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    Under the Tree
    Under the Tree
    Under the Tree
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    Under the Tree

    By Elizabeth Madox Roberts

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1985
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    Elizabeth Madox Roberts

    Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a novelist and poet, primarily known for her novels and stories set in central Kentucky’s Washington County, including The Time of Man (1926), The Great Meadow (1930), and A Buried Treasure (1931). Roberts was awarded several major prizes during her career, including the John Reed Memorial Prize in 1928, an O. Henry Award in 1930, and a Poetry Society of South Carolina prize in 1931. The Time of Man was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, and The Great Meadow was nominated for the same award in 1930.

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      This book was interesting for a number of reasons. All of the poems were simple, and would be good to use in the classroom to teach children about different types of poetry. The language of each poem was simple, however there was some variation between the poems, and some would be better used for older children. The poems vary in length and complexity. The poems were engaging, and would be fun for children to read. Everything was well organized, and I enjoyed the poems in this book.

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    Under the Tree - Elizabeth Madox Roberts

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    Title: Under the Tree

    Author: Elizabeth Madox Roberts

    Release Date: March 26, 2007 [EBook #20909]

    Language: English

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    UNDER THE TREE

    And over and over I tried to see

    Some of us walking under the tree,

    And how it looks when I am there.

    From On the Hill

    UNDER THE TREE

    BY

    ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS

    new york      B. W. HUEBSCH, Inc.      mcmxxii

    COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY

    B. W. HUEBSCH, INC.

    PRINTED IN U. S. A.

    TO MY FATHER

    SIMPSON ROBERTS

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Certain of these poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The University Record (the University of Chicago), Poetry, a Magazine of Verse, Child Life, and the Phoenix. The author thanks the editors of these journals for the privilege of reprinting.

    CONTENTS

    PAGE

    The Sky1

    The Cornfield3

    Milking Time4

    In My Pillow6

    Miss Kate-Marie8

    The Woodpecker10

    The Star11

    The Butterbean Tent12

    Big Brother14

    Mr. Wells15

    Dick and Will16

    The Pilaster18

    Firefly19

    Little Rain20

    The Pulpit22

    On the Hill24

    Autumn26

    The Rabbit28

    Crescent Moon29

    Father's Story30

    Christmas Morning32

    People Going By35

    Babes in the Woods38

    The Picnic40

    Mumps42

    The Circus44

    Strange Tree46

    The Branch48

    The Worm50

    A Child Asleep52

    Little Bush54

    At the Water55

    Water Noises56

    Among the Rushes58

    Numbers59

    In the Night60

    The People63

    The Grandmother64

    In Maryland66

    The Sunday Bonnet68

    The Sun and a Birch Tree70

    A Little Wind71

    Autumn Fields72

    Mr. Pennybaker at Church74

    The Wolves75

    A Beautiful Lady76

    Shells in Rock78

    Horse80

    August Night82

    Three Dominican Nuns84

    My Heart85

    The Hens86

    THE SKY

    I saw a shadow on the ground

    And heard a bluejay going by;

    A shadow went across the ground,

    And I looked up and saw the sky.

    It hung up on the poplar tree,

    But while I looked it did not stay;

    It gave a tiny sort of jerk

    And moved a little bit away.

    And farther on and farther on

    It moved and never seemed to stop.

    I think it must be tied with chains

    And something pulls it from the top.

    It never has come down again,

    And every time I look to see,

    The sky is always slipping back

    And getting far away from me.

    THE CORNFIELD

    I went across the pasture lot

    When not a one was watching me.

    Away beyond the cattle

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