Graded Poetry Readers, Ausgabe 5

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Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1905
 

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Seite 52 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave — For the deck it was their field of fame And ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long And
Seite 34 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared This was their welcome home ! There were men with hoary hair
Seite 38 - The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as
Seite 76 - A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns! A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
Seite 56 - And he was forced to fly; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head. " With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a nursing mother then, And new-born baby, died ; But things like that, you know, must be
Seite 17 - into the air, 6 It fell to earth, I know not where; For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; 10 And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Seite 77 - And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark 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 his
Seite 56 - And often, when I go to plow, The plowshare turns them out; For many thousand men," said he, " Were slain in that great victory." 5 " Now tell us what 'twas all about," Young Peterkin he cries ; And little "VVilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; " Now tell us all about the war,
Seite 89 - 5 His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! 10 In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior!
Seite 60 - 0 Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee " ; ' The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand,

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