Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. And often too A little cloud would move across the blue. 3. Use the JOHN KEATS. 2. Oh, blue were violets in our youth and blue were April skies, And blue the early song bird's wings, but bluer were the eyes That in the land of long ago looked through the window pane And saw the pansies shut their lids against the slanting rain. — ROBErt McIntyre. 3. The light wind blew from the gates of the sun, And waves of shadow went over the wheat. 4. Truly, sir, all that I live by is the awl. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 5. Wisdom and worth were all he had, But these were all to me. - OLIVER Goldsmith. 6. To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 7. The visions of my youth are past, Too bright, too beautiful to last. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 8. 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Long oo as in moon, marked ōō. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Damask roses in full bloom, Making a garden of the room. 2. Who loves not more the night of June Than dull December's gloomy noon? 3. The moon is at her full, and, riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 4. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. - JOHN MILTON. 5. 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery is the food of fools. — JONATHAN SWIFT. 6. Many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. 7. The scented birch and hawthorn white Across the pool their arms unite. - ROBERT BURNS. 8. Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool. CHARLES KINGSLEY. 9. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Short oo as in foot, marked oo. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. In every breeze what aspens shook, What alders shaded every brook! - SIR WALTer Scott. 2. To thee my fancy took its wing. - ROBERT BURns. 3. The purple asters bloom in crowds In every shady nook. - DORA R. GOODALE. 4. Sighing every minute and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock. 5. Fresh grasses fringe the meadow brooks, And mildly from its sunny nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. 6. And schoolgirls, gay with aster-flowers, beside the meadow brooks, Mingled the glow of autumn with the sunshine of sweet looks. -JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 7. I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, Where a little headstone stood; How the flakes were folding it gently, As did robins the babes in the wood. -JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Birds. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. 1. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 2. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note. 3. That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice 4. over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The nightingale Was pausing in her heaven-taught tale! - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 5. On the cross beam under the Old South bell, The nest of a pigeon is builded well. - NATHANIEL P. WILLIS. 6. The robin warbled forth his full clear note For hours, and wearied not.-WILLIAM CULLen Bryant. 7. The swallow twitters about the eaves; Blithely she sings, and sweet, and clear; 8. Hark! Hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings. |