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1 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents instructs our conscience more effectually than many wise saws. As we Poetry is, perhaps, the most searching an intimate 'inwardly of digest,' our reverence teachers. comes to us unawares, To gentleness, know a wistful about tenderness towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to such a poet and his works may be Sample play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the interesting, as it is to know about whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes repoussé work; but in the latter case we to each of us only as we discover it for ourselves. Thank you for your interest in Enjoy the Poems. must Many know have a favourite how poet to for use a year or the two, to tools be discarded before another w This sample contains the biography and two poems from get joy and service out of the art. Poetr Spenser, Wordsworth, the Robert Browning, Louis for Stevenson example; but, whether it be for a too, supplies volume, us with along with tools a sample for the year or a life, let schedule, us mark as and we instructions. read, let us learn and inwardly digest. modelling of our lives, and the use of Note how good this last word is. What we digest we assimilate, take into It also includes the complete Table of Contents for each volume in the series. these ourselves, we must so that it is get part and at parcel for of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another line that strikes us as we read, that recurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith With additional material by Sonya Shafer moments this is the line that

2 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Poetry is, perhaps, the most searching instructs our conscience more effectually than many wise saws. As we Make poetry study simple and enjoyable! and 'inwardly intimate digest,' reverence of comes our to us teachers. unawares, gentleness, To a wistful know tenderness towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to about such a poet and his works may Get to know a poet and his style through 26 complete poems and a play that living shall biography. not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the be interesting, as it is to know about Encourage imagination with helpful tips for Setting the Imaginary whole. This Stage. is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes Nourish a love for poetic expression by allowing the poems to speak repoussé work; but in the latter case to each for of us themselves. only as we discover it for ourselves. Enjoy powerful use of language with occasional definitions. we must know how to use the tools Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another Gain confidence with practical and inspiring Poetry Notes from Charlotte Mason and others. before we Cultivate get good character joy through and beautiful service words well put. out of the art. The line Poetry, that strikes us as we too, read, that recurs, supplies that we murmur us over with at year or odd a life, moments this let us mark is as the we line read, that influences let us learn our living. and inwardly digest. Charlotte Mason tools for the modelling of our lives, Note how good this last word is. What we digest we assimilate, take into Give your children the gift of poetry with the ourselves, so that it is part Enjoy and parcel the Poems of us, and series! no longer separable. and the use of these we must get at for Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another ourselves. The line that strikes us as and another. Simply Some are happy enough to find the poet of their lifetime in we read, that recurs, that we murmur Charlotte Mason.com over at odd moments this is the line

3 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents instructs our conscience more effectually than many wise saws. As we oetry is, perhaps, the most searching an ntimate 'inwardly of digest,' our reverence teachers. comes to us unawares, To gentleness, know a wistful about tenderness towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to Robert Louis Stevenson play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes uch a poet and his works may be nteresting, as it is to know about epoussé work; but in the latter case we to each of us only as we discover it for ourselves. ust Many know have a favourite how poet to for use a year or the two, to tools be discarded before another w et joy and service out of the art. Poetr oo, supplies us with tools for the Robert Louis Stevenson odelling of our lives, and the use of Note how good this last word is. What we digest we assimilate, take into hese ourselves, we must so that it is get part and at parcel for of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another ine that strikes us as we read, that ecurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith With additional material by Sonya Shafer oments this is the line that

4 Enjoy the Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson Compiled by Ruth Smith With additional material by Sonya Shafer

5 Enjoy the Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson 2014 by Simply Charlotte Mason All rights reserved. However, we grant permission to make printed copies or use this work on multiple electronic devices for members of your immediate household. Quantity discounts are available for classroom and co-op use. Please contact us for details. Cover Design: John Shafer ISBN printed ISBN electronic download Published by Simply Charlotte Mason, LLC 930 New Hope Road # Lawrenceville, Georgia simplycharlottemason.com Printed by PrintLogic, Inc. Monroe, Georgia, USA

6 Enjoy the Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson Suggested Schedule...4 How to Enjoy the Poems....5 Getting to Know Robert Louis Stevenson...7 The Poems Summer Sun...9 My Shadow...10 Nest Eggs...11 Block City The Swing...13 My Bed is a Boat...14 From a Railway Carriage...15 A Good Boy...16 Foreign Lands...17 Pirate Story...18 The Cow...19 Happy Thought Picture-Books in Winter...21 The Wind...22 The Land of Nod The Moon...24 The Hayloft Bed in Summer...26 My Ship and I...27 The Lamplighter...28 The Land of Counterpane...29 A Visit from the Sea...30 The Sun s Travels...31 Armies in the Fire...32 Looking-Glass River...33 Winter-Time Pages for Poem Illustrations....35

7 Suggested Schedule To linger with this poet for a year, you might follow a schedule something like this. Also try to memorize and recite one poem each 12-week term. Week 1: Read a new poem. Week 2: Read a new poem. Week 3: Read the poet s biography and narrate it. Week 4: Read a new poem. Week 5: Read a new poem. Week 6: Enter the poet in your Book of Centuries. Week 7: Read a new poem. Week 8: Read a new poem. Week 9: Choose one of the previous poems and illustrate it. Week 10: Read a new poem. Week 11: Read a new poem. Week 12: Tell what you know about this poet. Week 13: Read a new poem. Week 14: Read a new poem. Week 15: Read a new poem. Week 16: Read a new poem. Week 17: Children read aloud favorite poems so far. Week 18: Read a new poem. Week 19: Read a new poem. Week 20: Read a new poem. Week 21: Choose one of the previous poems and illustrate it. Week 22: Read a new poem. Week 23: Read a new poem. Week 24: Revisit favorite poems. Week 25: Read a new poem. Week 26: Read a new poem. Week 27: Read a new poem. Week 28: Read a new poem. Week 29: Children read aloud favorite poems so far. Week 30: Read a new poem. Week 31: Read a new poem. Week 32: Read a new poem. Week 33: Choose one of the previous poems and illustrate it. Week 34: Read a new poem. Week 35: Read a new poem. Week 36: Revisit favorite poems. 4 simplycharlottemason.com

8 How to Enjoy the Poems 1. Gather the children and read a poem aloud at least once a week. Focus on one poet s work for many months. Linger and get to know his or her ideas. Collections of poems are to be eschewed; but some one poet should have at least a year to himself, that he may have time to do what is in him towards cultivating the seeing eye, the hearing ear, the generous heart (Vol. 5, p. 224). 2. Read complete poems, not just portions or snippets. We have included only complete poems in this book. Selections should be avoided; children should read the whole book or the whole poem to which they are introduced (Vol. 6, p. 340). 3. Share poems that are suitable for your children during each season of life. What can we do to ensure that the poetry our children learn shall open their eyes to beauty, shall increase their joy? In all humility I would offer one suggestion on this point to-day, this: The poetry must be such as to delight them, (1) by being in itself delightful; and (2) by being suitable to their years ( An Address on the Teaching of Poetry by Rev. H. C. Beeching, The Parents Review, Vol. 3 ( ), edited by Charlotte Mason, pp ). 4. Understand that the purpose of poetry is to cultivate the imagination, right emotions, and the power of vivid expression. The purpose of poetry is to communicate or extend the joy of life by quickening our emotions.... It teaches us how to feel, by expressing for us, in the most perfect way, right human emotions, which we recognise as right, and come ourselves to share. It is good for all of us to be taught how to feel; to be taught how to feel in the presence of Nature; how to feel to one s country, to one s lover, or wife, or child; to be taught to feel the mystery of life, the glory of it, the pathos of it; good for us to be shaken out of our lethargic absorption in ourselves, and to have our eyes anointed with salve, that we may look round us and rejoice, and lift up our hearts.... It will be readily seen that if the poems become real and vivid to them, the children gain, besides the immediate joy in the life represented, and the right training of the emotions by their right exercise thus administered (which I maintain is the true function of poetry), they gain, I say, besides this, exercise to their own powers of imagination; the wings of their own fancy become fledged, and they can fly at will. And, secondly, they gain skill in the use of language ( An Address on the Teaching of Poetry by Rev. H. C. Beeching, The Parents Review, Vol. 3 ( ), edited by Charlotte Mason, pp ). 5. Don t turn the poetry readings into lessons. Give only enough explanation necessary to help your children realize the situation of the poem. We have included occasional notes to help you do this. Poetry must not on any pretence be made into a poetry lesson; all that is at enmity with joy must be banished from this ideal province. What one wants, of course, is that the poem shall become to the reader what it was to the writer; a few words may need explaining, but the ex- simplycharlottemason.com 5

9 planation must not be elaborate...; the chief thing will be to make sure that the child realises the facts, the situation ( An Address on the Teaching of Poetry by Rev. H. C. Beeching, The Parents Review, Vol. 3 ( ), edited by Charlotte Mason, pp ). 6. Allow your children time and space to feel the force and beauty of words. The thing is, to keep your eye upon words and wait to feel their force and beauty; and, when words are so fit that no other words can be put in their places, so few that none can be left out without spoiling the sense, and so fresh and musical that they delight you, then you may be sure that you are reading Literature, whether in prose or poetry (Vol. 4, Book 1, p. 41). 7. Encourage your children to make the poetry their own. Let them Read it aloud, being careful to say beautiful words in a beautiful way. Act it, presenting the dramatic poems in their own style. Draw it, portraying a favorite scene in art. Copy it, transcribing a favorite stanza in their best handwriting. Memorize and recite it, conveying their own interpretation of the ideas. Treasure it, entering favorite passages or phrases in a personal journal for years to come. 6 simplycharlottemason.com

10 Getting to Know Robert Louis Stevenson As a child Louis was very delicate and often ill. For years hardly a winter passed that he did not spend many days in bed. Edinburgh, Scotland, is extremely damp in winter and he tells us: Many winters I never crossed the threshold, but used to lie on my face on the nursery floor, chalking or painting in water-colors the pictures in the illustrated newspapers; or sit up in bed with a little shawl pinned about my shoulders, to play with bricks or what not. Those who have read the Child s Garden of Verses already know the doings of his childish days; for although those rhymes were not written until he was a grown man, he was one of the few who do not forget their own lives and through the windows of this book gives us a vivid and living picture of the boy who dwelt so much in a world of his own with his quaint thoughts. If his body was frail, his spirit was strong and his power of imagination so great that he cheered himself through many a weary day by playing he was captain of a tidy little ship, a soldier, a fierce pirate, an Indian chief, or an explorer in foreign lands. Miles he travelled in his little bed. In spite of his power for amusing himself, days like these would have gone far harder had it not been for two devoted people: his mother and his nurse, Alison Cunningham, or Cummie as he called her. His mother was devoted to him in every way and encouraged his love for reading and story-making. Cummie was like a second mother to him. She sang for him, danced for him, spun fine tales of pirates and smugglers, and read to him so dramatically that his mind was fired then and there with a longing for travel and adventure which he never lost. He writes of her when speaking of long nights he lay awake unable to sleep because of a troublesome cough: How well I remember her lifting me out of bed, carrying me to the window and showing me one or two lit windows up in Queen Street across the dark belt of garden, where also, we told each other, there might be sick little boys and their nurses waiting, like us, for the morning. When he was six years old, his Uncle David offered a Bible picture-book as a prize to the nephew who could write the best history of Moses. This was Louis s first real literary attempt. He was not able to write himself, but dictated to his mother and illustrated the story and its cover with pictures which he designed and painted himself. He won the prize and from that time, his mother says, it was the desire of his heart to be an author. And travel and write he did! His longing for adventure took him on a canoe trip through Belgium and France, on a hike with a donkey through the mountains in Europe, across the ocean to America and cross-country by train to California, and finally on a tour around the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas, where he happily settled on an island of Samoa, and there he stayed for the rest of his life. During these journeys, he wrote accounts of his travels, many essays and short stories from his imagination, poetry about his childhood, and several well-loved books that you may know. One summer while on holiday in Scotland, rainy weather Stevenson lived simplycharlottemason.com 7

11 forced him and his family indoors for several days. To amuse themselves, he and his stepson created a map of an imaginary island, coloring it and inventing all kinds of notes about it. A few weeks later the story of Treasure Island was born. Perhaps you have also heard of The Black Arrow or his book, Kidnapped, which, you may like to know, he considered infinitely my best, and, indeed, my only good story. Helpful Biography Sources Overton, Jacqueline M. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls. Charles Scribner s Sons, Iles, George, editor. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography, Volume 4 of the Library of Little Masterpieces in Six Volumes. Doubleday, Page & Company, simplycharlottemason.com

12 SUMMER SUN Great is the sun, and wide he goes Through empty heaven without repose; And in the blue and glowing days More thick than rain he showers his rays. Though closer still the blinds we pull To keep the shady parlour cool, Yet he will find a chink or two To slip his golden fingers through. Setting the Imaginary Stage: It s a good idea to read the title of the poem and prepare a mental canvas for the picture the poet is going to describe. The dusty attic spider-clad He, through the keyhole, maketh glad; And through the broken edge of tiles Into the laddered hay-loft smiles. Meantime his golden face around He bares to all the garden ground, And sheds a warm and glittering look Among the ivy s inmost nook. Above the hills, along the blue, Round the bright air with footing true, To please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes. simplycharlottemason.com 9

13 MY SHADOW I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there s none of him at all. He hasn t got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he s a coward you can see; I d think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me! Arrant means complete or utter. One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. Poetry Note: When reading aloud, breathe through your nose, not your mouth. 10 simplycharlottemason.com

14 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents instructs our conscience more effectually than many wise saws. As we Poetry is, perhaps, the most searching an intimate 'inwardly of digest,' our reverence teachers. comes to us unawares, To gentleness, know a wistful about tenderness towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to such a poet and his works may be play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the interesting, as it is to know about whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes repoussé work; but in the latter case we to each of us only as we discover it for ourselves. must Many know have a favourite how poet to for use a year or the two, to tools be discarded before another w get joy and service out of the art. Poetr too, supplies us with tools for the modelling of our lives, and the use of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Note how good this last word is. What we digest we assimilate, take into these ourselves, we must so that it is get part and at parcel for of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another line that strikes us as we read, that recurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith With additional material by Sonya Shafer moments this is the line that

15 Enjoy the Poems of Emily Dickinson Suggested Schedule...4 How to Enjoy the Poems....5 Getting to Know Emily Dickinson...7 The Poems I m nobody! Who are you?...9 The Sea of Sunset...10 Perhaps you d like to buy a flower?...11 The Secret...12 The Grass...13 Heart not so heavy as mine...14 Autumn Purple Clover...16 The Lost Thought...17 I had no time to hate, because...18 The Railway Train...19 A Book...20 If you were coming in the fall The Lost Jewel May-Flower Hope To March...25 In the Garden...26 The Show...27 A thought went up my mind to-day...28 The Snake...29 Returning...30 The Wind s Visit...31 The Snow...32 Memorials...33 This world is not conclusion Pages for Poem Illustrations....35

16 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents Poetry is, perhaps, the most instructs our conscience more effectually than manysearching wise saws. As we an 'inwardlyof digest,'our reverence comes to us unawares, a wistful intimate teachers. Togentleness, know about towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to such tenderness a poet and his works may be interesting, as it is to know about Oliver Wendell Holmes play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the repoussé latter case we to each work; of us only as webut discoverin it forthe ourselves. whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes have a favourite a year orthe two, to tools be discardedbefore for another w must Many know how poet toforuse get joy and service out of the art. Poetr too, supplies us with tools for the modelling ofthisour lives, usetakeof Note how good last word is. What weand digest wethe assimilate, into Oliver Wendell Holmes so that it isget part and parcel of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. these ourselves, we must at for The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another line that strikes us as we read, that recurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith moments this ismaterial the byline that With additional Sonya Shafer

17 Enjoy the Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes Suggested Schedule...4 How to Enjoy the Poems....5 Getting to Know Oliver Wendell Holmes...7 The Poems To a Blank Sheet of Paper...9 The Opening of the Piano...11 The Chambered Nautilus...12 To a Caged Lion...13 Sun and Shadow...14 Union and Liberty Opening the Window...17 The Last Leaf The Toadstool...20 A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party...21 To an Insect The Last Reader The Two Armies...28 Never or Now Old Ironsides To the Portrait of A Gentleman...32 A Sea Dialogue...34 Lexington...36 Departed Days...38 A Roman Aqueduct The Two Streams...40 A Sun-Day Hymn...41 For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln...42 Nearing the Snow-Line The Voiceless...44 An Old-Year Song...45 Pages for Poem Illustrations....47

18 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents Poetry is, perhaps, the most instructs our conscience more effectually than manysearching wise saws. As we an 'inwardlyof digest,'our reverence comes to us unawares, a wistful intimate teachers. Togentleness, know about towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to such tenderness a poet and his works may be Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interesting, as it is to know about play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the repoussé latter case we to each work; of us only as webut discoverin it forthe ourselves. whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes have a favourite a year orthe two, to tools be discardedbefore for another w must Many know how poet toforuse Henry Wadsworth Longfellow get joy and service out of the art. Poetr too, supplies us with tools for the modelling ofthisour lives, usetakeof Note how good last word is. What weand digest wethe assimilate, into so that it isget part and parcel of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. these ourselves, we must at for The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another line that strikes us as we read, that recurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith moments this ismaterial the byline that With additional Sonya Shafer

19 Enjoy the Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Suggested Schedule...4 How to Enjoy the Poems....5 Getting to Know Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...7 The Poems The Arrow and the Song...9 Snow-Flakes...10 The Village Blacksmith...11 Sunrise on the Hills The Rainy Day...14 The Children s Hour...15 Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass The Light of Stars...19 Something Left Undone...21 The Old Clock on the Stairs...22 The Singers...24 The Wreck of the Hesperus Rain in Summer...28 The Bridge Curfew...33 The Secret of the Sea...34 Daylight and Moonlight...36 Children...37 A Day of Sunshine...39 The Lighthouse...40 Christmas Bells The Building of the Ship...43 Maidenhood...53 The Ladder of St. Augustine...55 The Day Is Done A Psalm of Life...59 Pages for Poem Illustrations....61

20 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents Poetry is, perhaps, the most instructs our conscience more effectually than manysearching wise saws. As we an 'inwardlyof digest,'our reverence comes to us unawares, a wistful intimate teachers. Togentleness, know about towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to such tenderness a poet and his works may be interesting, as it is to know about Carl Sandburg play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the repoussé latter case we to each work; of us only as webut discoverin it forthe ourselves. whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes have a favourite a year orthe two, to tools be discardedbefore for another w must Many know how poet toforuse get joy and service out of the art. Poetr too, supplies us with tools for the modelling ofthisour lives, usetakeof Note how good last word is. What weand digest wethe assimilate, into Carl Sandburg so that it isget part and parcel of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. these ourselves, we must at for The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another line that strikes us as we read, that recurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith moments this ismaterial the byline that With additional Sonya Shafer

21 Enjoy the Poems of Carl Sandburg Suggested Schedule...4 How to Enjoy the Poems....5 Getting to Know Carl Sandburg...7 The Poems Prairie Waters by Night...11 Laughing Corn...12 Manual System...13 Plowboy...14 Goldwing Moth...15 The Year...16 Moonset...17 Fog...18 Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight...19 Fish Crier...20 Docks...21 Corn Hut Talk...22 Buffalo Dusk Weeds Horses and Men in Rain Child Margaret...26 Mask...27 Flying Fish...28 Testament...29 Bronzes...30 Work Gangs...31 Languages...33 I Am The People, The Mob...34 Under A Telephone Pole...35 North Atlantic Choose...39 Pages for Poem Illustrations....41

22 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents instructs our conscience more effectually than many wise saws. As we oetry is, perhaps, the most searching an ntimate 'inwardly of digest,' our reverence teachers. comes to us unawares, To gentleness, know a wistful about tenderness towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to uch a poet and his works may be nteresting, as it is to know about whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes epoussé work; but in the latter case we to each of us only as we discover it for ourselves. ust Many know have a favourite how poet to for use a year or the two, to tools be discarded before another w et joy and service out of the art. Poetr oo, supplies us with tools for the Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the odelling of our lives, and the use of Note how good this last word is. What we digest we assimilate, take into hese ourselves, we must so that it is get part and at parcel for of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another ine that strikes us as we read, that ecurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith With additional material by Sonya Shafer oments this is the line that

23 Enjoy the Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Suggested Schedule...4 How to Enjoy the Poems....5 Getting to Know Alfred, Lord Tennyson...7 The Poems The Brook...9 Ring Out, Wild Bells The Eagle...12 Break, Break, Break...13 The Charge of the Light Brigade...14 Song The Owl...16 Second Song To the same Lady Clare The Old Home...21 The Sleeping Beauty...22 Nothing Will Die...23 All Things Will Die...24 The Kraken...26 The Mermaid...27 The Deserted House...29 The Beggar Maid Song [ The winds, as at their hour of birth ]...31 The Poet...32 Circumstance...34 Song [ A spirit haunts the year s last hours ]...35 The Lady of Shalott The Death of the Old Year On a Mourner Amphion A Farewell...48 The Poet s Song...49 Pages for Poem Illustrations....51

24 A couplet such as this, though it appear to carry no moral weight, Simply Charlotte Mason presents Poetry is, perhaps, the most instructs our conscience more effectually than manysearching wise saws. As we an 'inwardlyof digest,'our reverence comes to us unawares, a wistful intimate teachers. Togentleness, know about towards the past, a sense of continuance, and of a part to such tenderness a poet and his works may be interesting, as it is to know about John Greenleaf Whittier play that shall not be loud and discordant, but of a piece with the repoussé latter case we to each work; of us only as webut discoverin it forthe ourselves. whole. This is one of the 'lessons never learned in schools' which comes have a favourite a year orthe two, to tools be discardedbefore for another w must Many know how poet toforuse get joy and service out of the art. Poetr too, supplies us with tools for the modelling ofthisour lives, usetakeof Note how good last word is. What weand digest wethe assimilate, into John Greenleaf Whittier so that it isget part and parcel of us, ourselves. and no longer separable. these ourselves, we must at for The Many have a favourite poet for a year or two, to be discarded for another line that strikes us as we read, that recurs, that we murmur over at odd Compiled by Ruth Smith moments this ismaterial the byline that With additional Sonya Shafer

25 Enjoy the Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Suggested Schedule...4 How to Enjoy the Poems....5 Getting to Know John Greenleaf Whittier....7 The Poems Invocation April...12 The Barefoot Boy...13 Forgiveness...16 First-Day Thoughts...17 Our State...18 The Fishermen A Dream of Summer...22 The Pumpkin...23 Barbara Frietchie...25 The Drovers My Dream Trust...33 The Frost Spirit...34 The Reward The Kansas Emigrants...37 In Peace All s Well...39 The Ship-Builders...40 For an Autumn Festival...43 My Birthday...45 The Mayflowers Red Riding-Hood...49 The Wish of To-Day...51 The Lake-Side The Clear Vision...54 Pages for Poem Illustrations....57