Poetry: Grade 3
Index Abraham Lincoln Afternoon with Grandmother Anger Ant Hills At the Zoo Be Kind The Bluebird A Boy’s Mother The Boy We Want A Boy Wonders Busy A Child’s Prayer Circus The Creation Daniel Boone The Egg Every Time I Climb a Tree The Fieldmouse The Friendly Beasts From Casa Guidi Windows The Gift of Friendship The Good Little Girl Grace at Evening Hide and Seek Hiding How to Reach the Sun . . . on a Piece of Paper If You Were Jonathan Bing Kindness to Animals The Land of Storybooks The Library Lily White Lily Lincoln The Lost Shoe Lullaby Mice in the Hay A Mortifying Mistake My Dog My Shadow My Speech The Owl The Secret Cavern Sermons We See Something Told the Wild Geese Spring The Story of Flying Robert Three Words of Strength Tiger-Cat Tim To a Snowflake
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3 rd Grade Poetry
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Trees Try, Try Again Two Little Maids The Tyger Us Two Vespers What Have We Done Today? The Wind Which Loved Best Work A Wrecker or a Builder Written in March 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
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3 rd Grade Poetry
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Abraham Lincoln Mildred Meigs Remember he was poor and country-bred; His face was lined; he walked with awkward gait. Smart people laughed at him sometimes and said, “How can so very plain a man be great?” Remember he was humble, used to toil. Strong arms he had to build a shack, a fence, Long legs to tramp the woods, to plow the soil, A head chuck full of backwoods common sense. Remember all he ever had he earned, He walked in time through stately White House doors; But all he knew of men and life he learned In little backwoods cabins, country stores. Remember that his eyes could light with fun; That wisdom, courage, set his name apart; But when the rest is duly said and done, Remember that