Reviews for Three Proverb Stories: Kitty's Class Day; Aunt Kipp; Psyche's Art (1878)

The average rating for Three Proverb Stories: Kitty's Class Day; Aunt Kipp; Psyche's Art (1878) based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-06-04 00:00:00 Tomiomitsu Kawaguchi 5 stars & 5/10 hearts. I love Longfellow's poetry, and this one has a couple my favourites of his works. I absolutely love Evangeline. And I was so excited when I found out that actually it is a longer poem and this book doesn't contain the whole of it! The Wreck of the Hesperus is really sad, and it irks me that the skipper was too confident and proud and so lost all. The Village Blacksmith is one of my very favourite poems. Hiawatha's Sailing & Hiawatha's Fishing are really nice, and so is The Building of the Ship. The Castle-Builder is very sweet; Paul Revere's Ride is simply pure classic; and The Building of the Long Serpent is fun to read. :) A Favourite Quote: "Toiling,'rejoicing,'sorrowing, / Onward through life he goes; / Each morning sees some task begin, / Each evening sees it close; / Something attempted, something done, / Has earned a night's repose. / Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, / For the lesson thou hast taught! / Thus at the flaming forge of life / Our fortunes must be wrought; / Thus on its sounding anvil shaped / Each burning deed and thought." A Favourite Beautiful Quote: "Long ago, / In the deer-haunted forests of Maine, / When upon mountain and plain / Lay the snow, / They fell,'those lordly pines! / Those grand, majestic pines! / 'Mid shouts and cheers / The jaded steers, / Panting beneath the goad, / Dragged down the weary, winding road / Those captive kings so straight and tall, / To be shorn of their streaming hair, / And naked and bare, / To feel the stress and the strain / Of the wind and the reeling main, / Whose roar / Would remind them forevermore / Of their native forests they should not see again."

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-01 00:00:00 Francene J Alcordo As my first foray into a book of poetry it was more enjoyable than I expected it to be. I read them a loud to myself and think that may be the key for reading more poems. Most favored: The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Village Blacksmith, Evangeline & The Building of the Long Serpent Least favored: The Song of Hiawatha & Paul Revere's Ride (surprisingly enough the only two I recognized)