Child Life in Tale and Fable: A Second Reader, Libro 2The Macmillancompany, 1899 - 159 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
asked beautiful big bear birds bright Chicken Little child City Mouse Cocky Locky cried dinner donkey duck duckling Ducky Lucky eggs farmer fast father flew flowers friends gold Golden Touch Goody Twoshoes goose Goosey Loosey goslings grain grandmother green HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN happy Henny Penny HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hiawatha jumped King Arthur King Midas lark leaves leaves of glass light little bear little boy little girl little red hen Little Red Riding lived looked Marygold Mayor meadow Merlin middle-sized bear moon morning mother nest night nuts open the door peas Pied Piper pipe play poems porridge pretty rats Red Riding Hood river ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON rooster shining Silver Locks sky has fallen sleep Snow-white and Rose-red soon tell the King thought three bears Thumb told took ugly ugly duckling weather-vane wind window wish Witling wolf woods
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Página 84 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in Summer, Where they hid themselves in Winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them
Página 147 - And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, — Followed the Piper...
Página 159 - THE sun descending in the west The evening star does shine, The birds are silent in their nest And I must seek for mine, The moon, like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight Sits and smiles on the night...
Página 72 - IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day...
Página 60 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Página 151 - THERE'S no dew left on the daisies and clover, There's, no rain left in heaven : I've said my " seven times" over and over, Seven times one are seven. I am old, so old, I can write a letter ; My birthday lessons are done ; The lambs play always, they know no better ; They are only one times one. 0 moon ! in the night I have seen you sailing And shining so round and low ; You were bright ! ah, bright ! but your light is failing, — You are nothing now but a bow.
Página 114 - He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
Página 16 - BOY'S SONG Where the pools are bright and deep, Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and o'er the lea, That's the way for Billy and me. Where the blackbird sings the latest, Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, Where the nestlings chirp and flee, That's the way for Billy and me.
Página 28 - AT evening when I go to bed I see the stars shine overhead; They are the little daisies white That dot the meadow of the Night.
Página 94 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dropping moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.