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6
How
Teach
to
and
Reading
Composition
BY
J. J. BURNS,
OF
AUTHOR
"THE
STORY
M. A., Ph.D.
OF
SHAKESPEARE'S
KINGS."
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YORK
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Hall,
R.
and
London*
C.)
PREFACE.
The
teacher
the
help
and
to
much
lines
from
Judging
and
teacher
also
of
do
either
so
be
by treating
asks
examines
his
be
The
so
bold
to
in
point
out
of
these
they
number
of
books
girls
to
to
those
in
of
some
and
edge
knowl-
subject
here
as
and
discussions
pieces
for
ing
trust-
have
indicate
a
as
methods,
literature
of
reading,
or
nently
emi-
therein.
readers
results
braced
em-
lines
who
the
that
place
a
composition
made
is
of
it
twin
classes,
teachers
in
the
observation
While
found
of
the
a
of
these.
and
presenting
believes
commonly
He
to
of
equal
reading
of
helpful.
worthy
and
experience
author
will
lessons
his
judgment
of
and
boys
than
important
mode
the
the
given,
they
the
to
all
at
of
work
part
these
in
less
supervisor
will
language.
results
not
are
which
daily
training
English
the
work
educational
other
the
write
the
important
of
compiler
something
for
very
labor
opinion,
his
In
the
least
and
writer
produce
prepare
long
the
in
to
to
at
schoolroom,
read
is
book
little
this
of
the
of
mind
the
in
purpose
a
time
the
our
little
expended
schools
elementary
defects
and
to
suggest
he
while
patience,
reading
on
;
has
he
what
seem
space,
as
remedies.
subject
generally
of
rhythm
has
overlooked,
been
even
5
allowed
by
teachers
of
read-
it
6
PREFACE.
ing, and
it is
as
prose
of
pupils
second,
they
may
know,
approach
the
the
part
of
easiest
taken
the
the
of
after
of
others,
the
may
and
be
of
emotions
for
this.
Thanks
and
the
after
the
is
the
to
due
some
show
are,
than
made
use
all
appended
are
to
other
writer,
as
fuller
rule,
a
;
modes
both
akin
the
thought,
upon,
to
of
is to set
book
something
to feed
privilege
Lowell.
from
been
has
is easier
; sometimes
passage
difficult
the
one
and
of
content
of
the
finest,
study.
of
are
a
quotations
aim
there
the
asked
quoted
loving
whole
that
are
notes
some,
an
study,
for
pains
they
are
least
most
selection
nor
To
simply
These
reaching
for
is
done
deserve
The
it ;
occasionally
eye
word.
each
plan.
same
;
the
this
follows
the
;
what
at
lessons
special
no
book
a
express
and
and
beginning,
but
to
by
guiding
from
clearness
occupied
that
questions
used
under
the
sure
which
one
book
end,
make
to
are
the
at
are
toward
are
a
grace.
culture
pupils
feel, with
or
to
of
first, the
:
and
training
exercises
language
subordinate
are
the
two
are
get knowledge
to
and,
In
there
all others
which
ing,
read-
of
part
poetry.
as
that
is claimed
It
to
well
as
essential
absolutely
an
Messrs.
using
a
to make
there
and
that
clear
for
the
from
the
tion
convicand
intellect
reading
Houghton,
selections
example
proper
is
Mifflin
a
search
"
Co.
Longfellow
CONTENTS.
PART
OF
TEACHING
THE
I."
ENGLISH
IN
ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
CHAP.
PAOB
I.
Methods
Present
III.
A
IV.
Rhythm
V.
op
Heart
33
43
LESSONS
II.-^ELECTED
Tavgrt."
Alice
FOR
STUDY.
Cary
47
48
The
Children's
Henry
Sunbeam
a
Beaver
Flower."
is
Where
there
is
J.
ileten
Squirrel's
The
Voice
The
Old
of
Landing
Way
a
57
59
60
Jackson
62
Setecied
Grass."
Tree."
Jtfr".
S,
Bright
M.
Blue
}^isst."
iS'ara/i
Dr
Jb/in
B.
Piatt
the
63
Roberts
64
Todd
65
67
ileZen
Weather."
Jackson
Hunt
Got
Pilgrim
70
71
Anonymous
Horse-Chestnut
of
56
Troivbridge
Hunt
the
Swallow's
THE
is
Arithmetic"
Eagle
Ghost."
October's
T.
there
Cary
Ducks
the
The
-4./ice
does."
Will
a
Strawberries."
September."
53
53
Pretty
that
and
Sefecied
Bee
the
and
Fox
49
50
Pretty
The
the
and
Kingbird
I Were
The
How
21
Memory
the
for
Bird
a
The
The
Style
IN
Composition
What
My
17
25
PART
The
9
Instruction
the
Lesson
Little
Literature
VI.
If
and
Improvement
11.
Results
their
its
Name."
Fathers."
7
3f.
Jtfrs.
P.
Boyle
Hemans
72
74
8
CONTENTS
PAOB
In
Time's
To
Swisa,"Luey
Ford.
Brandywine
Bell.
Little
April
The
"
The
Sandpiper."
79
88
Thaxter
91
92
Wordsworth
"
Concord,"
Taylor
Wordsworth
"
The
78
Westwood
CeZia
Rainbow.
; Daffodils.
Bayard
"
Thomas
Weather."
76
Bryant
Gestiajh,"
Fringed
THE
Larcom
92
Haiothome
94
,
CeZia
Thaxter
96
,
The
Rising."
T/iomcw
The
Spacious
Firmament
The
Fiftieth
Birthday
The
Mountain
To
Gladness
Some
Huskers."
The
Corn
To
a
To
the
The
To
A
The
at
106
Ill
jBwrna
114
117
117
R,
SKYL.AIIK."
The
Death
of
To
A
An
Old-Fashioned
^ZtTit*
Snowstorm.
Written
118
120
Burritt
122
124
J57merson
125
126
"irvtngr
129
Irving
"
Pr^awf
Flowers."
the
Waterfowl."
Closing
Harbison
Wordsworth
Snowstorm."
Thunderstorm.
M.
"Longr/eZZow
Skylark."
The
Elegy
104
TTTwWer
3far2^
Kaatskills.
The
102
109
Grand-Pre.
The
The
101
Milton
English
100
TF7iiY*ier
Raindrop."
Evening
jE^mersow
^Wordsworth
luABK."
The
Longr/eZZot^?
Acquaintances
Daisy."
T^msy,
99
Bryan*
Garden
Song."
Mountain
Squirrel."
Nature."
of
The
Addison
Loi"?eZZ
Lowell's
of
The
The
98
Bigb.."
Agassiz."
of
and
Read
on
Dandelion."
THE
The
Buchanan
133
135
Bryawf
Orchard.
Scene."
"
in
"
T/ioma"
James
a
138
Hughes
Buchanan
Read
139
142
Thomson
Country
Churchyard."
Gray
145
PART
ENGLISH
OF
TEACHING
THE
I.
IN
TARY
ELEMEN-
SCHOOLS.
L
in
Pupils,
called
of
paradigms
rules
of
after
and
These
they,
at
a
distance
aloud
when
those
of
the
they
the
lines
the
scan
may
catch
of
memory's
valves,
learn,
incidentally
the
of
working
Vergil
of
rather
most
words
; the
should
an
;
attentive
the
ing
click-
the
of
melody
the
to
English
machinery,
than
the
attempt
mother
their
the
risk
dictionary,
into
paragraph
a
learn
repetition,
great
a
is
encountered.
are
run
from
of
endless
by
prosody
would
people
young
render
and
while
a
and
number
mind
in
what
They
speech,
variable
a
fixed
are
Latin.
of
parts
of
BESULTS.
colleges, taking
study
inflected
syntax
THEIR
and
course,
meanings
common
ear
schools
high
classic
the
AKD
XETHODS
FBE8EHT
rhythm.
They
few
in
do
the
of
many
hundred
their
think
roots
English
they
failure
words
gain
may
in
their
they
that
power
borne,
native
the
use
will
vocabulary,
any
be
for
of
speech.
9
they
transplant
;
only
bring
in
thinking
however,
if
spell
part,
perhaps
but
to
most
they
rare
in
are
forth
a
fruit
instances
Latin.
This
learning
to
10
Our
ELEMENTARY
IN
ENGLISH
SCHOOLS.
lish.
boys and girlsin all grades at school study Engto spell,upon
They learn at great cost how
the eye, and
of words
hundreds
specialinvitation, some
the fingers
being
of
; the
of this
the weapons
ear,
fare.
war-
the
of
meanings of many
these words, while in various
they acquire for
ways
of words
of
in oral speech a number
a knowledge
use
whose
to gain.
spellingthey have had no chance
book, and, with
a
a
They can
greater or less
open
follow
lines of thought expressed
degree of accuracy,
which
who
words
with
uses
by a writer
they are
whose
ones
familiar, or new
meaning may be caught
They
from
learn
some
the context,
selected
or
from
among
the various
presented in a dictionary.
They acquire some
familiaritywith the paradigms of
our
common
irregular words, with the rules of syntax
definitions
which
have
been
drawn
up
examination
an
of the
in a
which, once
in an
while, guide the learner
attempt to construct
of the same
sentences
fashion.
However, when
they
to rule is likely
speak or write correctly,their obedience
*Hheir's
to be for the most
not to
part unconscious,
reason
why," just then.
They catch the secret of those strange structures
called diagrams, and, while I am
not denying the value
of this exercise, I am
convinced
that pupils often, and
occasionally their teachers, think of the diagram as
end in itself.
A diagram stripsfrom
sentence
all
an
a
the thought and
emotion
that the author
intended
to
therein, and although an understanding of
convey
English
sentence
in all its
from
forms,
and
"
these
to
the
sentiments
grammar,
pupilshould
is
it is
more
essential
to
highly important,
comprehend the content
literature
than
of
that
course,
of the sentence
PRESENT
METHODS
AND
THEIR
11
RESULTS.
he attempts to
analyze. It often happens, however, that
the
pupils will correctlydiagram and parse a sentence
is wholly unintelligibleto them.
meaning of which
It is even
possibleto parse and diagram a thing in the
form
of
need
not
sentence, which
has
"
The
meaning, as :
correlated
violet,tenderly squaring its family circle
which
had
long bristled with grim-visaged dactyls,
into the empyrean."
But
we
respectfully blended
a
go to the realm
children
may
parse
"
As
through
This, I
to the
and
diagram
by
rote
which
:
Carelessly I roamed
wide
from
museum,
whose
stores
rarity is singled out
its brief perusal/*
Wordsworth,
has
"
confident, may
am
for material
nonsense
casual
A
And
a
uf
no
strict tenets
of the
be
disposed of according
book, by pupils to whom
^^
carelessly," as here used, "museum,"
"stores,"
"casual," "rarity," "singled," and "perusal," mean
next
to nothing.
these words, can
They can
parse
the class of the sentence, select subjects,prediname
cates,
the whole
into a diagram.
modifiers,and can arrange
I
hinting that the daily work
analysis is largely of this kind, but
not
am
and
even
some
of
time
pupils have
it,and
school, and
they have,
have
as
a
and
relations
in
parsing
; but
a
afford
cannot
we
the
in
ing
pars-
there
waste.
By
passed through the eighth year
given two or three years to grammar,
rule,laid
up
have
learned
sentence
as
for this skill
in memory
the usual
for
the
is
the
of
nicalities
tech-
thought
guides to its analysis and
in dissection they have
paid
to
look
12
a
ENGLISH
IN
great price,and
it is far
SCHOOLS.
from
general
skill in combination.
by
but
ELEMENTARY
is too
destruction
Not
*'
the
commonly
to find it supplemented
construction
destined
end
and
"
way."
What
their
of
abilityto read distinctlyand persuasively,
that
the listener hears, comprehends, feels ;
so
is informed, pleased, moved
to action ?
As this implies an
alert eye, a quick mental
grip, a
normal
under
set of vocal
control, a ready
organs
of the
knowledge
words
used, the
in the
effort of taking
and
word
hide
to
power
the
its
stant
meaning, a conappreciation of what is due to one's hearers, it is
of an
I am
not speakexactly the reverse
ing
easy task.
of mere
parrot imitations, but of real reading ;
I
and
far
is
eight
and
forced
am
below
what
the
wishes
his
to
member
fond
is
where
result
the
who
well,
is
over
is
read,
books
the
schools
are
semi-critical
what
household
a
that
be, considering
parent
the
child, but
apprehend
of
should
discrimination
without
of
conclusion
practice. There
reads
pupil who
the
but
schools,
charmed
it
of ostensible
years
satisfy,not
to
to the
so
as
likely to be
the performance
stranger who
likely to be
the
are
a
choicest
of
reading a daily and nightly mode
I do not
forget that in
employment and enjoyment.
the
instances
reading aloud, by the child, of
many
home
is the only spiritual
he has carried
the book
furniture,
and
If
we
as
^Is it not
sometimes
more
to sound
wish
readers,
we
that the
true
do
in that
afforded
entertainment
get, from
readily and
pupils,to
our
need
good
the
household.
not
that
limit
children
study
rationally through
of
expected
are
ment
attain-
investigations
our
grammar,
reading
their
note
and
can
to
be
writing ?
get, and
obtained
METHODS
PRESENT
to the class
to
about
pupils whose
those
dinlled
good readers
the
and
13
RESULTS.
high school.
orations
have
depressing conclusion
the happy kingdom
of
few
called, but
are
many
Try
been
not
the
into
that
reached
THEIR
into
go
essays
and
upon,
AND
must
be
approved
accept the
invitation.
reading
for
is not
there
of school
first years
In the
is
life much
from
reciting
mere
of
recognition
even
of
what
in
memory,
words,
to
passes
which
nothing
say
is
thought, and the evidence
there is much
irresistible that all along the way
tition
repewithout
of words
knowledge.
of eye, memory,
Beading demands
unceasing use
of all
children
imagination ; while
judgment, and
ages yield so unresistingly to the sin of carelessness,
finds
the reader
that in cases
beyond number
things
did not say, and
the writer
fails to find things
which
catching
of
did
he
that
Kecently
form
the
the
writer's
say.
I
saw
Multiply the
:
a
upon
product from
by no means
sum
blackboard
of
The
d.
a
it.
problem
of this
6 by c, and subtract
said that the pupils
and
teacher
all solved
a
When
questioned they
of the import of
showed
a knowledge
sum," ^^ product,"
^^
difference,"and they could add, multiply, and
subtract.
They had failed to perform the operations
had
^'
from
lack
a
to read
of
the
of
power
continuous
attention
teacher
properly. What
examiner
has
and what
escaped similar experiences ?
Perhaps training in reading problems, without thought
to read
of present solution, simply to learn
them,
needed
would
be
Is the
a
the
fruitful
fact that
geography
sentence
or
in
one
exercise.
has
memorized
history or
paragraph in
in physiology convincing
a
14:
ENGLISH
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
IN
?
proof that he has read it,has caught its message
Many there be who harbor a suspicionthat the passage
no
means
something, but have
yearning to find it
the
In happy-go-lucky mood
out.
they seize upon
first notion
rises
that
surface.
the
to
The
edge
knowl-
of fact and
acquired is likely to be a mixture
absurdity.
The
following are genuine examples. The class had
in geography,
and
studied
read"
had
their lesson
of what
made
found
notes
they thought they had
^'
In
the text the
terms
therein.
penal colony,"
**
used.
cereals," and '* native gold" were
^'
A penal colony is one
that was
formed
after the
colonies
thirteen
colony where
punishment is
; is a
all the transgressors
denounced
; is a colony wherein
"
law
the
of
in
exiled
are
which
to
other
some
; is
country
a
the
colony put people when
they
a
try
coundisobey the law ; is a small colony ; is under
which
she wants
to."
punishes the colony when
^'
formed
of the sea
Cereals are
by the salt water
;
the principalproducts of a country ; are such crops
are
the
lettuce, celery, etc. ; are
things dug from
as
machine
earth."
"
Native
mountains
gold found
gold
is
and
rivers
where
is
gold raised in
produced by the country
discovered
that
was
by
there."
always was
An
interpretation" of
it is ;
''
of
the
many
This
soil of
Ohio
foreigners come
"disease
of
is of
a
in
no
native
in
the
the
which
small
one
quantities in
knows
country
you
live
where
;
is
; is
gold
gold
natives; is gold that
statement
that
^^
much
foreign origin" was
to Ohio with dirty shoes."
not
listening,"this '* malady
'^
so
of
PRESENT
METHODS
THEIR
15
RESULTS.
"
the writer's exact meaning, seems
to
marking
general, but we may
hope it is not incurable.
not
very
It is
a
bad
very
of
for the sake
there
in
before
the eye,
doubt
When
meaning
it has
that
It is
it
that
'*
"
in
tongue.
that
it
impossible
mon
face, the combusiness
sad
half-closed
; for
to
its
to the fact
of mischief.
its share
does
hangs
Persisted
pupil reads, indifferent
eye
; and
an
the
a
words
habit
writer.
in
appears
his mind's
of
off the
mental
reading
squarely
a
meaning,
matter
a
by the
a
real
recitation
with
or
make
look
we
sentence
every
caused
great harm
thought of the
the
reading
of
be,
be
simply
pleasure
whatever
it may
and,
to call it
in, the practice will
art.
feel
to read
one
it does
about
screen
for
sensation
the
it is wrong
without
habit
mental
reading, to
be
may
passing
Perhaps
a
AND
general observation
that
the
speech
it follows
pupils, and also of their elders, when
grammatical rules, does not consciously do so because
of personal study of those
rules ; that it is,whether
and
correct or incorrect, mainly the result of conscious
of
unconscious
When
imitation.
of street
models
the average
boy
; of
schoolroom
and
to hint
with
it
"
its ''have
a
it lay," "between
^'you was," "leave
infer
"they want you and I," he can
of
cent,
English of a lamentable
per
And
those
ingly the
to
and
an
written
the
of
work
difference
excellent
the skill of
duty it is
whose
one,
pupils in
to read
pupils,
between
will
this
bear
art
a
out
than
more
saw,"
''had
of written
I,"
icans.
Amer-
young
tolerable
my
ought,"
free-hand
the
they
of
sional
occa-
and
you
search-
somewhat
if
ing
work-
home
; of the
playground
sad
"
listens to the
one
are
tive
sensi-
paragraph
assertion
that
expression is
16
and
analysis
It
is
that
than
less
far
not
need
in
below
how
the
this
which
they
bring
to
the
of
processes
parsing.
seems
urgent
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
IN
ENGLISH
that
;
school
be
or
done.
unkind
conclusion
schools
our
English
high
may
rash
a
with
and
I
should
wish
an
to
eye
consider
there
that
their
better
the
upon
the
grades
question
struction
in-
order
In
oral
and
place
in
of
written
study
of
courses
who
;
of
institutes
their
and
those
courses
carrying
who
out
instruct
of
those
teachers,
and
of, finally
;
higher
formulate
license
who
phase
much
very
the
oversee
one
(2) expression-
who
those
teachers,
employ
in
who
those
and
a
those
of
estimation
the
study
attain
must
"
is
there
its twofold
in
and
oral,"
and
silent
(1) reading"
ary
element-
the
improved,
subject
The
need.
comprehensive
in
English
in
greatly
be
may
DrSTBUCTIOV.
THE
instruction
that
schools
of
OF
mPBOVEMEHT
n.
teachers
vitally,
teachers
which
would
themselves.
I
not
have
seen
rouse
a
in
other
of
of
study
is
taken
the
instruction
will
much
a
its precious
Suppose
seventh
apply
time
it
is
school
year
"
little
a
in
the
Read,
years
and
something
"
lead
^2.
"
work
year
which
Comp,
have
a
less
mind,
him
17
to
six
the
did
will
also
in
high
much
how
drill
hours.
or
ever
you
about
spends
than
it
own,
fifth, sixth
in
pupil
of
spent.
the
find
courses
its
and
day,
in
to
tainment
at-
branch
a
to
wisely
more
we
the
the
to
composition
as
come
of
reading
number
round
figuring gives
eight
oral
have
are
spelling
these
and
reading
share
minutes
In
English
shall
larger
aids
two.
When
school
writing
and
simply
these
teach
to
and
grammar
are
of
granted.
in
have
have
ability
for
; that
studies
mastery
a
study
reading
that
importance
language
of
courses
suspicion
paramount
and
several
?
My
In
the
school
he,
18
ENGLISH
IN
possibly,reads
much
Very
and
one
should
he
that
the
to
about
teacher
ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
critical
presumedly
half days.
a
fail to learn
art
an
should
time
of
ear
his
Is it strange,
then,
difficult
this ?
so
as
be
given by the teacher
himself
for conducting the reading exercise
to prepare
and
the writing or composition exercise
this refers
to the special preparation
field of
and
what
a wide
of history,of elementary science and nature
literature,
of that term,
sense
study, of elocution in the proper
be carefullycultivated
must
by one who aspiresto the
high positionof teai:?herof a reading class !
In the reading books
which
children
at school
use
the heart of
there are
lessons
that
speak from
many
nature, and only the teacher who is in sympathy with
that begets knowledge,
a love
nature, who
possesses
he leads
do a teacher's
can
part by his flock when
more
"
"
them
into
these
need
He
pastures.
green
not
be
a
dreds
acquaintance with hunand vegetable, of the
of the inhabitants, animal
earth, the air,the water :
scientist,but
**
Hast
thou
Loved
the
be my
Oh,
Among
change
he
the
for
have
must
all the
named
wood
rose
in
better
left it
teach
friend, and
things that
the
and
are
the
1.
these
2.
Higher
of
estimation
me
on
a
its stalk
to be
?
gun
?
!"
thine
indispensableto a radical
reading and writing of
be mentioned
schools, the following may
our
without
birds
the
:
prime importance
of
arts.
Better
subordinate
that
economy
branches
spellingand
time, devoting less of it to the
and more
tion
to the higher ; a realiza-
of
language
lessons
and
grammar
20
ENGLISH
of
word,
IN
turn
may
hearer's
of
task
it.
have
the
to
is
is
in
is
trouble;
a
is
the
glad
inference
an
of
is
unconscious
demnation,
con-
The
it
as
might
self,
him-
language
reader's
transparent
;
in
himself
he
the
that
the
that
aware
occasion
is
sympathy
black.
darkly
the
to
to
he
simply
not
now
some
now
tear
not
read
even
approval
that
through
over
not
slight
he
He
happy
It
glad.
white
thought,
face
interpretation.
writer
confidence,
so
had
face
refusal,
now
sees
appeared
but
to
is
He
to
consent
doubt
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
is
writer
the
hearer's
eye.
That
this
summit
the
is
teachers
flight,
we
direction
mount
but
by
to
toil
for
cheering
while
expect
not
may
their
our
striving
prospects,
companions
attain,
to
;
not
and
by
sleep.
but
many
sudden
m.
It
is
far
rhetoric
be
the
style,
I do
my
style
is the
not
recall
the
well
as
author's
fault, and
clearer,
No
the
this
in
word
Suppose
that
to
gain
A
pretty
woods
lady
when
in
the
the
in
is,
in
English
little
until
one
.
weary,
of
fawn
young,
village
.
it
until
morning,
lay
its friends,
down
upon
main
to
which
a
"
seventh
his
pupils
become
after
in
the
21
the
as
which
in
by
as
the
store.
the
from
as
of
a
:
tame
at
"
they
petted
sunshine,
steps
do,
to
are
about
playing
eighth
or
brought
and
place
to
this
like
nursed
it had
of
study
will
contrast.
the
been
and
them
of
using
sense,
by
passage
had
study pieces
cause
the
from
it would
diagram.
incorrect
in
the
were
criticism,
English
pupils
benefit,
some
One
.
of
no
book
be
paragraph
need
and
good
reading
very
the
class
a
incorrect
our
musical,
but
the
in
ever
possibly
occasional
an
upon
teacher
a
finds
grade
"
in
that
is
mine
sentence
more
the
common
estimate
higher
are
its
interest
arouse
a
but
of
certain
a
theme
teacher
might
would
in
extracted
things.
one
if
that
be
can
say
another,
as
and
quality,
best
that
it is better
doubt
any
forcible,
read
easily
more
that
expression
more
it
I believe
but
schools,
writers
fact
text-book
comprehensive
way
feeble
that
urge
of
Its
written
and
8T7LE.
to
marrow
pupils
analysis
be
the
and
his
IF
elementary
class.
reading
not
made
in
of
to
I.E880V
purpose
taught
some
intimated
was
LITTLI
from
that
by
A
a
sible.
posusual
feet
There
of
22
ENGLISH
along
came
been
hounds,
ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
who
countryman,
a
hunter
a
IN
for
by pursuit, and
of which
one
was
now
several
who
still
with
him."
had
years
kept
several
I should
class to see
hope, as teacher, to lead my
that the expression ^'as possible weakens
the first
had
sentence, and it would
perhaps be better thus,
that
the
become
in
word
''about"
quite tame;"
usual," looks in both
as
directions;
playing about
"
^^
*'
the countryman
that
"
is
years
pursuit
nothing
"
sounds
had
to
like
In another
".
thought of
the
street, and
were
to
before
full
*'
hunter
by
friends
; the
away
who
could
cure
se-
through the
The
bystanders
immediately
long fed and
persons
had
it had
name
spectatorshad
its friends
chase.
it ; several
it,calling the
fondled
that
the
bounding
in
save
its track
followed
and
was
the hound
eager
story, and
for several
perverted pun.
a
danger,
fawn
it, the
the
''
hunter
a
instant, before
.
.
.
been
hitherto
in
known,
vain."
Are
''spectators,""friends," "bystanders," "persons,"
four groups,
two ? (Several persons
or three, or
its track
followed
over
half-a-minutey
than
towards
the hound
which
it
Would
"
quoted ?
its danger,
"
chase, but,
be
Before
to
an
exercise
the material
the
faultless
the
the
water,
scent.)
the
the
fawn
the
hound
followed
less
sentence
realized
in
full
at their best
name."
to
furnished
arrangement
by
in
onwards
rewrite
of
it,they
save
into
it
with
away,
akin
being
to
friends
the
it bounded
eager
followed
ran
dashed
it
itself
pardonable
speed, vainly calling its
As
when
threw
it
which
course
and
lake, it
the
through
a
this
"
of
"
it is
composition also,
the teacher
change
may
words
or
phrases which
A
make
sentence, and
a
up
LESSON
LITTLE
He
class for criticism.
IN
23
STYLE.
his
submit
revision
them
this
the
to
*'
By the
side of a blackberry bush there was
a bush
sparrow's
in the grass
nest daintily bowered
on
a green
slope,
and two yellow-breasted chats had placed their grassy
cradle hard
by, and by their loud cries of warning to
their secret."
proclaimed to all the world
keep away
I believe ; rhythm
Grammatical
not
good ; the echo
of ''bush"
and
''bush," and of "by" and "by," not
pleasant to the ear.
Before
had
of
he
presents
remodeled
"
this form
On
:
a
it for
the
green
slope
in
nest, daintily bowered
blackberry bush, and
a
had
chats
yellow-breasted
their secret
warning
to
smoothly
it
This
must
error
it
was
by
row's
spar-
the
hard
does
loud
their
Note
side
by
two
how
cries
much
of
more
"
"
proclaiming suggest
the placing that proclaimed ?
not
corrected
be
bush
by
grass
thicket
a
world
away."
reads, yet,
a
was
sentence
ing
placed their cradle,proclaim-
to all the
keep
at first that
in
"
the
worse
the
:
when
the
reader
comes
"
their loud cries."
proclamation,
it?
"had
Does
the following improve
placed
their grassy
ing
cradle, but by their loud cries of warnto keep away,
they proclaimed their secret to all
real
to the
mode
of
.
The
the world."
between
contrast
and
"to
toward
Are
which
cries
loud
reason
the
for
it.
the
away"
possibleintruder.
keep
a
these
things
not
to
.
"
introducing
hiding
advertise
.
some
of
the
nest
Between
reader's
extent
but
"
and
their
"warning"
eye
flashes
matters
Verily. But I am
trying to
the gospel of careful
reading, of a cultivation
for good English, of persistent effort to
taste
taste?
is the
out
of
dividual
in-
teach
of
a
train
24
ENGLISH
as
state
hillside,give
is
cannot
be
true, it is also
true
way"
are
to
utterance
way.
that
lessons
be
can
writers
way
is
style
the
man."
in
something
exactly the
each
While
No
wooded
a
in
emotion,
an
things.
say
describe
argument,
an
There
same
^*
'Hhe
that
also
persons
ends.
style is the
that
said
told
are
two
of these
attainment
I have
We
SCHOOLS.
girlsto write it, and I believe that such exercises
I am
sketching will do something toward
boys and
the
ELEMENTARY
IN
writer's
these
things
that certain very
important
by closely attending to the
taught.
learned
of
writings that have the world's stamp of
be
use
can
approval upon them, and of these lessons
made.
ness.
of a good style is clear(1) The first element
structure
The
words
the
express
be
may
while
meaning,
too
hence
and
few
too
tend
many
to obscure
is f orcef ulness.
(2) The second element
call for emphasis, must
words, those which
it.
allowed
to
lurk
of
choice
The
fourth
fitness
and
of
long
and
syllables. In other
only yields itself to
but
organs,
soul
the
through
this
principle the
should
the
express
that
of
the
words,
the
in
voice
it is
molding
do
may
over
a
rhythmic,
of
of
power
strange
some
avoided.
thought.
sounds
way
In
not
(4)
of the
its
part
judicious
words, of strong and
short
echoing
be
be
not
distribution
a
the voice of the reader.
music
rhyming
to
It is concerned
ease.
vital
where
corners
consists
element
grace
mingling
their
syllablessuch
accented
with
word"
and
The
they will
is a judi(3) The third element
cious
with
due
for their good
care
notice.
partly escape
repute and
in holes
fail to
weak
and
not
vocal
the
hears
the
obedience
called
for
to
in
SHTTHH.
lY.
children
teaching
In
attention
resulting
the
leaves
in
rhythm
wishes
who
the
poems
well
be
defined
as
clean,"
but
that
It
lesson.
in
often
not
most
only
railway
to
read.
the
They
may
all
"
:
finitions
de-
so
the
of
meter
of the
part
of
boy
always
It
learn.
to
following
crossings
the
observing
the
thing
a
upon
essential
an
what
footing
that's
have
to
teacher
the
and
grammar
diflScult
a
his
which
It is
ear.
cases,
at
seen
his
of
names
should
teacher
in
is
the
the
of
part
their
singing
are
prosody,
formal
'*
of
aid
to
surer
most
the
spared
aim
children
the
which
of
poem
somewhat
be
to
harder
to discuss
purpose
my
scant
neglect
their
paragraph
or
I shall
is, but
prose
has
and
writers,
sentence
It is not
effectively.
read
of
theupart
on
even
rhythm
of
matter
it sometimes
though
neglected,
be
not
must
the
read,
to
the
quires,
re-
direction
look,
Stop,
and
listen."
Let
while
a
of
It would
to
these
write
"
Anapest
An
putting
poetic
Iambus
*
syllables
be
upon
"
accented,
short
class
aloud
foot
good
to
it the
as
; Trochee
"
long
"
and
The
25
-
is
the
let
feet
them
to
of
corner
the
accents
there
line.
the
the
be
board
black-
of
markings
:
-*'*':
; Dactyl
^
for
and
of
a
use
find
we
syllable,
syllable, by *.
and
names
Amphibrach
or
listen
stanza,
a
the
to
measures
*'*'";
or
the
reads
one
some
count
of
pupil
every
Spondee
-
-
;
''. "
by
represented
cesural
pause
is
'
;
an
represented
cented,
unac-
by
|.
26
kinds
verse
of feet in
same
the
found
1. Th8
3.
4.
3.
4.
5.
6.
3.
4.
very
stanza, and
Suppose
familiar
we
examine
and
poems,
often
not
a
number
mark
two
use
seldom
in
of lines
them
:
spid I er
wears
| land air |
| " rus | tic,wood
ThS night | was
dark
| th" sun | was hid |
This is I thS way
| ing dawns
|
| thS mom
I wni tell I y6u the sto | ry of three | little mice
If you
|
I will keep still | Snd lis | ten to me
Fr6m
curls | of
her
thS
bright | e"v
part | ed
gold I
Fath"r
|Time, your |footsteps| go |
had
I the road |by the cher | ry trees |
I |
little | sandpiper | and
One
wilt | thou be |to-night ? |
Comrade
| where
thee seem
But
what
| so uncon
I makes
| scious
1. Just
2.
in certain
writers
dress |
| a plain | brSwn
Clouds
that I wander
| through th" |sky |
Soon
the | leaves
loud
call |
tB" | winds
hSard
as
Far down
| Inthe val | ISy the wheat
| grows deep j
1. She
2.
line.
same
the
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
shall find that
We
2.
IN
ENGLISH
across
care
?
6f
|
I for
|of a
isle | up
| ished hand
|
the riv | er of Time
6. There's a mag
|
| ical
7. Merrily | swinging on
| brier and | weed |
had | spread in thS | village ||thS |
8. Meanwhile
tidingsof | ill,and on | all sides |
from
to | house
| wailing,
J
Wandered,
| house
and
the I women
| children. |
Long at her | father's | door i E | vangSline | stood
with her | right hand
|
5. But
oh
the
touch
van
28
IN
ENGLISH
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
off the rock
Tarpe'ian,
3.
From
4.
5.
Go, Pin'darus, get higher on that hill"
Ride, ride, Messa'la, ride, and give these bills
6.
They
to
mean
ever
you
"
12.
As
should
come
to Mo'dena
fair young
soothed
like
"
"
face
"
exile's
an
the
Ish'koodah,
grief
"
Alcy'one with
comet.
therefore
doth
chas'tisement
fair
Philip'pihere
at
precipiceplunging downward
Gleamed
And
us
it Camo'eus
O'er the
11.
warn
Fornari'na's
Where
9. With
10.
more
"
7. If
8.
never
his head.
hide
anguish pressed.
variety, its
relation to interest,attention, apprehension, memory.
The
older pupils might be
encouraged to look into
of syllables,
a sentence
good prose and find a sequence
be identical
with
it may
the rhythm would
be, wherein
of the lines quoted above.
The hunt
need not
some
one
far or long.
take them
Pleasant
1. Th"
things
| of
evening
said
are
thS
of
the
fifth
| came
of
uses
on
|
Bancroft,
"
2.
And
The
| was
|ing brightly |
In a cloud
| less win | ter sky ; |
its light | was
increased
| fallen snow
| by a newmoon
young
shin
Bancroft.
"
3.
Parties
of
| soldiers
were
are
streaks
Bancroft,
| of light | inathun
| der
de
| scends
down
to
| infinite | smallness
"S.
6.
Nothing could
| stop that
as
cloud
|
Landor,
"
5. Nature
|
| driving | about
"
4. There
|
|
Smith.
j tonishing |infantry!
"
Napier,
29
RHYTHM.
be
can
a
from
got
given,
in
once
turn
it
form
of blank
is
it
rhythm
be
might
long while, after this fashion
a
Mark,
verse.
I do
not
:
Nature's
of
way
into
say
The
of Thoreau's.
sentence
a
upon
essay
in
exercise
it,an
Select
be to
good strong prose, and let the game
into the
the slightest change of words
with
bit of
Here
the flavor which
novelty of the thing and
the
For
planting
poetry.
reader
will
trees
of his
nize
recog-
:
| " pine | will not |
At once
|
| spring up, | unless | there are | or were
| ing pines | near
by |
Quite re | cently, | seed-bear
Which
send | their seeds | upon
|the wind | to where
|
oak
The
| had stood. |
reports that the lines begin
that each, after the first,contains
poetry ? The
capitals; the ear,
Is this
with
five
it is fit for
; the
oak
eye
; the
feet
iambic
poetry.
pine, launching
which
is
lacking
What
Following is a part
The
of
every
word
in
of
the
cutting down
its seed
upon
suggest
a
the
wind,
?
"
A
Pen
To
And
as
they
clothed
He
father
Her
Became
This
His
Picture
"
by William
her
in the
with
the
heavy
King
solitary house
thousand
the
of
on
this
garments
brow
transformed
of their
hour
at dinner
sat
daughter,
a
half
in the
heroine
a
been
Sheila
had
are
ment.
pleasing environ-
:
By Lavender
Of
taste, that
in
use
pastoral incidents
Black
oak
| "n
y6u | cut down
When
and
stroll ;
eve
of
romance.
beard
great gray
Thule, living in
looking o'er the
Princess,
had
legends dwelling
sea.
the
glamor
in her
eyes
;
30
walked
And
when
Now
growing yellow
In
she
device
another
For
notions
correct
in
of blank
under
face
or
bright
then
hands
the
acclamation.
that
words
first three
2. Under
sky
are
(Two
;
the
bay,
Here
does
look
two
of each
kind
blue,
multitude
to
the
joyously
the
prose
:
where
glance
the
to
at
sun
upward
are
as
once,
flung
in
such
are
things
as
broken
lines
; the
its
the
flowing
blue
and
river
broadly,
chimes
the
over
Tennyson.
"
with
Start
farm-house
old
we
'*
Clearly.'')
sat.
night, an
day and
gave,
idle
the
Its windows
looking
over-
entrance
to the
easy
I*ong/eZZot"?.
on
the
shepherd
rippling
From
the
there
with
drops
good-night
waves,
on
his crook
that
peaceful
and
vacantly
still flow
'twixt
rhyme.)
two
shore
yet fresh
oar
leans
Byron.
"
(Three lines, first
more
or
winds, warmly
sea-breeze."
bitterest foemen.
fiowers
tion
porit
pairs of rhymes.)
4.
5.
form.
pairs of rhymes.
the
(Two
your
original
in
the south
blowing.
cold
a
one.)
eye,
3. Within
damp
there
are
my
and
select
changes, and
its
great
a
verbal
boundless
teaching
Bryant,
"
(Remember
clearly
of
in
stanza, write
submit
waves
appeared.
two
or
to
the
over
sun,
rhythm,
or
needed
of innumerable
crests
when
as
forth
I look
lesson
a
the
only
western
rhyming
a
shore,
strange thoughts
movement,
disguising the rhyme,
pupils for restoration
is an
Here
example
1.
the
worth
verse,
making
prose,
Atlantic
the
by
of her
wonder
the
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
IN
ENGLISH
on
childhood
the
carol.
(Four lines,three
breathes
"
ear,
or
; the
the
Byron.
of them
a
rhyme.)
living fragrance
light drip of
grasshopper
the
chirps
of
pended
susone
31
RHYTHM.
and
it ; also
like
evening
When
red
pools, it
hid, and
tall
have
selections
in the
ia here
of prose
1.
soft
purple
cloak
brake, and
when
within
black
its
rhyme.)
lines, one
lost
silken
pearls, lie
plumes
on
verbal
no
in the
* *
Blackmore's
changes
and
as
the
earth
All
the
air
Black.
The
guise of poetry
than
flat with
was
this
no
Ever
and
rather
Little
whiffs
Twirled
the
from
them
the
round
of the
Then
let them
lie like
3. Not
sign of
a
Nor
seams
was
Unless
Of
any
the
them
herring-bones.
life
moving.
was
4. Then
I
thought
Such
as
glowed
of
wind
drift
of
and
the
tide
has
view,
struck
bowed
promise
around
dance.
pile.
monster
where
change
edge.
made
of sand
wild
cold
some
snatched
channeled
and
the chine
the
see.
tempest
Over
Or
;
snowing.
was
again
snow
me
the
it.
fair.
crest,
w^ere
matter
snow,
could
man
all the world
For
with
thick
was
the
Loma
there
:
All
of
rhymes.)
violets, like
Thoreau
simply given
More
2.
(Four
silently
"
been
from
and
sea
travel
two
burn
sunset
following quotations from
there
the
the
Hartley Coolidge,
"
Doone,"
fern
their
sway
Susan
wandering breeze.
(Four lines,one rhyme.)
In the
smirch
on
place.
glooms white
rushes
streams
(Six Imes,
still
its mossy
Within
which
fires of
the
strange,
a
pilgrim
mists
vagrant
from
is
of
drifting smoke.
is gold
noon
a
summer
brands
feet
The
wood.
the
across
world, by itself,between
(the Marsh) lies,a dim
6. It
been.
than
32
ENGLISH
Where
But
red
the
he
When
as
Shading
was
with
color
the
All
remembrance
held
rocks
the
sun
departed.
spread
evening
All
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
IN
a
stole
silent
across
them,
fold,
away,
waned
and
died.
teacher
The
the
grades
oral
in
FOB
LTTESATUBE
Y.
as
literature,
must
do
to
story
with
He
reading.
the
or
The
something
of
series
is the
radius
carries
it about
be
speaks
him,
to
for
gladness
darker
of
word
a
his
the
it harmonizes
conjures
has
made
better,
or,
wiser
a
a
up
of shortest
one
actually
of
oral
seen.
betimes,
and
hours,
gayer
or
Like
warning
has
the
because
him,
him.
the
recognize
to
the
with
class
this
and
literature,
reader
a
of
part
a
that
felt
Within
that
to
come
of
literature
He
own.
have
his
detect
to
see
of
matter
drill
true,
as
circles.
concentric
to
also
they
knowledge
a
reading
composition
paragraph
nature
phrase,
and
them
train
HEABT.
them
lead
the
THE
only
not
must
both
the
use
feeling,
must
with
a
it
self
it
voice
of
for
his
healing
musings.
The
includes
circumference
next
beautiful
and
but
and
thought
much
has
to
expression,
writer's
his
wishes
who
AVD
KEIIOBY
THE
things
in
verbally
read,
but
which
''a
those
only
wise
established
have
which
memory,
into
not
all
the
books
has
man
selves
them-
fully
thoughtin
gone
the
making."
At
a
extended
about
distance
great
limits
authors,
wrote
close
companions,
Read,
is
their
and
they
and
is the
Comp.
all
that
circle, and
the
reader
styles, characteristics,
how
they
their
"
last
3.
came
social
33
to
write
environment,
within
its
remembers
the
books
them,
their
the
great
34
ENGLISH
affairs
their
of
the
world
and
thought
I shall
Here
for
teacher,
ELEMENTARY
IN
which
its
try
to
urging
upon
to form
a
special stimulus
gave
expression.
put into shape
the
of
habit
paragraphs, which
gathering into memory's
that
breathe
Much
but,
has
in
been
active
breathe,
written
life, if
and
the
is
know
exactly
directly,you must
merely remember
vaguely that in
said
something
would
which
of
suit
Lowell
Russell
James
as
author
your
pupil
burn."
companions
to help you
he
book
present
made
;
said, not
certain
your
once
or
urn
what
a
sons
rea-
"
that
books
to
lines,stanzas,
breath
of life,
pictured
words
about
apparent
whether
memorizing
*'
Thoughts
the
reader,
poems,
of
SCHOOLS.
he
pose.
pur-
graphic
a
advantage the shillalah has over
in being always loaded.
other weapons
certain
valuable
of this practice is the enAnother
result
riching
of the readers
vocabulary, for these fine words
nature's
not too good for human
The
are
daily use.
is proved when
validity of this reason
boys and girls
which
had
found
entrance
use
correctlysingle words
illustration
to
their
mental
I would
a
that
his dates
in
or
politician
town,
if he
a
lesson.
memory
lay great stress upon
cultivating the memory,
it makes
a
history ; of
a
salesman
be
practicein the
judgment
unbidden
in
store
this
not
of
means
the
verbal
the
head
man
the
more
sure
names
of
for I
practice as
am
not
of his facts
people,if
he
; of his list of commissions
of
a
household.
vinced
con-
But
and
be
a
down
it
gives
attention
cises
paying minute
; it exerthe question,why has not some
upon
guest a right to stay ? it quickens taste
art of
36
ENGLISH
boys
the
in
For
this
begin with,
nature
to
flowers
bloom,
In the
for
Bryant's pretty
their
had
zeal
the
prefer
while
the
be
to
literature
birds
roars
mentioned,
above
case
search
flower.
the wind
or
of
theme
would
I
use
successful
a
and
little poem,
to protect the
moderated
SCHOOLS.
made
is the
which
flower
devout
ELEMENTARY
classes
several
rare
and
m
one
and
sing
and
the
who
has not
of
the
falls.
snow
the
seen
hardly enjoy the full meaning of the poem,
and
who
is ignorant of the poem
will miss someone
thing
of the gentian's lesson of beauty ; for
Beauty
is truth, truth
beauty," and entering into Keats's
that that is the
conception of beauty, I would
say
gentian
can
^'
characteristic
supreme
of
literature
which
is to
be
absorbed, assimilated, memorized.
Soon
threads
other
than
should
nature
be
into
woven
writings should be used whose spirit
is love of home, friends, country, humanity, Grod.
ligion,
Repatriotism,piety,reign more
royallyin the heart
from
the
worthy expression; and
having found
writers, like so many
Prosperos,
this
*'
web
spiritual
Took
pains
One
thing
Know
I
to make
words
append
that
here
; when
meaning,
own
a
made
I endow'd
list of selections
exercise
found
to demand
its
to
as
rigidly
varied
but
accomplishment, with an
The
selections
meaning.
molded
as
which
taste
into
and
a
book
of
circumstance
a
worthy
are
experience this
actual
daily for
purposes
known."
From
been
thy
...
them
hour
each
did'st not, savage,
thou
to be memorized.
has
thee
speak, taught
thee
other
or
thine
With
;
few
memory
minutes
occasional
should
tion
quesnot
be
elegant extracts, but
may
dictate.
UTERATURE
FOR
MEMORY
THE
POEMS
MEMOBIZnrO.
FOB
Year
1.
2.
37
HEART.
THE
AND
I.
Helen
Hunt
September.
Lullaby. Tennyson.
Jackson.
"
"
3. The
Rainbow.
4. The
Mountain
Wordsworth.
"
and
6. Shadow-town
the
Ferry.
"
Emerson.
Squirrel.
Anonymous.
"
Year
II.
1. Reviews.
2. What
the Winds
3. The
Wind
4. The
Moon.
and
the
Steadman.
"
Coii;i"er.
Leaves."
Follen.
Mrs.
"
5. America.
Bring.
S. F. Smith.
"
III.
Year
1. Reviews.
2. The
Fiftieth
3. Aladdin.
"
Birthday
of
Agassiz.
"
Lowell.
4. The
5.
Nightingale and Glowworm.
October's
Blue
Weather.
Bright
"
Jackson.
6.
April Weather.
Celia
"
Thaxter.
Year
IV.
1. Reviews.
2. The
Brown
Longfellow.
Thrush.
Lucy Larcom.
3. The Rain
(in part). Longfellow.
4. The Gladness
of Nature.
Bryant.
6. In Time's
Swing.
Lu"y Larcom.
6. The
Sandpiper. Celia Thaxter.
is a hsmd."
7. There
Montgomery.
"
"
"
"
"
Cowper.
"
Helen
Hunt
88
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
IN
ENGLISH
Year
V.
1. Reviews.
2.
Daflfodils.
3.
To
4.
The
Wordsworth.
"
Fringed Gentian.
Skylark." Jlogrgr.
the
Oaken
Old
6. The
Woodworth.
Bucket"
of the
6. Freaks
Frost.
Gould.
Miss
"
Village Blacksmith.
7. The
Bryant.
"
Longfellow.
"
Year
VI.
1. Reviews.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Leigh Hunt.
Death
of the Flowers.
Bryant.
Phoebe
Field Preaching.
Cary.
Lowell.
The Beggar.
Paul Revere's
Ride.
Longfellow.
Ben
Abou
Adhem.
"
"
"
"
"
7. The
Last
8. The
Landing
Leaf.
Holmes.
"
of the
Pilgrims.
"
Year
Mrs.
Hemans.
VII.
1. Reviews.
2. To
a
3. The
Waterfowl.
Bryant.
GXovLdi." Shelley.
AU.^
4. Each
and
5. The
Battle
6. The
Rhodora.
7. The
Mountain
8.
The
"
Emerson.
"
of Waterloo.
Song of
Reviews.
2.
a.
"The
Byron.
Emerson.
"
Daisy.
"
Potter.
the
Year
1.
"
Burns.
"
Longfellow
VIIL
quality of mercy
The Merchant
lines)
"
"
Scene
1.
is not
strained."
of Venice
(14
", Act IV.,
6.
^*
THE
FOR
UTERATURE
So
shaken
we
as
lines)." Henry
care"
I.,
(18
Act
L,
1.
"Farewell,
c.
Part
IV.",
39
HEART.
with
wan
so
are,
^*
Scene
THE
AND
MEMORY
farewell,
long
a
''
(22 lines)."
to
all
Henry
ness!"
great-
my
VHI.",
Act
in., Scene 2.
d. "Friends, Eomans,
Countrymen " (35 lines).
"
Julius Caesar", Act III., Scene II.
"
e.
Speak the speech, I pray
(entire).
you
"
Hamlet", Act III.,Scene 2.
revels now
ended"
The
are
(11 lines).
/. "Our
Tempest", Act IV., Scene 1.
signors" (19
potent, grave, and reverend
g. "Most
lines)."" Othello", Act I.,Scene 3.
Thanatopsis. Bryant.
"
"
"
"
"
3.
"
Nautilus.
Chambered
4.
The
5.
Break, Break, Break.
Tennyson.
"
MEMOBiznra
poetry is much
memorize
prose,
yet
study
should
and
choice
our
them
is
the
securing
reads.
Such
his
a
growth
a
easier
than
literature
restricted
to be found
of
the attainment
of
be
not
treasures
makes
toward
highest literature of
its poetry, and also true
in
is embodied
mental
fbose.
the
that
It is true
Holmes.
"
to
to
for
this
and
that
to
memorize
intimate
There
poems.
in prose,
guage
lan-
a
he who
are
finds
is
doing something toward
knowledge of what fine prose is,
of a pure
taste in language ; he
own
touchstone
passages
with
and
which
to
sentences,
test
may
what
be
he
found
occasionally in the reading lessons, but not on every,
sometimes
a
long way
may
go
page ; indeed, we
In the teacher's
ing
without
general readfinding one.
he
will
come
upon
coins
of this
perfectmintage.
40
IN
ENGLISH
be
which
may
of
context
the
The
* '
The
forest
few
a
air from
of these
withered
significance.
bare
the
of its gay
remnants
crept upward
whatever
:
On
through
of La
squalid wigwams
the
with
their
far advanced.
the smoke
and
class
show
to
some
was
season
hung
;
are
SCHOOLS.
the
to
brought
is needed
following
1.
ELEMENTARY
limbs
of the
autumnal
sullen
the
ery
liv-
ber
Novem-
Salle's allies."
cis
Fran-
"
Parkman.
It is
' *
2.
of
the contrast
only by
slightnoise that
some
A solitude is
appreciate silence.
wind
sighs through it." Lowell,
never
lonely
so
we
can
when
as
the
"
'*With
3.
which
holdeth
*'
As
long
streets."
which
every
light
or
foot
first
a
to
and
be
even
our
''
that
When
so
in the
alone
much
I
might
from
of snow,
my
sanded
in the
as
solid to the
it will
as
know
on
man
foot of
a
feet, where, kneeling
of the
fishes
and
reflected
of
the
heaviest
with
to
I cut
my
well
as
the casement
over
our
the
drink,
rattles in the
"
open
I look
its softened
inhabitants.
heads."
it
way
ice,and
floor ; there a perennisd waveless
amber
twilight sky, corresponding
of
foot
a
equal depth, and
an
level field.
then
of Walden
depth
support
it to
any
and
temperament
feet
breath,
every
covers
snow
quiet parlor
bright
and
7.
half,
foot
a
the
as
under
becomes
distinguished
reigns
cool
a
to
shadow,
under
into
its
sensitive
perchance
window
and
and
through
down
whole
Silent).
solitude,as
though
cried
liquid and trembling surface
the
so
was
teams, and
is not
the
a
in clearer
Every winter
pond,
a
the
Bolles.
Frank
* *
guiding-star of
of William
sea, I felt as
from
men
little children
the
fair
old
tale
a
lights,if I could live apart from him
such still,
calm, holy places as Indian Brook
canyon."
in
longer
distant
a
him
better, see
6.
he died
when
with
"
^^
the
was
you,
and
play,
he lived he
as
unto
Philip Sidney.
"
atoll in
some
from
Motley, (speaking
Standing alone in that
^'
5.
"
Sir
"
nation, and
brave
poet cometh
children
chimney-comer."
4.
the
tale
a
light
ity
seren-
to
the
Heaven
Thoreau.
gust, and
the
snow-
is
LITERATtJRE
flakes
pelthard
with
of paper,
will
gleam forth
May,
Turn
our
fade
as
spread
out my
and
thoughts
fancies
twilight, or like violets
at
soon.
fireside,and
wild
dictate
41
HEART.
I
then
sit
and
there, lending
musing
wind, till perhaps it shall
to the
ears
to the
again
we
voice, and
"
it like stars
upon
THE
panes,
certainty that
the
^perhapsto
"
AND
MEMORY
against the window
sheet
in
THE
FOR
airy
like
seem
for
matter
late
articu-
an
the
pen."
Hawtkome.
*'
8.
dead
Winter
had
Nature
in
set
in funereal
sheeted
was
frozen, rivulets sealed
were
of the
trunks
heavy
pine
trees
crushed
masses
beneath.
The
St.
the
along
hlack
and
rocks
dull
the
silent
was
the
as
ponds
black
the
drifts
into the
grave."
its
and
snow,
boughs
green
already
and
Lakes
beplasteredwith
were
forest
white.
the
up,
Lawrence, and
Francis
"
Parkman.
^^
Apples, these
I mean,
the
side
over
on
ground,
stem
if
as
red
beautiful
and
to
"
sparkle amid
air,or
give back
flew
in
But
I
passing breeze, with
world
to
that
the
there
allay the
9.
**
Blessed
of another
"
was
"
be
would
and
with
had
garden
bitterness
; my
in
the
mankind
which
life
the
profit
must
honey
more
tributed.
con-
upon
somebody
isfaction
sat-
would
benefaction
little
Yes, indeed
deep
a
themselves
my
that
a
yellow
hive, which
flinga
certainty
sourness
always complaining of.
for that .honey.
laden
the
was
woods,
Thoreau,
"
This, too,
requital of what
to
the
in
they
as
seen
grass."
wet
too
like shells
dell in
some
unknown
some
glad thus
was
be
must
they had
to
away
nothing
by it, and
when
Him
sometimes
But
I
bury themselves
to
of
blush, fairy food,
the
squashes.
summer
although
they
sweets
used
all
white
a
brush
the
evening sky
they lie in
as
of bees
of the
;
beautiful
a
on
Others, again, are
leaves.
with
freckled
some
spots
from
seashore, they
withering leaves in
the
Multitudes
blossoms
crimson
the
on
in the autumnal
"
fine
apple of the
eat,
pebbles
with
accidentally sprinkled
paints the autumn
inside, perfused
who
fair ;
unspeakably
the
was
is
sweeter
Hawthorne.
the sunshine
stormy day, beaming
when
from
it
came
the
again
edge of
at the close
the
western
42
IN
ENGLISH
horizon
all
while
;
into
light
it
a
SCHOOLS.
firmament
hut
could,
of
served
brilliant
more
"
shadows.
massive
the
gloom
the
ELEMENTARY
clouds
only
glow
by
kindle
to
the
threw
down
the
golden
strongly-contrasted
Hawthorne.
"
To
*'
10.
the
work
or
The
tone.
craft
again.
In
the
seems
eye
long
as
the
tradesman,
and
street
we
ccm
see
angel
like
fishes
dust,
me
I
in
the
morning
daybreak
to
.
looked
transformations
and
health
I
and
and
ridiculous."
a
day,
Emerson,
"
so
with
conspire
and
I
will
I
make
the
seem
of
cloud
float
earth,
as
pomp
a
its
partake
to
reaches
morning
the
which
the
From
enchantment
active
the
bars
sea.
against
over
emotions
with
slender
silent
that
;
dilate
of
tired,
hill-top
the
light.
crimson
into
out
man
a
health
never
are
and
.
sunrise,
long,
The
of
sea
The
himself.
from
of
share.
might
shore,
rapid
from
is
and
woods,
We
din
the
enough.
spectacle
house,
my
an
the
the
horizon.
.
I
**
of
ious
nox-
their
restores
out
and
by
cramped
and
comes
finds
he
a
far
see
medicinal
sky
calm
demand
to
is
the
been
have
attorney,
sees
eternal
their
which
nature
company,
the
of
mind
and
body
wind.
of
my
Give
emperors
44:
ENGLISH
and
Rules
good English.
SCHOOLS.
ELEMENTARY
IN
models
yield this
not
can
result.
In
good
sentences
an
It will
be
tried.
the
signs which
end, and
must
ing
practicein the art of makartifice like the following may
of
early stages
the
show
the
where
indicate
will
writers
young
much
them
teach
sentence
a
of
some
may
of
or
practical
syntax.
The
writes
teacher
in proper
words
as
inventive
and
and
sequence,
it in
continue
the blackboard
upon
ways
many
with
their native
example, the blackboard
an
There
continue
for
be
is
no
; and
period
when
at
you
as
their
tongue
shows
Little Bell took
up
the
have
number
challenges the
tastes
their
allow.
may
of
class to
various
and
prompt,
may
powers
a
quaintance,
ac-
As
:
her
basket
end
; the
made
sentence
Harry
and
is to
Nellie,
that the next word
must
not
instance, understand
"she"
or
"it," congratulate yourself. Different
the result of their thinking we
pupils having named
have
"and," "while," "for," "which", "intending,"
will
as
connecting links which
properly join some
matter
new
to the old.
following is a series of composition lessons,the
in large part by a poem
material
found
being furnished
*'
The
in the book
elsewhere
Corn
Song."
of the farmer's
1. A
picture in words
bam, on the
the corn
floor of which
was
heaped : its situation,
of all kinds
size,color, various contents, inhabitants
horses, cows, chickens,swallows.
Such
a picture will
^raw upon
a
pupil's available
his practicalgramnofar,.
stock of words, put to use
The
"
"
45
COMPOSITION.
show
his
sentences, exercise
and
barns
about
taste
the materials,and
bringing forward
putting them together.
in the fourth
and fifth stanzas, or
2. A spring scene
The team
plowing, nature of the
suggested by them.
fast.
soil,stumps of trees, the furrows, birds hunting breakA day soon
after, the planting, hot sun, a black
cloud,thunder storm, scurry to the barn.
of
the
field in July
3. The
a
mass
corn
green,
How
is
tassel.
corn
stalk, blades, ear, silk and
enemies
of the
cultivated.
Some
cultivated
; why
vines.
ing
findIncident
: the
Pumpkin
growing corn.
in
his memory
his skill in
"
of
old
an
of
in
hidden
almost
scarecrow
tall
the
forlorn
enough.
4. The com
harvest, the shocks standing like rough
tents, the field green with ragweed and bristlingwith
Incident:
frost on
the pumpkins."
the stubs, "the
load by the
a
light of the full moon
hauling home
just above the eastern horizon, in the background the
smoke
barn
the farmhouse,
blue
and
curling from
the kitchen
the chimney, a ruddy light shining from
com,
no
use
looking
now,
window.
winter
5. A
or
scene
stubs
gray
along the
the limbs
on
a
fence
an
cut
;
corn
stalks
stands
printed with
and
tracks
of
brown
deep
hopping
; a
chickadees
some
which
oak
except the
the
near
field
drift
snow-
about
ing
gate, hunt-
of the brown
insects' eggs on the underside
few shocks that have not been husked, the snow
them
leaves
;
about
mice, squirrels,
birds.
'6. The
of
of
the
of
field all white
"
old
shelled
pond
"
a
com
mill
"
to be
a
trip
to it
ground
fire built of drift
"
into
on
sled with
the
meal
"
a
skate
cracking sounds
sacks
on
in the
the
ice.
46
ENGLISH
ELEMENTARY
IN
SCHOOLS.
i
In
school
a
where
and
stimulated,
are
lies
which
in
home
of
of
of
learned
have
at
the
or
in
Ask
falls.
Cuba
the
all about
order
in
place
the
for
work
selecting from
what
express
this, they
this
of
era
An
subject
he
this
verbal
stores
they
know.
Of
the
letters
under
into
his
comprehend
;
is
there
in
also
as
words
while
to
doing
geographies
to
of
our
grow
aptest
course,
much
so
four
or
taste,
neither
have
which
about
material
the
their
consult
schools
will
will
of
girl
themselves
what
pond
never
a
new
of three
and
nor
for
answer
in
"
analogous
difficult, would
correspondent,
of
write
or
know
not
think
the
papers.
themselves
point
The
memory
''
exercise
more
series
arranging
must
encyclopedias,
a
must
to
and
recalling
in
does
it.
They
hands.
their
he
him
to write
; and
tell him
to
what
of
the
of
one
say,
where,
snow
boy
one
they
earth
and
a
is in
over
eaves,
of
given.
geography
either
think
to
in,
think
the
along
be
say,
the
of
forms,
never
class
age,
; to
winter
ice
their
parts
are
exercise
may
will
we
From
there
spears
own
girls,
states.
level,
sea
type
world
great
excellent
an
following
boys and
the
upon
them,
observation
of
powers
directed
the
that
shining
their
the
central
our
pupils'
around
all
composition
The
the
view.
in
and
to
the
be
to have
imagination
answer
foregoing,
their
to
own
the
the
but
pupils
home
of
letters
from
what
some-
port
trans-
their
his
II,
PART
WHAT
do
Why
1.
bird
Twit-twit,
That
So
is your
Little
so
This
4.
Did
all he
little
wilding
just
And
1.
Can
2.
How
does
"
*'
spray
?
Give
wing
so
the
best
that
give
you
one
he
is
hold
would
of
answer
me,
for
't
1
say.
the
wood.
and
gray
why
reason
another
say.
! twit-twit-twee
was
With
!
gray.
Twit-twit-twit
That
twit-tweet
? come,
mate
bird
?
spray
would
he
all
feet
rosy
the
round
!
say.
your
twit-twit,
was
Where
twit-twit-twee
would
lock
closely
That
?
gray
all he
you
apple tree,
my
twit-twit,
Twit-twit,
3.
so
was
do
Why
2.
to
come
you
Little
TAUGHT.
BIRD
A
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
you
was
fleet.
he
could.
sweet.
why
the
little bird
to
his
perch
on
meaning
47
for
the
?
word
Alice
Cary.
came
?
What
*'
is
spray."
the
48
SELECTED
8. Where
Sitting on
?
a
song
this bird
think
you
THE
He
on
When
5. He
makes
tree
a
finch
gold-
? a
taught
?
in
tree, near
a
the
nest, he
sits
them.
near
to
house.
some
in
ones
young
berries.
that
see
bird
no
to
comes
hurt
a
hawk,
a
a
dash
he
crow,
or
even
an
eagle
comes
near,
at it.
is
so
small,
he
is
brave, and
he is also
active.
8. He
nest.
robin
?
their mother.
7. Though
very
are
watches
or
6. If
he
there
the top of
them
a
food
KINGBIRD.
his nest
builds
3. He
4.
be
for
kingbird is not bigger than a robin.
and
and
eats flies,
bugs, and
worms,
1. The
2.
Hunting
?
was
?
sparrow
do
STUDY.
this little bird
Can
?
nest
FOR
his mate
think
do you
her
What
4.
LESSONS
never
fails to
drive
off
other
birds
from
his
I WER"
IF
9. He
flies around
strikes him
10.
He
11.
The
and
with
around
his
the
battle and
In
12.
soon
then darts away
tired
grows
the
fall the
robin, flies away
plenty to eat.
that
have
we
read
south
the
to
this lesson
he eats hundreds
for his
reason
any
does
What
4.
Can
before
this kind
sittingon
there
of
a
color of the
on
books
fence
a
tip of his tail
and
of
think
you
post
in the
ones
young
find
can
our
can
flies,
or
and
kingbird, and
the
close
us
limb
are
he
where
and
bare
a
he do when
tell the
you
of gnats
bluebird
the
about
looked
2. As
of
kingbird, like
closely at his picture, let
talk about this little king in feathers.
1. How
large is the kingbird ?
have
denly
sud-
flies away.
the
Now
eagle, and
sharp bill.
strikes at his eye, and
catch him.
the eagle can
eagle
49
SUNBEAM.
A
? his throat
?
?
nest
and
breast?
is he
Why
sometimes
*'
Once
flew
across
"
top
field to
and
*^
If I
and
they
I
WERE
were
a
I would
Read,
and
Comp.^4,
as
he
his back
reached
for his
trip.
SUNBEAM.
I'd do
white
started
and
;
lilies,
woodlands
through.
a
had
the woods
strange ship without
his
sunbeam,
seek
Roaming
Just
almost
A
large hawk
wings for a sail
his
sat upon
had
what
I know
flycatcher" ?
tree, a
a
spread
kingbird shot off from
saying good-bye or paying
1.
**
sometimes
near
the
IF
?
woods.
the
When
fine ride.
"
?
at him
kingbird darted
a
kingbird
driving
was
the
of
the
'*
bee-martin
I
as
out
called
50
LESSONS
SELECTED
Softest
"
If I
its
were
with
Their
Would
'^
steal
the
would
sign
would
?
not
several
when
else would
lowly hovels
good
should
"
?
does
the
beaver
go
?
hovels
?
are
does
What
?
meaning
f
What
?
came
there
sunbeam
THE
1. The
another
these
do
What
might find there.
you
woodland
sunbeam
were
sunbeam
the
What
Why
the
mine.
emphasized.
the
sunbeam
the
;
heaven.
and
be
Give
?
upward,
things
edge of
the
near
lilydo
2. Where
'*
home
in this poem
mean
of
sweet
:
shine
and
shine
Name
stop
you
"
"
I'd
woe
looked
they'd think
Then
?
;
and
want
hearts
I would
woodlands"
I'd go
where
Till sad
'*
sunbeam,
a
Dark
**
drooping head.
lowly hovels.
Into
that
lily
every
I know
1. Notice
them,
light I'd shed,
Baised
2.
STUDY.
steal among
I would
Until
FOR
Of
call heaven
Who
**
what
live in these
dark
"
would
?
What
it be
a
?
BEAVER.
is found
America.
chiefly in North
three
and a half feet long, including the
It is about
is a foot in length.
flat paddle-shaped tail,which
the back
is chestnut2. The long, shining hair on
colored, while the fine,soft fur that lies next the skin
is grayish brown.
3. Beavers
live in, and
build
themselves
quite frequently
most
a
great
curious
huts
number
of these
to
52
SELECTED
the roofs
thick, and
of
sticks,and
mud,
They
8.
LESSONS
The
frosts.
STUDY.
oflfwith
finished
are
thick
a
building their houses
do
layer
leaves.
commence
but
summer,
FOR
finished
get them
not
them
freezing makes
late in the
before
the
early
tighterand stronger.
for their dams
and
huts
They obtain the wood
of trees, and even
by gnawing through the branches
through the trunks of small ones, with their sharp
front teeth.
They peel oflf the bark, and lay it up in
9.
for winter
store
The
10.
who
hunt
these
animals
beaver
dam,
He
the
on
of
trunk
would
beavers
young
push
playing.
that lay
tree
a
another
one
off
knew
at
very
much
so
that he
home,
of
little children
some
thought it would
So he left them
to kill them.
their
cautiously, and was
little creatures
; but their amusing
him
tricks reminded
without
be
he
inhuman
disturbing
even
play.
1. What
beaver's
2. What
4.
Do
5.
Why
6. What
one
8. What
9.
the
crept forward
to fire
about
saw
five
the water.
12.
a
men
called trappers.
saw
and
The
is highly prized.
are
gentleman once
They would leap on
a
into
fur of the beaver
A
11.
near
food.
Why
is the
body
meaning
difference
between
they prefer to walk
they
materials
would
you
build
do
think
or
dams
the
length
of
they
to swim
"
*'
fur
?
?
for
use
this
little animal
a
expression '* in store".
"
10. Who
highly prize
hair and
?
early frosts
do beavers
peel the
are
Give
?
?
is the
do
chiefly"
"
of
?
purpose
built
If you
it ?
?
bark
off the
trees
?
Explain
the
"
the
beaver's
fur
?
Why
?
HENRY
did
Why
12.
**
that
Dear
dandelion, you
How
many
toys
Funny
Next
When
sunshiny thing,
folks
and
Nanny,
bring
you
for
trumpets
baby's bald head
ready to show,
you're a weather-cock
white
seeds fly, which
way
your
curls
green
did the
Why
?
FLOWER.
for the j'oung
for
chains
"
?
children's
THE
Watch
cautiously
creep
of his children
him
tricks remind
man
53
BEE.
THE
AND
for the
;
Ned,
;
the
winds
blow.
Friend
of the barefoot
boy, gold of the poor.
playhouse at each child's door.
You're
a
wee
Selected.
1.
**
Why
?
"
"
called
the
Name
?
do the seeds
Why
friend
that
dandelion
sunshiny
?
"
is the
Why
of the
What
boy
**
by
HENRY
1.
Henry
for birds'
went
but
only to know
He already knew
one,
found
and
it.
there
He
into it almost
place of the
were
had
every
did not
where
of
not
day
blue
touched
"
?
cock
weather-
the
called
be
?
poor
woods
day
one
to
harm
to
the
look
nests,
were.
It
nest.
one
thistle
"
BEE.
want
they
four
the
THE
into the
He
nests.
gold of
a
is it called
Why
the
flower
is
What
toys."
Would
?
AND
out
children's
the
fly so easily ?
barefoot
is meant
"
'*
eggs
was
very
in it when
it,but
for three
a
weeks
he
had
; and
pretty
he
first
peeped
now,
in
tiny birds.
2. These
birds were
odd-looking little creatures.
They had big mouths, and kept them open for the
which
the old birds brought to them.
worms
They
to be always hungry.
seemed
Henry thought it would
eggs,
there
were
four
54:
be pleasant to watch
for them
enough
the
3. On
He
find
nests.
any
At
he
last he
would
that
was
no
way
to go.
take
of
path
He
great
He
night
in the woods, without
him.
He
The
woods.
He
But
what
was
he
have
to
he
quite
well.
often
heard
the
should
hear
ever
the
buzzing
had
was
he
he stay all
that
of the
one
heard
no
brook
to
drink.
through
the
thick
the
without
dinner
any
only brought
had
looking
a
around
and
sound
a
low, buzzing
where
log
sound
flowers
was
from
come
from
some
among
of
Nobody
come
it.
?
But
stay there
If
was
the
one
6.
about
?
some
wondering
that
song
he
that
knew
he
had
at home.
of
did the bee
which
little boy to do ?
a
do, he heard
from
came
side
It
there
know
light but
way
a
I
Henry
what
their
find
to
Must
leaves
not
thought
But
not
?
any
could
thought
home
way
now.
him
with
5. While
It
find
hungry
was
cakes
as
could
Would
and
sleepon a bed of
loudly as he could.
to
a bird
fly down
saw
birds
his
he
around
did
he
Must
called
He
find
He
been
ever
of the woods.
log
a
had
Henry
tired,and
looked
kind.
on
he
very
out
could
stars ?
strong
were
birds, but
was
How
he
than
He
him
any
down
sat
wings
telling you,
am
many
home.
would
path
4.
back
I
woods
stopped.
go
till their
which
the
a
saw
STUDY.
flyaway.
of
into
before.
them
to
day
farther
went
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
but
wild flowers
he
was
singing
made
by
?
a
that
grew
sitting. Did
Henry knew
bee.
But
by
any
that
where
?
Henry's
the hives
father
in the
kept bees.
garden at
This
home.
bee
It
knew
the
it flew
But
started.
Follow
home.
'^Bees
say,
followed
he
He
could
Just
that
he
His
lost
hives.
in
saw
mother
have
in the
was
But
the way
home."
I met
the
at
woods."
woods.
I
?
of
one
us
have
story. Eead
a
little study of
it carefullyand
should
following words
force or in a higher key :
the
1.
eggs,
2.
3.
4.
saw
he
^^
I
bees, and
School
be
whether
barn.
bee
same
not
tell.
said, ^^ Where
that
lost in the
was
he
were
you
showed
you
pronoimced
agree
with
with
either
me
with
Nobody, this, home, back,
straight,fast.
rose,
that
more
.
face, time, home, father,
Soon, farm, house, barn, beehives, garden, bee,
mother, where, lost,woods, was, home.
7.
this
already, one, pretty,
Henry, woods, birds',harm, were,
touched, every, three, eggs, birds.
Odd, big, worms,
always, watch.
Bay, farther, ever, great, any, very, path, way.
Thought, how, all,woods, light, leaves, called, heard,
brook, birds, boy, dinner, now,
only, cakes.
6. Wondering,
often, wild flowers, singing, bee, where.
6.
me
Reading hy Grades,
emphasis in connection
see
he
garden.
a bee
fly into
could
She
said,
our
So
and
the
afraid
was
Henry
father
run.
house
been
door.
Baldtoin's
Let
he
; but
to
His father's farm
in the
have
It may
the woods
it
is time
his
could
the
see
of beehives
row
been, Henry
you
he
as
passed the garden
ho
as
of the
one
the
see
when
straight line."
a
could
He
face
heard
had
fast
as
away.
of the woods.
out
was
him.
before
was
this bee
busy little
said, ^'It
it
He
fly in
always
after
7. Soon
I"
me
the
Henry's
to
thought that
Henry
flew
and
rose
close
very
watched
Henry
until at last it
worker
go
back.
way
55
BEE.
THE
AND
HENRY
saine,
56
And
To
see
would
The
2.
stirred her
;
careful
with
tread,
while
And
spins her silken thread,
planning, planning, planning still
is
to do
way
For
poverty
says
the
see
with
splendor.
nor
would
The
the
not
walls
spin,
of silver
never,
never,
dress,
sinner.
or
spider sit and
her
stay
nor
go
the saint
makes
That
Shut
not
the house, and
'Tis not
You
proverb
does
that worth
To
old
the
pretty is that pretty does,
That
And
this
reads
eyes
Remember
murder.
some
simple lay,
down-dropt and tender,
My child, who
With
moves
she
while
The
4.
she
of ill
thought
no
guess
dinner.
her
gets
life had
all her
never
But
She
3.
if
as
house.
never,
she
way
In
silver
her
never,
looks
She
a
about
Going
You
DOES.
dress,
plain brown
she is a steady spinner ;
her, quiet as a mouse,
spiderwears
The
STUDY.
PRETTY
THAT
IS
PRETTY
1.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
never
in,
guess
she gets her dinner.
way
Alice
1. What
Where
a
"
does
silver
color of
is the
she
house
^et the
"
?
Is
the
spider
stuff
to
she
not
spin
?
?
does
What
Why
quieter
than
is her
a
mouse
Cary.
spin
she
called
web
?
?
WHERE
THERE
2. How
does
does
she
4.
she
is it that
What
WHERE
1.
Bond
died.
tread
make
does
A
IS
feet
many
?
saint
WILL
mother
how
Upon
57
WAY.
"
?
the
about
A
IS
?
saying is quoted
was
His
THERE
murder
careful
THERE
Henry
father
old
wise
WILL
A
to do
plan
with
"
move
3. What
IS
sinner
or
THERE
ten
found
A
IS
?
WAY.
old when
years
his
it difficult to
provide
for the support of a large family, thus left entirely in
her care.
trived
By good management,
however, she conalso to send Henry, the oldest, to
to do so, and
to supply him, for the most
school, and
part, with
such
books
as
At
one
in order
to
time, however, Henry wanted
join a class in that study, and
2.
could
not
needed.
he
furnish
him
much
with
troubled
the
it, and
very
with
heavy heart, thinking what could
On waking in the morning, he found
had
^^
fallen,and
Ah,"
said
the cold wind
^'
he,
it is
a
blowing
was
He
bed
to
that
ill wind
an
it.
buy
be done.
a
snow
mother
went
was
3.
grammar,
his
to
money
about
a
deep
ously.
furi-
blows
that
nobody good."
4. He
neighbor, and
offered his service to clear a path around
his premises.
The offer was
accepted. Having completed this work,
his pay, he went
and received
to another
place for the
same
rose,
enough
5. When
the
and
purpose,
earned
to
ran
to
school
buy
the
then
a
house
to
of
a
until
another,
he
had
grammar.
commenced,
happiest boy there, ready
Henry
to
in his seat,
was
begin the
lesson
in his
book.
new
1.
After
may
the
be
first section
asked
whether
is read
aloud
Henry's
in
mother
class, the question
was
rich
or
58
SELECTED
after
poor
was
not
to
give
words
second
should
be
she
do
do
This
What
point
out
"wanted";
shows
simpler
that
word
a
about
that
five
do
what
it
Did
did
not
preceding
did
he
do
words
of
buy
one.
What
?
Have
do
"At
the
instead
of
time"
one
the
?
?
the
would
?
easily
she
troubled?
was
used
last
the
; and
What
?
of "furnish."
instead
two
than
Henry
already
she
tirely,''
en-
agement
''man-
?
family
that
*'
what
she
tent
con-
and
so," do
Did
the
asked
separate
thus,"
do
to
she
the
the
of
bring forward
support
is much
be
*'
contrived."
What
?
shows
indefinite
rather
"
troubled
Henry
expression
class
and
it, may
light upon
words
contrived
will
besides
paragraph
was
other
This
that
force
the
the
''She
books
Henry's
Let
decided
of
clearer
A
and
sentence
for,
she
member
some
sought.
STUDY.
Having
opinion.
so?
stands
did
What
this
considered.
"
2.
for
FOR
father.
class, or
the
did
all of
the
reasons
be
how
of his
death
the
rich,
of
LESSONS
is
section
add
nothing.
Here
3.
have
we
is
proverb
the
whose
quoted
of
time
and
suggested,
year
is to
application
be
old
an
found
in
graph
para-
4.
Perhaps
4.
it
a
the
time
poor
agreed
what
"
;
Name
"began
it not
were
do
opened"
it in
owning
get from
offer
Cause
?
a
it,or
Henry
earned
Henry
?
notice
"
be
for
Give
"
the
a
the
because
he
a
had
grammar
that
do
than
the
on
of
?
the
"
offer
was
"
of
ises
prem"
receive
"
and
drifting
purpose,"
instead
"
How
to
the
he
good
it himself
kind
?
of
Was
would
What
a
? It
would
happiness.
Henry's
What
"
commenced
line.
next
about
earned
is
think
done.
word
"
wind
"Same
accepted
thinking
grammar,
besides
reason
Show
will
damage
better
begin
?
will
shovel
furious
a
that
"
the
work?
what
word
a
completed."
5. Would
would
Henry's
work,"
places, and
change
when
was
?
purpose
handled
has
path- making
"This
to.
"
"
for
What
snow.
who
boy
some
boy
had
was
60
LESSONS
SELECTED
7.
'^
peach blooms
are
roses
by the garden wall,
gay
the daisy'sdial gives the sign
Ere
That
"
STUDY.
whiten, and
Apple blooms
And
8.
FOR
we
The
The
The
to dine.
little Pearl
invite
can
is June,
longest, the month
year is nearing its golden noon,
is fine,and our
weather
feast is spread
days
With
a
are
berries
cloth and
green
red."
J.
1.
did Pearl
Why
part the curls
What
?
T,
Trowbridge.
color
the
was
of
hair?
her
2.
Upon
4.
What
For
6.
Is the red-cheeked
time
what
At
of the
color
a
tiny
Peach
blossoms
?
What
is the
time
called the
of the
year's
THE
1. On
a
river, under
flock of ducks
2. Soon
and
a
on
branch
the coverlid
bluebird's
the
swallows
fly
?
?
song
home
and
?
Do
blossoms
gardens
is
day
noon
shade
THE
man
of
now
?
have
soms
blos-
Apple
walls
around
?
Why
"
AND
a
"
?
noon
golden
day,
the
under
up
do the
year
FOX
summer
tucked
daisy's dial
'*
?
"
listen besides
?
"
?
knew
strawberry
are
?
feed
she
*'
berry
their nests
build
8. What
wish
strawberries
do the
what
is
a
certain
day
in
?
DUCKS.
sittingon the bank
some
bushes, watched
of
a
the stream.
with
leaves
they all took wing.
air for a little time, they settled
feeding ground.
them,
in
spoke
the berries
strawberries
the
little Pearl
did
7. What
Jime
do
what
the robins
them
that
say
?
3.
6.
the author
does
Why
whisper
a
fall,
drifting among
After
circling in the
came
down
again
on
their
THE
3. Soon
another
and
them,
FOX
AND
branch
again they
when
they
them
no
THE
found
flight from
the branch
they
harm,
drifting down
came
took
flew
61
DUCKS.
had
down
the
river
by and
drifted
to the
among
water
as
; but
done
before.
.
4. After
the
way,
four
five branches
or
ducks
nearly
5. The
who
He
the
man
to wonder
looked
up
the
ducks.
touched
had
who
to them.
At
their
even
way,
all
watching
set
the stream, and
"What
by
in this
length,
when
them.
been
had
drifted
these
spied a
he
will
do
this, now
adrift.
branches
ing
slyly watchnext?"
thought
fox
man.
6. When
afraid
than
of
fly out
to
the branches
began
little heed
gave
tried
they hardly
had
the
of the
any
he
fox
saw
branches,
had
that
he
the
took
yet used, and
ducks
a
much
stretched
were
no
longer
larger
branch
himself
upon
62
it
SELECTED
SO
Right
and, making
8. The
Why
for
fox
is the
In
the
did
they
time
flew
as
sly old fox,
in
away
seiaed
left, he
them.
fright,and
did
fine dinner
a
to
him
pay
?
in
signs
What
fly
ducks
fly after
made
the
away
branches
more
of
"?
to drift
that
think
man
first
branch
had
drifted
by
the
"to
float
branches
that
this story is true
?
SEPTEMBER.
1. The
golden-rod is yellow,
The corn
is turning brown.
The trees in apple orchards
With
fruit are
bending down.
2.
The
In
gentian's bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun.
dusky pods the milkweed
Its hidden
3. The
picture
the
from
the river ?
think
the
story ?
the
not
of year
6. What
you
the
off with
floated
had
have
must
meaning
Do
it afloat
long time.
a
is the
down
and
drifted
right and
to
flock
3. What
sent
he set
cunning, patient work.
this ?
did
ducks,
back
come
Why
Then
flock
snaps
of the
1. What
2.
quick
rest
9. The
show
the
among
flne young
for his
STUDY.
the others.
7.
not
FOR
hidden.
to be almost
as
he had
two
LESSONS
sedges
In every
And
asters
Make
silk has
flaunt
spun.
their harvest
meadow-nook,
by the brookside
asters
in the
brook.
"
were
?
?
?
being
squirrel's
THE
all these
lovely tokens
September days are here,
By
4.
63
ARITHMETIC.
With
summer's
And
best
autumn's
of weather
best of cheer.
Helen
days
is
of the
trees
to
explain
3.
in
Asters
difference
4.
the
of what
Tokens
good things
a
the
shadow
?
Cheer
*'
It
its
"
did
of the
the
teacher
named
squirrel's
forest
was
sky all
His
nest
was
green
his
over
as
?
used
; a
of
the
in
his children
a
around
hollow
snug
will
limb,
in bed.
sedge.
the
image.
Why
here,
him,
;
at
crop
definite
**
lovely "
stands
ARITHMETIC.
head
ago.
called upon
year
make
must
perhaps,
be
stalk
reflected
a
weeks
the
spun."
of
been
they
why
to eat.
The
And
.
it.
to make
tree
High on the branch of a walnut
A bright-eyed squirrelsat.
he thinking so earnestly ?
Of what
was
he looking at ?
And
what
was
2. The
portant
im-
procured, pictures
season
head
and
have
THE
1.
be
can
and
hand, might
silk," and
brook,"
'*
be
in
pods
the
a
than
cannot
be
tokens"
"
tember
Sep-
most
be taken
is meant,
more
is sometimes
between
What
"
it must
Here
others.
*'
"
Harvest
*'
"corn"
bending
are
dusky,"
*'
*'
girls enjoy
and
pains should
little folk,with
The
help.
when
The
reality.
boys
and
children
its statements
with
the
living gentian
2. If the
fact,
and
part of the
what
1. Note
to the
Jackaan,
clearly understood.
statements
several
limbs
that
memorized,
be
in
given
by comparison
thing
should
here"
are
lifelike
made
be
should
little poem
This
Hunt
?
for
64
SELECTED
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
doing a problem o'er and
he ;
Busily thinking was
He
3.
o'er,
was
How
he
Could
for this
nuts
many
hide
hollow
in the
still on
winter's
store
tree ?
swaying bough
You
might have thought him asleep.
now
Oh, no ! he was
trying to reckon
He
4.
sat
The
could
eat.
suddenly he frisked
And
"
a
the babies
nuts
Then
5.
so
best
The
he
the tree
down
to
way
ran,
do, without
doubt,
a
I can."
gather all that
Is to
about
Selected.
stanza.
In
answered
?
2.
Why
3. What
4.
What
6.
Why
used
four
the
1. Name
in the
what
stanza
the writer
does
is meant
is
a
by
swaying
did he
last two
I
is the
question
tell
these
us
store
bough
down
run
lines
THE
1. Here
**
VOICE
be
should
that
words
"
emphasized
of
things
the
in this
third
line
?
?
'*
?
the tree
?
Oh,
no
Why
I
"
are
answers
quotation
what
marks
?
OP
THE
GRASS.
creeping, creeping
By the dusty roadside,
On the sunny
hillside.
come,
everywhere
by the noisy brook,
In every
shady nook,
creeping, creeping everywhere.
Close
I
2.
come
Here
I
creeping, creeping
All round
the open
door.
Where
sit the aged poor.
come,
?
everywhere;
;
THE
Here
I
EAGLE
where
65
TREE.
the children
play,
In the bright and merry
May,
creeping,creeping everywhere.
come
I come,
3. Here
I
OLD
creeping, creeping everywhere
You
cannot
see
me
coming,
Nor hear my
low, sweet humming.
For in the starry night.
And
the glad morning light,
quietlycreeping everywhere.
come
Roberts,
Sarah
Why
can
"
not
you
"
to tell what
word
creeping" a good
is it repeated ?
Why
out the bad rhyme.
2. Point
3.
*'
is
Why
is doing ?
1.
"
?
Do
shady, aged
quietly.
and
see
**
nor
hear
;
the
grass
not
fail to
emphasize ''quietly."
Notice
night
the
and
contrast
:
light,noisy
sunny
and
THE
OLD
and
EAGLE
children,
TREE.
distant
field,stood a large tulip tree, apparently
of the most
of a century's growth; and
one
gigantic. It looked like the father of the surrounding
A single tree of huge dimensions, standing all
forest.
alone, is a sublime object.
old eagle, commonly
2. On the top of this tree, an
called the
Fishing Eagle," had built her nest every
year, for many
years, and, undisturbed, had raised her
A remarkable
place to choose,as she procured
young.
1. In
a
^^
her food
miles
from
from
the "Old
8. On
corn
Read,
the
ocean,
the seashore.
Eagle
a
warm,
in
and
an
and
It had
full ten
stood
this tree
been
long
known
as
Tree."
day, the
adjoining field.
Comp,
sunny
"
5.
workmen
At
a
ing
hoe-
were
certain
hour
of
66
SELECTED
LESSONS
FOR
STUDY.
known
to set off for the
day, the old eagle was
she this
As
seaside, to gather food for her young.
with
men
workday returned
a large fish in her claws, the
surrounded
the tree, and, by yelling and hooting,
bird that she
and throwing stones, so scared
the poor
dropped her fish,and they carried it off in triumph.
4. The
men
soon
dispersed, but Joseph sat down
bush
under
near
a
availing
unby, to watch, and to bestow
to her nest,
returned
pity. The bird soon
The
without
food.
set up a cry for
eaglets at once
that the boy
food, so shrill,so clear, and so clamorous
was
greatly moved.
the
5. The
but
bird
parent
their
appetites were
She then
perched
vain.
and
looked
seemed
^*
to say,
6. Her
into
down
I know
indecision
to
too
herself
the
not
on
nest
what
but
was
them
try to soothe
keen, and it was
seemed
a
in
limb
a
to do
;
all in
them,
near
that
manner
next."
momentary
;
again she
two
one
or
poised herself, uttered
sharp notes, as if
her body, spread
tellingthem to ''lie still,"balanced
her wings, and was
again for the sea.
away
7. Joseph was
the result.
His
determined
to see
her till she grew
small, smaller, a mere
eye followed
boy
speck in the sky, and then disappeared. What
watched
has not
thus
the flight of the bird of his
country
8. She
usual
!
was
gone
for
nearly
two
hours, about
double
her
again returned, on
low, in order
a slow, weary
wing, flyinguncommonly
heavier
to have
a
her, with
atmosphere to sustain
time
another
9. On
it,to
see
a
voyage,
fish in her
when
talons.
nearing the field,she
if her
she
enemies
were
made
a
circuit
again there.
round
Finding
68
But
Or
loop
"
I
Have
We
taking
were
a
shoe
prettierway
a
Yes
; last
walk
that
?
evening,
you
?
I do.
Indeed
?
ghosts
one?
seen
in
sleeve
about
I know
Do
2.
your
up
:
say
you
I tie your
Shall
is it for ?
what
Well,
to kiss me,
coming
are
you
now
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
had
know,
you
miss,
to
naughty, and cried to go.
(I think you were
after this !)
But, surely,you'll stay at home
in the twilight,lonesomely,
And, away
(What is the twilight ? It's getting late I)
!
sad to me
I was
thinking of things that were
know
nothing about them,
There, hush 1 you
"
Kate.
3.
*'
we
Close
to
By
a
to go
still,red house, where
in when
Go
And
through the rocky lane,
the water
that bridge where
roars,
had
Well,
the
they will
that
moon,
at the
had
open
rain
and
the dark
doors.
just waked
looked
up,
through
The
And
broken
the wild
Where
4.
**
Just
once
across
Some
Half
hid
fallen
old
windows,
bats flew, and
in the
the road
white
in the grass,
roses
and
seemed
afraid.
the thistles grew
played.
the children
by the cherry
stones
had
and
under
trees
been
lying
so
long.
these
I could hear the song
people dead.
I passed
Of a very sleepy dove
as
The graveyard near, and the cricket that cried
I look'd (ah ! the ghost is coming at last !)
And
And
walking at my side.
something was
There
were
;
seemed
"It
5.
night was
not speak.
It would
it walked
And
Now
me
it
Now
caught at
stopped where
it
Now
"
so
it mocked
Then
it tore
Where
back
But, Kate,
your
Ah
!
There,
It
a
It
elder
a
the
only
was
do
doesn't
her mother
in the
Are
2.
will
told
we
Katie
''
girPs question
3. Name
Why
that
What
see
dimpled
arm
crickets
put this
''
"
cry
crickets
Do
song
"
a-coo,
ghost story
6.
What
6. What
Which
sing
way
coo,
is
her
mother
tell
"
did
us
What
?
**The
coof
B,
Piatt.
she
greets
where
*'
not
the
ghost
the walk
house
into
you
is
led them.
up,"
"
*'
afraid."
does
Why
?
her
story
write
author
when
the little
?
waked
still,red
Why
?
was
answer
Explain
know,
you
S, M.
!"
me
walk, too
a
neglected graveyard
Do
?
"
this
the
Why
?
take
not
after
still " ?
opposite
"
?
things which
**
?
with
doing before
been
had
did
did
house
was
writer
the
Katie
home
moon,
is it you
walked
that
Katie
What
?
three
was
4.
at
stay
tree.
it harm.
done
in your
shadow
first stanza
why
;
for men,
care
have
hide
think
you
bent
yellow
Mrs.
1. What
grew
"
couldn't
my
;
and
then,
graveyard now
playing the night a tune
were
needn't
tall ;
gray
dark-eyed darling, what
you
and
blossoms
from
under
ghost
papa
black
was
the
to the
a
a
proudly and very slow.
everything I could do ;
the lighting flies like me
me
the winds
And
great dark shawl
little cold, you
know) ;
the thorns
Still it followed
Looking
in
wrapped
the
(For
6.
to be
69
GHOST.
MY
*'
?
chirp
Do
"
?
it,the dove's
hear
that
coming,"
is, the
coming.
signs of early
two
did
things
the
in this stanza
summer
were
shadow
needed
point
?
to
How
make
did
?
the
shadow
Katie
seem
?
to
70
LESSONS
SELECTED
like
the
could
story
she
hide
?
For
1.
0,
And
Ye
BRIGHT
skies and
clouds
of June
rival
cannot
October's
2. When
BLUE
and
suns
loud
she
wish
for
WEATHER.
flowers
of
June,
together,
hour
one
bright blue weather.
makes
bumblebee
the
haste,
Belated, thriftless,vagrant,
And
golden-rod is dying fast.
And
lanes with grapes
are
fragrant
3.
;
When
gentians roll their fringestight,
To save
them
for the morning,
And
chestnuts
Without
4.
?
?
arm
OCTOBBE'S
STUDY.
protection did
whose
in her
FOR
fall from
word
a
of
satin burs
warning
;
ground red apples lie
In piles,like jewels shining.
When
And
on
redder
Are
still,on
leaves
old
stone
of woodbine
walls,
twining
;
all the
5. When
Their
And
the
lovely wayside things
white- winged seeds are sowing,
in the fields still green
Late
aftermaths
are
and
growing
fair
;
springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting.
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
for winter
Of woods
waiting ;
6. When
How
swallow's
THE
0,
7.
best of all the year
loveth
Love
together,
boasts
all your
Count
of June,
flowers
skies and
and
suns
Tl
NEST.
bright blue weather.
October's
Helen
better
is
What
*'
loud
the
will
Which
5. Name
comes
?
The
after
the
Why
6.
of
one
its seeds
red
likely stay
wheat
the
are
on
the brooks?
are
the woods
second
waiting
She
?
Satin
fall ?
leaves
woodbine
?
How
the
or
does
it
ragweed
sow
that
aftermath."
is the
woods
*'
*'
freighting"
hushed"?
For
what
?
swallow's
to
spring
bam, and
our
tried to make
Wet
"
NEST.
in the
swallow
Came
*'
*'
of twist.
things."
an
thriftless
?
What
the
are
the
grass,
low?
springs
THE
1. A
cut, is
is
Why
of
they
or
longer
wayside
crop
sort
'*
?
grapes
do
apples
?
"
a
Why
the
''
those
with
closes
redder, the
are
*'
"
belated
**
the
are
bur.
of the
inside
Which
4.
Where
?
fringed gentian
3. The
burs,"
"
October
or
?
called
bumblebee
is the
Why
2.
"
Jackson,
like June
little poem
rival
'*
is it to
What
?
of this
writer
the
1. Does
Hunt
earth
and
a
there
nest, and
straw
and
beneath
there
did
the
eaves
bring
leaves.
day she toiled
With
crowned.
patient art, but ere her work was
sad mishap the tiny fabric spoiled,
Some
dashed
it to the ground.
And
2.
Day
after
3.
She
found
But,
not
And, with
And
the ruin
cast
her
wrought,
down,
forth
mate, fresh
built her
nest
anew.
from
earth
the
place she flew,
and grasses brought
72
LESSONS
SELECTED
she
scarcely had
But
4.
wicked
When
And
hand,
I looked
or
o'er.
kept,
; and
last
night, hearing calls,
three little swallows
slept
again
and
"
ample floor,
chance, again laid waste,
she
heart
toiled
And
its
on
the ruin
wrought
still her
5. But
placed
last soft feather
The
lo !
walls.
the earth-made
Within
STUDY.
FOR
Anonynuyus,
is called
swallow
*'
Not
Of
4.
5.
kept
does
Why
"
?
stanza
HOW
"
crowned
birds
Why
masons"
*'
?
these
are
"
?
"
fabric
*'
Tell
?
carpet
the
?
say
lo
and
is the
What
did
*'
the
"
?
nest
'*
called
swallow
mother
heart
Her
in
she
last
the
for her
have
a
great
trees
were
noise
GOT
out
trying
on
to
see
ITS
NAME.
the law^n.
which
It seemed
could
make
old oak
his
twisted
himself
great
age,
his
giant arms,
heard
above
and
to what
and
at last
the others
a
good
aged
man-
while
old
he
family
they
centuries
belonged, and how
through many
had helped to make
He was
English homes beautiful.
going on to tell of their part in history,too, hut before
he had
fairlybegun the pine interruptedin a very rude
he
way.
?
?
mean
their
make
This
?
?
mishap
that
does
?
nests
racket.
to make
told of
'*
HORSE-CHESTNUT
was
if all the
2. The
Why
called
writer
the
THE
1. There
the most
swallow.
their
?
perseverance
as
build
what
reward
What
birds
nest, the third nest.
what
means
'*
these
second
of the
fate
by
did
what
eave
down,"
cast
do
swallows
is meant
2. What
3.
the
the barn
and
birds
of year
time
1. What
HOW
3. And
THE
with
HORSE-CHESTNUT
much
GOT
ITS
73
NAME.
tossing of her statelyever
so much
head, she said that her family was
older,
that they had
traveled
from
and
farther, too, away
amid
the
ice and
the cold Northland,
where, even
needles.
their glossy green
Their
they showed
snow,
used
for ships, and
in many
lands
wood
the pines
was
loved very much
are
by the children, because it is they
who
trees.
give them Christmas
the elm, with
4. Then
statelygrace, began her story.
the
But she could only begin, because
horse-chestnut,
much
noise
who
stood
that
near
so
one
her, made
You
have
really could not hear anything else but
all had a great deal to tell about your
age and wisdom
and
wonderful
qualities. But I don't believe
many
I got my
how
of you
name."
tell me
one
can
lull for a full second, then a saucy
5. There
was
a
! any
Pshaw
exclaimed,
sapling can
young
spruce
Give us something hard."
that.
answer
I will hear your
answer
first,"said Horse-Chestmoaning
and
''
"
''
"
nut.
^^Why,
it's because
your
fruit
is
so
much
larger
that it is called
ordinary chestnuts
in contempt," said young
horse-chestnut
Spruce.
the answer
I thought you didn't know," was
6.
;
in
while two or three interrupted
concert,
Oh, no 1
and
coarser
than
**
^*
we
knew
better
than
that."
and
Maple, who lived next to Horse-Chestnut
It
was
friendly with her, went on to explain :
very
be ground into meal that makes
the nuts can
is because
good food for horses."
very
7.
Oh, Maple, have you lived next me all these years
and
never
noticed, either ? If this gale coming my
will help me,
I'll show
all."
you
way
And
'*
"
74
the gale helped
stiflf,
out
STUDY.
FOR
tried
Horse-Ohestnut
So
it
LESSONS
SELECTED
hold
to
to
it
snap
**
*'
''
8.
of
hoof, just
see.
There
a
real one,
and
look like ? "
they
who
tree
Here
inside,too.
this
is the
is like
curve
the
knee."
horse's
carefully
cut
of
about
twig,
and
'^
the
Horse-Chestnut
gave
would
curved
the
the nails,and
the horseshoe,
"
little folks
horse-chestnut
a
Nature
"
of you
if any
And
for selves,
yourmarks
the
on
see
too, will find
you,
frog
"
which
to the
good story for reproduction. It should
three pupils in succession.
class by two
or
follow
a
is a
suitable
The
the class.
it in his
exercise
to test
story should
THE
LANDING
then
OF
THE
NEW
breaking
On
And
stern
a
the
Their
2. And
The
When
On
the attention
be
P.
Boyle.
should
Then
and
retold, each
memory
and
woods
giant
the
dashed
band
the wild
high
rock-bound
against
branches
a
waters
coast.
stormy
tossed
heavy night hung
hills and
a
ENGLAND.
waves
New
sky
;
dark
o'er,
of exiles moored
England
their bark
shore.
of
pupil putting
FATHERS
PILGRIM
aloud
be read
words.
own
1. The
Mother
tree.
Margaret
This
stood
just the right number
are
the
landed
look at the little
every
on
they show
like
do
answered
"
to
nails, and
bark
!"
Horseshoes
enough
near
What
along the bark.
all
branch
loose, and
right in Maple tree's arms.
Now," said the Horse-Chestnut,
marks
small
one
IN
76
SELECTED
IN
LESSONS
FOR
time's
swing.
STUDY.
footstepsgo
Lightly as the fallingsnow.
In your
swing I'm sitting,see !
Push
me
softly ; one, two, three,
Twelve
times only. Like a sheet.
feet.
beneath
Spread the snow
my
Singing merrily, let me swing
Out of winter
into spring.
1. Father
2.
Time,
Swing
Trees
out, and
me
are
your
the
!
one
"
in I
me
birds
begin
peeping leaves,
bare, but
Twittering to
On the bough
Look
swing
beneath
lilac bud
I
the
eaves.
saw
!
Icy hillsides feel the thaw.
April
3.
chased
Now
I catch
Oh,
the smell
off March
a
to-day ;
glimpse of May.
of
sprouting
the violets pass.
-Whispering from the wildwood
In
a
I
grass
blur
come
Mayflowers' breath and insects' hum.
Eoses carpeting the ground ;
Orioles warbling all around.
Swing me low, and swing me high,
To the warm
clouds of July !
4. Slower
White
now,
pond
Underneath
Cardinal
for at my
side
lilies open
wide.
the
blossoms
pine'stall spire
burn
like fire.
time's
IN
They
are
gone
Flashes
the
golden-rod
the dark
from
Crickets
in the
I hear
grass
of the
Rainbows
Glimmer
Winds
Meadow
forest leaves.
I
green
'tis
:
sadly miss.
snowing, swing
fast.
me
shivers
December
past
1
Time,
Frosty-bearded Father
Stop your footfall on
Hard
push, your
you
6.
weaves
fringed, like eyes of blue,
out of sleety dew.
through withered
sedges hiss
Gentians
While
;
year.
October
still !
5. Slower
sod.
g^een
light the fading
Asters
Oh,
;
77
swing.
the rime
hand
I
is
rough ;
You
have swung
me
long enough.
"
Nay, no stopping, say you ? Well,
Some
of your
best stories tell,
While
gently, do !
swing me
you
' '
"
the Old
From
Year
"
New.
to the
iMcy Larcom,
1. How
Notice
the
is meant
''
Why
is the
Who
is
2.
What
are
direction
Name
some
feet ?
many
is Time
called ''Father"?
What
Why
all sit in it ?
?
Do we
sittingin Time's swing
"
like
snow
a
sheet?
''singing merrily"?
between
Why
How
line ?
accents.
by
likeness
syllables in each
many
are
Time's
the
"peeping
do
the
birds
slope
Where
which
stay with
us
the
do
Why
?
leaves"?
hillsides
that
bare
times"?
What
"merrily"?
Why
footsteps and
trees
"twelve
Why
falling snowflakes
the
they?
are
first
birds
"
all winter
feel the
; some
?
twitter
In
?
which
thaw
that
"
go
?
78
pass,"
flower
' *
flashes.
do
sound
it
make
the crickets
Explain ''light."
6. Explain" weaves," "rainbows."
meadows
not
Are
does the wind
6.
"
in
does
What
rough."
the
"
"
Oh
swinging
the winter
Note
?
stop
for
What
?
means
star.
a
gentianslike
weed
?
rime,"
"
is the
What
does
the
poem
?
Why
live ?
you
"
for ?
Why
?
this
in
"
are
Explain
the poet ask
ever
aster
where
stand
?
Where
blowing through the withered
when
this
blossom
What
October
"frosty-bearded"?
Why
Does
"
does
What
stalks ?
in
green
hiss
"
**
Chile
spire," '*bum,"
cardinal
word
? The
in
so
lilies?
pond
Explain'*
opens?
is the color of the
What
it be
may-
month
Which
laurel.
seen
you
for the
names
Would
?
Have
when
flower
"
roses"
of
month
slower"?
**
Why
the
is
**
Other
blur,"
'*
Explain
?
express
ground
and
trailingarbutus,
are
"
Oh
breath."
**
May"
of
glimpse
'*a
was
?
*'
this
whispering,"
'*
is called the
4.
glimpse
a
feeling does
3. What
''
is
What
?
caught
day
what
On
fall.
in the
away
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
hand,"
reply
?
swinging begin
the
signs of the different
seasons.
To
get the
best
or
fullest results from
it with
the class compare
likeness
and
in
unlikeness
take
Bryant^s
such
a
other, searching
some
words, meter,
classic
little
of
praise
fringed gentian.
THE
TO
1. Thou
blossom
FRINGED
with
And
colored
That
openest when
Succeeds
2. Thou
the keen
comest
GENTLA.N.
bright with
not
autumn
the heaven's
the
and
when
own
dew,
blue,
quiet light
frosty night.
violets lean
wandering brooks and springs unseen,
Or columbines, in purple dressed,
Nod
o'er the ground-bird's hidden
nest.
O'er
let
points of
spirit.
scene,
hymn
for
poem
For
to
ample,
ex-
the
When
woods
A
flown.
are
is
his end.
near
thy sweet and quiet eye
through its fringes to the sky,
blue
if that sky let fall
as
"
"
flower
from
5. I would
The
birds
doth
Look
Blue
and
alone,
shortening days portend
aged year
4. Then
com'st
bare
are
and
frosts
And
The
late and
waitest
3. Thou
^9
PORD.
BRANDYWINE
that
hour
wall.
its cerulean
I shall
thus, when
of death
draw
see
to me,
near
Hope, blossoming within my heart.
I depart.
as
May look to heaven
Each
of these
There
nature.
few,
are
for differences.
look
the second
slow
the
at
quiet. The
signs
regards
of
the
autumn
an
from
if any,
clear
The
one
one
hurries
of
the
;
which
while
second
the
the
first has
a
moral
no
For
to
long
and
earn
farm
own.
a
of
on
which
At
meter
;
other
is
glancing
year,
other
steadily
lingering look
the
is
one
; the
of
two
lesson
the
us
the
on
a
formal
language
tion
personificasurface, the
FORD.
read
we
a
novel
about
called,
"
in the
The
that
selections
Story of Kennett,"
Taylor.
time
save
the
hidden
or
Let
trochaic
noisy,
for
love
prayer.
Potter, whom
follow, is the hero
written
by Bayard
touch
a
BRANDYWINE
Gilbert
and
through
partly
are
closes with
is in the
rapid
of
of likeDess.
nest-building ;
meanings
is literal,
except
other
points
the
shifting seasons
;
blossom, casting only one
bcu^k to the violets and
allegoryin
is
full
heart
a
first poem
The
is iambic.
and
came
poems
Gilbert
enough
his mother
last with
the
had
money
worked
to pay
and
he lived
money
in his
and
hard
off
a
should
lived
plainly
debt, so that
be
the
entirelytheir
saddlebags,
one
mom-
80
LESSONS
SELECTED
ing
in
away
towcurd
come
home
air,
the
and
when
rain
A
warm
came
Gilbert
swift and
His
the
brave
Roger
another
enemy
about
when
bolt
their
doors
had
heard
would
bore
Gilbert
him
of
from
home
after
going
intended
This
trip to Chester
to
look
and
sundown,
bed.
to
for
Flash, had
Sandy
region, causing people
carefully before
had
yond
far be-
not
for him.
name
went
but
safely across,
that
they
with
of Gilbert's
its banks.
the
of Gilbert's
carry
day
sudden
lay waiting
infested
them
the
change in the weather.
sunshine
glimmering through the hazy
down
heavily, not in drops but in sheets,
reached
the river, the water
was
running
carried
who
months
some
and
level with
muddy,
robber,
good horse, Roger, and rode
expected to pay the debt and
pleasant, but
very
great
a
was
of
Instead
he
STUDY.
man.
been
had
there
ride
free
his
where
Chester
a
fall
The
mounted
he
November,
FOR
and
to
robber
he
what
him.
let the
fall
reins
Roger's neck, and,
upon
in
his wet
with
wrapped
enduring the weather
cloak, was
sort of grim patience, when, as the wise beast pressed close
a
bank
Gilbert
and
did
turned
not
go
when
are
the
and
to
had
and
spend
of this mischief
such
a
luck
day
"
mounted
It
home.
*'
in the
the
ground.
Sandy
was
bags.
saddle-
errand
no
his horse
late
was
in
the
dreary road.
that
upon
the
had
he
he
sore
very
Gilbert
with
for
to
gripped
Gilbert's
in poor
Chester,
his bad
hand
powerful
violently to
his hands
toward
met
a
him
doer
to
on
course
he
wind,
hurled
the
sad
very
early upon
came
we
soon
his
afternoon
which
he
but
now,
Night
collar
that
Gilbert
from
be told that
not
Flash, and
there
the
by
need
We
shelter
for
a
black, dreary night
story.
FORD.
BRANDYWINE
I.
1.
He
The
could
black, dreary
only
guess,
night seemed
here
and
there,
interminable.
at
a
landmark,
*'
BRANDYWINE
81
FORD.
Roger's instinct
the
than
of the road
guidance of his senses.
upon
Toward
midnight, as he judged, by the solitarycrow
of a cock, the rain almost
entirelyceased.
wind began to blow sharp and keen, and the
2. The
that
hard vault of the sky to lift a little. He fancied
and
that the
the hills on
fallen away,
his right had
the north.
horizon
was
suddenly depressed towards
Roger's feet began to splash in constantlydeepening
and
water
presently a roar, distinct from that of the
wind, filled the air.
had over3. It was
The
the Brandywine.
stream
flowed
its broad
and
was
running
meadow-bottoms,
The turbid
high and fierce beyond its main channel.
him
made
waters
a
dim, dusky gleam around
; soon
to his
the fences disappeared, and the flood reached
horse's body.
4. But he knew
that the ford could be distinguished
that
by the break in the fringe of timber ; moreover,
the meadows
bank
the creek
was
a little higher than
The
behind it,and so far, at least,he might venture.
ford was
than
not
more
twenty yards across, and he
that distance.
could trust Roger to swim
bert
faithful animal
5. The
pressed bravely on, but Giland
forced
was
water
had
from
time
timber
in
forced
to
could
advance,
him
time,
be
now
and
upon
that he seemed
noticed
soon
rely more
to
in
a
of the
out
as
and
if anxious
minutes
and
road
discerned, only
few
The
at fault.
a
they
swift
stopped
he
The
uneasy.
short distance
would
the
gain
bank.
6. What
sound,
sound
Read,
as
of cattle
which
and
strange, rustling,hissing
trampling through dry reeds, a
that?
was
"
quivered
Comp.
"
A
6
and
shook,
even
in the
breath
82
SELECTED
LESSONS
hurrying wind.
of the
in every
trembled
struck
ten"or
limb
; and
a
through
drew
sound
and
swiftly nearer,
fillingthe whole breadth
roar,
7. ''The
the
dam!
!"
STUDY.
Roger snorted,
chill
a
FOR
dam
He
!"
turned
and
still,
sensation
of
awe
and
Gilbert's
heart.
The
became
a
of the
ing
wild, seeth-
valley.
Gilbert, ''the dam
cried
has
given
the
rein, struck, spurred, cheered,
way
stood
Roger's head,
and
him
gave
The
shouted.
struggled through the impeding flood,but
of the coming
inundation
the advance
wave
already
his side.
He
touched
staggered ; a line of churning
brave
beast
foam
bore
around
down
and
whirled
upon
them, the
and
them,
over
terrible
horse
and
roar
all
was
rider*
were
away.
bert
happened during the first few seconds, Gilcould
Now
never
they were
distinctly recall.
in the water, now
whelmed
riding its careering tide,
torn through the tops of brushwood, jostledby floating
logs and timbers of the dam, but always, as it seemed,
and
the
remorselessly held in the heart of the tumult
8.
What
ruin.
the
they had fallen behind
furious
still swimming
onset of the flood, but
Roger was
with
from
it,desperately throwing up his head
time
his nostrils.
from
to time, and snorting the water
All his efforts to gain a foothold
failed ; his strength
in
was
nearly spent, and unless some
help should come
9.
a
few
He
at
saw
minutes
last that
it would
come
And
in vain.
in
the
which
they were
rapidity with
should
?
borne along, how
help come
10. All at once
Roger's course
stopped. He became
obstacle
to the flood, which
against
an
pressed him
darkness,
some
other
and
the
obstacle
below,
and
rushed
over
horse
and
84:
there
"
break
*'
a
timber
distinguished"
**
fault,"
Why
?
was
far ?
discerned."
Where
this
was
?
6. What
nearer"
drew
caused
What
?
"inundation"
and
"flood"
Do
''impeding."
thing ?
is now
taking
the
same
8. What
place?
"
"remorselessly"?
Why
What
is the
foothold."
Why
heart
"
by
is meant
What
sound
the
?
roar
Explain
mean
*'
means
this wild
7.
**
So far," how
**
?
''at
Explain
5.
of
meaning
is the
What
4.
STUDY.
POtL
LESSONS
SELECTED
?
word
new
for
used
"noise"?
vain"
"in
"
Explain
9.
Were
11.
they
water
12.
a
made
Roger
these
timbers
Explain
?
is the
What
directly
Gilbert
projecting,
meaning
of
' '
would
help come
"
?
each
over
climb
not
"
' '
"
obstacle
"
an
did
Why
lie ?
so
gain
?
What
10.
to
' '
other
clear
"
assailed
?
"
' '
of
the
tively."
compara-
breath
a
Could
?
out
"
immerged,
"
"
of ice
?
"lapse"?
FORD.
BRANDYWINE
1.
The
moon
noise
of
heard
a
the
familiar
sound,
posture, he
flooded
meadow,
seemed
were
little below
consult, and
Gilbert
throat
horse
to
a
tried
to
stiff,and
neighed again.
when
sky,
Above
the
the wind,
neigh
great exertion, to
men,
on
horseback,
him.
presently drew
shout, but
his
This
the
a
was
the shrill,sharp
"
two
saw
the
of
whistle
Lifting himself, with
horse.
2.
the
and
water
there
head.
his
suddenly raised
Potter
Gilbert
in
dawn
coming
the
of
pale glimmer
the west, and
in
low
was
he
of
a
in
a
ting
sitthe
They stopped,
nearer.
of
muscles
lungs
refused
time
there
to act.
was
no
his
The
mis-
BRANDYWINE
take
it
;
him, and
that
Roger
was
he
cried
85
FORD.
aloud,
he
Voice
to
came
hoarse, strange,
a
"
!
heard
ural
unnat-
cry.
The
horsemen
bank, until
they
The
him.
his frame
had
; he
How
"There
is
My
the creek
"
"
just below,
work
will
follow,
horse
It
The
was
and
it
5. Sometimes
inch
feet
approach
Gilbert
keeping
other
swered.
an-
I'll go
yours.
and
not
away,
the
me."
sees
Gilbert
saw
the
beside
water
a
dangerous undertaking.
loose
horse
its divided
still above
entered
the
channel
met
the
main
and
saddle-girths,
animals
plunged, losing
gallantly breasted
you
by
below
inch
worked
their way
It
Gilbert.
seemed
their
the
point
impossible
to
a
nearer.
swim
?"
his
shook
Roger's bridle
6. The
he
when
sure,
nevertheless, they
;
six
Can
was
the
current, and
"
the
where
but
men
swift.
very
about
be
difficult and
a
below,
foothold
than
the
it's broader
speaker moved
plunging through
broadened,
and
now,"
last
horseman
stream
one
where
the
my
way
up to him."
can't carry both."
His
other.
flood
"
?
is stronger
get
of
one
him
horse
horse
led
the
that
saw
heard
to
one
the
reach
we
But
4. As
to
rope," he
time
no
deep, and
so
and
around
no
shall
"
into
a
of escape
looked
have
"
rapidly pushed up the
point directlyopposite to
brought a thrill of life to
fallen.
"We
say.
it,and
reached
prospect
indeed
3.
heard
!"
man
the end
asked
head.
the
"Throw
then
cried.
unbuckled
the
he
man.
bridle
of the rein in his hand.
the
me
and
end
threw
Gilbert
of
it,
tried
86
SELECTED
to
it,but
grasp
LESSONS
his hands
FOR
STUDY.
He
numb.
too
were
aged,
man-
and
his head
however, to get one arm
through
the opening, and relaxed
his hold on the log.
7. A plunge, and
had
him
the man
by the collar.
lifted by a strong arm
He felt himself
laid across
and
With
his failing strength and
stiff
Roger's saddle.
no
limbs, it was
slight task to get into place ; and the
return, though less laborious to the horses, was
equally
Gilbert was
dangerous, because
scarcely able to support
himself
without
help.
safe
when
You're
now," said the man,
they
but it's a
of
reached
the bank,
downright mercy
God
that you're alive !
other
horseman
8. The
joined them, and they rode
flooded
meadow.
the
They had both
slowly across
cloaks
around
their
thrown
Gilbert, and carefully
He
each side.
in the saddle, one
steadied him
was
on
how
exhausted
too much
to ask
they had found him,
osity,
for curitoo numb
whither
or
they were
taking him,
almost
for gratitude.
"
'^
"
"
"
9.
Here's
found
about
three
maybe
a
10.
the
"I
'
you
o'clock
little
that ?
hear
Do
you.
listened
said
It
wish
ting
pat-
men,
through him
how
know
maybe
a
me
that
Well
?
little
^
woke
wife
the
of
one
was
to
it was,
later,my
she
!"
^'
shoulder.
Roger's
we
savior
your
up.
"
earlier,
Do
you
said.
and
door, neighing,
"
heard
I can't
a
horse
tell
in the
you
lane
exactly
before
how
it
It was
call up the house.
though he would
out
looked
I thought, so
I got up and
rather
queer,
he had a saddle
to me
of the window, and it seemed
he gave
then
He
on.
pawed, and
stamped, and
another
neigh, and stamped again*
was,
"
as
BRANDYWINE
*'
11.
I to my
wife, ^ There
I dressed
and went
out.
Said
here,'and
he
in the
acted
I, if
an
ever
down
"I
12.
as
wanted
I
to
went
saddled
if
see
would
horse
Gilbert
have
such
a
the
carried
him
leaned
head
that
animal
off, ran
acting
upon
and
on
up
Away
minute
we
of
was
till
on,
brother,
my
started.
and
it
to the
came
no
use
his cheeks.
the cold, keen
from
mile
a
was
new,
or
sound
'^
The
two
be
2.
3.
**
**
No
Why
work
4.
5.
my
Was
What
sure
and
men
**
"
the
reached
would
house, but
the faithful
tells
it '*not
"eeme""
a
is it to
*'
nearer
so
is meant
to what
he
*'
breast
a
"
first
?
current
"
?
Taylor.
whether
by
*'
a
familiar
could
Why
the
not
?
''
?
horse
have
creature's
voice ; "
Explain
Explain the
deep"?
what
loose
think,
we
to consult."
"
Drew
about
if
us,
full. What
**
The
him.
way."
there
men
Brandywine.
saddle, and
kissed
half, or
?
mistake
was
you.
The
dawn, they
the
the
from
first sentence
moon
Gilbert
; the
found
we
Bayard
?
look
to
a
immediately into
Roger's neck, took
in his arms,
1. This
as
respected it.
lightof
lifted Gilbert
men
woke
rolled down
and
farmhouse,
snug
thought
;
back
me,
life."
thing before, in all my
speak, but two large tears slowly gathered
emotion,
In
13.
wrong
saw
shot
he
When
; but
go
us
of
did not
his
and
followed.
we
in his eyes, and
saw
saw
came
horses
our
hesitated
heard
never
him,
then
he
speak,
ahead, stopping every
I rather
water
ever
to
into the house
we
and
something
When
you
catch
bit, and
is
ever.
yours
around
tried
a
went
here, and
way
animal
lane
the
strangely
I
strangest
When
does.
87
FORD.
**
pushed."
expression
88
LESSONS
SELECTED
6. Gilbert
'*
Explain
8.
head
Why
*'
he
was
here
Gilbert
did
How
show
they respect
^*
What's
your
name
your
maid
Pretty
Little Bell
?
BELL.
beechwood
the
spray
"
"
sat down
the
beneath
rocks
"
her
gleaming, golden locks,
''Bonny bird ! quoth she,
Sing me your best song before I go."
"
"
"
Here's
*'
3.
And
Half
I know,
the very finest song
Little Bell," said he.
the blackbird
so
a
gay
Now
so
And
His
the while
full heart
'Neath
In the
All the
And
from
any
of that
"
and
slow,
below.
smiles.
bonny bird did pour
freely o'er and o'er,
the morning skies.
sweetness
From
bird
that
little childish
shine
heard
never
face
sweet
o'er with
Dimpled
4.
; you
quips and wiles,
and
soft
rich,now
round
All for love
piped
song
of
Full
forth
the
:
wandering this way,
?
name
quoth he
? Oh, stop and straightunfold,
showery curls of gold,
Bell," said she.
aside
Tossed
"
his emotion
on
?
"
with
"Little
''
what?
curiosity ?
any
**
curiosity
*'
What's
2.
in
opening
"
for
numb
too
Piped the blackbird
Pretty maid, slow
*^
the
through
LITTLE
1.
STUDY.
relaxed."
9. Does
12.
his
got
FOB
heart
seemed
in the
below
to grow
happy
blue, bright
and
overflow
eyes.
grow,
LITTLE
5.
tripped, and through the glade,
squirrel from the hazel shade,
the dell she
Down
the
Peeped
And
Swung
While
6.
89
BELL.
and
from
the
out
leaped
and
tree
frolicked, void
of
fear,
bold blackbird
piped that all might hear,
"Little Bell," piped he.
Little Bell sat down
amid
the
fern
"
"
''
Squirrel,squirrel,to your task return
Bring me nuts," quoth she.
the frisky squirrelhies
Up, away
Golden
wood-lights glancing in his eyes
"
"
And
adown
the
"
tree.
.
ripe nuts, kissed brown
h^ July sun.
In the little lap dropped one
by one
Hark, how blackbird pipes to see the fun I
Happy Bell," pipes he.
Great
"
*'
7. Little Bell looked
"
and
up
down
Squirrel,squirrel,if you're
the
glade
afraid.
not
!"
Come
and
Down
came
Down
came
squirrel,eager for his fare,
bonny blackbird, I declare ;
Little Bell
share
each
gave
Ah
And
the merry
the while those
with
his
me
honest
three
"
share
"
!
frolic
playmates twain
Piped and frisked from bough to bough again,
'Neath
the morning skies,
In the little childish
All
And
the sweetness
shine
From
out
heart
seemed
in
her
below.
to grow
happy overflow
blue, bright eyes.
and
grow.
90
8.
snow-white
her
By
Knelt
day,
palms, to
of
at close
cot
folded
Bell, with
sweet
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
pray
;
Very calm and clear
Rose
the praying voice, to where, unseen.
In blue heaven, an
angel shape serene
Paused
''
What
"
That
Low
happy heart,
Prays so lovingly ? "
and
soft, 0, very low
the blackbird
Bell, dear
God's
Whom
^'
Murmured,
Shall
watch
bed
and
soft,
"
bed,
orchard
croft,
he.
crooned
angel fair
bless with
angel's care;
shall be
harm
around
Little
her
love," the
doth
from
safe
Bell !
God
beside
in the
creatures
Child, thy
Folded
this," the angel said,
with
"
^'
to hear.
is
child
good
Crooned
9.
while
a
love, deep
;
Bell, for
kind.
good gifts behind.
leave
and
and
!"
thee
WesttooocL
Thomas
1.
'*
gray."
on
yon
Piped,"
Charles
"
2.
**
could
**
Kingsley,
bloomy
curls," a
lark
**No
"
**
of curls.
shower
Beneath,"
Spray,"
warblest
spray
Of
skies
to
''O
"
eve."
at
foot
the
at
pipe
dull
and
nightingale
that
so
Milton.
"
**
Showery
gold," yellow.
of.
"Gleaming,"
bright,
shining.
3.
This
is the
English blackbird,
wiles," lively
"Quips and
sweetly ? What
robin.
so
is
5.
What
6.
"Task,"
a
"
earlier
in
dell
England
"
"
a
;
task
what
lights,"probably
did
effect
the
sun
than
?
the
glade
What
singing
"
"
;
our
ho
sing
?
void."
kind
country.
have
American
did
Why
tunes.
shining through
in
of the
relative
a
of
"Wood-
nuts?
the leaves.
"
Fun,"
"
what
July,"
fun
?
92
SELECTED
1. Notice
out
of breath
Why
is the
birds
2.
here
the alliteration
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
in the
first stanza.
Why
?
"cuddle"
word
particularly appropriate
?
did
3.
Why
4.
Explain
birds
the
**
mind
not
slides,"
**
the
rain ?
Name
blush," '*bare."
THE
heart
My
A
So
be
The
let
Bound
die
me
I could
;
;
old,
!
wish
each
man
a
of the
is father
child
And
am
I shall grow
it when
Or
sky :
life began
my
I
now
I behold
when
in the
it when
was
So
RAINBOW.
leaps up
rainbow
So is it
my
to each
man
;
days to
by natural
be
piety.
William
pass
trees
some
this is true.
of which
The
the
are
records
that as he
poet elsewhere
grew
the earth, but
that
a glory from
away
in
A
that
Of elevated
disturbs
thoughts
something
Whose
older
there
there
was
:
presence
Of
Wordstoorth.
far
more
with
me
; a
sense
the
joy
sublime
deeply interfused.
And
dwelling is the light of setting suns,
the round
and
the living air,
ocean,
And
the
blue
sky,
and
in the
mind
of
man.
DAFFODILS.
1. I wandered
That
When
lonely as a cloud,
floats on
high o'er vales
all at
once
I
saw
a
crowd,
and
hills,
a
did
pensation
com-
93
DAFFODILS.
A
host,
Beside
the lake, beneath
Fluttering
and
Continuous
2.
daffodils
golden
of
And
dancing
th*e stars
as
twinkle
;
the
trees,
in the
breeze.
that shine
the
milky way,
in never-ending line
They stretched
Along the margin of a bay :
Ten
thousand
I at a glance,
saw
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
3. The
beside
waves
Outdid
A
the
poet could
In such
I
sparkling
the
oft, when
Which
:
little
is the
And
then
And
dances
me
with
inward
eye
with
;
pleasure fills,
daffodils.
the
William
1. What
excellent
idea of his
2.
'*
impression of
them
count
3.
meaning
4.
'*
of
not
*'
'*
golden
to
the
convey
?
together
way."
**
to
as
Ten
but," impossible not
jocund
wealth"
What
thoughtless
a
close
so
poet used
the
has
WorcUnoorth,
give the
thousand,"
eye
did
the
he
?
Could
"
simile
complete loneliness
Continuous,"
:
I lie
bliss of solitude
heart
my
thought
had brought
pensive mood,
that
upon
to
couch
my
in
or
flash
show
on
vacant
They
in
they
glee :
gay.
"
wealth
In
be
but
not
; but
waves
jocund company
and
gazed, but
"
For
4.
danced
them
a
gazed,
What
on
'*
;
"
to
be.
What
is the
?
had
the
show
pensive," thoughtful,
brought?
*'
Inward
**
Vacant,"
eye,"
the
94
SELECTED
mind^s
all
which
eye
of
the charm
**
cloud
moving
;
the
called
to
mind
splendor of
the
fluttering,dancing
flowers
the
; the
the
hy
milky
poet
slowly-
the
; the
way
sparkling
:
of
crowd
responsive
waves
wind.
to the
pupil try
the
Let
to tell what
THE
We
1.
seeing past images with
of
power
visionary things."
images
the
Note
gives
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
stand
now
this poem
lesson
teaches.
CONCORD.
the river's brink.
on
It may
well
be called the
Concord, the river of peace and quietness ;
for it is certainly the most
and
unexcitable
sluggish
stream
loitered imperceptibly towards
that ever
its
eternity, the sea.
Positively,I had lived three weeks
beside it before it grew
quite clear to my perception
"
which
thecurrent
way
flowed.
aspect except when
vexing its surface
on
incurable
of
indolence
is the
fate
of
its nature, the
a
many
cious
viva-
From
stream
slave of human
the
a
breeze
sunshiny day.
a
so
has
never
northwestern
a
incapable of becoming
as
It
is
the
is
happily
ity,
ingenu-
wild, free mountain
torrent.
some
in
or
While
all
that
grows
compelled to subserve
useful
it idles its sluggish life away
purpose,
lazy liberty, without
turning a solitary spindle
affording even
water-power enough to grind the
2.
corn
so
much
as
it nowhere
a
meadow
boughs
of elder
grass,
bushes
The
torpor of its
bright, pebbly shore,
strip of glistening sand,
a
narrow
in any part of its course.
3. It slumbers
between
long
are
its banks.
upon
allows
movement
nor
things else
broad
and
and
bathes
prairies,kissing the
the
overhanging
willows,
or
the
roots
of
THE
95
CONCORD.
and
clumps of maples. Flags
and rushes
along its plashy shore ; the yellow
grow
water
lilyspreads its broad, flat leaves on the margin;
and the fragrant white pond lily abounds,
generally
selecting a positionjust so far from the river's brink
of plungbe grasped save
at the hazard
that it cannot
ing
and
elms
ash
trees
in.
4. It is
marvel
perfect flower derives
its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from
the river sleeps,and where
which
the black mud
over
lurk
the slimy eel and
speckled frog and the mud
continual
cleanse.
turtle,whom
washing cannot
reader
must
5. The
not, from
testimony of
any
dislike towards
slumberous
a
our
mine, contract
and
In the light of a calm
stream.
golden sunset
it becomes
lovely beyond expression ; the more
lovely
with the hour,
for the quietude that so well accords
the wind, after blustering all day long,
when
even
Each
and
itself to rest.
tree
rock,
usually hushes
is distinctly imaged, and,
blade
of grass,
and
every
ideal
however
unsightly in reality, assumes
beauty
a
whence
this
in the reflection.
6. The
minutest
aspect of the
effort
and
things
firmament
with
the
same
of
earth
and
the
broad
pictured equally without
All the
felicityof success.
are
at our
feet ; the rich clouds
float
sky glows downward
bosom
of
the
stream
like
through the unruffled
If we
heavenly thoughts through a peaceful heart.
of its bed,
its tawny hue and the muddiness
remember
soul
has
let it be a symbol that the earthliest human
contain
inflnite spiritualcapacity and
the
an
may
within
its depths.
better world
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
96
SELECTED
Draw
1.
''concord."
sluggish"
in
river
the
river
slow-going
that
doubtful
the
2.
Flashy,"
it
of "most"
"
give
to
in
up
any
word
of
defines
"incapable."
slave
?
likely to line
be
of
eternity,so
connection
a
over
the rate
us
"vivacious,"
movement
phrase
extending
the
become
defines
the
dictionary
that
torrent
river
the
?
first line conveys
in the
in
this word
see
does
named
that
seem
lines
Bryant's
the
water
of slowness
the idea
To
"
a
?
Waterfowl."
lily
selects
the
"
rather
than
position
?
"
stay
5.
reader
Have
ideal.
not
6.
is the
?
Bring
you
"
you
would
picture
peaceful,"
not
as
"
fact
hang
allow
in your
what
the
yard
wind
here
a
picture
firmed
afthe
of
?
?
other.
"
Felicity of
Why
"glows,"
"?
SANDPIPER.
lonely beach we flit,
One little sandpiper and I,
And
fast I gather, bit by bit,
The
scattered
driftwood, bleached
Across
expression"?
wall
purpose
the
the
the real and
between
the
live,"
should
Why
"beyond
about
upon
perfect as
symbol
THE
1.
the
"
?
to ?
of
Meaning
For
?
one
?
"
turtle
' '
referred
distinction
the
contrast
success,"
"
testimony
would
Why
What
out
lurk
after
comma
observed
ever
rich,"
"
"
Why
'*contract," etc.
you
something
the
Why
?
Where
marvel."
"
the
State
4.
"
sand
word
3. What
Why
notice
of
composition
in the
up
itself
text
life is swallowed
swift
a
the
loitered
"loitered,"
would
pebbles or
*'
of
STUDY.
that
effect
Look
the mountain
Why
with
' '
the
but
meaning,
does
How
or
Note
; as
sea.
"imperceptibly,"
"
fact
fitness
; the
FOR
the
to
unexcitable," the
''most
"
attention
word
the
LESSONS
the
and
dry.
for it,
The
wild waves
reach their hands
the tide runs
The wild wind
high,
raves,
the beach
As up and down
we
flit,
One little sandpiper and I.
"
THE
2. Above
heads
our
Scud,
black
silent
Like
Stand
as
I
the
see
and
clouds
swift, across
the
sky
;
in
misty shrouds
white lighthouseshigh.
the
far
Almost
the sullen
ghosts
out
97
SANDPIPER.
as
reach
can
eye
close- reefed
vessels
fly,
.
fast
As
One
flit across
we
him
starts
has
He
his sweet
mournful
cry.
fitful song,
flutteringdrapery.
thought of any wrong.
no
scans
The
fearless eye ;
well tried and
we,
with
me
friends
a
are
little sandpiper and
When
loosed
the
driftwood
To
what
I do not
The
are
fear
to-night.
breaks
storm
so
shelter canst
for
furiously?
bright I
thou fly?
thee, though wroth
tempest
rushes
not
God's
we
be
fire will bum
warm
strong,
I.
wilt thou
where
Comrade,
For
along,
and
at my
not
Staunch
My
skims
I.
flash of
Or
4.
he
as
Uttering
He
"
little sandpiper and
3. I watch
He
the beach,
through
the
children
both,
Thou, little sandpiper, and
sky
;
I ?
Celia
Why
1.
driftwood
is the
2.
called
''Hands,"
?
with
**
beach
explain
What
waves.
lonely ?
the
is the
Sullen
use
force
clouds," why so called ?
What
are
lighthouses?
"scud"?
?
Bead,
Why
and
were
the
Comp."7.
vessels
What
of
of
bleached
this
*'
Thaxter,
word
"
raves
What
caused
Color
of
close-reefed
?
in
nection
con-
?
them
those
What
the
to
tioned
men-
sort
of
98
SELECTED
motion
it
think
**
**
running
time
walking
?
do
think
you
the
of the
day do you
gathering wood
? What
and
the
bird
What
at
night
**
gatherer
likeness
that
of
Why
?
was
What
?
Explain
staunch."
between
contrast
it with
Compare
?
poem
?
flying ?
?
wrong,"
driftwood
she
the
What
?
was
of
STUDY.
fluttering drapery," **any
Who
4.
bird
the
flash,"
indicate
FOR
?
was
Was
3.
flit "
'*
does
LESSONS
the
woman
is the
Bryant's lines
lesson
**
To
a
Waterfowl."
RISING.
THE
1.
Out
of the
Far
flashingon
At
And
as
And
The
of
wings
came.
flame,
boreal
in the
tumult
was
fife's shrill note, the
air,
drum's
loud
the first oath
Came
of Freedom's
the blast from
on
Concord
her
Forgot
Made
bare
And
swelled
roused,
old
her
Lexington.
longer tame,
no
baptismal
patriot arm
discord
the
gun
name.
of power
of the hour.
Thomas
1.
flres.
'*
very
3.
**
Is the
2. Note
a
the
Explain
"boreal,"
the
aurora
sounds
deep calleth
did
word
Concord
*'
words
startled."
forceful
How
beat.
through the wide land everywhere
answering tread of hurrying feet.
While
And
the
there
The
3.
its
news
lightwhich flies
midnight through the startled skies.
Swift
2.
wild
the
North
of
Wings
'*
only
seen
North,"
at
*'wild,"
flame",
midnight
that
made
unto
deep."--Bt6Ze.
for
the
show
up
the
report
that
of
she
**
a
**
Read,
Buchanan
as
*'
flashing,"
if
by signed
?
tumult."
'*
gun
Oath."
'*
ing,"
Answer-
Is not
this
?
forgot" the
mecuiing
100
SELECTED
1.
Explain
**
show
;
**
2.
^*
In
spangled."
birth.
her
Tidings," and
**
^'
**
what
Display,"
known.
tale," story of
bum,"
STUDY.
frequently used?
word
publishes," makes
*'
FOR
firmament,"
is this
Wondrous
word
the
of
use
connection
other
LESSONS
truth,"
**
Note
the
use
of
story of their
the
birth.
3.
**
All," sun,
/* There's
But
the smallest
not
"
planets, stars.
moon,
in his motion
like
glorious voice,"
thou
which
orb
A
behold'st
angel sings."
an
"
28, 1857.
May
fiftyyears ago
of May,
In the pleasant month
In the beautiful
Pays de Vaud/
A child in its cradle lay.
1.
It
2.
And
was
Nature, the old
child
The
Saying
Thy
8.
*'
^'
:
he
With
Who
The
a
knee,
story-book
me," she said,
with
untrod
of God."
manuscripts
wandered
Nature,
to him
rhymes
1
;
is still unread
what
sang
for thee."
written
regions yet
read
In the
And
has
wander
Into
And
is
Here
took
nurse,
her
upon
Father
Come,
"
4.
AGASSIZ.
OF
BIRTHDAY
FIFTIETH
THE
Shakespeare,
away
the
night
of the
Pa-6
dear
deh
and
away
old nurse,
and
universe.
v6.
day
MOUNTAIN
THE
5. And
whenever
the way
his heart
began
Or
would
She
Or
6.
So she
a
beautiful
Eanz
The
the
Vaud
of old,
streams
cold
;
*'
at home
Hark
says
I listen and
his voice
;
in his dreams
and
glaciers clear
wild
beats
de
Pays
Vaches^
the mother
For
go.
of mountain
rush
From
child,
a
he hears
dez
song,
tale.
his heart
at times
Though
wonderful
let him
not
long.
fail,
to
still
at times
the
seemed
marvelous
him
101
SQUIRREL.
more
more
will
For
8. And
a
keeps
Though
And
sing
tell
And
7.
THE
AND
yearn
growing late and dark,
And
boy does not return
my
I
;
It is
Wadsworth
Henry
and
1. Where
is this
2. What
3.
when
Explain the
"
Agassiz born
was
"
story-book
expression
*'
!"
LongfeUow.
?
?
*'
regions yet untrod."
scripts,"
Manu-
handwriting.
do
4.
Why
6.
Explain
**
song."
6. Explain
7.
8.
Why
*'
* '
does
It is
the
still
the
a
child.
the poet
Had
a
And
the former
long;
"
* *
of
speak
late," in
MOUNTAIN
mountain
the
"
Go
**
the
"
**
*'a
where
day
sang"
more
?
wonderful
?
"
glaciers
THE
AND
and
Nature
poet says
seemed
way
growing
THE
The
think
you
? in her
?
life ?
SQUIRREL.
squirrel
quarrel,
called
I
Ron
the latter
da
vash.
"
Little
prig
"
;
102
LESSONS
SELECTED
Bun
*'
FOR
STUDY.
replied,
You
But
doubtless
are
all sorts
be
Must
To
a
up
And
a
And
I count
To
things and weather
in together
of
taken
make
big,
very
year
sphere.
occupy
it
my
And
if I'm
You
are
not
And
not
half
not
disgrace
no
place.
so
large
small
so
you,
as
I,
as
spry.
so
I'll not
deny
A
pretty squirrel track.
very
Talents
differ ; all is well
If I cannot
Neither
make
you
forests
carry
can
crack
you
and
wisely put
back.
my
on
nut."
a
Waldo
Bdlph
this poem
Commit
to
TO
in
the
meaning
DANDELION.
THE
flower, that growest beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless
gold,
First pledge of blithesome
May,
Which
children pluck, and, full of pride,uphold.
Dear
common
Thou
2.
drinking
memory,
Emerson,
line.
every
1.
;
Than
all the
Then
think
Where,
The
I of
the
as
leaves
to
deep shadows
where
gleaming
Of
dear
more
me
prouder summer-blooms
meadows
Of
art
in
rushes
that
pass.
lean
slumber
a
in
thousand
a
be.
the grass,
the cattle graze
sun
breezes
on
may
ways,
cloudy mass,
;
of
in the wind, of waters
Or whiten
from
That
Where
sparkle through
and
of a sky above.
gap,
white
one
blue
distance
a
woodland
Some
108
DANDELION.
THE
TO
like
cloud
doth
stray lamb
a
move.
thoughts
earliest
childhood's
My
3.
linked
are
with
thee;
sight of thee brings back the robin's song,
Who, from the dark old tree
Beside the door, sang clearly all day long,
in childish piety,
And
I, secure
if I heard
Listened
an
as
angel sing
With
from
news
heaven, which he could bring
Fresh every
day to my untainted
ears
birds and flowers and I were
When
happy peers.
The
like
4. How
prodigal doth nature
thou, for all thy gold, so
When
a
teachest
Thou
each
Since
Did
And
but
we
with
all these
On
could
pay
child's
a
human
every
reflects in
Of heaven, and
the
heart.
joy its scanty gleam
wondrous
some
love
we
owe,
undoubting
livingpages
The
the
Why
love
of real money
what
?
Can
Can
you
name
2, What
mention
think
you
a
month
**
of
wisdom
of God's
**gold"?
is the
of any
prouder"
is the
root
look
book.
Russell
why
it is
Lowell,
"harmless"?
Why
of all evil.
reason
flower
show,
secret
James
1.
art !
common
to deem
me
sacredly of
More
seem.
*'
*'
Pledge"
more
dear
of
"
?
poet thinking
of
in
this
second
?
104
the
produces
stray lamb
?
Do
think
you
Shepherded
3.
perches
What
does
What
the poet
is nature
Why
like
speaking of British wild
the
makes
*'
underwoods
of the
one
**More
to
has
Each
thing.
we
sacredly,"
look
a
into it
to the bii'd.
What
the
as
THE
1. Is this
When
When
And
2.
There
a
think
do you
time
our
are
is meant
GLADNESS
to be
cloudy
mother
Nature
the
notes
of
joy
in
places
this is
that
in Britain."
heart
could
we
the
by
as
flower
**
a
sacred
see
were
listens
or
living pages
"
?
NATURE.
OF
deep blue
gladness breathes
ground ?
even
into
faith.
prodigal
which
child looks
and
sky,
every
heaven
sing?
Burroughs,
bluebell
is very
of
means.
they
John
the
the
nature
to think
gleam of
?
?
ears
prodigal"?
as
song"
"
untainted
*'
blue
plants of which
lamb
a
undoubting
child's
a
flowers, says
as
you
clouds
when
take
to
with
'*
a
of
you
robin's
the
likely
by
mean
Have
?
a
slow, unwilling wind."
brings back
piety,"
to
along the mountains,
flocks
the
by
robins
are
in childish
"Secure
4.
**
Explain what
that
in thick
Wandering
....**
reminded
What
cloud
white
good comparison
a
two
wind."
mind, speaks of the
this idea in
Shelley, with
it
Name
the
this
compare
cloud
little white
a
seen
Why
?
in
whiten
**
change
STUDY,
slumber"?
*'
leaves
the
would
leaves
whose
trees
ever
would
When
stanza?
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
and
sad,
laughs
around
heavens
look
from
the
from
the
;
glad,
blossoming
hangbird
and
wren,
gossip of swallows
through all the sky
The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den,
And
the wilding bee hums
merrily by.
And
the
;
THE
clouds
GLADNESS
106
NATURE.
OF
play in the azure
space,
And
the
their shadows
at play on
bright
vale,
here they stretch to the frolic chase,
And
there they roll on
the easy gale.
And
3. The
4. There's
of leaves
dance
a
There's
There's
at
are
smile
beechen
fruit, and
the
on
bower,
aspen
in that
titter of winds
a
a
in that
green
tree,
smile
a
the
on
flower.
And
laugh from
a
at the broad-faced
look
5. And
the brook
that
runs
how
sun,
he
to the
smiles
dewy earth that smiles in his ray.
On the leaping waters
and gay young
isles
Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.
On
sea.
the
William
Cullen
;
Bryant,
is a negative clearly the answer
to the question?
Why
the face.
What
time
Cloudy," effect of the sadness
upon
1.
**
of year
2.
**
*'
do you
think
Gossip," is thought
4.
and
*'
Note
Note
'*
vale;
the
such
by
is
"Clouds,"
the
on
another
Hangbird,"
of the swallow
3.
it is ?
it
for the
name
a
necessarily
there," in
the
blue
titter,""smile," and
sounds
of the wren,
of the poem
the
"
for the
fit term
authority
an
gossip "
a
or
as
twittering sounds
John
Burroughs.
cloudy
sky.
"laugh,"
The
:
oriole.
day?
in
joyful
twitter
one
notes
Note
the
always musical
things
shadows,
the beech
tree
leaping waters.
in
motion
the
in
:
of the oriole
hum
ever
as
he
of the
ing
vary-
of the brook.
the
leaves
swallows,
the
bee, the
clouds,
swinging on their flat stems,
lively rustle,the running brook, and the
aspen
a
song
stanza.
of the swallow
the chipmunk's chirp or short, shrill cry, the
flies,
wild bee, the beech
leaves titteringin the wind, the
and
**Here,"
106
SOME
1. A
LOWELL'S
OF
few
years
ago
ACQUAINTANCES.
GARDEN
I
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
much
was
interested
in the
yellow-birds. They
pairof summer
the top of a tall white
had chosen a very pretty site near
A
window.
lilac,within
eyeshot of a chamber
easy
to see their little home
ing
growvery pleasant thing it was
with mutual
help,to watch their industrious skill
of endearment,
interrupted only by little flirts and snatches
of
frugally cut short by the common-sense
the tiny housewife.
They had brought their work
nearly to an end, and had already begfun to line it with
f emdown,
tant
disthe gathering of which
demanded
more
But, alas ! the
journeys and longer absences.
not
of the catbirds, was
manor
syringa, immemorial
than twenty feet away,
and these
more
bors"
giddy neighhad, as it appeared, been all along jealously
of what
witnesses
watchful, though silent,
they deemed
the pretty
intrusion of squatters. No sooner
were
an
load of lining,than
mates
fairlygone for a new
house-building of
a
'^
'*
To
their
Came
unguarded
nest
these
weasel
Scots
'^
stealing.
Silentlythey flew
vengeful dab at the
forth, each giving a
in passing. They did not
nest
fall to and deliberately
destroy it,for they might have
whenever
As it was,
been
caught at their mischief.
hidden
the yellow-birdscame
were
back, their enemies
Several
their
times
in their
own
sight-proof bush.
victims repaireddamages ; but at length,
unconscious
haps,
Pertaken
after coimsel
together, they gave it up.
like other unlettered
to the confolk, they came
2.
back
and
108
SELECTED
For
few
a
broken
I had
years
irresistible
an
LESSONS
bait for
FOR
crows
boys, and
STUDY.
; but
their
their
settlement
**
Summer
a
"wild
"
for
probably
consists
legal claim
**
soil.
the
**
her
was
2.
"Unconscious
their
Act
beyond
the
from
the
of the
bird
cat-
without
ignorant,
any
This
etc.
is
follows:
as
sneaking."
comes
of
of
memory
unguarded,"
Scot
usually
Femdown,"
settlers
ignorant
victims,"
bird
home
I., Sc. 2, and
weasel
the
"Unlettered,"
misfortune.
far
LoweU.
down
the
Squatters,"
V.,"
nest
and
manor,"
**To
Henry
unguarded
To
fibres
length of time
occupants.
to
goldfinch.
or
milk-weed
Immemorial
a
is from
quotation
*^
'*
for
present
canary,"
of
of ferns.
family
the
a
RusaeU
yellow-birds," yellow warblers,
mistaken
fronds
are
up.
James
1.
nests
the
of
cause
without
their
knowledge
of
books.
"
3.
Jays,"
graceful.
with
grackles.
Their
Life
them
who
the
in
Kansas
Border
"
from
came
is
a
"
sometimes
their
as
more
of
spoken
first settler
the
reference
a
other
fifties."
is
and
in
called
plumage
is
aifair.
ruffians,"
"late
the
gloomy
as
serious
or
he
blackbirds,
Crow
right of
Missouri
smaller
are
think
you
dispositions are
with
others.
crow
fable?
a
"Preemption,"
4.
* *
but
crows,
do
**-"Esop," why
connection
dark.
allied to the
are
slave
"Rooks,"
the
to
states
a
buy
to
people
settle
to
of
family
fore
be-
in
the
species.
"
Makes
; and
thickens
Light
wing
to
the
the
crow
rooky woods."
Shakespeare.
doors,"
"Tent
deportment.
fashion.
our
They
"Martial,"
watch."""
boys."
near
their
do
nesting places.
not
run,
"With
Hamlet,"
Act
or
hop,
martial
I,, Scene
but
stalk
1.
"Port,"
walk
in
hath
he
Explain
bearing,
a
stately
gone
"
bait
by
for
(A few
an
to the
introduction
1. It
HUSKERS.
THE
HUSKEBS.
lesson,
next
'*
The
October, and
late in mild
was
of Whittier's
of this poem
stanzas
109
THE
here
are
Corn
the
given
as
Song,")
long
autumnal
rain
left the
Had
again
first sharp
grass
The
woodlands
With
2.
Through
On
first
had
frosts
fallen, leaving
all
the
of summer's
of
rainbow,
the meadow
or
May.*
sun
he
;
his noontide
even
the
;
thin, dry mist, that morning, the
broad and red.
of fire,he brightened as
a rayless disk
sped
Yet
with
a
rose
At
all green
gay
the hues
flowers
harvest-fields
summer
cornfields
glory
and
fell chastened
and
the orchards
and
dued,
sub-
softly pictured
wood.
3. And
all that
quiet afternoon,
slow
sloping to
the
night,
He
wove,
with
golden shuttle,the
light ;
Slanting through
the hill ;
And, beneath
greener
4. And
the
it,pond
with
haze
painted beeches,
and
meadow
he
yellow
glorified
lay brighter,
still.
shouting boys
glimpses of
that
in
woodland
sky,
haunts
caught
110
LESSONS
SELECTED
Flecked
FOR
STUDY.
the
many-tinted leaves,and laughed,
not why ;
they knew
And
school girls,gay with aster flowers,beside the
meadow
brooks,
with
the sunshine
of
Mingled the glow of autumn
by
looks.
sweet
spire and
5. From
weathercocks
But
looked
bam
;
the birches
even
westerly the patient
the hill stood
on
motionless
as
rocks.
sound
And
dropping shell,
the yellow leaves
as
they fell.
was
read
then
We
was
over,
the
sun
; and
that
in
them
The
from
Soon
their
low
boughs,
of the
grains
summer
ungathered, bleaching
farmers
them
ling
rust-
the
in
busy all day
bam, and piling
were
to the
the floor.
on
and
broad
forth
shone
red,
the
farmhouse,
a
They gathered
husking
"
to
1. The
a
many
squirrel's
as
buskers
and
rose,
glory of the
milder
the
he
when
were
moon.
seen
pile and began
huge com
forks
pitchswinging from
rustling task, lanterns
merry
vitation
the inUpon
giving them all the light they needed.
who
of the farmer
of the daughter
was
giving this
coming.
Song
east
harvest
hauling
ears,
down,
in the
the
the
save
the
among
fields the
in those
went
sun
woodlands,
stood
crop
com
great heap
a
just then
while
that
long, pullingoff the
**
in the
No
a
around
bee," the village
quaint old tune.
poet
gives
the
usual
that
schoolmaster
undue
sang
credit
'*
to Jack
The
Com
Frost
as
painter.
2. Can
of the
you
season
mention
anything
of the year
?
in this stanza
that
is
typical
CORN
THE
3. From
direction
what
What
coming?
figure?
brilliant effect of the
Perhaps
4.
search
the
does
**
the
for nuts
name
of
night
beeches," probably the
leaves.
beech
aster
other
poem
the
to
gone
Is the
any
think
poet
girls had
and
flowers.
you
the
Painted
the
on
boys
and
poets ? Can
sun
Ill
SONG.
favorite
a
in which
woods
to
flower
of
it is
tioned
men-
?
5. Is there
What
''westerly"?
impressive
Notice
words
slight sounds
after
**
syllable.
three
contained
2.
the
glory"
third,
a
in
her
lavish
horn
lands, exulting, glean
apple
We
Our
Our
Our
the
when
vales
plows
on
Of
us
its
of these
the
!
1
the vine
;
hardy gift
vales
bestow,
the storm
harvest-fields
Through
While
love
rugged
cheer
the
pine,
glossy green,
from
cluster
better
takes
pause
the
from
from
orange
second
SONG.
CORN
other
The
To
more
syllables.
out
Let
the
be filled in if each
would
From
The
4.
**
wintry hoard
Heap high the farmer's
!
Heap high the golden corn
No richer gifthas Autumn
poured
ThQ
3.
in
time
The
THE
1.
look
silence
the
render
"and
morning
''shuttle"
after
stanza, and
a
should
weathercocks
the
?
that
place of
why
reason
any
with
shall
drift
snow.
of
of grass and meads
their furrows
made,
hills the
sun
and
showers
changeful April played.
flowers,
112
SELECTED
5. We
And
o'er hill and
Beneath
the
of
sun
frightened from
robber
with
pluck
And
8.
There, when
Fair
hands
11.
Then
The
leaves
home.
are
us
drift
cold.
its
sift
grain shall
meal of gold.
idlers loll in sift,
their
costly board
the bowl
of samp
its
up
will not
bless
shame
milk,
old kitchen
smoky
thank
our
and
;
beauty poured
the wide
Sends
And
;
about
snows
winds
knead
Where'er
Who
frosted
the treasure
By homespun
10.
come
eves,
the broken
vapid
us
June
noon
moonlit
has
the
the
Around
Give
time
winter
And
9. Let
midsummer's
autumn's
away
bear
And
away.
yellow hair.
Its harvest
We
May,
sprouting grain
long, bright days of
and fair.
grew
green
in hot
now,
plain
the
through
waved
our
crows
Its soft and
7. And
STUDY.
the seed
Its leaves
And
FOR
dropped
The
6. All
LESSONS
the
farmer
1
hearth
curls,
kindly earth,
girls1
proud and vain,
Whose
follylaughs to scorn
blessing of our hardy grain,
Our wealth
of golden com
I
on
all the
THE
12. Let
CORN
withhold
earth
Let mildew
Give to the
The
the orchard's
old crop
fathers
good
our
Still let us, for his
adorn
trod ;
com,
to God!
John
**
1.
Wintry," is
? Can
poetic sense
of
**
lavish"?
adjective used
this
think
you
of
fruit.
fly:
golden
thanks
our
up
rye,
field to the
hills
Send
goodly root,
blight the
wheat
The
her
worm
let the
13. But
113
SONG.
in
word
a
Qreenleaf Whittier.
ordinary
an
that
profuse?
abundant?
overflowing? wasteful?
**Horn," cornucopia, the horn of plenty, the
"Her," why is Autumn
be personifiedas masculine
or
Winter
besides
creatures
2. How
of
*'
could
"
glean
pineapple has
fruit to the
**
3.
**
lands
Does
?
its
pine
"
Better
store
man
the
than
**
this
for
wait
crows
"
scared
do
what
6. What
**
hair"
?
7. Does
in
summer
8.
What
the
or
for winter
?
the
upon
grow
meaning
pine ? The
of its
what
well
as
waved"?
to
What
other
for
name
moonlight
winter
latitude
?
is the
on
leaves
autumn
Wait
Cheer
jective
ad-
and
broken
would
Why
?
Do
not
?
part of
**
of Tennessee
sprout ?
frightened "
'*
**
?
suit the
com
?
personified.
particular force of this
April
seed
what
means
is not
is the
with
"
Hardy
the
"
if you
grain
is called
?
evenings
see,
stalk
last
longer than
do
sifted?
not
Can
know.
it be
? stirred ?
is
9. What
Bead,
**
that winter
the
"Sift," why
kneaded
other
general resemblance
the
?
stanza
as
**
nuts
What
cone.
in connection
Would
from
Would
is the usual
? What
pineapple
name
us," how ? Notice
4. "Changeful,"
5.
exult"
and
com
away
?
of
emblem
feminine?
feminine
a
do instead
would
"
abundance.
in
or
and
"samp"?
Comp,"S,
^^
Homespun
beauty," a
beautiful
114
in cloth
country girlsimply dressed
"
What
the
The
know
you
?
"
"
curls," poetic
difference
the
in the
twinkled
And
"
**
Notice
here
swaggering
III.,Sc. 1.
Smoky
Act
at home.
woven
in
this
use
of
in
that
adjective and
and
spun
we
*'old"?
curls of smoke.
for
form
be
hearth
the
Must
10.
Do
have
hempen homespuns
Midsummer
Night's Dream,"
**
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
waters
who
wrote
and
vain,"
light,
smoky
rill."
of the
these
lines?
those
who
fruitful,
"Kindly,"
beneficent.
Proud
**
11.
simple, healthful
the
Did
root.
**
Explain
13.
wish
poet
DAISY,
MOUNTAIN
A
THE
WITH
DOWN
ONE
TURNING
*'
adorn."
TO
ON
"
? Is the potato
goodly root
these things to happen ?
the
by
blessings of
life.
country
is meant
What
12.
the
mock
elles the
The
dayesye
The
emperice and
or
IN
PLOW,
eye
of
1786.
APRIL,
day,
flour of floures
alle.
Chaucer.
1.
Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,
Thou's
I
For
met
me
in
crush
maun
Thy slender
To
spare
thee
Thou
evil
an
now
bonnie
amang
hour
;
the stoure
stem.
is
past
my
pow'r,
gem.
thy neebor sweet,
The bonnie lark, companion meet,
Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet,
2. Alas
! it's
spreckledbreast.
upward springing, blithe,to greet
The purpling east.
WV
When
no
a
116
8. Ev'n
mourn'st
who
thou
That
fate is thine,
Stern
Ruin's
beneath
Shall
STUDY.
Daisy's fate.
distant
date
;
plowshare drives, elate,
thy bloom.
on
Till crush'd
the
no
"
Full
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
the furrow's
thy doom
be
weight,
!
Robert
**
1.
small
Wee,"
"bonnie,"
beyond;
**stoure," dust ; "past,"
something small and
"gem,"
"maun,"
;
Bums.
must
pretty;
;
precious.
"
neighbor;
"Neebor,"
2.
weet,"
wV"
"
wet
;
3.
"
4.
"Flaunting,"
dom," chance;
;
glinted," shone.
"
;
waving
"stibble,"
;
"Snawie,"
among;
spreckled," spotted.
"
"
stubble
stane,"
ran*
stone
;
alone.
"alane,"
;
"guise,"
snowy;
"
o\" of;
;
"
walls;
"wa's,"
showily;
"bield," shelter
"histie," dry
6.
with
cold
Cauld,"
fit; "'mang,"
"meet,"
"share,"
appearance;
plow.
Starred," refers
"
6.
our
word
the
mariner's
1. For
what
Why
"
3.
4.
does
North,"
Why
is
would
to
?
the
here
the
"
evil hour
an
"
poet call the lark
what
means
protection
What
Explain
daisy
7.
;
stars,
card," the
so
face
of
is
the
Define
?
bield
or
?
stubble?
daisy's "neebor"?
"
said
cheerfully."
be
to
did
When
chance
this
or
stubble
?
grow
6.
"
the
lore,"learning.
;
it
was
"randoin"?
5.
by
course
ill-starred
means
"
compass
one's
"Elate," exulting.
8.
2.
"
disastrous
"
guiding
to
all the
words
that
fate," explain
"Such
not
scanty mantle."
What
does
colors
the
Scotch
?
wear
Note
"
"
Heaven
"
have
relate
; also
been
to the
"
ocean.
wrench'd
a
sufficient
of
"
stay"
every
stay
"
if
;
clung
THE
8. Who
Who
?
age
is
do
(The two
think
you
Is there
of ?
spoken
is the
anything
'*
of
subject
following
stanzas
117
LARK.
his
shall be."
excellent
are
indicate
to
notes
this
upon
poem.)
TO
1. When
Winter
Thee
in the
That
And
Doth
decks
his few
scanty wreath
Spring parts
Whole
DAISY.
THE
the clouds
she
fields
he
with
wears
;
softest
thee
sun
may
hairs,
gray
airs,
;
thine
by right.
Autumn,
melancholy wight 1
in thy crimson
head delight
summer
When
rains
are
are
thee.
on
William
LARK.
THE
2. To
hear
And
the lark
singing
From
Then
his
begin
startle the
dawn
dappled
flight,
dull night
in the skies
his watchtower
Till the
Wordsworth.
doth
rise ;
in
spite of sorrow,
window
bid good morrow.
And
at my
the sweet-briar, or the vine,
Through
Or the twisted
eglantine.
to come,
John
1.
**
Decks," adorns.
'*gray,"
*'
thine
melancholy days
in humorous
now
in bud
2.
"
than
**To
right."
by
are
in the
"
come.
writings.
flower, as
hear," what
Dappled," spotted.
**
Why
sound
Note
' '
thinly "
*'
"
a
person,
Crimson,"
it then
?
Explain
Melancholy,"
Wight,
**
?
shows
"His
the several
the
more
Milton,
few
"
and
sad,"
'*
The
**
generally used
daisy
is
prettier
crimson.
watchtower,"
whose?
things the lark does.
118
LESSONS
SELECTED
THE
there
a time
upon
little water
drops.
Their
home
clouds
was
rolled
that
STUDY.
RAINDROP.
Once
some
FOR
lived away
of
one
the
the
in Cloudland
up
beautiful
most
white
blue
sky. But by-and-by
their cloud house seemed
to get larger and larger,and
darker
and
darker, and one
tiny little water drop
What's
whispered to the other in a frightened way,
? Our
the matter
house seems
so
dark, and it's getting
large, and just look at all the new
coming
vapor
into it ! Why,
you're getting bigger, too, and oh,
?
it all mean
can
dear, so am I. What
Then
the other
little water
drop laughed so hard
over
"
"
it rolled
and
over
window.
over
Then
and
fell out of the cloud
almost
it
answered, "Why,
dear, we're
gathering our forces together and we're going to pour
through the air and cut the biggest dash you ever heard
of when
to earth.
we
get down
We
flythrough the air like fairies,and we can look
of
down
and see the people preparing for us.
Some
"
them
that
Then
we
them
; and
before
there
work.
could
"
run
and
flyat the window
sometimes
they
One
see.
have
Often
wouldn't,
we
and
shut
panes
up
millions
down
the windows.
make
and
right into
tight, for
dash
get it shut
can
millions
are
of doors.
many
indoors
are
of us,
so
we
music
on
the
house
you
know
divide
the
drop couldn't do anything that you
We
people out
always find a great many
A
fun
them.
It is such
to catch
great
too.
forgotten their umbrellas
little
the
for he
wind
makes
goes
us
with
appear
us.
so
But
rough.
I wish
The
he
only
THE
that
creatures
we're
off
duck's
a
"
coming
But
really seem
to
ducks.
You
are
"
119
RAINDROP.
enjoy being
know
water
out
while
rolls
right
back."
tell me,
fast
as
as
work,*' said the first timid
you
how
can,
divide
we
little water
drop. ^'It must
time to start, for this cloud is packed so full
be almost
I'm sure
not another
can
one
Oh," said the
get in."
^^
"
other,
we
right into the
work
later, some
and give it
and
come
up
life,
"
that
of
some
"
ers,
steam-
the
do
ocean
parched earth
change into vapor
poor,
us
and
is the
to
on
fall
us
and
streams
move
of
some
and
the
Cloudland,
to
flowers, and
the
into
sink
us
new
rivers
while, then
a
of
"
sent
help push along great
fall into
us
for
there
and
ocean
of
some
"
we're
wherever
go
of
some
work
sweetest
very
refresh
us
of
all."
then
Just
the
given that
signal was
clouds
two
were
meeting. A rush, a flash, a crash and the water drops
to do great deeds
were
flyingthrough the air," some
the tiny little spring violets.
to water
some
it all, so they sang
The children
saw
:
"
"
That
*
Against
window
the
morning
Whate'er
If storm
A
friendly clouds
bring refreshingrain
patters out, Good morning, dears,'
Which
Good
to the
morning
Good
"
or
to the
the
pane.
glad
skies let
day
new
fall,
sunshine, it is sent,
loving gift to
all."
Mary
Bead
this selection
it in your
own
words.
two
or
three
times, and
R,
M,
then
Harbison,
try to write
120
SELECTED
LESSONS
EVENING
1. Now
AT
recommenced
the
FOR
STUDY.
GRAND-PRB.
reign
of
rest and
affection
stillness.
and
light
Day with its burden and heat had departed, and twidescending
Brought back the evening star to the sky, and the
herds
the
Pawing
necks
on
ground
they
and
came,
resting their
other,
each
their nostrils distended
with
And
homestead.
to the
ness
inhaling the fresh-
of
2.
evening.
Foremost, bearing the bell, Evangeline's beautiful
heifer.
Proud
of her
waved
hide, and
snow-white
her
from
Quietly paced and
the
ribbon
that
collar,
slow,
if conscious
as
of human
affection.
3. Then
the
came
flocks
Where
from
shepherd
followed
favorite
pasture.
his
bleating
Behind
them
the
watchdog.
Patient, full of importance, and
of his
with
the seaside.
their
was
back
grand
in the
pride
instinct.
side to side with a lordly air, and
from
Walking
superbly
his bushy
the
tail,and urging forward
Waving
stragglers ;
he when
the shepherd slept;
Eegent of flocks was
their protector.
from
the forest at night, through the starry
When
silence
the
wolves
howled.
EVENING
121
GRAND-PR".
AT
returned
rising moon,
the marshes,
from
with
Laden
briny hay that filled the
Late, with
wains
the
the
its
with
air
odor.
Patiently stood
4.
the
yielded
and
meanwhile,
cows
their udders
Unto
the
milkmaid's
hand
regular cadence
Into
the
sounding
loud
whilst
;
pails the
in
and
streamlets
foaming
descended.
of cattle and
Lowing
peals of laughter
heard
were
in the
farm-yard,
back
by the bams.
Echoed
they
Anon
sank
into
stillness ;
Heavily closed, with
the barn
Battled
a
jarring sound, the
of
valves
doors,
the
wooden
bars, and
all for
season
a
was
silent.
Wadsworfh
Henry
above
The
selection
in
pastoralpoems
class to read and
the
out
his
is from
English.
reread
music
pines and
hemlocks
the
kings among
flood-gates opened,
meadows, but Frank
salt water
and
acres,
1.
line.
would
*'
sorrow
Now," when
'*
that
there,but
trees.
are
In
to carry
to the
?
the
Twilight,"what
:
and
its
full time
is it t
for
teacher
Does
sea
his
are
and
most
of
beauty-
own
murmuring
no
apple and
willow
seasons
to wander
flood
finest
ing
carefully bring-
at stated
To
*'
ruin
he"krtsof
Give
the
the poem
Bolles says
be
there
that
welcomed
and
of the
;
in
*'copy"
us
one
Longfellow painted
from
tell
Travelers
be well
the entire poem
rhythm.
picture of Grand-Pr6
loving soul.
Evangeline,"
It would
aloud
of its
'*
Longfellow.
over
Grand-Pr6
desolation
to
the
the
with
its fertile
thrifty owners."
to the first
it descend
syllableof each
?
**
Brought
122
in what
back,"
Venus,
Why
fresh
Note
*'
caused
? his
heifer
the
*'
Some
the
bang
sounds
of
that
said
has
:
"
fit
it in
Superbly," haughtily.
into the line in place of
*'
Starry silence,"
only noise-makers
the
are
!
salt marshes.
in the
falling
of
the
the
milk,
rattle of
doors, the
this is the first echo
merry
the
bars.
this last-
of
SKYLARK.
ENGLISH
bird in either
all,no
English lark
in
heart
hemisphere equals
voice, for
or
both
happiest,the welcomest
that was
ever
winged, like the high angels
it
It is the living ecstasy of joy when
love.
glorious privacy of light."
up into its
unite
it the sweetest, the
make
?
his
show
watchdog
what?
stars
bam
the
THE
the
inhaled
in literature.
sound
1. Take
from
growing
grass
the country
essayist
named
planet
quietly?
the
?
would
the
be when
Briny hay," from
did
importance
Protector,"
still it must
echoes,
How
of
sense
walk
to
the latter word
whether
Notice
the
*
?
''superbly."
how
Evening star," probably
Mars.
'Freshness," what was
"Flocks," of what?
patience
STUDY.
FOR
*'
?
sense
Jupiter,or
or
2. What
3.
LESSONS
SELECTED
to
singer
of God's
mounts
'*
2.
not
On
at
home,
and
not
It is rather
all.
seemingly
made
old axiom
addressed
Its mission
sure
homely
feather, feature,
3.
bashful,
it is timid, silent, and
earth
to
be
to
if
right to be there at
withal, having nothing in
of
form
or
as
its
to
heard,
not
children
is music, and
notice.
attract
seen,
when
it floods
a
It
is
reversing the
getting noisy.
thousand
acres
sky with it several times a day. Out of
that palpitatingspeck of living joy there wells forth
the
the morning and
of twittering ecstasy upon
a sea
ascend
not
evening air. It does
by gyrations, like
of the
blue
124
SELECTED
6. What
the
is meant
angels
what
LESSONS
in that
heaven
man's
6.
between
of which
Milton
in the
tower
sky
so
read
to
sang
1. Ethereal
are
?
marvel"
way."
and
"miracle."
a
his
sing from
night
watch-
away.
SKYLARK.
A
tion,
selec-
the
the
which
skylark.)
!
minstrel
For
smith
Gold-
?
study of the preceding prose
of a hymn
stanzas
carefully these
very
Wordsworth
Dost
with
led the
and
to startle dull
as
what
to
turns
What
heavenward
wrote, would
TO
(In connection
**
a
"?
who
brighter worlds
to
Distinguish
lark
The
Allured
joy
it mounts
praises the good preacher
**
heaven
nearest
Their
?
think
we
may
purpose
**
by
STUDY.
FOR
pilgrim of the sky
!
thou
?
abound
despise the earth where cares
Or, while the wings aspire,are heart and eye
Both with thy nest upon
the dewy ground ?
Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will
Those
quivering wings composed, that music still !
the last
2. To
Mount,
daring warbler
('Twixt thee and
Thrills
Yet
All
"
the less the
independent
love-prompted strain,
a
never-failing bond)
of the plain.
bosom
proud privilege! to sing
leafy spring.
!
thine
might'st thou
seem,
of the
that
nightingale her shady wood
privacy of glorious light is thine,
3. Leave
A
not
beyond,
point of vision,and
Whence
to the
thou
Of harmony,
dost pour
the world
upon
divine
with instinct more
Type of the wise who
True
to the
kindred
soar,
but
points of
;
a
flood
;
never
roam
heaven
and
;
home
!
THE
call
Why
is the main
What
first ?
What
of the
thought
in the
beauty
the
Compare
selections
of these
one
the
prose,
second
other
found
in the
second
in the
and
points of likeness
?
poetry
piece not found
first is not
seeking
two,
125
SNOWSTORM.
?
unlike-
ness.
THE
1. Announced
Arrives
by
all the trumpets
the snow,
of the
nowhere
to
Hides
hills and
woods, the river, and
veils the
farmhouse
sled and
The
Delayed,
Around
In
all friends
Come
Out
of
enclosed
fireplace,
privacy of storm.
the north
an
unseen
Furnished
Curves
Eound
sit
housemates
out, the
radiant
the
see
feet
courier's
the
stopped,
shut
heaven,
the
garden's end.
at the
traveller
tumultuous
a
sky,
and, driving o'er the fields,
alight : the whited air
Seems
And
2.
SNOWSTORM.
wind's
fierce artificer
tile,the
his white
projected roof
with
bastions
windward
every
evermore
quarry
with
masonry.
stake,
Speeding, the myriad-handed,
So fanciful, so savage,
naught
For number
or
proportion.
tree,
or
door.
or
his wild
work,
he
cares
Mockingly
3.
On
A
or
coop
swan-like
Fills up
kennel
form
he
hangs
when
his hours
Is all his own,
are
thorn
wall
from
lane
Maugre the farmer's sighs
A tapering turret overtops
And
wreaths
the hidden
invests
the farmer's
Parian
; and
at the
;
wall,
gate
the work.
numbered,
retiring,as
to
;
he
were
and
not,
the world
126
SELECTED
LESSONS
Leaves, when
To
mimic
Built
in
The
the
sun
in slow
an
STUDY.
astonished
appears,
mad
frolic architecture
by stone.
night-work,
wind's
of the
snow.
Balph
1. The
storm
coming.
What
beautiful
phenomenon.
**
Stopped,"
*'
delayed
not
king sends
his heralds
are
kept
"
and
this
out
light"
is this
tile"?
*'
a
radiator
word
'*
?
to the
in
air.
the
shows
that
Fireplace," why
Tumultuous
sky lark^s
and
common
below
*'
his
announce
snow
passive ?
are
' *
privacy," is
privacy of glorious
"
Who
?
quarry
in
handed," working
**
word
places
of
at
picture.
furnished
Projected," the
edge
countless
is
what
or
**
the
along
seen
the
in
shown
as
masonry
Fierce," rude, cold.
often
so
snow
the
see
**
Nowhere,"
Emerson,
?
2. Come
Where
"
similar
of the word
use
to
air,"
What
away.
stove, register,or
*'
?
Waldo
his heralds
*'Whited
shut
"
forward
Art
stone
structures,
the
age,
FOR
cornice
bank.
a
**
"
once.
with
of
Myriad-
Wild,"
fined
de-
in the context.
on
Mockingly," placing such dainty ornaments
Parian
from
so
homely.
wreaths," no marble
in
and
whiteness
purity.
equal the snow
*'
3.
tures
struc-
'*
could
thorn
the
**Maugre,"
swan.
allowed
him
is covered
the
in
wild
has
with
storm
spite of
"
its work.
continues
covered
bush
Hours
expired.
his work.
wind,
art, laying stone
as
scenery
a
the
the time
like,"
Swanlike
a
snow
nature
is all his own,"
in slow
Mimic
everything
structures," what
accomplish in a night,
require an age to reproduce.
builder, can
by stone, would
THE
1. The
**
sighs,
numbered,"
World
looks
snow
farmer's
the
are
*'
with
Paros
**
KAATSKILLS.
of these
mountains
is in the
highest
rocky precipices
Here
are
degree wild and romantic.
mantled
with primeval forests ; deep gorges
walled
in
THE
with
by beetling cliffs,
the sky.
from
2.
The
3.
Here
Kaatskills
12t
KAATSKILLS.
torrents
form
tumbling
as
it
were
post of the great
rior
through the inteAppalachian system which
sweeps
of our
continent, belting the whole of our original
confederacy, and rivaling our great system of lakes in
and
of its vast
extent
grandeur. In many
ranges,
nature
still reigns in indomitable
wildness.
locked
are
up
advance
an
mighty
forests
have
that
invaded
been
by the ax ; deep umbrageous
been
the virgin soil has never
valleys where
outraged
flowing in untasked
by the plow ; bright streams
unchecked
idleness,unburdened
by commerce,
by the
never
This
milldam.
mountain
is in
fact
the
great
once
country ; resisting,like the
tivation
inhabited
it,the training hand of cul-
and
maintaining
poetical region
tribes that
of
zone
our
ground for
It is a magnificent and all-perfancy and the muses.
vading
feature that might have
country a
given our
the all-controlling
and a poetical one^ had
not
name,
of commonplace
determined
otherwise.
powers
detached
4. The
ing
positionof the Kaatskills, overlooklowland
a wide
region, with the majestic Hudson
rollingthrough it,has given them a distinct character,
them
at all times
and rendered
a
rallying point for
To me
and
fable.
romance
they have ever been a fairy
region. I speak, however, from
early impressions,
all the
in the happy
made
days of boyhood, when
had a tinge of fairyland.
world
of
these
first view
5. I shall
never
forget my
;
It
mountains.
Hudson,
railroads
in the
had
was
good
driven
in the
course
old times
all
a
hallowed
of
before
poetry and
a
voyage
up
and
steamboats
romance
the
out
of
128
SELECTED
LESSONS
travel.
A
equal to
to
voyage
much
time.
I
STUDY.
Hudson
Europe
in
those
days
present, and
at
was
cost
most
al-
livelyboy, of easy faith,
everything that partook of the
relish
to
prone
the
up
a
as
and
voyage
FOR
was
a
marvelous.
the passengers
Indian
trader, on
Among
6.
veteran
with
and
and
himself
amused
grotesque stories
the
sloop
was
a
his way
fic
to the lakes to trafhad
discovered
my
propensity,
He
the natives.
board
on
by
about
telling
Indian
noted
every
legends
place
on
the
river.
7. We
all
were
day slowly tiding along
he
that
the Kaatskills,
so
narratives
dole them
and
deck, gazing
these
upon
had
full
out
to
time
me
mountains
in
to
sight of
his
weave
I
lay on the
wondering at
as
and
Sometimes
hues.
ever-changing shapes and
to approach, at others
to recede ; during
they seemed
into a sultry
melted
the heat of the day they almost
haze ; as the day declined they deepened in tone ; their
summits
were
brightened by the last rays of the sun,
later
in the
outline
and
was
evening their whole
sky.
printed in deep purple against an amber
their
Arranged
1. Of
does
what
picturesque.
*'
2.
the
**
the
*'
3.
concealed
'*
stands
Here
the
stand
post," compared
always
Invaded,"
no
* *
Romantic," wildly
Primeval,
forest
*'From
Irving,
"
belonging
primeval."
the
"
sky,"
fellow,
Longwhere
?
to
'*
what?
Confederacy,"
equal claims.
Rivaling," having
*'
ble.
implies what ?
Indomitable," untama-
colonies.
"
**
?
.
,
observer
thirteen
**
consist
Beetling," overhanging.
Advance
Grandeur
"
Mantled
first ages.
to the
does
* '
this scenery
Washington
from
trees
*'
have
been
cut
down.
'*
Umbrage-
THE
ous," heavily shaded.
tasked," having no
boats
loaded
*'
*'
to
How
6.
is meant
words
own
steamboats
ever
the
6. What
Un-
**
*'
point,"favorite
Irving
**
Unburdened," free from
Poetical
produce.
whose
region," one
a fit subject for a poet.
Commonplace,"
with
can
do.
untilled.
means
**
Detached," verify this
Rallying
Did
Virgin," here
work
beauty would make
can
you explain what
4.
129
THUNDERSTORM.
kind
do you
of
this word
statement
by looking
railroads
voyage
boy Irving
to
**
drive
Europe
he
says
this trader
suppose
?
at the
map.
subject.
and
the
make
by
out
?
poetry
"
?
Tell in your
was.
got from
the
Indians
?
**
Grotesque," wild, fantastic,odd.
with
7. *' Tiding," going up
the tide.
out
of
"Weave,"
what
?
Dole," tell one by one.
Tone," color ; printed,"
in Bryant's poem.
like the figureof the waterfowl
**
**
THUNDERSTORM.
THE
1. In the second
Highlands. It
day, that they
these stern
''
of the voyage
they came
the latter part of a calm,
day
was
floated
mountains.
gently
There
with
was
the
tide
to the
sultry
between
that
perfect quiet
languor of summer
prevailsover nature in the
heat ; the turning of a plank, or the accidental
falling
echoed
from
of an oar
the mountain
on
deck, was
side and
reverberated
along the shores ; and, if by
shout
chance
of command,
the captain gave
there
a
it from
were
airy tongues which mocked
every cliff.
in mute
him
2. Dolph gazed about
delight and
of nature's magnificence. To the
wonder
at these scenes
left the Dunderberg reared its woody precipices,
height
into the deep
over
forest, away
height, forest over
summer
sky. To the right, strutted forth the bold
promontory of Antony's Nose, with a solitaryeagle
succeeded
wheeling about it ; while beyond, mountain
which
Bead,
and
Comp,
"
9.
130
confine
and
3. In the
of his
midst
STUDY.
FOR
they seemed
this mighty
until
mountain,
to
LESSONS
SELECTED
to lock
their
gether,
to-
arms
river in their embraces.
remarked
admiration, Dolph
clouds peering above
the western
pileof bright snowy
succeeded
by another, and
heights. It was
its predecessor,
another, each seemingly pushing onward
in the
and towering, with
dazzling brilliancy,
muttering peals of
deep blue atmosphere ; and now
thunder
the mounwere
tains.
faintlyheard rollingbehind
The river, hitherto still and
glassy,reflecting
dark
showed
pictures of the sky and land, now
a
ple
ripat a distance, as
the wind
came
creeping up it.
The
fishhawks
wheeled
and
screamed, and sought
their nests on
the high, dry trees; the crows
flew
ture
clamorously to the crevices of the rocks ; and all naof the approaching thunder
seemed
conscious
gust.
a
4. The
clouds
mountain
but
tops
lower
the
in
rolled
now
; their
of
down
in broad
an
The
inky blackness.
and
the
over
still bright and
summits
parts
volumes
snowy,
rain
gan
be-
scattered
drops ; the
wind
and
freshened
curled
; at length it
up the waves
if the bellying clouds were
seemed
torn open
as
by the
mountain
of rain
came
tops, and complete torrents
The
rattling down.
lightning leaped from cloud to
cloud, and streamed
ting
quivering against the rocks, splitand
der
The thunrending the stoutest forest trees.
in tremendous
burst
explosions; the peals were
echoed
from
crashed
mountain
to mountain
; they
Dunderberg, and then rolled up the long defile
upon
of the highlands, each
headland
echo,
making a new
to
until
5.
patter
old Bull
For
a
time
Hill
the
seemed
to
scudding
bellow
rack
back
and
the
mist
storm.
and
the
132
:
that
Strutted/' note
like
into
ship, nor
a
his
ken"
think
you
glide
like
the
of
hut
coloring word
in
in
"
flocks?
procession ;
the
picture.
Wheeling,"
'^
swim
why
reason
writer
the
peak
lection
recol-
A
?
of
Solitary," a good
eagles likely to he found
Are
*'
f
own
**
passed in
after another, fillingthe space
circling.
into view
came
this
sail
to
seem
one
does
Why
eagle to fly around
one
not
Give
planet."
well-chosen.
deeply down.*'
streams,'' nor
over
experience of his
some
did
promontory
"new
a
looks
moon
like shadows
^*
word
the story send
the
STUDY.
FOB
cold, white
The
**
wrote
Byron
*'
LESSONS
SELECTED
one
Succeeded,"
in front.
playing
is under
Heaven
ripple as the
phenomenon
dark
same
feet
our
wind
On
the
' *
of all nature.
the adverb
4.
not the
"
"Bellying,"
expressive?
"
From
"The
but
"
the
"
of
the
* '
the
are
the consciousness
adjective power
"
crows
clamorous.
were
to
of
the
swelling
still bright," why
?
Summits
you
leaped,"
think
Byron
this word
phrased
live thunder."
distinction.
Hill.
"
"Bellow
Emerson
speaks of
it:
Splitting
back,"
"the
sea."
rack,"
broken
of
driving rack
fearfully," made
"the
Streams
savage
note
leaps the
Bull
the
uses
flew,"
crows
ahout
Rattling," do
the
A
smile,
a
in reference
"
lightning
name
"the
the
used
...
still more
wrote
"
clouds.
distended.
bellowing of the
6. "Scudding
"
flying
peak to peak
and
rending," note
suggested by
has
* *
of the
forms
rounded
"
"
in lines."
statement
Clamorously,
volumes,"
in
"Boiled
and
general
says,
heads."
wrinkling wind
a
his cheek
drove
screamed,"
under
specialcases
Thoreau
our
over
the effect of
like
that
water
as
sky,"
friends
creeping," Tennyson
to illustrate
glassy
flshhawks
"The
well
as
the
"remarked,"
Winkle's
Van
of
came
"
pleasure;
Rip
"Pictures
nine-pins.
at
and
perhaps
"Thunder,"
noticed.
"
wonder
"Admiration,"
3.
lightning,"in
lightning fell,a
"
the
more
The
river
flying clouds.
rain cloud."
fearful
Ancient
steep and
by
Longfellow
"Illumined
being
Mariner
wide."
"
lighted.
Coleridge
THE
Hudson;
the
beauty and
because
flows, but
painted pictures of
class while
are
two
a,
The
broad
and
b.
but
of
masses
those
well
be
the above
has
shown
to
Here
extract.
golden splendor
delighted
of
unruffled
an
ror,
mir-
heavens.
the
.
.
sought vainly
eye
the
shade,
like
was
between
line
separating
discern, in
to
the
.
the
land
the water."
'*
He
(Rip
far, far
course,
with
Van
Winkle)
below
the
him,
at
saw
moving
reflection
lagging bark here and
at last losing itself in
A
of
some
in
writings Irving
may
study of
a
this noble
its wonders
to
in his
which
stream
which
shown
are
of the Hudson
bosom
vast
deceived
amid
:
reflecting the
The
We
of
his soul first dawned
responded
Elsewhere
this
literarydiscoverer
upon
scenery
first
it is making
of them
* *
he
in this extract.
the
the
expression.
perfect literary
beauties
called the
because
sublimity of
133
FLOWERS.
THE
been
not, I suppose,
the
river
has
Irving
Washington
OP
DEATH
of
there
the
its silent
on
purple cloud,
a
sleeping
blue
the
distance
a
on
its
lordly
but
or
son,
Hud-
majestic
sail of
the
a
glassy bosom, and
highlands."
be helpful in
picture of the Highlands would
and one
from
Hudson
might be obtained
a
this
tion,
connec-
River
way
Rail-
agent.
THE
1. The
DEATH
melancholy
THE
OF
days
FLOWERS.
are
come,
the
saddest
of
the year,
Of
wailing winds,
brown
and
and
lie dead
leaves
They rustle
to the
woods,
and
ows
mead-
sere.
in the hollows
Heaped
naked
of
the
the
grove,
autumn
;
eddying gust, and
to
the
bit's
rab-
tread.
The
robin
shrubs
And
from
the
and
the
the
the
wren
are
flown,
and
from
the
jay,
wood-
gloomy day.
top
calls the
crow
through all
134
LESSONS
SELECTED
2. Where
flowers, the fair
the
are
that
In
STUDY.
FOR
and
latelysprang
brighter light and
flowers,
young
stood
softer
terhood
sis-
airs, a beauteous
?
!
Alas
all
they
in their
are
graves,
the
gentle race
of flowers
lying in their lowly beds, with the
good of ours.
rain
is falling where
The
they lie,but
fait and
Are
from
not
wind-flower
The
long
And
the
earth
gloomy
lovely
brier-rose
the
and
the
violet, they perished
and
the
orchis
ago,
glow
summer
But
the
out
again.
ones
3.
cold
rain
November
Calls
the
amid
the
;
the hill the
on
died
golden-rod, and
the
in
aster
the wood.
And
the
autumn
yellow sunflower
beauty stood.
frost from
Till fell the
the
by
clear
the
cold
brook
in
heaven,
as
falls the
And
4.
And
plague on men,
the brightness of their smile
upland, glade, and glen.
now,
when
comes
days will come.
and
To call the squiri'el
the calm
was
gone
mild
day,
from
as
still
such
winter
When
the
though
home
the
bee
from
out
their
;
sound
all the
of
dropping nuts
trees are
still,
is
heard,
TO
And
A
in the
twinkle
136
WATERFOWL.
light the
smoky
of the
waters
rill,
The
south- wind
And
fragrance late he hore,
in the
sighs to find them
stream
searches
no
the
for
flowers
wood
more.
makes
whistling
the
the
2.
rustle of the
is the
Why
than
what
that
the
'*
3. Notice
Does
fall ?
4.
What
What
called
**
^^
grow
does
they do
twinkle
the
"
in the
is the
Why
does
the
to
not
about
the
"
your
Is
?
are
"
told
we
flowers
?
ear
Brighter
**
?
the
?
sunflowers
Does
the
in autumn
stand
the
all
Are
beauty"?
squirrel and
home
winter
is the
Does
first line of this stanza.
hills ?
flowers
the
hollows
**
Why
?
call out
not
on
the
and
?
How
?
sound
"
sisterhood
of
cause
Shakespeare says the sweet south wind
of violets, stealing and giving odors
:
fifth line.
back
the flowers
about
autumn
What
?
in
is it not
robin
the
come
melancholy
day call
? Where
"
they
heap
does
they
only
mild
the
**
a
**
is
long do
How
a
rain
of
What
How
do
"
use
golden-rod
"yellow"?
leaves
question asked
November
the
do
have
Bryant,
Why
?
stay all the year
dry leaves
Why
?
Where
time
dead
CvUen
melancholy
?
states
do the
Why
f
days
what
central
in the
jay
crow
About
?
gone
wren
these
howling winds
or
by the
and
WiUiam
1. What
whose
the
breathes
compare
poet call the
sound
beauty
?
bee
?
the
of the
frost
squirrel ?
twinkling
upon
this
a
?
bank
with
of the wind
the
a
"sigh"?
TO
Whither,
1.
A
WATERFOWL.
midst
fallingdew,
glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitaryway ?
While
136
the fowler's
Vainly
2.
Might mark
As, darkly
against
seen
eye
thee
do
flightto
distant
thy
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
the crimson
wrong,
sky.
Thy figure floats along.
thou
Seek'st
3.
the
brink
plashy
,
Of
Or
of river wide,
weedy lake, or marge
rise and sink
where
the rocking billows
On
is
There
4.
Teaches
The
ocean-side
the chafed
thy
desert
Lone
that
along
way
and
whose
Power
a
?
illimitable
pathless coast
air
but
wandering,
care
"
"
lost
not
All
6.
At
Yet
day thy wings have fanned.
that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere,
to the welcome
land,
stoop not, weary,
Though the dark night is near.
And
soon
that
shalt
thou
find
6.
Soon
And
scream
among
o'er
Soon,
Thou'rt
7.
swallowed
Hath
Deeply
has
sunk
And
He
8.
Guid
In
es
the
a
gone,
the
up
thy
who,
long
way
from
zone
form
lead my
and
rest,
shall
bend.
nest.
;
of heaven
yet
thou
on
hast
my
heart
given,
depart.
to zone,
the boundless
that
; reeds
abyss
the lesson
soon
;
home,
summer
thy fellows
thy sheltered
shall not
through
Will
toil shall end
I must
sky thy certain flight,
tread alone.
steps aright.
WUliam
OuUen
Bryant.
A
TO
there
1. If
woiild
were
know
you
with
the
Does
dew
really fall
agree?
*'Rosy
deep
the
upper
of
morning
*^
word
*'
*'
?
Last
they
of
steps," the greatest of poets
day stands
does
**
add
solitary"
tain
misty mounthe
picture?
the
tiptoe on
wrote
to
**
pursued" ?
mark"?
Might
way
vainly
does
what
the
* '
Why
?
sea
the
mark
"
i"ainted
Why?
what?
Explain
f
of the
use
the
of the
use
?
Why
is
more
'*
plashy," and
'*
of
in this stanza
his mind
poet turn
meaning
think
the
Name
?
floats."
3. To
you
"
might
Why
"
dew
the
midst
was
'*
this
2. What
Who
in this stanza.
trochees
the
it end
suggest the color of the sky. Do
Wanderers
called
depths." Who
were
What
was
Note
stanza, how
Should
question ?
a
?
?
Jocund
:
tops."
?
be
of this
end
the
at
which
words
How
it to
rising inflection
the two
Where
sign
no
137
WATERFOWL.
**
word
call billows
do
particularly appropriate
about
Nothing
**
?
rocking."
ceaseless
its
than
impressive
Why
marge."
chafed"
"rocking"
plain
? Ex-
John
Burroughs.
what
? *' Teaches,"
4. The word
Power," capitalized,means
**
points out, guides, directs. Why
pathless coast " ? Why
"
**
desert
What
scribe?
?
?
illimitable
does
wandering " de-
"
**
"
**
'*
is
Why
'*
Do
build
7.
home
its nest
How
is
the
depart"?
What
Scotland's
this
you
"
than
Is
not?
lesson
express
"
"
and
"
? the land
in
"
gleam
?
"heart"
What
better
of the
"
Explain
?
stanza
poet, describing
the
it
?
now
the
would
Where
places does
of
sort
"
"
descriptive?
weary
flying ?
solitary
great
"swallowed
better
Why
is this
8. Can
'*
explained
gone
darkness
Yet," is
bird
"
bird
what
In
**
?
this
was
be"?
**
"
not
"
fanned
**
bird
Is the
f
stoop
Is the
?
"
thin
direction
summer
of the word
use
* *
Why
?
swallowed."
says
"
"
the
**
and
what
6. In
its
"
cold
welcome
**
think
you
**
Why
**
wandering,"
"Lone
lost"?
'*not
solitary way."
6.
*'
it
shall
than
a
storm,
lightning.
not
soon
"mind"?
?
this
lesson
in
one
word
?
Do
you
think
138
SELECTED
it is Faith
and
Name
?
"
STUDY.
between
likeness
OLD-PASmONED
modern
In these
of the orchard
the
poet
of
;
ORCHARD.
days
yet
have
men
places wherein
hazy autumn
day.
a
There
the
without
warmth
orchard
pleasures
is the most
to idle away
with
shine
to
seems
sun
lost the
old-fashioned
an
of all
delicious
the
points of
some
AN
an
FOR
bird.
the
1.
LESSONS
if the
glare,as
the
soft
a
noon
after-
ous
slumber-
through
aerial spider'sweb
the sky, letting all
across
spun
beauty, but not the heat, slipthrough its invisible
came
rays
meshes.
2.
is
There
under
the
trees.
On
the
damson
Now
trunks
and
then
intervals
yellowish
the
recesses
of
knobs
gum
bark.
the
leaf
a
in
coolness
are
from
exuded
has
which
shadowy
a
rustles
the
to
falls with
ground,
and
at
decided
thump.
for the gentle twittering of the
3. It is silent,save
swallows
the topmost branches,
on
they are talking
of their coming journey, and, perhaps, occasionally
the lead has gone
the distant echo of a shot, when
whistling among
a covey.
It is a place to dream
in, bringing with you a chair
longer
apple
an
a
"
"
to sit on,
for it will
"
garden-seat,
"
4.
to
Put
get
away
the most
and
all
a
be
the
5.
Dusky
oranges
of time
thoughts
value
from
insects
than
the
book.
from
realitydid from
at the shadow
: simply
apples and plums, nuts
as
freer
the
our
time
dog
that
dream
and
with
of
slips from
us,
greedily grasped
what
gleam
striving
it
of
will, with
you
filberts within
a
in
often
:
reach.
gold
under
the
140
Like
tanned
reaper
all the fields are
some
When
2.
The
Sent
3.
All
the
the dull
and
bare.
of alternate
thunder
flails.
subdued,
mellowed, and all sounds
seemed
farther, and the streams
sang
hills
low
in
As
a
His
;
dream
the distant
winter
log with
banners
stood, like
Now
slumb'rous
On
dove
The
a
many
muflled
blow.
in
gold,
bright with every martial hue,
host of old.
sad beaten
some
afar
Withdrawn
hewed
woodman
forests,erewhile
embattled
The
Their
5.
lying brown
sights were
The
4.
of ease.
looking from their hazy hills
dim
waters
widening in the vales,
the air a greeting to the mills,
down
On
in his hour
bams
gray
O'er
STUDY.
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
in time's
armed
blue.
remotest
wings the vulture held his flight;
his sighing mate's
heard
plaint
comscarce
;
like
And
a
star
slow
drowning
seemed
village church-vane
The
in the
light,
to pale and
faint.
6.
sentinel
The
Crew
Silent
the
upon
thrice, and
all
was
hillside
crew
stiller than
replying warder
horn, and then was
till some
alien
His
cock
"
before,
"
blew
heard
no
more.
jay, within the elm's tall crest,
her
unfledged
garrulous trouble round
erst the
7. Where
Made
young,
And
By
where
the oriole
hung
every
light wind
like
her
a
swaying nest,
censer
swung
;
"
CLOSING
THE
8. Where
141
SCENE.
the
of the eaves.
noisy masons
The busy swallows, circlingever
near,
Foreboding, as the rustic mind believes.
An
early harvest and a plenteous year ;
sang
"
9.
Where
Shook
To
now
Alone
Alone
the
Made
of the
the
its wings at morn.
east,
rosy
crow
"
and
forlorn.
piped the quail.
through all the dreary
in the
pheasant, drumming
was
feast,
;
echo
There
from
the stubble
out
croaked
gloom
the vernal
songless, empty,
was
from
charmed
slumber
the reaper
And
11.
which
the sweet
warn
All
10.
bird
every
no
to the
distant
bud,
cottage loom.
bloom
no
The
the
upon
bowers
shrouds
their thin
spiders wove
night ;
vale.
;
night by
The
thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers,
Sailed
slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight.
Buchanan
Thomas
1. What
in this stanza
compared
are
Name
?
Read.
the
points of
likeness.
2.
two
is this
Why
handle
men
strikes
greeting
the
sent
and
flails,
to the mills
first
f
**
Alternate
and
one
then
merrily with
from
Sounds
the
oft
other,
repeated stroke.
threshing floor
the
3. Is it the
the
4. Name
distance
woodman
look
mean?
terms
in Indian
that
suggesting
does
"
of old
"
means.
Longfellow.
?
does
How
war.
? What
summer
Explain what
to dream
seemed
flail."
busy
"
"
the
the sheaves.
"And
blue
flails,"
"
a
hill
at a
time's remotest
142
6.
see
a buzzard
wings," did you ever
"
in the light ?
said to be ** drowning
star
a
6. Would
7. Does
"
9.
of
Why
**
what
In
?
To
one.
the
Turn
**
your
reaper,"
attention
the
Through
first thin
Fall broad
With
Put
'Tis
a
on
how
is the
"
silent
?
neighborhood?
the
the oriole?
**
ing
Forebod-
?
Rosy east," the coming
**
?
'*
to the
**
echo," **loom."
sounds
of
this poem
by
one
to them.
Listen
At
here
dreary gloom,"
THE
1.
soaring?
What
?
noisy masons"?
**
is it used
has
"
was
in your
colors
called
sense
warn
morning.
10. Explain
11.
What
swallows
What
winter
the
jay spend
are
before
stiller than
alien horn."
**
swallow?
the
oriole?
8.
the
**
really be
it
replying warder,"
**
STUDY.
Slumb'rous
*'
is
Why
FOR
LESSONS
SELECTED
SNOWSTORM.
air the
hushed
wide
continual
and
their winter
robe
all ;
brightness
flakes
the
fast, dimming
cherished
The
flow.
of
day,
fields
purest white.
where
save
cends,
des-
shower
; till at last the
wavering
and
whitening
the
new
snow
melts
Along
the mazy
current.
the woods
Low
2.
their hoar
head
the
languid sun
Faint from
the west emits his evening ray,
universal
Earth's
face, deep hid and chill,
Is one
wild dazzling waste, that buries wide
Bow
The
works
of
;
and,
ere
man.
Drooping,
3.
Stands
The
covered
o'er with
fruit of all his toil.
snow,
The
the laborer-ox
and
fowls
then
of
demands
heaven,
THE
Tamed
The
by the
winnowing
cruel
around
crowd
season,
claim
store, and
Providence
Which
143
SNOWSTORM.
little boon
the
assigns them.
One
The
redbreast, sacred
Wisely regardful of
In joyless fields and
His shivering mates,
gods,
the embroiling sky,
thorny thickets leaves
and
Half
On
the
Eyes
And
pays
hearth
all the
;
;
familiar
first
then, brisk, alights
wonders
o'er the
fioor,
is ;
feet.
of heart, and
in various
forms, dark
wilds
foodless
inhabitants.
their brown
timorous
he
where
the table-crumbs
grown,
The
forth
he
then, hopping
starts, and
his slender
Though
By death
man
smiling family askance.
pecks, and
Till, more
Pour
to trusted
afraid,
beats
the window
warm
Attract
household
to the
visit.
His annual
Against
alone,
hard
The
hare.
beset
snares
and
dogs.
the garden seeks,
unpitying man,
The bleating kind
Urged on by fearless want.
Eye the bleak heaven,, and next the glistening
earth.
looks of dumb
With
despair ; then, sad dispersed,
herb through heaps of snow.
Dig for the withered
And
more
Now, shepherds,
Baffle the raging
With
And
food
watch
east.
to
your
year,
helpless charge
and
kind.
fill their pens
below
will ; lodge them
the
strict ; for from
them
at
be
the
storm.
bellowing
144
SELECTED
LESSONS
FOR
STUDY.
In this dire season,
oft the whirlwind's
of whole
Sweeps up the burden
wintry
wing
plains
In one
wide waft, and o'er the hapless flocks,
Hid in the hollow
of two
neighboring hills,
The billowy tempest 'whelms
upward urged,
; till,
The valley to a shining mountain
swells.
Tipped
with
wreath
a
high-curlingin
the
James
(There should
of blank
verse
fourteen
lines
"
'*
freely.
**
great
and
does
then
the
general
Bums,
"
whiten
ceased
wherever
down
and
the
a
wind
the
tive
consecu-
line.)
Emerson's
in
the
as
**
had
casing
brown
for three
were
air."
"
coveys,
line.
as
it
**That
days and nights ;
and
unseen
the trees
lightened them."
not
Broad,"
snow," it melts
crooked
moment
storm.
snow-
**
wounded
The
**New
hedges
topmost
full
though
two
gradually, fluctuatingly.
wide."
not
that
a
as
Wide," extensively.
never
snow
does not blow
came
broad
As
of this selection
rhythm
Notice
trochee.
a
wind
the
reeling, scatter
and
with
Thomson.
line,usually iambics
the
to
the
always, together, make
snow
Shakespeare.
falls
feet
begin
Hushed,"
The
difficultywith
no
five
"
lines
broken
1.
be
sky.
broke
Black-
"
more.
**
2.
Languid
ocean^s
perhaps,
3.
a
in Whittier's
as
snow."
*'
gift ;
a
Waste."
Bryant.
**
It
Snow-bound,"
the
?
"
man,"
of
**
'*
A
"Old
Faint,"
from
sank
sight
of
universe
etc.
sky
dear
The
hanging down.
demands
to
the
for
fowls
want
his pay.
household
its service
gods, the
ties
divini-
in the little tragedy
Woods.
and
Does
ox
homes,
over
in the
beautiful
head
with
while
preside
experience
waste."
works
redbreast,"
of the Babes
A
**
*'
sunset.
Whittier.
"
The
that
6.
**The
Drooping,"
**
boon,
4.
melancholy
it set."
before
and
and
gray
for
sun," poetic
true
our
picture. Can
redbreast
hop
you
? walk
verify it from
?
run
?
your
"WRITTEN
ELEGY
**
6.
hare/*
The
ditches
snowy
half
the
the
so
145
CHURCHYARD.
following quotation from
frost
hares
were
COUNTRY
A
Note
Before
^*
more.
IN
was
that
tame
all
over,
had
we
could
you
Blackin the
pat them."
den
beset," in danger of his life. **Dark
snares," hidhim
bold.
Fearless, "hunger makes
'*Kind,"
traps.
**Hard
*'
^^
Bleating kind," sheep.
"
Around
family.
with
of certain
the
blue
care.
the
wing."
There
was
snow.
as
from
the
winged
of frost."
And
And
Save
A
Bead,
the world
the
all the
And
and
as
only
waft
one
at
one
drove
snow
broad
as
of
the
sky,
in,a great
violent
This
the
came
blast,
pelting,
pointed
COUNTRY
with
a
of
parting day,
slowly o'er the lea,
plods his weary
way,
to darkness
glimmering
air
CHURCHYARD.
solemn
and
to
me.
landscape on the sight,
stillness holds.
the beetle wheels
his
droning flight.
drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds
Comp,
of
comer
house.
a
white, and
murky
tolls the knell
where
the
smothering
with
IN
leaves
fades
;
curling beneath
lowing herd wind
plowman homeward
2. Now
With
Blackmore.
"
WRITTEN
curfew
seen
and
The
The
* *
sweep.
where
bam
a
rolling and
was
ELEGY
1. The
of
.
"
Waft,
end,
eastern
all the while
barbs
hearts
the
in
given into the shepherd's
attacks of
"Burden,"
the
flock at all to be
no
pitilessarrows,
the
* *
pity
to
animals
Charge," the
Baffle," defeat
billow, as high
great drift
poet appeals
Tennyson,
"
field,by the
white
and
of
mass
Whittier.
"
storm, the landscape, the behavior
the
*'
*'
bent
of the firmament."
walls
animals, the
shepherds.
the great
glistening wonder
the
describing
7. After
**
Glistening,"white, covered
snow.
The
the
^*
"
10.
;
146
3.
LESSONS
SELECTED
Save
from
that
FOR
yonder ivy-mantled
moping owl does
Of such as, wand'ring
The
her
Molest
4.
Beneath
moon
rugged elms, that
the
heaves
Where
to the
tower
complain
her secret bower,
near
solitaryreign.
ancient
those
STUDY.
in
turf
tree's
yew
mold'ring
a
many
shade,
heap,
in his
Each
The
5.
The
Forefathers
rude
laid,
the hamlet
of
sleep.
call of
breezy
The
cell forever
narrow
incense-breathing Morn,
the straw-built
twitt'ring from
swallow
shed.
The
cock's
shrill
more
shall
No
6.
them
For
Or
No
did
the harvest
Their
How
jocund
did
burn,
;
kiss to share.
to their sickle
they
the
bowed
How
the envied
oft the
furrow
shall
ply her evening care
lisptheir sire's return.
his knees
Or climb
7. Oft
to
run
blazing hearth
the
busy housewife
children
echoing horn.
from
their lowly bed.
them
rouse
more
no
the
clarion, or
yield.
glebe has
stubborn
their
drive
woods
team
beneath
broke
their
sturdy
stroke!
8.
Let
not
Ambition
Their
Nor
9. The
short
boast
And
Awaits
The
their
homely joys, and
Grandeur
The
mock
all
hear,
and
with
simple
useful
toil,
destiny obscure
a
disdainful
annals
of the
;
smile.
poor.
of power,
heraldry, the pomp
e'er
that
beauty, all that wealth
of
alike, th'
paths
of
inevitable
glory
lead
hour.
but
to
the
;
afield!
grave.
gave,
148
SELECTED
LESSONS
lot forbade
17. Their
circumscribed
nor
;
STUDY.
FOR
alone
growing virtues, but their crimes
Forbade
to wade
through slaughter to
Their
And
18.
shut
throne,
mankind,
on
of conscious
truth
to hide,
struggling pangs
To quench the blushes
of ingenuous shame,
Pride
Or heap the shrine of Luxury and
Far
kindled
incense
wishes
sober
at the
Muse's
crowd's
madding
the
from
Their
learned
never
ev'n these
Yet
With
and
rimes
uncouth
stray
;
life.
of their way.
to
protect
still erected
frail memorial
Some
to
of
insult
from
bones
flame.
ignoble strife,
Along the cool sequestered vale
They kept the noiseless tenor
20.
a
nigh,
shapeless sculpture
decked,
of
Implores the passing tribute
21.
Their
their
name,
years,
a
sigh.
spelledby th' unlettered
Muse,
The
And
place of fame and elegy supply ;
she strews.
a
holy text around
many
That
22.
For
the rustic
teach
who,
dumb
to
moralist
Forgetfulness
to die.
a
prey,
being e'er resigned,
pleasing anxious
Left the warm
precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one
longing, ling'ringlook behind
This
23.
;
The
With
19.
the gates of mercy
confined
On
fond
some
Some
Ev'n
Ev'n
breast
pious drops
from
in
the
our
tomb
ashes
the
the
?
parting soul relies.
closing eye requires ;
the voice
of Nature
live their wonted
cries,
fires.
ELEGY
24.
WRITTEN
25.
thee, who
For
If
IN
mindful
Dost
in these
Some
kindred
lines
149
CHURCHYARD.
of th' unhonored
their
artless
Dead
tale
relate,
chance, by lonely contemplation led.
Haply
*'
Oft
To
have
we
the
meet
26.
"
There
27.
"
Hard
28.
*^
One
spiritshall inquire thy fate,
hoary-headed swain
some
Brushing with
at the
him
seen
dews
the
the
upon
say,
at the peep
hasty steps
sun
may
of dawn
away
upland lawn.
foot of
yonder nodding beech.
wreathes
its old fantastic roots so high,
That
would
His listless length at noontide
he stretch,
And
the brook
that babbles by.
pore upon
by yon wood, now
smiling as in scorn,
fancies
he would
Mutt'ring his wayward
rove
;
Now
like one
drooping, woeful
forlorn,
wan,
with
in hopeless love.
Or crazed
care, or crossed
I missed
morn
Along
Another
Nor
29.
COUNTRY
A
the
heath
came
;
up
**The
nor
the lawn,
him
and
from
nor
customed
his fav'rite
near
yet
the
beside
the
rill.
at the
wood
was
tree
;
he ;
with
dirges due in sad array
through the churchway path we
next
Slow
hill,
saw
him
borne.
Approach
Graved
and
read
the stone
on
THE
80.
Here
A
Fair
And
rests
(for thou
his head
Youth,
Science
canst
beneath
yon
read)
the
lay,
aged thorn."
EPITAPH.
the
upon
to Fortune
and
frowned not
Melancholy marked
lap of
to Fame
on
him
Earth
unknown.
his humble
for her
birthy
own.
150
SELECTED
Large
31.
his
was
Heaven
He
LESSONS
did
FOR
bounty, and
a
STUDY.
his soul
largelysend
as
recompense
sincere.
;
all he
Misery
had, a tear,
He gained from Heaven
(^twos all he wished)
friend.
to
gave
a
farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw
his frailtiesfrom their dread
abode,
{There they alike in trembling hope repose,)
The bosom
and his Ood.
of his Father
No
32.
Thomas
Thomas
hill,London,
In
December
he
1727
famous
the
Gray,
went
After
a
bom
English poet, was
in
Corn-
26, 1716.
Eton
to
University, which
degree.
Oray.
tour
he
College and
afterwards
left in
without
the
on
1738
in
continent
to Cambridge
taking his
with
company
Horace
dence
Walpole, he returned to England and took up his resiat Cambridge.
Although one of the finest scholars of his time, he wrote but
owing to his reserve, his critical temper, and his horror
little,
of publicity. His famous
Elegy, published in 1751, placed him
of Elnglishpoets.
in the front rank
in the little churchyard
Gray died in 1771, and is buried
is supposed to be the one
immortsdized
of Stoke Pogis, which
in his poem.
"
Had
stands, I am
*'
Had
of the
is
written
^
notes
he would
often
"
Samuel
dying
and
its knell
While
his
been
*
Elegy,' high
in
vain
as
he
higher.'* Byron.
stand
not
thus," (as
Elegy ') ^4t had
story of the curfew
the little church.
cattle
nothing but
that
sure
praise him."
1. The
Day
not
Gray
stanzas
to
written
Gray
"
some
of
the
blame, and
to
finer
less
use-
Johnson.
should
is
be read
sounded
listening to
the
following the winding path across
the plowman
trudging homeward.
in
from
E2nglishhistory.
the
tower
bell,the poet
the
meadow,
sees
and
of
the
he
ELEGY
WRITTEN
'*
3. Note
of
streaks
is
there
'*
The
sound, except
no
Stillness
the
tinkling of
the
**
Or
His
or
bells.
Why
the beetle
small
but
*'
this second
'*
solemn,"
droning,"
f
winds
horn."
sullen
and
drowsy,"
drowsy"
**
CoUins,
^^
stanza, omitting the words
"
of the
humming,
"
Bead
some
air and
the
charms
droning,
cow
where
yet glimmers with
west
daj.''^'"
Shakespeare,
151
CHURCHYARD.
COUNTRY
A
glimmering."
and
heetle
IN
notice
glimmering,"
faded
how
ture
pic-
a
is left.
'*
3.
Ivy-mantled"
of
meaning
4.
**
and
of flower
**
tree's
What
?
for many
Ancient,"
shade," the
the graves,
outward
moist
*'
?
impression
air of the
"
as
swings."
a
low
mom."
now
The
fruit-like
Whittier,
"
morning
the
or
gentle dew-fall
evening carries the
sends
of the
perfume
clarion," "The
crowing
again
7.
Here
you
9.
hour
cock,
the
from
them
Evening
"
8.
of
rouse
6.
what
Shakespeare,
"
is it ?
What
waits.
"
Why
is meant
odor
abroad
furze."
golden
the
Neither
the
the
nor
blast
their humble
do
Coleridge.
stubborn
by
"
"
of
horn
the
it
farmer's
a
to
was
reason
the
breeze, the
shall
ever
duty.
?
tasks.
"Glebe,"
?
Ambition
for
the
think
to
trumpet
stir of
couches
you
partial list of
is the
"
and
"
"
Grandeur
?
Can
this
personification ?
birth, office,beauty, riches, for each
explain
High
a
that
cock
care," what
have
we
whose
tent
green
shrub.
But
"Shrill
the
years
interlacing branches
"
^
is the
alone.
over
never
The
here
yew
canopy
a
curtain
5.
there
"Elms,"
form
"
bower
nested
has
owl
**
what
conveys
of
these
the
152
SELECTED
Trophies, ''
* '
10.
four
11.
of
the
Storied
urn,"
the
dead
'*
a
old
life.
to
"
Dull
And
when
And
I
lines
three
with
the
Trajan^s column
and
storied
^^
a
deeds
points
vrindow," Tennyson
**
story."
makes
forth
call
Provoke,"
ear," what
cold
words
these
?
I shall
forgotten, as
am
be,
marble."
dull, cold
in
sleep
engraved
storied
in
peculiarly descriptive here
**
these humble
over
do
service
urn
calls
speaks of
summits
snowy
funeral
a
Hawthorne
dead.
shaft/' Milton
to**
burial
a
erected
are
?
suggest
*'
of
sort
STUDY.
FOB
statelystones
no
What
graves.
LESSONS
Shakespeare.
12.
**
Pregnant," stirred by
of power.
scepter, the symbol
**
13.
14.
**
their
with
Rhodora
I if the
Tell them,
Then
and
sky.
made
for
for
excuse
own
Emerson
:
why
were
seeing,
being."
unmeasured.
**Unfathomed,"
fair.
Serene,"
if eyes
Penury"
impulses.
warm
earth
the
on
that
is its
Beauty
thee
ask
sages
poetry.
Chill
following from
the
this stanza
dear,
their
of
muse
Rod,'*
**
genius.
**
learning.
is wasted
charm
of
the
Lyre,"
cooled
enthusiasm,
Compare
This
*'
"
Spoils," accumulated
checked
divinity
the
**
Desert,"
empty.
**
15.
Hampden,"
the
to pay
the
was
rustic
a
**
tax
of
English
ship-money
**
patriot was
little
eminent
an
a
tyrant," a villageCharles.
opinion of Milton
Gray's
of this poem
original manuscript
Hampden,
learned
Cato, Tully
were
Milton,
slowly
that
16. 17, 18. Their
audiences
by
and
it
humble
their
of
?
at
station
eloquence,
I.
As
think
you
In
the
used
for
?
characters
(Cicero),and
stay
do
Cromwell
the
fused
re-
his oppressor
so
What
Cromwell.
can
who
imposed by Charles
village Hampden,"
was
illustration
statesman
Caesar, instead
English
literature
of
has
home.
prevented
from
them
causing
from
a
whole
ing
sway-
land
ELEGY
WRITTEN
smile
to
with
other
*'
stray.
20.
rude
call
"In
his
which
may
without
23.
would
is there
'
?
"
**
dening."
mad-
image
an
Muse,
help him
more
Byron,
"
To
below
inhabitant
the
be
not
''Shapeless sculpture,"
village poet.
some
did
not
to
the
copy
to look
reads
who
the
"would
even
nor
spell
fearfully,a help sorely needed.
ever
gave
up this life of mingled joy and
looking
**
wishes
form
stanza.
poor
verse
to stifle conscience,
sober
correct
more
*'the
from
Who
22.
of
on
tyrant, to gratify
,
shapeless sculpture
help
less
their
.
tenth
much
Scripture
.
Gray's Elegy
*
the
play
But,
luxurious.
Muse,"
age
for
death
the
see
Unlettered
and
name
the
countrymen.
innocent,
from"
Madding,"
striking than
to
of the
.
carving.
21.
them
and
the effects of their
reading
of their
eyes
153
CHURCHYARD.
from
death
proud
'*far
'*Yet,"
**
the
the
Living
19.
and
loving
by
flatter
to
COUNTRY
it forhade
hand,
their amhition
and
A
plenty,
in the
good deeds
the
IN
upon
sorrow
longingly, lingeringly ?
back
Parting soul," dying
"Pious
person.
drops,"
of
tears
sympathy.
24.
**
Note
him
does
the
honored
whose
he suppose
**
of
syntax
whom
Me
with
Its ways
an
'*
open
had
manuscript
"
in
Him
have
While
Oft
as
With
seen
heath
o'er the
the
the
woodlark
feet
street.
ways."
my
wistful
eyes
"Lawn,"
25, the
stanza
greenwood
piped
pursue
.
Stoddard's
with
original
:
we
.
highways,
After
woods.
following
we
bears
swain," gray-haired rustic.
the
the
never
Webster's
.
whose
its loneliest
were
Hoary-headed
space
its stony
worn
Familiar
25.
city holds,
it with
himself
gentleman
capable," etc., and
the
Have
Compare
the
name
less
me
thee."
"
hied,
her
the
side
our
along,
labors
farewell
song,
setting sun."
done
;
154
SELECTED
deer
stricken
"
he
as
Under
FOR
''As
whose
oak,
an
STUDY.
You
Like
Jacques mourned
lay
melancholy
The
1.
roots," see
"Fantastic
26.
LESSONS
the
over
antique
root
II.,Sc.
It," Act
fate of the
sad
out."
peeps
do
other names
sings. What
Babbles," brawls, murmurs,
poets apply to the brook's music?
27. *' Woeful
wan," do these words
intensify the description
*'
sadness
of his
28.
from
tree," the nodding beech.
Gray
nods
meadow
And
"Scattered,"
thorn
30.
mean?
loves
"
by
I., Sc.
2.
"For
could
"suits
"
thou
In
do.
not
to
one
"
found
build, and
?
year,
of violets
showers
hands.
unseen
warble
the
By
Does
the
"
found;
there.
ground.
whom
these
are
redbreast"
build
"
"Science,"
Ye
knowledge.
brown
That
Where
"Melancholy,"
overarching
Contemplation
willowy
Oft
at
I trod
of
canst
footsteps " lightly print the ground
What
does
expression "lap of Earth."
the
"
yond
Be-
:
Whose
?
Note
vorite
"Fa-
this word
array,"
footsteps lightly print
of violets
showers
liked
"Sad
swain
are
unseen,
little
above.
stanza
oft, the earliest of the
scattered
hands
Shelley.
"
inserted,after this stanza, the following:
had
redbreast
The
Act
springs."
of oaks."
hymns.
hoary-headed
the
By
thicket
Hamlet,"
black."""
There
a
funeral
"Dirges,"
manuscript, Gray
the
forest
a
omitted
read," which
"
in
lawn.
the
the
solemn
lawn
breathing
the
heath," named
''The
29.
hill,"the upland
Customed
'*
And
*'
?
the
your
Camus
blush
level
loves.
of dawn
lawn,
?
meditation.
groves.
lingers with
in
delight!
it
INDEX.
25.
Anapest,
Orehardy
Fashioned
Old'
An
137
138.
Hughes,
Celia
Weather,
Thomas
AprU
the
in
153
;
151
155
ser,
;
151
132,
Coleridge,
lins,
152
;
Emerson,
;
Hawthorne,
133 ; Johnson,
123
;
150
108,
100,
;
114,
roughs,
Bur-
Birds
in
mentioned
the
To
132
;
49
;
104
;
78.
Mountain
A
English
The
Elihu,
lark,
Sky-
122.
Cary, Alice, Pretty
;
Does,
56
; Wh4it
a
is That
Bird
Pretty
Taught,
47.
:
;
;
157
Cesura,
27.
Cesural
pause,
Composition,
outlines
Criticism,
Dactyl,
25, note.
oral,
43
;
specimen
for, 44, 45.
118.
Cornucopia,
Curfew,
;
the
To
114.
Daisy,
Burritt,
135,
finch,
Gold49 ;
Flycatcher,
108
48, 108; Graokles,
135
Waterfowl,
a
133;
of Nature,
Oentian,
Fringed
To
Robert,
Bums,
Blackbird,
60;
Bluebird,
90;
English,
123
142 ; Chickadee,
;
Buzzard,
132 ; Crow
151 ; Crow,
Cock,
69;
Dove,
108;
blackbirds,
Fish-hawk,
132;
67,
Eagle,
Bee-martin,
the
Gladness
The
Key-
notes
of
Death
The
CuUen,
Floicers,
William
Bryant,
132,
;
lor,
Tay-
Bayard
Ford,
79.
CJol-
153
Webster,
144, 145, 151, 155.
132
its Name,
Oot
Brandrnvine
132,
137, 144, 151, 152, 154 ; Shelley,
158 ;
123, 154 ; Stoddard,
104,
123, 132, 145, 152;
Tennyson,
Thoreau,
Whittier,
tJie
How
72.
peare,
Shakes-
131,
into,
prose
P.,
Margaret
Horm-Chestnut
;
132, 141 ;
90, 124, 131,152;
128,
Milton,
;
117,
Longfellow,
Lowell, 91
90
Kingsley,
turning
verse,
Boyle,
124, 131 ; Gray,
ving,
139, 152 ; Ir-
Goldsmith,
;
;
123,
145
; YeUow
135
105,
29.
notes:
144,
Blaokmore,
121
114,
Bryant,
BoUes,
;
144;
Bums,
144;
129,
104, 137 ; Byron,
Bible, 98
;
154;
108.
Warbler,
Thaxter,
91.
quoted
142
105,
Redbreast,
Wren,
;
Blank
Authors
90,
ingale,
Night-
;
48, 60, 104, 135 ; Rook,
Robin,
low,
48 ; Swal108 ; Song
Sparrow,
Waterfowl,
60, 72, 105;
11.
Analysis,
126
Oriole,
;
151;
Owl,
of, 71.
definition
Aftermath,
90
99.
Kingbird,
Lark,
1177123, 124,
116,
Spacious
;
123;
Kinglet,
49;
27, 28.
rhythm,
The
Joseph,
Addison,
High,
on
Firmament
the
142
135,
108,
Jay,
by
determined
often
Accent,
elementary,
151.
25, 27.
21, 22.
158
INDEX.
Wordsworth,
Daffodils,William
Iambus, 25.
Instruction, improvement
^*
"
listening," 14.
of not
Disease
Echo, 131.
in
a
Country
Elegy Written
Churchyard, Thomas
Gray, 145.
The
Waldo,
Emerson,
Ralph
and
the
Mountain
Squirrel,
101 ; The
Emotional
English,
of, 17-
20.
Diajp*ams,10.
76.
cover
Irving, Washington, literarydis-
attainments
10 ; free-hand, 5.
Evening at Orand-Pri,
in,
low,
Longfel-
Hudson,
of the
Kaatshills, 126 ; The
129.
125.
Snowstorm,
culture, 35.
common
Interpretations," 14.
49.
49
If I vjere a Sunbeam,
In Timers
Swing, Lucy Larcom,
138 ; The
Thunderstorm,
October's
Hunt,
Jackson, Helen
Bright Blue Weather,
tember, 62.
70 ;
"Sep-
120.
Lucy,
Larcom,
Feet, poetic, 25, 26,
Flail, music
Flowers
Apple blossom,
78 ; Aster, 78,
104 ; Cardinal
27.
in the notes
60 ; Arbutus,
:
BluebeU,
blossom, 78 ;
Daisy, 60, 116, 117 ; Dandelion,
en-rod,
53; Gentian, 63, 71, 78 ; Goldlaurel,
Mayflower,
Peach
78 ;
60 ; Pond
blossom,
lily,
78 ;
Rose,
Strawberry
135 ;
blossom, 60 ; Sunflower,
Violet, 79, 135 ; Water
lily,96.
78 ;
Little
blunders
Grammar,
in, 15 ; how
learned, 12, 15.
in
Gray, Thomas,
Elegy Written
Country
Churchyard,
145.
in, 9.
Thomas
Bell,
and
Westwood,
88.
Longfellow, Hewry Wadsworth,
The
Qrand-Pri,
at
Evening
120;
Birthday
Fiftieth
of
100.
Lowell, James
Russell, Soms
of
Garden
LowelVs
ances,
Acquaint106 ; lo the Dandelion,
Agassiz,
102.
"
a
Swing,
attainments
Latin, common
Literature, for the memory
the heart, 38-42.
111 ;
Ground
135 ;
78 ; Lilv, 50 ;
Timers
76
of, 141.
mentioned
In
Malady
of not
Meter, 25.
Methods, and
14.
marking,"
their results,9-16.
Moonlight, 113.
Motion,
expressed
in
a
poem,
94,
105, 137.
Harbison
,
Mary
R. M.
The
drop,
Rain-
,
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel,
The
94.
of
and
the
Name,
Hughes,
the Bee, 53.
Horse-Chestnut
Margaret
Thomas,
love
Nature,
Mrs., The
Landing
the Pilgrim Fathers, 74.
How
Mrs.
S.
M.
B.
Piatt,
cord,
Con-
Hemans,
Henry
Ghost,
My
67.
118.
P.
An
in
a
poem,
October's
Oot
Boyle,
its
Helen
of, 18; sounds
75,
Bright
Hunt
of,
105.
Blue
Jackson,
Weather,
70.
72.
Old-Fash-
ioned
Orchard, 138.
the, Irving its literary
Hudson,
discoverer, 133 ; verbal
pictmes
of, 133.
Paradigms, 10.
Parsing, 11.
Piatt, Mrs. S. M. B., My Ghost,
Poetic
67.
feet, 25, 26, 27.
Poetry,
for
memorizing, 87-89.
159
INDEX.
Pretty is That Pretty Does, Alice
Gary, 56.
3"-42.
Prose, for memorizing,
Prosody, boy's definition of, 25.
The
of Nature, William
Gladness
Cullen
Bryant, 104.
John
The
Huskers,
Whittier,
The
Rattle
Kaatskills,
Irving, 126.
of
bars, 122.
The
Bead, Thomas
Buchanan,
The
139
Rising,
Closing Scene,
;
The
Kingbird,
Landing
The
98.
Reading,
art of, neglected, 12,
13, 15; oral, exercises
in, 19,
20 ; time spent in, 17, 18.
Rhythm, 25-82 ; exercises in, 29,
80 ; in Loma
TJie
Mountain
Ralph Waldo
Roberts, Sarah,
Grass, 64.
81.
Voice
The
of the
Old
The
Doone,
Hunt
Jackson,
by Lowell,
Todd, 65.
Rainbow,
The
Garden
James
The
Squirrel,
101.
John
Tree, Dr.
William
worth,
Words-
in
nature
a
poem,
75,
M.
R.
Mary
118.
Thomas
Rising,
Buchanan
98.
Sandpiper, Celia Thaxter, 96.
The
quaintances,
AcThe
Russell
106.
of
the
Raindrop,
Read,
LowelVs
Lowell,
Pilgrim
Emerson,
The
84.
Sounds
and
Eagle
Harbison,
Shillalah, mentioned
of
the
74.
Hemans,
117.
Milton,
92.
September, Helen
Some
of
Lark, John
The
Washington
48.
Mrs.
Fathers,
Greenleaf
109.
Snowstorm,
Ralph Waldo
125.
Emerson,
James
The Snowstorm,
Thomson,
142.
105.
Spider, 56.
The
Spondee, 25, 27.
StratDberries, J. T.
59.
Addison, 99.
The SquirreVs Arithmetic, 63.
Study,
Trowbridge,
The
Swallow's
Nest, 71.
Thunderstorm,
Washington
The
Irving, 129.
Voice
of the
Roberts, 64.
of, 21-24.
27ie
Taylor,
Bayard,
Brandyunne
Ford, 79.
Thaxter,
Celia, April Weather,
91 ; The Sandpiper, 96.
The Beaver, 50.
The
The
Children's
The
Concord,
Flotver, 53.
Closing Scene, Thomas
Read, 139.
Nathaniel
Com
Song,
John
Death
the Flowers,
Brvant, 133.
English Skylark, Elihu Bur-
100.
The Fox
Longfellow,
the
Ducks,
60.
worth,
Words-
William
Waterfowl,
a
Tree,
The
Cullen
Old
Eagle
65.
Daisy, William
the
worth,
Words-
117.
To
the
Dandelion, James
Lowell,
the
Russell
103.
Fringed
Gentian,
Bryant, 78.
liam
Wil-
Cullen
Trochee,
25, 137.
Trowbridge,
and
William
Bryant,135.
Todd, Dr. John,
To
Wadsworth
Daisy, Robert
114.
Skylark,
a
FiftiethBirthday of Agassiz,
Henry
storm,
Snow-
124.
To
ritt, 122.
The
Mountain
A
liam
Wil-
of
The
James,
Burns,
Oreenleaf
Cullen
The
To
To
thorne,
Haw-
Grass, Sarah
142.
chanan
Bu-
Whitter, 111.
The
Thomson,
To
94.
The
on
High, Joseph
of, 17.
course
Style, elements
Firmament
Spacious
59.
J.
T., Strawberries,
160
INDBX.
enrichment
Vocabulary,
Whittier,
84.
of,
Com
Westwood,
Little
Thomas,
Bell,
Wordsworth,
a
Bird
Alice
Taught,
Cary
92
,
47.
Where
Way,
;
Skylark,
There
57.
is
a
WUl
Thereisa
111
;
The
Huskers,
109.
88.
What
Song,
The
Greenleaf,
John
117.
William,
The
Rainbow,
124;
Daffodils,
92
To
the
;
Tb
Daisy,
a