The Children's Own LongfellowHoughton Mifflin, 2001 - 96 pages This handsome volume contains eight of the most popular of Longfellow's poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Village Blacksmith," "Paul Revere's Ride," and excerpts from "The Song of Hiawatha." This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 6-8, Poetry)" |
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Page 14
... masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass , she stove and sank , Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak , on the bleak sea - beach , A fisherman stood aghast , To see the form of a maiden fair , Lashed close to a drifting mast ...
... masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass , she stove and sank , Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak , on the bleak sea - beach , A fisherman stood aghast , To see the form of a maiden fair , Lashed close to a drifting mast ...
Page 80
... their native forests they should not see again . And everywhere The slender , graceful spars Poise aloft in the air , And at the mast - head , White , blue , and red , A flag unrolls the stripes and stars . Ah ! 80 THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP.
... their native forests they should not see again . And everywhere The slender , graceful spars Poise aloft in the air , And at the mast - head , White , blue , and red , A flag unrolls the stripes and stars . Ah ! 80 THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP.
Page 88
... of - war ; A phantom ship , with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar , And a huge black hulk , that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide . Meanwhile , his friend , through alley and street , 88 Paul Revere's ...
... of - war ; A phantom ship , with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar , And a huge black hulk , that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide . Meanwhile , his friend , through alley and street , 88 Paul Revere's ...
Contents
The Wreck of the Hesperus II | 9 |
The Song of Hiawatha | 58 |
The Building of the Ship | 72 |
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Acadian farmers Adjidaumo aloft Anon answer bark barns Basil the blacksmith beautiful behold belfry Bellefontaine beneath Benedict birch canoe bosom bows BUILDING castle-builder cheer church clamorous darkness door Evangeline eyes face farm farm-yard father flax flocks forest Gabriel gazed gleamed goodly hand hear heard heart Hesperus Kayoshk King of Fishes Kwasind labor land laugh light lips listened LONG SERPENT look loud maiden mast Master meadows mighty moon morning Nahma night Nokomis notary notary public o'er ocean Old North Church Paul Revere Paul Revere's Ride paused Port Royal priest ride river rose Round sailed sank sea-gulls shadows shining ship ship-yard shore shouted silence Slowly snow-white SONG OF HIAWATHA sorrow sound spake Spanish Main steed stood sturgeon sun-fish thee Thorberg Skafting thou tide Toiled Ugudwash unto vessel village of Grand-Pré voice waited wave wind wooden words wreck yellow yellow water-lily