The Continental First[-fifth] Reader, Volumen4T. Kelly, 1890 |
Términos y frases comunes
ALICE CARY animals arms Augustine Washington beautiful beavers bell birds Blossom brave bright byss called child dead deer door Egypt Elsa emperor eyes face father fawn feet fish flowers friends George George Peabody girl give Gray Gretchen hand head heard heart horse Italy John John Hull jolly old pedagogue kind king lake land Lawrence Washington leaves LESSON light live look loud mate Maud Muller ment mother mountain NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE never night o'er OUTLINE FOR COMPOSITION Peabody Persian Phoebe Cary plants poet poor river river Lee round Shandon shillings ship Sometime sound Spell spring star-spangled banner stood streams sweet thing THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH thou thought tion trees turned UNWRITTEN SONG voice wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind wonder wood words young
Pasajes populares
Página 191 - Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone; the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must
Página 190 - illimitable airLone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night, is near. And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall
Página 15 - vain! Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage; save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncofflned, and unknown.
Página 183 - And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Asshur are loud in their wail; And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the
Página 56 - DISJOINTED FRIENDSHIP. Alas, they had "been friends in youth : But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to he wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : And
Página 56 - wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother, They parted ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining; They stood aloof—the scars remaining, Like cliffs
Página 24 - banner, O long may it wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more?
Página 15 - HIGH PITCH. I come! I come! Ye have called me long; I come o'er the mountains with light and song; Ye may trace my steps o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass. From
Página 56 - scars remaining, Like cliffs that had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall "wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that -which once hath been. ST Coleridge.
Página 203 - best clothes having to come by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigued with traveling, rowing, and want of rest; I -was very hungry, and my whole stock of cash consisted of a