109. Sage beneath a spreading oak Sat the Druid, hoary chief. 110. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? 111. From a fissure in a rocky steep He withdrew a stone o'er which there ran 112. The rest must perish, their great leader slain. The streamers waving in the wind. 116. I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. 11. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. 118. But the lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above. 119. Down that range of roses the great queen Came with slow steps, the morning on her face. 120. Doth God exact day labor, light denied? 121. Her faltering hand upon the balustrade, Old Angela was feeling for the stair. 122. Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth-his hall the azure dome. 123. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind go by. 124. She earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and packet light. 125. Before St. Mark still glow his steeds of brass, Their gilded collars glittering in the sun. 126. 127. An empty urn within her withered hands. There she stands, He left my side, A summer bloom on his fair cheeks, a smile 128. Mute with amazement and sorrow, Priscilla, the Puritan maiden, Looked into Alden's face, her eyes dilated with wonder. 129. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood. 130. Once, upon a raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Cæsar said to me, "Darest thou, Cassius, now leap in with me?" 131. At last the Mock Turtle recovered his voice, and tears running down his cheeks, he went on. 132. All loose her negligent attire, All loose her golden hair, Hung Margaret o'er her slaughtered sire. 133. And now the turnpike gates again flew open in short space, 134. The tollman thinking, as before, that Gilpin rode a race. Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, 135. Long at the window he stood, and wistfully gazed on the landscape, Washed with a cold, grey mist, the vapory breath of the east wind; Forest and meadow and hill, and the steel-blue rim of the ocean Lying silent and sad. 136. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama of the day. 137. In an attitude imploring, Hands upon his bosom crossed, Wondering, worshipping, adoring, Knelt the Monk in rapture lost. 138. Lying, robed in snowy white, 139. That loosely flew to left and right— I saw your brother, To a strong mast that lived upon the sea. 140. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, 7 the 141. The livelong day he sat in his loom, his ear filled. with its monotony, his eyes bent down on the slow growth of sameness in the brownish web. 142. As he stood in the red light of the oil-lamp, strong, tall and beautiful, his long black hair sweeping over his shoulder, the knife swinging at his neck and his head crowned with a wreath of white jasmine, he might easily have been mistaken for some wild god of a jungle legend. 143. Fast as the shaft can fly, Lord Marmion's steed rushed by. 144. A late lark twitters from the quiet skies; And from the west, Where the sun, his day's work ended, Lingers as in content, There falls on the old, gray city, An influence luminous and serene. Possessive Case. 1. Simple Possessive a noun modifying another noun, expressed or understood. Examples: "Emma" is one of Jane Austen's novels. The ceremony took place at St. Peter's. In a series of nouns expressing common ownership, the last noun only takes the sign. Example: She bought it at Mitchell and Fletcher's store. 2. Possessive in Apposition-a noun used to explain another noun in the possessive case. Example: That book is Katharine's, my wife's. Sometimes the noun explained occurs without the sign. Example: He is my brother Edward's son. 3. Possessive in a Double Possessive Phrase (often called "Double Possessive")-a noun in the possessive case used with the preposition of. Example: Who comes here? A friend of Anthony's. Exercise 2.--Parse the nouns in the possessive case. 1. His sunny hair clustered about his temples like a god's. 2. Five times outlawed had he been By England's King and Scotland's Queen. 3. Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries. 4. The strangest ride that ever sped 5. The story of Mary Lamb's life is mainly the story 6. More than a hundred children's children rode on his knee. 7. All these, like Benedict's brushing his hat of a morning, were signs that the sweet youth was in love. 8. All the valley's swimming corn To my house is yearly borne. 9. Then came a silence, then a voice, monotonous and hollow like a ghost's. 10. Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Cæsar's or mine? 11. Who comes here? A friend of Anthony's. 12. Hath any man seen him at the barber's? 13. Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, but unto God the things that are God's. 14. By accident 15. Bear the King's son's body Before our army. 16. To maidens' vows and swearing Henceforth no credit give. 17. I will presently to St. Luke's. 18. Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure. 19. In this place ran Cassius' dagger through. |