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Title: Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing
Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: November 19, 2003 [EBook #10131]

Language: English

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REQUIRED POEMS
FOR READING
AND MEMORIZING

THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES
Prescribed by State Courses
of Study

FOREWORD

Practically every state course of study gives a list of poems from which
it is required that selection be made for reading or memorizing. These
lists and their grading vary in the different states, although the same
poems are used in many of them and there are some which are required
in every state.

In the preparation of this book the lists of the third and fourth grade
poems prescribed by the syllabi of twelve states have been examined and
the contents have been made up from these. The breadth of this method of
selection insures the inclusion in this volume of a large proportion of
the required poems for every state. Since the grading in different states
varies so widely, teachers will find included, also, many poems which in
their own particular states are required in other grades. It is hoped
that this volume will be of real service to teachers in providing a
collection of "required poems" in a form convenient for school use.

THE PUBLISHERS.

Required Poems for Third
and Fourth Grades

POEMS BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

AUTUMN FIRES

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers;
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!

THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE

When children are playing alone on the green,
In comes the playmate that never was seen.
When children are happy and lonely and good,
The Friend of the Children comes out of the wood.

Nobody heard hi