Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The Narrative and Lyric Poems contained in this volume are those prescribed by the Department of Education for examination for Junior and Senior Public School Diplomas, and for the Senior High School Entrance, and Entrance into the Model Schools. (Circular 58.)
In the Old Colony days, in Plymouth the land of the Pilgrims,[2] To and fro in a room of his simple and primitive dwelling, Clad in doublet[3] and hose, and boots of Cordovan[4]...
9. Chapter 9Lo! when the service was ended, a form appeared on the threshold, Clad in armor of steel, a sombre and sorrowful figure! Why does the bridegroom start and stare at the strange a...
2. Chapter 2Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see; 485 Nought spake he to Lars Porsena, To Sextus nought spake he; But he saw on Palatinus[58] The white porch of his ho...
5. Chapter 5[63] The Twelve. In order to prevent the shield of Mars from being stolen, eleven others were made after the same pattern, and twelve priests were appointed to guard the twelve...
8. Chapter 8"Are you so much offended, you will not speak to me?" said she. "Am I so much to blame, that yesterday, when you were pleading Warmly the cause of another, my heart, impulsive a...
10. Chapter 10He spoke; and Peran-Wisa turn'd, and strode Back through the opening squadrons to his tent. 185 But through the anxious Persians Gudurz ran, And cross'd the camp which lay behin...
1. Chapter 1The Narrative and Lyric Poems contained in this volume are those prescribed by the Department of Education for examination for Junior and Senior Public School Diplomas, and for...
4. Chapter 4But meanwhile in the centre Great deeds of arms were wrought; There Aulus the Dictator 335 And there Valerius fought. Aulus with his good broadsword A bloody passage cleared To...
3. Chapter 3And did they twine the laurel-wreath,[10] for those who fought so well 110 And did they honour those who liv'd, and weep for those who fell? What meed of thanks was given to the...
7. Chapter 7Into the open air John Alden, perplexed and bewildered, Rushed like a man insane, and wandered alone by the sea-side, 340 Paced up and down the sands, and bared his head to the...
11. Chapter 11He spoke; and as he ceas'd he wept aloud, Thinking of her he left, and his own death. 600 He spoke; but Rustum listen'd, plung'd in thought. Nor did he yet believe it was his so...