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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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Scythe Song
BY ANDREW LANG
Mowers, weary and brown, and blithe,
What is the word methinks ye know,
Endless over-word that the Scythe
Sings to the blades of the grass below?
Scythes that swing in the grass and clover,
Something, still, they say as they pass;
What is the word that, over and over,
Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass?Hush, ah hush, the Scythes are saying,
Hush, and heed not, and fall asleep;
Hush, they say to the grasses swaying;
Hush, they sing to the clover deep!
Hush—’t is the lullaby Time is singing—
Hush, and heed not, for all things pass;
Hush, ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging
Over the clover, over the grass! -
The Village Blacksmith
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate’er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter’s voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.It sounds to him like her mother’s voice
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.