The Elson Readers..: Book 5-8 ...Scott, Foresman and Company, 1921 |
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... DEATH .. THE RAVEN Edgar Allan Poe .. 97 ..... Edgar Allan Poe .. 107 JOHN GILPIN .... NARRATIVES IN VERSE BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL . THE HIGHWAYMAN Folk Ballad .. 113 William Couper .. 116 Alfred Noyes 126 LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott 131 ...
... DEATH .. THE RAVEN Edgar Allan Poe .. 97 ..... Edgar Allan Poe .. 107 JOHN GILPIN .... NARRATIVES IN VERSE BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL . THE HIGHWAYMAN Folk Ballad .. 113 William Couper .. 116 Alfred Noyes 126 LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott 131 ...
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... death train of a nobleman condemned - down the narrow trail till it opened into a little meadow , with rank , rich grass , a lovely mountain stream , and winding bear paths up and down COALY - BAY , THE OUTLAW HORSE 33.
... death train of a nobleman condemned - down the narrow trail till it opened into a little meadow , with rank , rich grass , a lovely mountain stream , and winding bear paths up and down COALY - BAY , THE OUTLAW HORSE 33.
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... death . The rifle cracked . The great horse wheeled and dashed away . It was sudden death or miss - and the marksman missed . Away went the wild horse at his famous best , not for his east- ern home , but down the unknown western trail ...
... death . The rifle cracked . The great horse wheeled and dashed away . It was sudden death or miss - and the marksman missed . Away went the wild horse at his famous best , not for his east- ern home , but down the unknown western trail ...
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... But the ground was fairly smoking under the enemy fire , and no one 35 but Duval believed that even this great speed and courage would save him from death . Perhaps they were right , 40 ( 8th Grade ) THE ELSON READERS - BOOK VIII.
... But the ground was fairly smoking under the enemy fire , and no one 35 but Duval believed that even this great speed and courage would save him from death . Perhaps they were right , 40 ( 8th Grade ) THE ELSON READERS - BOOK VIII.
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... death . An officer took a message pad of tissue paper and wrote upon it : " Silence the battery on our left . " Then he added some 25 figures showing the exact position of the battery . The message was folded and placed in a small ...
... death . An officer took a message pad of tissue paper and wrote upon it : " Silence the battery on our left . " Then he added some 25 figures showing the exact position of the battery . The message was folded and placed in a small ...
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Página 110 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Página 54 - ... midst falling dew. While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong. As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 107 - Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;— vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore.
Página 131 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide— And now I am come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Página 319 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Página 86 - And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows ! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops - at the bent spray's edge That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you...
Página 107 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Página 315 - Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!' " They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say"— He said: "Sail on! sail on! and on!
Página 111 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Página 132 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?