Open Sesame!: Poetry and Prose for School-days, Volume 2Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin Ginn, 1890 - Readers |
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... cries to you from the ground , My sons , scorn to be slaves ! In vain we met the frowns of tyrants — in vain we crossed the boister- ous ocean , found a new world , and prepared it for the happy residence of liberty - in vain we toiled ...
... cries to you from the ground , My sons , scorn to be slaves ! In vain we met the frowns of tyrants — in vain we crossed the boister- ous ocean , found a new world , and prepared it for the happy residence of liberty - in vain we toiled ...
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... cries , " in England or in death ! ” Then with a hoarse shout , lifting his hot head , " The day is ours ! " he saith . So through long nights and days that bring no change , Or change but from wild hopes to wilder fears , And still our ...
... cries , " in England or in death ! ” Then with a hoarse shout , lifting his hot head , " The day is ours ! " he saith . So through long nights and days that bring no change , Or change but from wild hopes to wilder fears , And still our ...
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... cried . And fell on her knees ; and thanks to God Poured forth like a full flood - tide . Along the battery line her cry Had fallen among the men ; And they started , for they were to die ; Was life so near them , then ? They listened ...
... cried . And fell on her knees ; and thanks to God Poured forth like a full flood - tide . Along the battery line her cry Had fallen among the men ; And they started , for they were to die ; Was life so near them , then ? They listened ...
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... cried , The outer trenches guarding , When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding . The dark Redan , in silent scoff , Lay grim and threatening under ; And the tawny mound of the Malakoff No longer belched its ...
... cried , The outer trenches guarding , When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding . The dark Redan , in silent scoff , Lay grim and threatening under ; And the tawny mound of the Malakoff No longer belched its ...
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... cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death - shade round the ships , Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun . Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us ...
... cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death - shade round the ships , Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun . Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON arms banner battle BATTLE OF IVRY bells Bingen bishop bishop of Hereford blessed blood blow bold Robin Hood Bonnie Dundee brave breast breath BRET HARTE brow Brutus Cæsar cheer cried crown Cusha dark dead death earth Eldormen and Thanes EXTRACTS eyes face fall fame fathers fell fight forever friends galloped glory grave hand hast hath hear heard heart Heaven hills honor Horatius Hurrah King Edwin land Lars Porsena liberty light lips Little John live Lochinvar looked Lord morn never night noble Norman o'er once proud Rhine roar Robin Hood Rome rose round Samian wine shore shout sing sleep smile soldier song soul sound spake speak stand steed stood sweet sword tears tell thee thine THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thou to-day uppe voice waves weep WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE words
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Page 316 - And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Page 55 - 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 Amidst that pilgrim band : Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure...
Page 165 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 346 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead: That is the grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 268 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 160 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 29 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn...
Page 86 - Eske river where ford there was none : But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 61 - With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 298 - The bride at the altar ; Leave the deer, leave the steer, Leave nets and barges : Come with your fighting gear, Broadswords and targes. Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master. Fast they come, fast they come ; See how they gather ! Wide waves the eagle plume Blended with heather. Cast your plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set ! Pibroch...