Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
"And can this be my own world? 'Tis all gold and snow, Save where scarlet waves are hurled Down yon gulf below." "'Tis thy world, 'tis my world, City, mead, and shore, For he that hath his own world Hath many worlds more."
We are much bound to them that do succeed; But, in a more pathetic sense, are bound To such as fail. They all our loss expound; They comfort us for work that will not speed, And...
16. CHAPTER XV.Mopsa woke: she was rather too big to be nursed, for she was the size of Jack, and looked like a sweet little girl of ten years, but she did not always behave like one; sometime...
5. CHAPTER V."That gypsy woman who is coming with her cart," said the parrot, "is a fairy too, and very malicious. It was she and others of her tribe who caught us and put us into these cage...
3. CHAPTER III."Wake, baillie, wake! the crafts are out; Wake!" said the knight, "be quick! For high street, bye street, over the town They fight with poker and stick." Said the squire, "A fig...
4. CHAPTER IV.The dove laid some little sticks, Then began to coo; The gnat took his trumpet up To play the day through; The pie chattered soft and long-- But that she always does; The bee di...
13. CHAPTER XII.Before the apple-woman had finished, Jack and Mopsa saw the Queen coming in great state, followed by thousands of the one-foot-one fairies, and leading by a ribbon round its nec...
8. CHAPTER VIII.By this time, as the sun had gone down, and none of the moons had risen, it would have been dark but that each of the rafts was rigged with a small mast that had a lantern hung...
7. CHAPTER VII.The old hound went straight through the town, smelling Clink's footsteps, till he came into a large field of barley; and there, sitting against a sheaf, for it was harvest time,...
14. CHAPTER XIII."Where is it now?" said the stone-woman; and when Jack heard that he ran down to the river, and looked right and looked left. At last he saw his boat,--a mere speck in the dista...
1. CHAPTER I."And can this be my own world? 'Tis all gold and snow, Save where scarlet waves are hurled Down yon gulf below." "'Tis thy world, 'tis my world, City, mead, and shore, For he th...
9. CHAPTER IX.When breakfast was over, the guests got up, one after the other, without taking the least notice of the Queen; and the tent began to get so thin and transparent that you could s...
15. CHAPTER XIV.There were many fruit-trees on that slope of the mountain, and Jack and Mopsa, as they came down, gathered some fruit for breakfast, and did not feel very tired, for the long ri...
12. CHAPTER XI.Sweet is childhood--childhood's over, Kiss and part. Sweet is youth; but youth's a rover-- So's my heart. Sweet is rest; but by all showing Toil is nigh. We must go. Alas! the g...
6. CHAPTER VI."Court her, master, court her, So shall ye do weel; But and ben she'll guide the house, I'se get milk and meal. Ye'se get lilting while she sits With her rock and reel."
2. CHAPTER II."It has been our lot to sail with many captains, not one of whom is fit to be a patch on your back."--_Letter of the Ship's Company of H. M. S. S. Royalist to Captain W. T. Bate._
11. did. On all sides of the boat he saw holes moving about in pairs, andsome were so close that he looked and saw their lining: they were lined with pink, and they snorted! Jack was afraid, but he considered that this was such a long time ago that t...
10. CHAPTER X.Mopsa replied that she thought that did not signify, and then she and Jack began to play at jumping from the boat on to the bank, and back again; and afterwards, as not a single...