![]() ![]() Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt įive thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt. No stranger in the crowd could doubt ’twas Casey at the bat. There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face.Īnd when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,įor Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third. So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,įor there seemed but little chance of Casey’s getting to the bat.īut Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,Īnd Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball Īnd when the dust had lifted, and men saw what had occurred, We’d put up even money now with Casey at the bat.īut Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,Īnd the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake They thought if only Casey could but get a whack at that. The restĬlung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play.Īnd then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,Ī sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.Ī straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,Īnd palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,Īnd dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,Īnd poppy or charms can make us sleep as wellĪnd better than thy stroke why swell’st thou then?Īnd death shall be no more Death, thou shalt die. Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery. Much pleasure then from thee much more must flow,Īnd soonest our best men with thee do go, Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so įor those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrowĭie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.įrom rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, One, two! One, two! And through and throughĭeath, be not proud, though some have called thee ![]() The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! That caused the Akhaians loss on bitter lossĪnd crowded brave souls into the undergloom,įor dogs and birds and the will of Zeus was done. We have learned the first 16, found here. I love Fitzgerald’s translation of Homer!) (Here are the first 6 lines to give you a taste. The lone and level sands stretch far away.”īy Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! ![]() The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone “Destruction of Sennacherib,” Lord Byron.“Casey at the Bat,” Ernest Lawrence Thayer.Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer.“Charge of the Light Brigade,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson.I have an Ultimate Poetry Book List just for you! There are many more wonderful poems to read and love and listen to and secret away in the recesses of your heart. Not sure where to go next? Never run out of poems for kids to memorize with this list of 100 of the best poems to memorize in your home! Or join me on a Year of Memory Work: 52 weeks of free videos and printable resources! Copy the one(s) you choose and use them for your Morning Time or memory work this year. Start with these poems for kids to memorize. Start here, but don’t stop here…there are so many more poems to enjoy Fill their hearts… fill your heart… with the lyrical words of beauty found in good poetry! You do not know when they may need to cheer up a downcast heart or persevere through a trial. Some might even be a little bit disturbing.īut you do not know all the heights and depths to which you or your children will be called. ![]()
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