School Reading by Grades: First[-eighth] Year, Book 2American Book Company, 1897 - Children's poetry |
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acorns Androclus Annie basket beaks Beansie birds black crows Bob White Bobby branch bright brook bushes butterflies cake called chestnuts chickens cried dear door eggs Fanny farmer fast father fence field flew flowers Frank garden George glad gold grandmother grass gray griddle grow grub happy hatchet heard Hilda hive hopping hunter Jack Frost kind king knew lark leaves LELAND STANFORD lion little girl Little Red Riding Little White Lily live looked meadow miller Miss Juliet morning mother nails nest never nice night orchard Peasie play pleasant plums pretty queen bee rabbit rain Red Riding Hood river river Dee road Robert robin Rollo sail sing sly fox song soon squirrel sweet tell things thought told turtle walk Wolf woods
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Page 104 - SINGING OF speckled eggs the birdie sings And nests among the trees; The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships upon the seas. The children sing in far Japan, The children sing in Spain; The organ with the organ man Is singing in the rain.
Page 43 - Little white Lily dressed like a bride ! Shining with whiteness, and crowned beside ! Little white Lily droopeth with pain, Waiting and waiting for the wet rain. Little white Lily holdeth her cup; Rain is fast falling and filling it up. Little white Lily said, " Good again, When I am thirsty to have nice rain; Now I am stronger, now I am cool; Heat cannot burn me, my veins are so full.
Page 33 - Where are you going, wee Robin ? " And wee Robin said, " I am going to the King, to sing him a song this good Yule morning." H332BJAnd Pussy said, " Come here, wee Robin, and Tll let you see a bonny white ring round my neck." But wee Robin said, "No, no, gray Pussy; no, no! You worried the wee Mousie; but you shall not worry me.
Page 109 - Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky, Hundreds of shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Hundreds of lambs in the sunny weather. Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over.
Page 134 - Oh, where is the boy, dressed in jacket of gray, Who climbed up a tree in the orchard to-day, And carried my three little birdies away ? They hardly were dressed, When he took from the nest My three little robins, and left me bereft.
Page 43 - Good again — When I am thirsty To have fresh rain! Now I am stronger; Now I am cool; Heat cannot burn me, My veins are so full." Little white Lily Smells very sweet: On her head sunshine, Rain at her feet. "Thanks to the sunshine, Thanks to the rain! Little white Lily Is happy again!
Page 160 - To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.
Page 159 - The children cannot see it now. For the second and the third year, the letters should not be smaller than 2 mm., with a leading of 4 mm. Some of the more carefully made books for the second and the third years are printed in letters of this size, as shown in the following example : — She must climb the tree. She held on, first to one branch and then to another, and tried to reach the golden plums. Her hands, her face, and her feet were scratched and torn by the thorns.
Page 22 - Come, little leaves," said the wind one day, "Come over the meadows with me and play; Put on your dresses of red and gold, For summer is gone and the days grow cold.
Page 43 - ITTLE white Lily sat by a stone, Drooping and waiting till the sun shone. Little white Lily sunshine has fed; Little white Lily is lifting her head. Little white Lily said, " It is good; Little white Lily's clothing and food.