The Elson Readers: Book Six (revision of Elson Grammar School Reader, Book Two) |
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Achilles Aeneas Agamemnon Ajax the Greater Alcinous aloud American AMERICAN BIGHORN SHEEP apple tree Athena battle beautiful birds Boston brothers called Calypso cardinal bird Creusa cried Cyclops Daffydowndilly dead Dominicus Eumaeus eyes father Find fire flowers giant give Glossary the meaning Gluck gods Golden River grass Greeks hand head heard heart Hector Hercules Hesperides Higginbotham horse island Kimballton King land lines lived Longfellow looked Magic Wand maidens Menelaus Miltiades NOTES AND QUESTIONS old oaken bucket Patroclus Phaeacians Phrases for Study poem poet Priam QUESTIONS Biography Schwartz ships shore Silent Reading song spear spoke spring stanza stood story stranger suitors Telemachus tell thee things thou thought Toil took Trojans Troy Ulysses voice Wand of Reading wapiti wind wonderful words Zeus
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Page 190 - Come in!" the Mayor cried, looking bigger: And in did come the strangest figure! His queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow and half of red, And he himself was tall and thin, With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, But lips where smiles went out and in; There was no guessing his kith and kin: And nobody could enough admire The tall man and his quaint attire. Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire, Starting up...
Page 76 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Page 340 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Page 80 - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the...
Page 340 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 332 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 341 - But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky...
Page 198 - To their fathers and mothers having risen Out of some subterraneous prison Into which they were trepanned Long time ago in a mighty band Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land, But how or why, they don't understand.
Page 340 - The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the goldenrod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook...
Page 106 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.