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    Graded Poetry: Seventh Year
    Graded Poetry: Seventh Year
    Graded Poetry: Seventh Year
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    Graded Poetry: Seventh Year

    By Georgia Alexander and Katherine Devereux Blake

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Graded Poetry: Seventh Year

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      Graded Poetry - Georgia Alexander

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Graded Poetry: Second Year, by Various

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      Title: Graded Poetry: Second Year

      Author: Various

      Editor: Katherine D. Blake

              Georgia Alexander

      Posting Date: February 16, 2013 [EBook #9542]

      Release Date: December, 2005

      First Posted: October 7, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GRADED POETRY: SECOND YEAR ***

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      GRADED POETRY

      SEVENTH YEAR

      EDITED BY

      KATHERINE D. BLAKE

      PRINCIPAL, GIRLS' DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 6,

      NEW YORK CITY

      AND

      GEORGIA ALEXANDER

      SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

      1906

      INTRODUCTION

      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.

      CONTENTS

      FIRST HALF YEAR

      SECOND HALF YEAR

      Biographical Sketches of Authors

             * * * * *

      SEVENTH YEAR—FIRST HALF

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      ENGLAND, 1564-1616

      Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,

      Is the immediate jewel of their souls:

      Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;

      'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;

      But he that filches from me my good name

      Robs me of that which not enriches him

      And makes me poor indeed.

      —OTHELLO, Act II, Sc. 3.

             * * * * *

      When daisies pied and violets blue,

      And lady-smocks all silver-white,

      And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

      Do paint the meadows with delight.

      —LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST, Act V, Sc. 2.

             * * * * *

      This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,

      This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,

      This other Eden, demi-paradise;

      This fortress built by Nature for herself

      Against infection and the hand of war;

      This happy breed of men, this little world,

      This precious stone set in the silver sea,

      Which serves it in the office of a wall,

      Or as a moat defensive to a house,

      Against the envy of less happier lands;

      This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

      —RICHARD II, Act II, Sc. 1.

             * * * * *

      Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,

      And merrily hent the stile-a:

      A merry heart goes all the day,

      Your sad tires in a mile-a.

      —From WINTER'S TALE.

             * * * * *

      The Downfall of Wolsey

      Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!

      This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth

      The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms

      And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;

      The third day comes a frost, a killing frost;

      And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely

      His greatness is a ripening, nips his root,

      And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,

      Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,

      This many summers in a sea of glory,

      But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride

      At length broke under me; and now has left me,

      Weary and old with service, to the mercy

      Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me.

      Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:

      I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched

      Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!

      There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,

      That sweet aspect of princes, and their

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