by David McCord This is my rock And here I run To steal the secret of the sun; This is my rock And here come I Before the night has swept the sky; This is my rock, This is the place I meet the...
The Shooting-Match at Nottingham Town
> from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle > > Robin Hood was a legendary English outlaw and expert archer who robbed > the rich and gave to the poor. He and his merry band of...
The Challenge
from Sea Glass by Laurence Yep Craig is a Chinese-American boy who has lived in San Francisco's Chinatown all his life. Then, when he is in eighth grade, his family moves back to the small coastal...
Haiku
Haiku is a Japanese verse form consisting of seventeen syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables each. However, this syllable scheme often varies in translation. ...
I Strike the Jolly Roger
From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island is one of the best adventure tales ever written. The story, which takes place in the 1700's, is told by young Jim Hawkins. After Jim...
Fog
by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. by Elizabeth Coatsworth Swift things are beautiful: Swallows and...
A Stranger in the Land
from The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare All her life, Kit Tyler has lived with her wealthy grandfather on the warm, sunny island of Barbados in the West Indies. When her...
Wild Geese
by Elinor Chipp I heard the wild geese flying In the dead of the night, With beat of wings and crying I heard the wild geese flying, And dreams in my heart sighing Followed their northward flight....
The Highwayman
by Alfred Noyes Part One The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,...
Myths of Ancient Greece | The Flight of Icarus
When Theseus escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos flew into a rage with its builder, Daedalus, and ordered him shut up in a high tower that faced the lonely sea. In time, with the help of his...
