Wordsworth for the young; selections with an introduction for parents and teachers (1891)
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919, comp · Boston, D. Lothrop company · leaf 118
ain for me. The bird and cage they both were his :Twas my Sons bird; and neat and trimHe kept it: many voyagesThe singing-bird had gone with him ;When last he sailed, he left the bird behind;From bodings, as might be, that hung upon his mind. 106 THE SOLITARY ItEAPER. 107 He to a fellow-lodgers… … THE SOLITARY REAPER. Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland Lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass !Alone she cuts and binds the grain.And sings a melancholy strain ;0 listen ! for the Yale profoundIs overflowing with tlie sound. Xo Nisjhtingale did ever…
Children's poetry, English
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