Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
POETRY is the chosen language of childhood and youth. The baby repeats words again and again for the mere joy of their sound: the melody of nursery rhymes gives a delight which is quite independent of the meaning of the words. Not until youth approaches maturity is there an eq...
He smiles to see the eyelids close 5 Above the happy eyes; And every child right well he knows,-- Oh, he is very wise! But if, as he goes through the land, A naughty baby cries,...
2. Chapter 2The Tree bore his fruit in the midsummer glow; 5 Said the girl: "May I gather thy berries now?" "Yes, all thou canst see: Take them; all are for thee," Said the Tree, while he b...
1. Chapter 1POETRY is the chosen language of childhood and youth. The baby repeats words again and again for the mere joy of their sound: the melody of nursery rhymes gives a delight which...
4. Chapter 4Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. "Where are you going, and what do you wish?" 10 The old m...