The Poetry Book, Llibre 2

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Miriam Blanton Huber, Herbert Bascom Bruner, Charles Madison Curry
Rand, McNally, 1926
A poetry collection including works by Whitman, Stevenson, Lear, and De la Mare. A Brief afterwod describes the curriculum experiment which preceded the publication of the original nine volumes.
 

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Pàgina 71 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Pàgina 71 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Pàgina 45 - Where did you get your eyes so blue ? Out of the sky as I came through. What makes the light in them sparkle and spin ? Some of the starry spikes left in. Where did you get that little tear ? I found it waiting when I got here.
Pàgina 84 - Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.' So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.
Pàgina 77 - LITTLE town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie ! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, The silent stars go by ; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light ; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night.
Pàgina 132 - ... laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still.
Pàgina 42 - The old moon laughed and sang a song, As they rocked in the wooden shoe, And the wind that sped them all night long, Ruffled the waves of dew. The little stars were the herring-fish That lived in that beautiful sea — 'Now cast your nets wherever you wish — But never afeard are we'; So cried the stars to the fishermen three : Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.
Pàgina 72 - Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust...
Pàgina 100 - A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass, And then hopped sidewise to the wall To let a beetle pass. He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all...
Pàgina 68 - ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL." 7-6. i things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

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