Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
All students are expected to be able to read well ordinary prose and poetry, and it is for the purpose of helping them to do this, as well as to help teachers in the teaching of reading, that this book is prepared.
All students are expected to be able to read well ordinary prose and poetry, and it is for the purpose of helping them to do this, as well as to help teachers in the teaching of...
2. Part 2Again they muster from the far-off hillside, From country farm-house and from sea-girt shore; Their tramping feet resound along the highways, Their gleeful shouts ring on the ai...
3. Part 3A self-made man, indeed! then we owe no honor to such; The genuine self-made man you cannot honor too much; But be sure what you make _is_ a man—with a heart, and a soul, and a...
4. Part 4High o’er the black-backed Skerries, and far To the westward hills and the eastward sea, I shift my light like a twinkling star, With ever a star’s sweet constancy. They wait fo...
5. Part 5On its straight iron pathway the long train was rushing, With its noise, and its smoke, and its great human load; And I saw a wild rose that in beauty was blushing, Fresh and sw...
6. Part 6The king of the day is exerting his power, And night and cold at his bidding depart; All nature in this resurrection hour Will welcome my advent with joyous heart. Then hasten,...
7. Part 7=August.= Reign, thou Fire-month! Neither shalt thou destroy the earth which frosts and ice could not destroy. The vines droop, the trees stagger, but every night the dew pities...
8. Part 8O darkling River! Through the night I hear Thy wavelets rippling on the pebbly beach; I hear thy current stir the rustling sedge That skirts thy bed; thou intermittest not Thine...
9. Part 9God bless our Fathers’ Land! Keep her in heart and hand One with our own! From all her foes defend, Be her brave People’s Friend, On all her realms descend, Protect her Throne!
10. Part 10Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No!—true freedom is to share All the chains our brother...
11. Part 11The Pilgrim Fathers, after ten months of sickness and suffering, gathered in their first harvest, which consisted of twenty acres of corn, and six of barley and peas—enough to k...
12. Part 12When will He come? He’ll come to-morrow if you will; But cease your idle sitting still. Yes, He will come to-day. He will not come in clouds; but through Your doing all that you...
13. Part 13How you flutter, and reach, and climb! How eager your wee faces are! Aye, turned to the light till the blind old night Is led to the world by a star. Well, it surely is hard to...
14. Part 14_P._ Gently, Diogenes. Anger not thy mind with quick speech that is void of wisdom. Let us inquire into this matter with the calmness and deliberation befitting the dignity of p...
15. Part 15_Danton._ That is madness! Robespierre, the danger is a circle, and we are within it. If this continue and we do not put things in order, the French Revolution will kill the Kin...