Practical Recitations

About this eBook

Author

Le Row, Caroline B. (Caroline Bigelow), 1843-

Title

Practical recitations Selections for literary exercises appropriate for reception-days, holidays, poets' birthdays, etc.

Original Publication

United States: Clark & Maynard, 1886.

Credits

Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Recitations

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70040

Release Date

February 14, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF AUTHORS.
5. 5.Practical Recitations.
6. 6.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. — Original Maxims of George Washington. — The Work of a Sunbeam. — The Silver Bird’s Nest. — Luther. — Original Maxims of James A. Garfield. — The Angel of Dawn. — Questions. — The Landing of the Pilgrims. — The Twenty-first of February. — Forefathers’ Day. — A True Story. — Little Christel.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.RECITATIONS FOR MUSIC. — The Angelus. — Hope’s Song. — The Sunrise Never Failed us Yet. — A Winter Song. — The Concert Rehearsal. — Rock of Ages.
9. 9.Poets’ Birthdays.
10. 10.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.
11. 11.RALPH WALDO EMERSON. — Emerson. — An Emerson Alphabet. — Extract from “Compensation.” — The Concord Fight. — Extract from “Works and Days.” — Art. — The Rhodora.
12. 12.OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. — Our Autocrat. — A Holmes Alphabet. — Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge. — The Two Streams. — International Ode. — James Russell Lowell’s Birthday Festival.
13. 13.HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. — A Longfellow Alphabet. — Musings. — The City and the Sea. — Loss and Gain. — Charles Sumner.
14. 14.JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. — James Russell Lowell. — A Lowell Alphabet. — The First Snow-fall. — Abraham Lincoln. — Wendell Phillips. — Freedom.
15. 15.JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. — To John G. Whittier. — A Whittier Alphabet. — The Moral Warfare. — My Country. — The Light that is Felt.
16. 16.DECORATION DAY. — Decoration Day. — Between the Graves. — Red, White, and Blue. — The Heroes’ Day. — Decoration Hymn. — Flowers for the Brave. — Memorial Day.
17. 17.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.
18. 18.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.
19. 19.NEW-YEAR’S. — Address to the New Year. — A New Year. — A Wish. — Another Year. — The Child and the Year.
20. 20.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.
21. 21.FLOWERS. — No Flowers. — Ferns. — Sweet Peas. — The Trailing Arbutus. — A Bunch of Cowslips. — Daffodils. — Chrysanthemums. — Roses. — The Message of the Snowdrop. — Ragged Sailors.
22. 22.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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