GRADED POETRY


SEVENTH YEAR


Edited By:

Katherine D. Blake
Principal, Girls' Department Public School No. 6, New York City

and

Georgia Alexander
Supervising Principal, Indianapolis, Indiana


1906




INTRODUCTION


Poetry is the chosen language of childhood and youth. The baby
repeats words again and again for the mere joy of their sound:
the melody of nursery rhymes gives a delight which is quite
independent of the meaning of the words. Not until youth approaches
maturity is there an equal pleasure in the rounded periods of