Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Practically every state course of study gives a list of poems from which it is required that selection be made for reading or memorizing. These lists and their grading vary in the different states, although the same poems are used in many of them and there are some which are r...
To pass through the bowers of the silver cloud; To sing in the thunder hall aloud; To spread out the wings for a wild, free flight With the upper cloud-wings,--oh, what delight!...
1. Part 1Practically every state course of study gives a list of poems from which it is required that selection be made for reading or memorizing. These lists and their grading vary in t...
2. Part 2Quiet lay the sturgeon, Nahma, Fanning slowly in the water, Looking up at Hiawatha, Listening to his call and clamor, His unnecessary tumult, Till he wearied of the shouting; An...
6. Part 6And there ought to be a corner for me (And I know there is one for you) When we get the hump-- Cameelious hump-- The hump that is black and blue!
4. Part 4I saw a ship a-sailing, A-sailing on the sea; Her masts were of the shining gold, Her deck of ivory; And sails of silk, as soft as milk, And silver shrouds had she.
5. Part 5"It seems a shame," the Walrus said, "To play them such a trick. After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick!" The Carpenter said nothing but "The butter's...
7. Part 7"Ah, you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers, to-day, A whisper inside me seemed to say, 'You are more tha...
8. Part 8Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings Have you ever heard the wind go "Yooooo"? He is a roguish little elf Here's a hand to the boy who has cou...