9. Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds; You can't do that when you're flying words. 10. Earth-day or birth-day— Which the true mirth-day? Which the well-worth-day? 11. There the river eddy whirls And the red cloaks of market girls, Pass onward from Shalott. TENNYSON. 12. Ye may trace my steps o'er the waking earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth. 13. Below they lie, their sails are furled, 14. Beautiful lips are those whose words 15. Wind of the sea, sweep over the bay, And bear me away! away! 16. The sun that brief December day, Rose cheerless over hills of gray. -STODDARD. -RILEY. -WHITTIER. 17. But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late. -SCOTT. 18. Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed. 19. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, -GOLDSMITH. 20. Set all things in their own peculiar place, And know that order is the greatest grace. TENNYSON. -DRYDEN. 21. Blow high, blow low; not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow. 22. O'er the high and o'er the lowly, Floats our banner bright and holy. 23. What way does the wind come? What way does he go? He rides over the water and over the snow. 24. Only a brave old maple Shorn of its scarlet and gold, And traced in the scroll of sunset 25. Open afresh your round of starry folds, Ye ardent marigolds. -WHITTIER. -SCHILLER. -KEATS. 26. Not blither is the mountain roe: With many a wanton stroke Her feet dispersed the powdery snow, That rises up like smoke. -WORDSWORTH. 27. Through every hollow cave and valley lone, Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotos-dust is blown. -TENNYSON. 28. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. 29. Oh velvet Bee! you're a dusty fellow— You've powdered your legs with gold. Oh brave marsh marybuds rich and yellow, 30. Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. -HOLMES. -JEAN INGELOW. 31. Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach, and sunsets show! 32. -and all in a moment his roan TENNYSON. -EMERSON. Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone. -BROWNING. Quotations Containing the Sounds of i as in ice, u as in use, oi as in oil, and ou as in out 1. On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye. 2. Strike till the last armed foe expires; 3. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, 4. Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. 5. I hear the cry -TENNYSON. -HALLECK. -SHAKESPEARE. Of their voices high Falling dreamily through the sky. 6. Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes. 7. A mighty wind went raging by— It was a wondrous sight -LONGFELLOW. -TENNYSON. Stout trees bent down their branches high, But trophies of its might. 9. 8. And the brave foemen side by side A man severe he was and stern to view, 10. He spoke of wrongs too long endured, Of sacred rights to be secured. 11. Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue -SCOTT. -GOLDSMITH. Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view. 12. The union of lakes, the union of lands, The union of States none can sever; -SHELLEY. GEORGE P. MORRIS. 13. And flowers put forth a fairer hue, And everything was strange and new. 14. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil! Still as the spiral grew, -BROWNING. He left the past year's dwelling for the new. -HOLMES. |