Nature in Verse: A Poetry Reader for ChildrenSilver, Burdett, 1895 - 305 pages |
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... Thee . A Song of Summer Merry Sunshine Summer Time .. The Sunbeam Little Sunbeam . The Four Sunbeams Little Nannie A Summer Day Music of Nature .. Under the Greenwood Tree Summer Woods HOLY BIBLE 99 . Jane Taylor 99 Mary Howitt 100 ...
... Thee . A Song of Summer Merry Sunshine Summer Time .. The Sunbeam Little Sunbeam . The Four Sunbeams Little Nannie A Summer Day Music of Nature .. Under the Greenwood Tree Summer Woods HOLY BIBLE 99 . Jane Taylor 99 Mary Howitt 100 ...
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... thee , Scatter rays divine ! For there is no sunbeam But must die , or shine . -Lucy Larcom . SPRING HARBINGERS . UR Mother Earth is in her loom , OUR A - weaving night and day ; Her new spring carpet must be done Before the month of ...
... thee , Scatter rays divine ! For there is no sunbeam But must die , or shine . -Lucy Larcom . SPRING HARBINGERS . UR Mother Earth is in her loom , OUR A - weaving night and day ; Her new spring carpet must be done Before the month of ...
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... thee bare , And round thee lies the smooth , untrodden snow , When naught is thine that made thee once so fair , I love to watch thy shadowy form below , And through thy leafless arms to look above On stars that brighter beam when most ...
... thee bare , And round thee lies the smooth , untrodden snow , When naught is thine that made thee once so fair , I love to watch thy shadowy form below , And through thy leafless arms to look above On stars that brighter beam when most ...
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... thee , pretty nursling Of vernal sun and rain ; For thou art Flora's firstling , And leadest in her train . When far away I found thee , It was an April morn ; The chilling blast blew round thee , No bud had decked the thorn . And thou ...
... thee , pretty nursling Of vernal sun and rain ; For thou art Flora's firstling , And leadest in her train . When far away I found thee , It was an April morn ; The chilling blast blew round thee , No bud had decked the thorn . And thou ...
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... Full of fun as Puck could be , Harlequin might learn of thee ! Look now at his odd grimaces ! Saw you ever such queer faces ? Now like learned judge sedate , Now with nonsense in 90 NATURE IN VERSE . The Monkey Mary Howitt.
... Full of fun as Puck could be , Harlequin might learn of thee ! Look now at his odd grimaces ! Saw you ever such queer faces ? Now like learned judge sedate , Now with nonsense in 90 NATURE IN VERSE . The Monkey Mary Howitt.
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Alice Cary autumn baby beautiful bees bloom blossoms blue blue weather Blynken Bob-o'-link bobolink bough breeze bright brook brown buttercup buzz chee chestnuts child clouds clover cowslips cricket daisies danced daylight dies dear little dress earth eyes fair fairies Father flax fly away home garden gentle gold golden goldenrod Good-morning good-night grass gray green greenwood tree grow head hear heard heart Helen Hunt Jackson Jack Frost ladybird ladybug laughed leaves light lily little bird little sunbeam look Lullaby Mary Howitt meadow merry morning mother nest never night o'er pansies peep play pretty purple rain robin rose round Selected shining sing sleep smile snow soft song spider Spink spring stars summer sunshine sweet swing tell thee There's things thrush tree twinkle violet wake warm weather whip-poor-will whisper wind wings winter wood
Popular passages
Page 241 - Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.
Page 235 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 240 - And a feeling of sadness conies o'er me, That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 3 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 3 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 264 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, And keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing.
Page 235 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 114 - Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
Page 261 - Now I shall be out of sight; So through the valley and over the height, In silence I'll take my way; I will not go on like that blustering train, The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain, Who make so much bustle and noise in vain, But I'll be as busy as they.
Page 86 - MERRILY swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain-side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name ; " Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee.