Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations, Issue 7Penn Publishing Company, 1909 |
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Common terms and phrases
ain't aint arms beautiful beautiful mind blow blue brave breath Bret Harte burghers of Calais Camelot cheer child cried dark dead dear death DETROIT FREE PRESS door Edwena eyes face father feet fell fellah feller flag girl gone hair hand head hear heard heart heaven Hippias horse JOAQUIN MILLER Joe Casey King kiss knew lady Lady of Shalott laugh light lips live look Lord Maid Marian mamma morning Morpeth mother never night o'er pity poor Pygmalion Rajput ride Rose Sunday round Shalott Skimpsey smile song soul stars stood story sweet tears tell thee there's thing thistles thou thought Thrasymedes told Twas Uncle Teddy voice wait walk watch weary wife wild wind woman word young
Popular passages
Page 174 - SUNSET and evening star And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Page 57 - PART II. THERE she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott. And moving thro' a mirror clear That hangs before her all the year, Shadows of the world appear.
Page 12 - O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea.
Page 135 - Four galleons drew away From the Spanish fleet that day, And two upon the larboard and two upon the starboard lay, And the battle-thunder broke from them all. VIII. But anon the great San Philip...
Page 60 - IV In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining Heavily the low sky raining Over tower'd Camelot.
Page 61 - ... the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott. Under tower and balcony, By garden-wall and gallery, A gleaming shape she floated by, Dead-pale between the houses high, • Silent into Camelot. Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame, And round the prow they read her name, The Lady of Shalott.
Page 56 - Camelot ; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro' the wave that runs for ever By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot.
Page 58 - For often thro' the silent nights A funeral, with plumes and lights And music, went to Camelot : Or when the moon was overhead, Came two young lovers lately wed ; ' I am half sick of shadows,
Page 9 - IT is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three, "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din." He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship,
Page 11 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.