Our Country's Readers, Book 4Southern Publishing Company, 1903 - Readers |
Common terms and phrases
ALFRED TENNYSON Ali Baba Alice apple-tree Baba barefoot boy began boat Burgesses called Cassim child cried Peony dainty Baby Bell deer delighted Dilly Bal door Evelyn eyes father forest friends garret give gold grew hand head heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hiawatha horse House of Burgesses Houston Jefferson JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER kiss Kittykin knew lady laughing Lindsey little Hiawatha little snow-sister lived lobster looked mamma Mary Morgiana morning mother mountain nest never night Nokomis o'er opened parlor Patrick Henry PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE play poems Rabbit round San Jacinto Santa Anna seemed snow snow-child snow-image soon star story tell things thou thought Tin Soldier took tree Vince's Bridge Violet and Peony Virginia voice walked wife WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT window wood yard young
Popular passages
Page 157 - When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook the mighty deep.
Page 77 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you...
Page 177 - Blessed are the meek : for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness : for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peace-makers : for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 50 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 121 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Page 200 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 176 - WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Page 121 - THE LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Page 179 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Page 179 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.