Book Four

BY

WILLIAM H. ELSON

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, CLEVELAND, OHIO

AND

CHRISTINE KECK

PRINCIPAL OF SIGSBEE SCHOOL, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

1912

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I--Famous Rides, Selections from Shakespeare and other Poets, and Studies in Rhythm.

FAMOUS RIDES:

PAUL REVERE'S RIDE, Henry W. Longfellow

THE LEAP OF ROUSHAN BEG, Henry W. Longfellow

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN, William Cowper

HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX, Robert Browning

INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP, Robert Browning

HERVÉ RIEL, Robert Browning

STUDIES IN RHYTHM:

THE BUGLE SONG, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

THE BROOK, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE, Sidney Lanier

THE CATARACT OF LODORE, Robert Southey

THE BELLS, Edgar Allan Poe

ANNABEL LEE, Edgar Allan Poe

OPPORTUNITY, Edward Rowland Sil

NATURE:

TO A WATERFOWL, William Cullen Bryant

THE SKYLARK, James Hogg

TO A SKYLARK, Percy Bysshe Shelley

THE CLOUD, Percy Bysshe Shelley

APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN, Lord Byron

STORIES:

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, Lord Byron

THE EVE BEFORE WATERLOO, Lord Byron

SONG OF THE GREEK BARD, Lord Byron

MARCO BOZZARIS, Fitz-Greene Halleck

THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, Charles Wolfe

ABSALOM, Nathaniel Parker Wills

LOCHINVAR, Sir Walter Scott

PARTING OF MARMION AND DOUGLAS, Sir Walter Scott

FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT, Robert Burns

SELECTIONS FROM SHAKESPEARE:

MERCY, The Merchant of Venice

THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN, As You Like It

POLONIUS'S ADVICE, Hamlet

MAN, Hamlet

HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY, Hamlet

REPUTATION, Othello

WOLSEY AND CROMWELL, King Henry VIII

CASSIO AND IAGO, Othell