The Wide Awake Second ReaderLittle, Brown, 1908 - 191 páginas |
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baby beautiful birds blossoms blue BLUE WEATHER boat bright Buzzing Cake child clouds cold cook cried dance dear dinner doll dress Father Flower firefly FIVE LITTLE PIGS Flax gander garden Giant glad goat Grandpa grass Grasshopper Gay green Helen HELEN HUNT JACKSON hill Jack Frost jumped Lars laughed LAURA LAURA E little boy little girl little old little pig little plant Little white gate live looked lovely Lullaby Castle Mamma meadow Miss Crewe morning mother Mouse Nanee Nanee's Ned and Jack night North Wind old leaf pine tree play pond Pot of Gold pretty purple clover Pussy willows rain rainbow RICHARDS rocks ROSALIND RICHARDS sail sailor-man shining shouted sing sleep snow song Sophie summer sweet tell Thrifty Thrifty Ant warm watch waves WIDE AWAKE window winter wish wood-chopper woods
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Página 32 - Boats sail on the rivers, And ships sail on the seas ; But clouds that sail across the sky; Are prettier far than these. There are bridges on the rivers, As pretty as you please; But the bow that bridges heaven, And overtops the trees, And builds a road from earth to sky, Is prettier far than these.
Página 165 - Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter. The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom. Once a...
Página 83 - WHICHEVER way the wind doth blow, Some heart is glad to have it so; Then blow it east or blow it west, The wind that blows, that wind is best.
Página 61 - Hush! the waves are rolling in, White with foam, white with foam: Father toils amid the din; But baby sleeps at home.
Página 169 - And the Giant's heart melted as he looked out. "How selfish I have been !" he said ; "now I know why the Spring would not come here. I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children's playground for ever and ever.
Página 75 - O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather; When loud the bumblebee makes haste, Belated, thriftless vagrant, And goldenrod is dying fast, And lanes with grapes are fragrant; When gentians roll their fringes tight To save them for the morning, And chestnuts fall from satin...
Página 30 - Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock.
Página 19 - They kept on, step by step, matching their footprints. They laughed to see the gray dust puff up between their bare toes. By and by the little boy looked up. "Why! " he said. "We are at the top of the hill.
Página 163 - Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the springtime broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. ' How happy we are here !