Graded Poetry: Third Year

By Good Press

'Graded Poetry: Third Year' is a collection of poems chosen for younger readers. The selections 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 felt that the inclusion of critical or explanatory 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. The poems are the selection of educators Katherine D. Blake and Georgia Alexander.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 25, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066174484

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Graded Poetry: Third Year

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GEORGIA ALEXANDER

INTRODUCTION

THIRD YEAR—FIRST HALF

EDWARD LEAR

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

Wishing

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Piper

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

A Year's Windfalls

MARY HOWITT

The Voice of Spring

THOMAS MILLER

The Spring Walk

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Over Hill, Over Dale

ALFRED TENNYSON

The Throstle

JANE TAYLOR

The Violet

Bobolink

FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN

The Four Winds

LUCY LARCOM

The Violet

FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN

Pebbles

BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON

The Tree

FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN

September

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

The Swallow

LYDIA MARIA CHILD

Thanksgiving Day

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Hiawatha's Childhood

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Hiawatha's Sailing

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Child's Evening Prayer

THIRD YEAR—SECOND HALF

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean

ROBERT HERRICK

Corinna going a-Maying

JOHN KEATS

Sweet Peas

EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER

The Bluebird

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Where go the Boats?

CHARLES LAMB, MARY LAMB

The Magpie's Nest

MARGARET VANDEGRIFT

The Sandman

MARY HOWITT

The Fairies of the Caldon-Low

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

Night-scented Flowers

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

Indian Summer

ALICE CARY

November

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

The Frost Spirit

ALFRED TENNYSON

The Owl

GEORGE MACDONALD

The Wind and the Moon

JAMES T. FIELDS

The Tempest

CLEMENT C. MOORE

A Visit from St. Nicholas

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Lucy Gray

WILLIAM BRIGHTLY RANDS

The Wonderful World

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

To a Child

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

Consider

SIR WALTER SCOTT

Lullaby of an Infant Chief

EUGENE FIELD

Dutch Lullaby

EUGENE FIELD

The Night Wind

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Marjorie's Almanac

M. BETHAM EDWARDS

A Child's Prayer

GEORGIA ALEXANDER

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SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

Emblem

NEW YORK

MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.

1906

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Copyright

, 1905,

BY

MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.

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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.