Children's Anthologies
PAGE THE DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 1 TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN _William Cullen Bryant_ 4 TO A MOUSE _Robert Burns_ 5 TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY _Robert Burns_ 8 THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET _Samuel Wordsworth_ 11 BANNOCKBURN _Robert Burns_ 15 BOAT SONG _Sir Walter Scott_ 17 THE GOVERNOR AN...
"This Hermit good lives in that wood Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears! He loves to talk with marineres That come from a far countree.
1. Chapter 1PAGE THE DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 1 TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN _William Cullen Bryant_ 4 TO A MOUSE _Robert Burns_ 5 TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY _Robert Burns_ 8 THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET...
6. Chapter 6"O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from heaven, That slid into my soul.
7. Chapter 7"Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close...
4. Chapter 4"There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye! When looking westward, I beheld A something in t...
2. Chapter 2"With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who[31-5] pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe[31-6], And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roa...
5. Chapter 5"I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky,[42-31] Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead we...
3. Chapter 3"And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow,-- Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, That ma...