School Reading by Grades: Sixth YearAmerican Book Company, 1897 - 240 páginas |
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... poem beginning , " Scots wha hae wi ' Wal- 25 lace bled , " which we can easily imagine to be Bruce's address to his men at the beginning of the great fight . Read also Sir Walter Scott's metrical description of the battle , in the long ...
... poem beginning , " Scots wha hae wi ' Wal- 25 lace bled , " which we can easily imagine to be Bruce's address to his men at the beginning of the great fight . Read also Sir Walter Scott's metrical description of the battle , in the long ...
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... of Dundee . The title of the poem in its com- 25 plete form is " The Burial March of Dundee . " Our selec- tion includes only so much as relates to the conflict in the pass . 5 10 15 20 25 25 30 On the heights 138 W E Aytoun.
... of Dundee . The title of the poem in its com- 25 plete form is " The Burial March of Dundee . " Our selec- tion includes only so much as relates to the conflict in the pass . 5 10 15 20 25 25 30 On the heights 138 W E Aytoun.
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... poems are among the noblest ever written in our language . Turn now to the last story in " School Reading by Grades - Fifth Year , " and com- pare each passage in that brief narrative with its correspond- ing passage in the following poem ...
... poems are among the noblest ever written in our language . Turn now to the last story in " School Reading by Grades - Fifth Year , " and com- pare each passage in that brief narrative with its correspond- ing passage in the following poem ...
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... poems . Bryant , William Cullen , the author of " The Death of the Flowers " ( page 18 ) , was one of the most popular of American poets . Born at Cummington , Mass . , 1794 ; died at New York , 1878. Besides his poems , he wrote ...
... poems . Bryant , William Cullen , the author of " The Death of the Flowers " ( page 18 ) , was one of the most popular of American poets . Born at Cummington , Mass . , 1794 ; died at New York , 1878. Besides his poems , he wrote ...
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... poems . " Cloister and the Hearth , The " : An historical romance , by Charles Reade , first published in 1861. The scenes are laid mostly in Holland and Italy , and the time is the middle of the fifteenth century . See page 153 ...
... poems . " Cloister and the Hearth , The " : An historical romance , by Charles Reade , first published in 1861. The scenes are laid mostly in Holland and Italy , and the time is the middle of the fifteenth century . See page 153 ...
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Página 206 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 195 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er. When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 213 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand, — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low, — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him : he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Página 102 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 10 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Página 76 - His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they have slain her lover?
Página 40 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. "Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face ; "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, "Now yield thee to our grace.
Página 216 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Página 222 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words, Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro
Página 207 - And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.