The Children's Third ReaderGinn & Company, 1896 - 280 страници |
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ABBY MORTON DIAZ Andy Moore asked beautiful birds blossoms blue Blunder bobolinks Bose bright brook called Cambridgeport camel child çine climb cried Daisy dandelions dear donkey Elmwood elves eyes fairy spring Fanny father flew flowers frog green grew happy HARRIET BEECHER STOWE heard Holmes horse Indians James Russell Lowell Kitty knew laughed leaves little boy little Strawberry-blossom lived looked LOUISA MAY ALCOTT loved Lowell Lulu mamma morning mother nests never night North Wind Ocean Pearl Oliver Oliver Wendell Holmes once pine play poems Polly poor pretty rocks sandpiper seemed sing snow soon squirrels stood story sunbeam sunshine sweet Tabby tell things thought Tiny told took trees watched Westfield River whispered winter Wishing-Gate wood
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Страница 123 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Страница 45 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Страница 140 - Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits, — Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
Страница 124 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Страница 124 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang, To the anthem of the free...
Страница 141 - T make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's...
Страница 142 - What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground!
Страница 141 - Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he
Страница 206 - I'll tell you how the Sun rose — A Ribbon at a time — The Steeples swam in Amethyst The news, like Squirrels, ran — The Hills untied their Bonnets — The Bobolinks — begun — Then I said softly to myself — "That must have been the Sun"!
Страница 215 - THIS little rill, that from the springs Of yonder grove its current brings, Plays on the slope awhile, and then Goes prattling into groves again, Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet, when life was new. When woods in early green were dressed, And from the chambers of the west