Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . English poet, a contemporary and com-panion of Shelley and Leigh Hunt. Endymion was his most ambi-tious and imaginative work. Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, andother of his later poems show a finer touch, but everything he wrotebears evidence of a rare poetic genius. Keats died at the youthful ageof 26. S98 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE. And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keepSteady thy laden head across a brook;Or by a cider-press, with patient watchest the last oozings, hours by hours. Where are the songs of spring? Ay,


Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . English poet, a contemporary and com-panion of Shelley and Leigh Hunt. Endymion was his most ambi-tious and imaginative work. Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, andother of his later poems show a finer touch, but everything he wrotebears evidence of a rare poetic genius. Keats died at the youthful ageof 26. S98 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE. And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keepSteady thy laden head across a brook;Or by a cider-press, with patient watchest the last oozings, hours by hours. Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,While barrdd clouds bloom the soft-dying day. And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge crickets sing; and now, with treble soft, The Redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,And gathering swallows twitter in the LEXICON. , , spoiled; , enemy; , an African animal , terrified; with hands on hips, and elbows turned (al-ledjd), said; , a circular bull INig; or place, with rising sides all (anshent), a flag or , destroy , strong (afi-dez), species of , a startling sight or , one who is legally bound to serve , , , , currency of France during the (as-swage), soothe; , , a soothsayer or diviner; to (-shus), , sternness; , begone; depart. Baldrio (bawldric), a broad belt. Ba-rome-ter, an instrument which in-dicates the prospe


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