Language Lessons From Literature (Volume 1) - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... STUDY OF POEM 259 SECTION V. STUDY OF POEM. Tennyson wrote a beautiful poem about a girl who had been chosen Queen of the May.1 Learn the following extract from this poem, and recite it to the class:--THE MAY QUEEN. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad Newyear; Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. There's many a black, black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine; There's Margaret and Mary, there's Kate and Caroline; But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say, So I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be Queen o' the May. I sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake, If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break; But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay, For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. Little Effie shall go with me tomorrow to the green, And you 'll be there, too, mother, to see me made the Queen; 1 The entire poem may be read aloud in class. For the shepherd lads on every side 'ill come from far away, And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. The honeysuckle round the porch has woven its wavy bowers, And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckooflowers; And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray, And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. The night winds come and go, mother, upon the meadowgrass, And the happy stars above them seem to brighten as they pass; There will not be a drop of rain the whole of the livelong day, And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. All the vall...