Graded Poetry: Third Year
PRINCIPAL GIRLS' DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 6, NEW YORK CITY AND
SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
NEW YORK MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO. 1906
Copyright, 1905, BY MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.
Poetry is the chosen language of childhood and youth. The baby repeats words again and again for the mere joy of their sound: the melody of nursery rhymes gives a delight which is quite independent of the meaning of the words. Not until youth approaches maturity is there an equal pleasure in the rounded periods of elegant prose. It is in childhood therefore that the young mind should be stored with poems whose rhythm will be a present delight and whose beautiful thoughts will not lose their charm in later years.
The selections for the lowest grades are addressed primarily to the feeling for verbal beauty, the recognition of which in the mind of the child is fundamental to the plan of this work. The editors have felt that the inclusion of critical notes in these little books intended for elementary school children would be not only superfluous, but, in the degree in which critical comment drew the child's attention from the text, subversive of the desired result. Nor are there any notes on methods. The best way to teach children to love a poem is to read it inspiringly to them. The French say: The ear is the pathway to the heart. A poem should be so read that it will sing itself in the hearts of the listening children.
In the brief biographies appended to the later books the human element has been brought out. An effort has been made to call attention to the education of the poet and his equipment for his life work rather than to the literary qualities of his style.
The poems by Longfellow, Whittier, Alice Cary, J. T. Fields, and Frank Dempster Sherman are published by special arrangement with the publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Company.
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GRADED POETRY
THIRD YEAR
EDITED BY
KATHERINE D. BLAKE
GEORGIA ALEXANDER
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
THIRD YEAR—FIRST HALF
EDWARD LEAR
England, 1812-1888
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
Ireland, 1828-1889
Wishing
WILLIAM BLAKE
England, 1757-1827
The Piper
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI
England, 1830-1894
A Year's Windfalls
MARY HOWITT
England, 1804-1888
The Voice of Spring
THOMAS MILLER
England, 1807-1874
The Spring Walk
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
England, 1564-1616
"Over Hill, Over Dale"
ALFRED TENNYSON
England, 1809-1892
The Throstle
JANE TAYLOR
England, 1783-1824
The Violet
America, 1860-
Bobolink
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN
America, 1860-
The Four Winds
LUCY LARCOM
America, 1826-1893
The Violet
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN
America, 1860-
Pebbles
BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON
Norway, 1832-
The Tree
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN
America, 1860-
September
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
England, 1830-1894
The Swallow
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
America, 1802-1880
Thanksgiving Day
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
America, 1807-1882
Hiawatha's Childhood
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
America, 1807-1882
Hiawatha's Sailing
SABINE BARING-GOULD
England, 1834-
Child's Evening Prayer
THIRD YEAR—SECOND HALF
Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
ROBERT HERRICK
England, 1591-1674
Corinna going a-Maying
JOHN KEATS
England, 1795-1821
Sweet Peas
EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER
America, 1862-
The Bluebird
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Scotland, 1850-1894
Where go the Boats?
CHARLES LAMB, MARY LAMB
England, 1775-1834, England, 1764-1847
The Magpie's Nest
MARGARET VANDEGRIFT
America, 1845-
The Sandman
MARY HOWITT
England, 1804-1888
The Fairies of the Caldon-Low
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS
England, 1793-1835
Night-scented Flowers
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
America, 1807-1892
Indian Summer
ALICE CARY
America, 1820-1871
November
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
The Frost Spirit
ALFRED TENNYSON
England, 1809-1892
The Owl
GEORGE MACDONALD
Scotland, 1824-
The Wind and the Moon
JAMES T. FIELDS
America, 1817-1881
The Tempest
CLEMENT C. MOORE
America, 1779-1863
A Visit from St. Nicholas
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
England, 1770-1850
Lucy Gray
WILLIAM BRIGHTLY RANDS
England, 1823-1880
The Wonderful World
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
England, 1770-1850
To a Child
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI
England, 1830-1894
Consider
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Scotland, 1771-1832
Lullaby of an Infant Chief
EUGENE FIELD
America, 1850-1895
EUGENE FIELD
America, 1850-1895
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
America, 1836-
M. BETHAM EDWARDS
America, 1836-
A Child's Prayer
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