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 87
... ride ; There will be other legends , and all filled With greater marvels and more glorified . Build on , and make thy castles high and fair , Rising and reaching upward to the skies ; Listening to voices in the upper air , Nor lose thy ...
... ride ; There will be other legends , and all filled With greater marvels and more glorified . Build on , and make thy castles high and fair , Rising and reaching upward to the skies ; Listening to voices in the upper air , Nor lose thy ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. PAUL REVERE'S RIDE Listen , my children , and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere , On the eighteenth of April , in Seventy - five ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. PAUL REVERE'S RIDE Listen , my children , and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere , On the eighteenth of April , in Seventy - five ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and ...
Page 90
... Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet : That was all ! And yet , through the gloom and the light , The fate of a nation was riding that night ; And the spark struck out by that steed , in 90 PAUL REVERE'S RIDE.
... Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet : That was all ! And yet , through the gloom and the light , The fate of a nation was riding that night ; And the spark struck out by that steed , in 90 PAUL REVERE'S RIDE.
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