The Children's Garland from the Best PoetsCoventry Patmore Macmillan, 1866 - 344 páginas |
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... children , —of and from the age at which they have usually learned to read , in common with grown people . A collection on this plan has , I believe , never before been made , although the value of the principle seems clear . The test ...
... children , —of and from the age at which they have usually learned to read , in common with grown people . A collection on this plan has , I believe , never before been made , although the value of the principle seems clear . The test ...
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... children , and most of the poetry written about children for grown people . Hence , the absence of several well - known pieces , which some persons who examine this volume may be surprised at not finding in it . I have taken the liberty ...
... children , and most of the poetry written about children for grown people . Hence , the absence of several well - known pieces , which some persons who examine this volume may be surprised at not finding in it . I have taken the liberty ...
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... You are old , Father William , ' the young man cried 173 You beauteous ladies great and small 277 You spotted snakes with double tongue 257 Young Henry was as brave a youth . 183 CONTENTS I II III IV V VI The Child and Index xi.
... You are old , Father William , ' the young man cried 173 You beauteous ladies great and small 277 You spotted snakes with double tongue 257 Young Henry was as brave a youth . 183 CONTENTS I II III IV V VI The Child and Index xi.
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Coventry Patmore. CONTENTS I II III IV V VI The Child and the Piper On May Morning The Approach of the Fairies Answer to a Child's Question The Brook Stars VII The Shepherd to his Love VIII The Kitten and Falling Leaves IX The Ferryman ...
Coventry Patmore. CONTENTS I II III IV V VI The Child and the Piper On May Morning The Approach of the Fairies Answer to a Child's Question The Brook Stars VII The Shepherd to his Love VIII The Kitten and Falling Leaves IX The Ferryman ...
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... Children in the Wood LVII LVIII Robin Redbreast The Owl LIX Hart - Leap Well LX The Summer Shower LXI The Mouse's Petition LXII The Grasshopper LXIII The Shepherd's Home LXIV The Lord of Burleigh LXV The Mountain and the Squirrel LXVI ...
... Children in the Wood LVII LVIII Robin Redbreast The Owl LIX Hart - Leap Well LX The Summer Shower LXI The Mouse's Petition LXII The Grasshopper LXIII The Shepherd's Home LXIV The Lord of Burleigh LXV The Mountain and the Squirrel LXVI ...
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Términos y frases comunes
a-begging Abbot Binnorie bird bishop bishop of Hereford blow bower brave bright cheer child cold cried Crocodile dark daughter dead dear door Dora doth eyes fair fair lady fast father fear fell flowers gallant gallant story Gilpin gold green grew guilders hand Hark hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hill horse Inchcape Rock John John Barleycorn king lady land light Little John Little white Lily live Lochinvar look look'd Lord Lord Randal loud maid merry moon morning ne'er never Nevermore night o'er Old Ballad old courtier poison'd poor pray quoth Robin Hood rode round S. T. Coleridge shepherd sing Skiddaw smile song soon soul steed stood storm stream sweet tell thee thou thought took trees Twas unto wild Wildgrave wind wings Witch word young
Pasajes populares
Página 159 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?
Página 4 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Página 67 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Página 195 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Página 196 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted— nevermore!
Página 261 - Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's watery beams...
Página 328 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail, And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances uplifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 19 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Página 20 - The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Página 61 - And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; "We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. "Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.