hide it, makes it two.
(From "Against Lying")

Whatever brawls disturb the street,
There should be peace at home;
Where sisters dwell and brothers meet,
Quarrels should never come.

Birds in their little nests agree:
And 'tis a shameful sight,
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight.
(From "Love between Brothers and Sisters")

How proud we are! how fond to show
Our clothes, and call them rich and new!
When the poor sheep and silk-worm wore
That very clothing long before.

The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I;
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Then will I set my heart to find
Inward adornings of the mind;
Knowledge and virtue, truth and grace,
These are the robes of richest dress.
(From "Against Pride in Clothes")

Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For 'tis their nature to.

But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
(From "Against Quarreling and Fighting")

Most of the work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882) is within the range of children's
interests and comprehension. Three poems are
given here, "The Skeleton in Armor," as
representative of Longfellow's large group of
narrative poems, "The Day Is Done," as an
expression of the value of poetry in everyday
life, and "The Psalm of Life," as the finest
and most popular example of his hortatory
poems.

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"The Skeleton in Armor" is one of Longfellow's
first and best American art ballads. In
Newport, Rhode Island, is an old stone tower
known as the "Round Tower," which some people
think was built by the Northmen, though it
probably was not. In 1836 workmen unearthed a
strange skeleton at Fall River, Massachusetts.
It was wrapped in bark and coarse cloth. On the
breast was a plate of brass, and around the
wais