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AmblesideOnline Poetry Anthology Volume Six: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and Other Favorites
“The thing is,” Charlotte Mason said in a book she wrote for children, “to keep your eye upon words and wait to feel their force and beauty; and, when words are so fit that no other words can be put in their places, so few that none can be left out without spoiling the sense, and so fresh and musical that they delight you, then you may be sure that you are reading Literature, whether in prose or poetry. A great deal of delightful literature can be recognised only by this test.” (Ourselves Book I)
This book contains a selection of poems carefully chosen for the use of students using the AmblesideOnline Curriculum, Year Six, but enjoyable for those of all ages. In addition, we have included our own biographical and teaching notes.
These are not just poems: they are friends who touched our hearts, made us smile, helped us see the world in a new way, helped us give words to what we were already seeing.
This book contains a selection of poems carefully chosen for the use of students using the AmblesideOnline Curriculum, Year Six, but enjoyable for those of all ages. In addition, we have included our own biographical and teaching notes.
These are not just poems: they are friends who touched our hearts, made us smile, helped us see the world in a new way, helped us give words to what we were already seeing.
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151 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 30, 2021
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November 2, 2022
Excellent.
February 20, 2024
We used this book for our homeschool this year. I still get out my other poetry books to enjoy alongside of this anthology. But the anthology has a good selection and makes reading the assigned poems much easier.
Frost Section: 5 Stars
Poems memorized:
L's Favorite Poem :
Stopping by Woods on the Snowy
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
A's Favorite poem:
The Oven Bird
There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
Carl Sanburg Section: 3.5 stars
One of our poets for this term. It was strange reading this right after studying Frost. His poetry is more urban than I remember (or was it just the juxtaposition?) His nature poems seemed especially urban. We enjoyed them.
Poems memorized.
L's favorite:
Primer Lesson
Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go
It is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots;
They walk off proud;
They can't hear you calling--
Look out how you use proud words.
A's Favorite:
Goldwing Moth
A goldwing moth is between the scissors and the ink bottle on the desk
Last night it flew hundreds of circles around a glass bulb and a flame wire.
The wings are a soft gold; it is the gold of illuminated initials in manuscripts of the medieval monks.
Frost Section: 5 Stars
Poems memorized:
L's Favorite Poem :
Stopping by Woods on the Snowy
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
A's Favorite poem:
The Oven Bird
There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
Carl Sanburg Section: 3.5 stars
One of our poets for this term. It was strange reading this right after studying Frost. His poetry is more urban than I remember (or was it just the juxtaposition?) His nature poems seemed especially urban. We enjoyed them.
Poems memorized.
L's favorite:
Primer Lesson
Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go
It is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots;
They walk off proud;
They can't hear you calling--
Look out how you use proud words.
A's Favorite:
Goldwing Moth
A goldwing moth is between the scissors and the ink bottle on the desk
Last night it flew hundreds of circles around a glass bulb and a flame wire.
The wings are a soft gold; it is the gold of illuminated initials in manuscripts of the medieval monks.
April 2, 2024
Good book
I enjoyed the book sad at times but it was very good, I read to for school read ing .
I enjoyed the book sad at times but it was very good, I read to for school read ing .
May 7, 2025
My poet loving student loves these anthologies.
July 31, 2025
More random than the rest of the series.
September 6, 2025
All of these volumes are excellent and such a help those first 6 years of homeschooling!
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