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Table of Contents
- Categories:
- Grade Level
- Themes
- Autumn/ Harvest
- Beauty
- Books
- Brothers and Sisters
- Cathedrals
- Christmas
- Colonial Days
- Coming Home
- Courage
- Epiphany/ Stars
- Farm Life
- Father
- Foreign Lands
- Games and Friends
- Heroes
- History and Heritage
- Home
- Home/ Family
- Homeland
- Hospitality
- Leaders
- Love of Learning
- Love of Work
- Medieval Trades
- Mother
- Music
- Nobility of Work
- School
- Sea Life
- Spring/ Easter
- Stories/ Books
- Summer
- Teller of Tales
- Thanksgiving
- Trades and Crafts
- Travel and Adventure
- Village
- Winter Games
- Winter/ Snow
- Authors
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Aldrick, Thomas (The Cruise of the Dolphin)
- Bailey, Carolyn S. (Children of the Handcrafts)
- Baldwin, James (The Story of Balder, The Story of Siegfried)
- Barton, Clara (Letters)
- Belloc, Hilaire (The Harbour in the North, Hills and the Sea, The Singer)
- Bjorn, Thyra F. (Dear Papa, Mama’s Way)
- Boswell, James
- Brandeis, Madeline (Little Tom of England, The Wee Scotch Piper)
- Buck, Pearl
- Burton, Katherine (Mother Buttler of Marymount, Valiant Voyager)
- Carlier, Mary
- Cather, Willa (O Pioneers!)
- Chambers, Whitaker (Witness)
- Coatsworth, Elizabeth (The Fair American)
- Cooper, Gordon (An Hour in the Morning)
- Dalgliesh, Alice
- de Angeli, Marguerite (The Door in the Wall)
- de Hueck, Catherine (My Russian Yesterdays)
- di Donato, Pietro
- Dickens, Charles (The Battle of Life)
- Embury, Lucy
- Farjeon, Eleanor
- Farrow, John (Damien the Leper)
- Ford, Lauren
- Friskey, Margaret
- Goudge, Elizabeth (A City of Bells, The Herb of Grace)
- Grahame, Kenneth
- Gray, Elizabeth Janet (Adam of the Road)
- Green, Julien (Memories of Happy Days)
- Gunston, David
- Harnett, Cynthia (The Wool Pack)
- Hearne, Samuel (Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson Bay to the Northern Ocean)
- Hemon, Louis
- Hickock, Lorena (The Story of Helen Keller)
- Hunermann, Wilhelm (Listen, Vienna!)
- Irving, Washington (Bracebridge Hall, Old Christmas)
- Jewett, Eleanor M. (The Hidden Treasure of Glaston)
- Jewett, Sarah Orne (Country By-Ways, The Country of the Pointed Firs)
- Jewett, Sophie (God’s Troubadour)
- Kelly, Eleanor
- Kipling, Rudyard (Captains Courageous)
- Labaky, Mansour
- Lamprey, Louise
- Lownsbery, Eloise (Boy Knight of Reims)
- Lenski, Lois (Prairie School)
- MacManus, Seumas (A Day in the Bog)
- Maritain, Raissa (We Have Been Friends Together)
- Meigs, Cornelia (Invincible Louisa, Young Americans, Wild Geese Flying)
- Milhous, Katherine
- Mitchel, Margaret (Gone With the Wind)
- Montgomery, L. M. (Anne’s House of Dreams)
- Morley, Christopher (Parnassus on Wheels)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (Letters)
- Olcott, Virginia (Anton and Trini, Karl and Gretel)
- Paulsen, Gary
- Pyle, Howard (Otto of the Silver Hand)
- Rutledge, Archibald
- Salgari, Emilio (Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia)
- Seredy, Kate (The Good Master, The Singing Tree)
- Stanley-Wrench, Margaret (Teller of Tales)
- Stein, Evaleen (Troubadour Tales)
- Sweetser, Kate (Ten American Girls from History)
- Taber, Gladys (January)
- Tappan, Eva M.
- Tazewell, Charles (Small One)
- ten Boom, Corrie (The Hiding Place)
- Thompson, Flora (Lark Rise)
- Thornton, Francis B. (A Sea of Glory)
- Trowbridge, John T. (A Book of Brave Deeds)
- Twain, Mark (The Innocents Abroad)
- Unknown
- Uttley, Alison
- van Stockum, Hilda (Friendly Gables, Pegeen)
- Vidal, Elena Marie (Trianon)
- von Guttenberg, Elizabeth (Holding the Stirrup)
- von Hildebrand, Alice
- von Trapp, Maria (The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)
- Walsh, Edmund (The Woodcarver of Tyrol)
- Webster, Jean
- Wheeler, Opal (The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky)
- Welty, Eudora
- West, Trudy (The Young Charles Lamb)
- Wilder, Laura E.
- Willard, Barbara (Son of Charlemagne)
- Wojciechowska, Maia (Shadow of a Bull)
- Yates, Elizabeth (The Journeyman, Mountain Born, A Place for Peter)
- Yonge, Charlotte (The Little Duke)
- Poets
- Addison, Joseph
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Brooke, Robert
- Burns, Robert
- Cary, Phoebe
- Cunningham, Allan
- Dickenson, Emily
- Field, Eugene
- Gore-Booth, Eva
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Houghton, Lord aka: Milnes, Richard Mockton
- Keats, John
- Kingsley, Charles
- Lang, Andrew
- Letts, Winifred M.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Evangeline)
- Masefield, John
- McCrae, John
- Miller, Joaquin
- Milton, John
- Moore, Hannah
- Moore, Thomas
- Oliphant, Carolina (Lady Nairne)
- Payne, John Howard
- Péguy, Charles
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Shakespeare, William (Love’s Labours Lost)
- Sitwell, Osbert
- Southey, Robert
- Spenser, Edmund (The Faerie Queene)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Swift, Jonathan
- Traherne, Thomas
- Unknown
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wilbur, Richard
- Wordsworth, William
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St. Mary’s Bells
BY JOHN MASEFIELD
It ‘s pleasant in Holy Mary
By San Marie lagoon,
The bells they chime and jingle
From dawn to afternoon.
They rhyme and chime and mingle,
They pulse and boom and beat,
And the laughing bells are gentle
And the mournful bells are sweet.Oh, who are the men that ring them,
The bells of San Marie,
Oh, who but sonsie seamen
Come in from over sea,
And merrily in the belfries
They rock and sway and hale,
And send the bells a-jangle,
And down the lusty ale.It ‘s pleasant in Holy Mary
To hear the beaten bells
Come booming into music,
Which throbs, and clangs, and swells,
From sunset till the daybreak,
From dawn to afternoon,
In port of Holy Mary
On San Marie Lagoon. -
Night
BY ROBERT SOUTHEY
How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,
Breaks the serene of heaven:
In full-orb’d glory yonder Moon divine
Rolls through the dark-blue depths.
Beneath her steady ray
The desert-circle spreads,
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night!