Poems for the Study of Language Prescribed in the Course of Study for the Common Schools of Illinois Volume 3; Seventh and Eighth Years
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Poems for the Study of Language Prescribed in the Course of Study for the Common Schools of Illinois Volume 3; Seventh and Eighth Years


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1907 Excerpt: ... CHILDREN Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Come to me, O ye children! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye open the eastern windows, 5 That look towards the sun, Where thoughts are singing swallows And the brooks of morning run. In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine. In your thoughts the brooklet's flow, 10 But in mine is the wind of Autumn And the first fall of the snow. Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us 15 Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest, With light and air for food, Ere their sweet and tender juices Have been hardened into wood, --20 1 This poem of Longfellow's and the four following--The Old Clock on the Stairs, The Herons of Elmwood, The Two Angels, and To the River Charles--refer to his Cambridge home. So, also, do The Children's Hour, page 14, and The Village Blacksmith, page 37. That to the world are children; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children!, 25 And whisper in" my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, 30 When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, 35 And all the rest are dead. THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Somewhat back from the village street Stands the old-fashioned country-seat. Across its antique portico Tall poplar-trees their shadows throw; 2. The house thus described was that now known as the Plunkett mansion in Pittsfield, once the home of Mrs. Longfellow's maternal grandfa...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217863049
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217863043
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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