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Caroline B. Le Row's 'Practical Selections for Literary Exercises' is a comprehensive collection of literary pieces designed for educational use. The book includes a diverse selection of poems, speeches, and prose passages that offer readers a glimpse into various literary genres and styles. Each piece is carefully chosen to provide students with a rich source of material for recitations and literary analysis, making it a valuable resource for teachers and students alike. Le Row's clear and engaging writing style ensures that readers will not only appreciate the content of the selections but a...
Chapters (458)
- Practical Recitations.
- MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.
- After Vacation.
- The People’s Holidays.
- Home Lights.
- Concerning Beginnings and Ends.
- A Strange Experience.
- The Daily Task.
- “What’s the Lesson for To-day?”
- Moral Courage.
- No Work the Hardest Work.
- Some Old School-books.
- Their Cost.
- The Old Reading Class.
- Forward.
- Her Angel.
- Are the Heroes Dead?
- Failed! a poem of hard times.
- Labor.
- The Holy Place.
- A Discourse of Buddha.
- Sparrows.
- The Storming of Stony Point.
- Humility.
- What of That?
- The Old Folks in the New School-house.
- The Barbarous Chief.
- Growth.
- A Bird’s Ministry.
- Extract from a Letter.
- The Coast-Guard.
- A Turkish Tradition.
- “Eyes that See Not.”
- Lamentation of the Lungs.
- The Light-house.
- A Swedish Poem.
- The Demon on the Roof.
- Only a Little.
- My Portion.
- Saxon Grit.
- The Little Light.
- Wind and Sea.
- Happiness.
- An Illumined Text.
- The King’s Bell.
- Noblesse Oblige.
- Uses of Adversity.
- The Value of Literature.
- True Heroism.
- The Burial of the Old Flag.
- The Old Stone Basin.
- Beside the Railway Track.
- A Song for the Conquered.
- The Amen of the Rocks.
- Only a Little Thing.
- The Little Messenger of Love.
- The Work of a Sunbeam.
- The Silver Bird’s Nest.
- Luther.
- The Angel of Dawn.
- Questions.
- The Landing of the Pilgrims.
- The Twenty-first of February.
- Forefathers’ Day.
- A True Story.
- Little Christel.
- CONCERT RECITATIONS.
- Songs of the Seasons.
- The Coming of Spring.
- The Good Time Coming.
- The Charge at Waterloo.
- Summer Storm.
- Song of the Steamer Engine.
- The Child on the Judgment-Seat.
- The Two Glasses.
- The Sorrow of the Sea.
- The Death of our Almanac.
- Two Epitaphs.
- The Cataract of Lodore.
- Cavalry Song.
- RECITATIONS FOR MUSIC.
- The Angelus.
- Hope’s Song.
- The Sunrise Never Failed us Yet.
- A Winter Song.
- The Concert Rehearsal.
- Rock of Ages.
- Poets’ Birthdays.
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
- William Cullen Bryant.
- A Bryant Alphabet.
- The Third of November.
- The Night Journey of a River.
- The Hurricane.
- Green River.
- The Violet.
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
- Emerson.
- An Emerson Alphabet.
- Extract from “Compensation.”
- The Concord Fight.
- Extract from “Works and Days.”
- Art.
- The Rhodora.
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
- Our Autocrat.
- A Holmes Alphabet.
- Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge.
- The Two Streams.
- International Ode.
- James Russell Lowell’s Birthday Festival.
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- A Longfellow Alphabet.
- Musings.
- The City and the Sea.
- Loss and Gain.
- Charles Sumner.
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
- James Russell Lowell.
- A Lowell Alphabet.
- The First Snow-fall.
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Wendell Phillips.
- Freedom.
- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
- To John G. Whittier.
- A Whittier Alphabet.
- The Moral Warfare.
- My Country.
- The Light that is Felt.
- DECORATION DAY.
- Decoration Day.
- Between the Graves.
- Red, White, and Blue.
- The Heroes’ Day.
- Decoration Hymn.
- Flowers for the Brave.
- Memorial Day.
- THANKSGIVING.
- Thanksgiving Day.
- Thanksgiving among the Greeks.
- Thanksgiving among the Jews.
- The First English Thanksgiving in New York.
- How the Pilgrims gave Thanks.
- The First National Thanksgiving.
- Washington’s Proclamation.
- The First Boston Thanksgiving—July, 1630.
- Thanksgiving for his House.
- Thanksgiving.
- Thanksgiving Ode.
- Elsie’s Thanksgiving.
- Thanksgivings of Old.
- CHRISTMAS.
- The Day of Days.
- Christmas in Olden Time.
- A Christmas Thought about Dickens.
- The Star in the West.
- The Little Mud-Sparrows.
- A Christmas Question.
- Wings.
- The Nativity.
- Christmas Bells.
- Christmas Roses.
- NEW-YEAR’S.
- Address to the New Year.
- A New Year.
- A Wish.
- Another Year.
- The Child and the Year.
- THE SEASONS.
- A Song of Waking.
- “Early Spring.”
- May.
- June.
- Golden-rod.
- Indian Summer.
- September, 1815.
- October.
- Faded Leaves.
- November.
- Winter.
- December.
- January.
- Frost Work.
- FLOWERS.
- No Flowers.
- Ferns.
- Sweet Peas.
- The Trailing Arbutus.
- A Bunch of Cowslips.
- Daffodils.
- Chrysanthemums.
- Roses.
- The Message of the Snowdrop.
- Ragged Sailors.
- DIALOGUES.
- The Queen’s Necklace.
- Queen Isabella’s Resolve.
- The Mill on the Floss.
- The Hills of the Shatemuc.
- Mistress and Maid.
- The Last Days of Pompeii.
- Ruth Hall.
- Diogenes and Plato on Pride.
- Lorna Doone.
- The Musical Instrument.
- Put Yourself in His Place.
- Pilgrim’s Progress.
- Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet.
- Metaphysics.
- Work: A Story of Experience.
- Ninety-Three.
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