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Susan Coolidge

What Katy Did at SchoolSusan Coolidge What Katy Did at School CHAPTER I. CONIC SECTION It was just after that happy visit of which I told at the end of "What Katy Did," that Elsie and John made their famous excursion to Conic Section; an excursion which neither of them ever forgot, and about whic...

A Little Country GirlSusan Coolidge A Little Country Girl CHAPTER I. ON THE "EOLUS." IT was on one of the cool, brilliant days which early June brings to the Narragansett country, that the steamer "Eolus" pushed out from Wickford Pier on her afternoon trip to Newport. The sky was of a beautiful t...

In the High ValleyCoolidge Susan In the High Valley CHAPTER I. ALONG THE NORTH DEVON COAST IT was a morning of late May, and the sunshine, though rather watery, after the fashion of South-of-England suns, was real sunshine still, and glinted and glittered bravely on the dew-soaked fields about Co...

A Few More VersesSusan Coolidge A Few More Verses GIVING to all, thou gavest as well to me.A myriad thirsty shores await the tide:They drink and drink, and will not be denied;But not a drop less full the brimming Sea. One tiny shell among the kelp and weed,One sand-grain where the beaches stretch...

Just Sixteen.Just Sixteen A LITTLE KNIGHT OF LABOR THE first real snow-storm of the winter had come to Sandyport by the Sea.It had been a late and merciful autumn. Till well into November the leaves still clung to their boughs, honeysuckles made shady coverts on trellises, and put forth now and t...

Eyebright: A StorySusan Coolidge Eyebright A Story CHAPTER I. LADY JANE AND LORD GUILDFORD It wanted but five minutes to twelve in Miss Fitch's schoolroom, and a general restlessness showed that her scholars were aware of the fact. Some of the girls had closed their books, and were putting their ...

What Katy DidSusan Coolidge What Katy Did TO FIVE Six of us once, my darlings, played together Beneath green boughs, which faded long ago,Made merry in the golden summer weather, Pelted each other with new-fallen snow. Did the sun always shine? I can't remember A single cloud that dimmed the happ...

A Round DozenSusan Coolidge A Round Dozen TOV V V V V Five little buds grouped round the parent stem,Growing in sweet airs, beneath gracious skies,Watched tenderly from sunrise to sunrise,Lest blight, or chill, or evil menace them. Five small and folded buds, just here and thereGiving a hint of w...

Not Quite EighteenCoolidge Susan Not Quite Eighteen HOW BUNNY BROUGHT GOOD LUCK IT was Midsummer's Day, that delightful point toward which the whole year climbs, and from which it slips off like an ebbing wave in the direction of the distant winter. No wonder that superstitious people in old time...

CloverSusan Coolidge Clover CHAPTER I A TALK ON THE DOORSTEPSIt was one of those afternoons in late April which are as mild and balmy as any June day. The air was full of the chirps and twitters of nest-building birds, and of sweet indefinable odors from half-developed leaf-buds and cherry and pe...