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The Book of Ballads

Sir Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .As the second moon arose, Gouging on the sloping greensward Some imaginary foes; When the swamp began to tremble, And the canes to rustle fast, As though some stupendous body Through their roots were crushing past. And the waters boiled and bubbled, And, in groups of twos and threes, Several alligators bounded, Smart as squirrels, up the trees. Then a hideous head was lifted, With such huge distended jaws, That they might have held Goliath Quite as well as Rufus Dawes. Paws of elephantine thickness Dragged its body from the bay, And it glared at Cullen Bryant In a most unpleasant way. Then it writhed as if in torture, And it staggered to and fro; And its very shell was shaken In the anguish of its throe: And 035its cough grew loud and louder, And its sob more husky thick! For, indeed, it was apparent That the beast was very sick.




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- Abigail - Feb 10, 2020

Casey at the Bat, illustrated and expanded by Patricia Polacco

First published in 1888, in The San Francisco Examiner, Ernest Thayer's famous baseball poem, in which an overconfident batsman strikes out, bringing disappointment and defeat to the Mudville team, has been expanded and reinvented by prol

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- Calista - Jul 16, 2019

I love the Disney cartoon short of this little story. It’s funny and pretty much the same thing. No one is really into baseball in this house, but my dad is. He played every sport in his high school and he has an enduring love for his baseball cardinals when they were in St. Louis. So my dad is visi

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- Clay - Oct 15, 2018

A seasonal read with the Major League Playoffs in full swing. The illustrations add to the story of the poem. Definitely a classic in American literature.

5.00
- K. Anna - Oct 01, 2017

I have arranged my thoughts on this truly charming poem into a haiku:

"Crowd expectations
Fail to match with the hero,
And his fat ego."

4.00
- Morgan - Dec 11, 2015

Personal Response: I thought that this poem was good. I however, sometimes couldn´t keep the story line straight. I liked it however because it involved a lot of suspicion and I also like baseball/softball. It had a lot of relation to his team and also to baseball in general.

Plot Summary: This poem

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