The Elson Readers..: Book 5-8 ...Scott, Foresman and Company, 1920 |
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adventure Aladdin Ali Baba Alice Cary answered arrows Baba beautiful birds Blefuscu blue weather boat bright brown thrush called Captain Cassim cried Discussion door Emperor Epimetheus eyes father flowers forest friends gave give Glossary the meaning gold Golden Touch hand head heard heart HELEN HUNT JACKSON Hiawatha horses island King Midas knew Kwasind lamp land laugh lines that tell Little John lived magician Marygold merry Morgiana morning mother night Nokomis NOTES AND QUESTIONS Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Pronounce QUESTIONS Biography rich river Robin Hood round sail Sheriff of Nottingham ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR singing song soon stanza Star-Spangled Banner story stranger Suggestions for Silent things thought told took tree Turk voyage wild wind wonderful wood words
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104. oldal - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: Oh ! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
87. oldal - HOME. :Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
55. oldal - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
322. oldal - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
64. oldal - And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!
96. oldal - As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, — and St.
97. oldal - He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle ; But I heard him exclaim,...
96. oldal - He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
323. oldal - I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.
97. oldal - He was chubby and plump ; a right jolly old elf; And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings ; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle , But I heard him exclaim,...