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.
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CONTENTS
FIRST HALF YEAR
Good Name _William Shakespeare_
From "Love's Labor's Lost". _William Shakespeare_
From "Richard II," Act II, Sc. I _William Shakespeare_
Jog on, Jog on _William Shakespeare_
The Downfall of Wolsey _William Shakespeare_
The Noble Nature _Ben Johnson_
Song on a May Morning _John Milton_
O God, our Help in Ages Past. _Isaac Watts_
The Diverting History of John Gilpin _William Cowper_
Bannockburn _Robert Burns_
My Heart's in the Highlands _Robert Burns_
The Solitary Reaper _William Wordsworth_
Sonnet _William Wordsworth_
"Soldier, Rest!" _Walter Scott_
Lochinvar _Walter Scott_
The Star-Spangled Banner _Francis Scott Key_
Hohenlinden _Thomas Campbell_
The Harp that Once through Tara's Halls _Thomas Moore_
Childe Harold's Farewell to England _George Noel Gordon,
Lord Byron_
The Night before Waterloo _George Noel Gordon,
Lord Byron_
Abide with Me _Henry Francis Lyte_
Horatius at the Bridge _Thomas B.
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