link Brave Adm'rl breath bright brown thrush bugle chee clouds cold dead dear death dream dust dying earth eyes fear feet flag flowers forever glory golden grave gray hand hear heart heaven hold in fee hope J. G. Holland James Whitcomb Riley Joaquin Miller Joseph Rodman Drake land liberty light live Longfellow look Lord Lucy Larcom man's son inherit Memorizing 66 morning nest never night o'er Oliver Wendell Holmes Phoebe Cary rain rest Ring roar Robert of Lincoln sail Shakespeare shining ship sings skies sleep smile song somewhere soul sound spank Spink stars strife sweet take my turn thee There's thine things thou thought toil tree truth union unseen voice wave weary Wendell Phillips wild wind woods
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Page 127 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 176 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe — Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of hosts, be with us yet, Lest wo forget — lest we forget!
Page 47 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 128 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea...
Page 99 - Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time.
Page 148 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 101 - The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 125 - We look before and after And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 151 - 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...
Page 146 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.