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... Sidney and Clifford Lanier's poem in negro dialect , " The Power of Prayer ; or The First Steamboat Up the Alabama . " VIII Suggested Oral : 1 A review in which the Scottish dialect poems in Book One of " Everyday English " shall be ...
... Sidney and Clifford Lanier's poem in negro dialect , " The Power of Prayer ; or The First Steamboat Up the Alabama . " VIII Suggested Oral : 1 A review in which the Scottish dialect poems in Book One of " Everyday English " shall be ...
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... Sidney Lanier . The longer you know these poems , the more sat- isfying will they be to your sense of rhythm . I trust you will commit both to memory , to be kept there as long as you live . The first you may think over without help ...
... Sidney Lanier . The longer you know these poems , the more sat- isfying will they be to your sense of rhythm . I trust you will commit both to memory , to be kept there as long as you live . The first you may think over without help ...
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... a myriad flowers mortally yearn , And the lordly main from behind the plain Calls o'er the hills of Habersham , Calls through the valleys of Hall . Sidney Lanier . EXERCISES I Mental : 1 How many accents , each EVERYDAY ENGLISH 139.
... a myriad flowers mortally yearn , And the lordly main from behind the plain Calls o'er the hills of Habersham , Calls through the valleys of Hall . Sidney Lanier . EXERCISES I Mental : 1 How many accents , each EVERYDAY ENGLISH 139.
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... Sidney Lanier's " Song of the Chattahoochee . " 1 a Count the whole number of different riming syllables in this song , and let a different letter stand for each one , as shown here in the first stanza : am , all , a b ain , ain , ( c ) ...
... Sidney Lanier's " Song of the Chattahoochee . " 1 a Count the whole number of different riming syllables in this song , and let a different letter stand for each one , as shown here in the first stanza : am , all , a b ain , ain , ( c ) ...
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... Sidney Lanier , one of America's noblest poets , gathered together into this book such early English ballads as he thought boys would especially like , selecting these from the large and famous collection made by Bishop Percy and called ...
... Sidney Lanier , one of America's noblest poets , gathered together into this book such early English ballads as he thought boys would especially like , selecting these from the large and famous collection made by Bishop Percy and called ...
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Page 81 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff
Page 280 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice Singing in Paradise : He needs must think of her once more How in the grave she lies, And with his hard rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 12 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 12 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 75 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Page 137 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 231 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black. An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! but when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 4 - The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 234 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way ? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Page 226 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.