Poems by Grades (2); Containing Poems Selected for Each Grade of the School Course, Poems for Each Month, and Memory Gems
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Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Scribner's Subjects: English poetry American poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can s...
MoreVolume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Scribner's Subjects: English poetry American poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SEE WHAT A LOVELY SHELL C[ EE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! What is it? A learned man Could give a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same. The tiny cell is forlorn, Void of the little living will That made it stir on the shore. Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill? Did he push, when he was uncurl'd, A golden foot or a fairy horn Thro' his dim water world? SEE WHAT A LOVELY SHELI 27 Slight, to be crushed with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but a work divine, Frail, but of force to withstand Year upon year the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine Athwart the ledges of rock, Here on the Breton strand 1 Tennyson. THE ARROW AND THE SONG T 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, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. Longfellow THE BALLAD OF THE BOAT HP HE stream was smooth as glass; we said, " Arise, anc. X let's away!" The Siren sang beside the ...
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