Nature in Verse: A Poetry Reader for Children |
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Alice Cary autumn baby beautiful bees bloom blossoms blow blue Blynken Bob-o'-link bobolink boughs breeze bright brook brown buds buttercups chee child clouds clover cowslips creak cricket daisies dance dandelion dear little dress earth eyes fair fairy flowers fly away home gold golden goldenrod good-night grass gray green grow head hear heard heart Helen Hunt Jackson Jack Frost Jean Ingelow ladybird ladybug laughed leaves light lilies little bird little Daisy look Mary Howitt Mayflower meadow merry moon morning mother nest never night o'er pansies patter peep pine-tree play pretty purple Pussy Pussy Willow rain robin rose round Selected shining sing sleep smile snow soft song spider Spink spring stars summer sunbeam sunshine sweet swing tell thee There's things thrush tree Violet wake warm weather whisper wind wings winter wood yellow
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Page 241 - Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.
Page 235 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 240 - And a feeling of sadness conies o'er me, That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 3 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 3 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 264 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn, And keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, Poor thing.
Page 114 - Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
Page 235 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 86 - MERRILY swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain-side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name ; " Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee.
Page 101 - Our outward life requires them not : Then wherefore had they birth ? To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth ; To comfort man, to whisper hope Whene'er his faith is dim ; For whoso careth for the flowers, Will much more care for him ! MARY HOWITT.