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Well Done, Secret Seven
Well Done, Secret Seven by Enid Blyton revolves around yet another adventure of the Secret Seven which consists of the seven...
Good Work, Secret Seven
Good Work, Secret Seven by Enid Blyton begins with the Secret Seven having a meeting. The Secret Seven consists of the children...
How Do I Love Thee?
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of...
Remember
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to...
The Smickle Smockle and other stories
The Smickle Smockle and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of eighteen short stories titled The Smickle Smockle, The...
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donneh
As virtuous men pass mildly away,    And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say...
The Little Lost Hen and other stories
The Little Lost Hen and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of short stories titled The Little Lost Hen, Little Mrs....
So We'll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron (George Gordon)
So, we'll go no more a roving   So late into the night,Though the heart be still as loving,   And...
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
O my Love is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June;O my Love is like the melody That’s sweetly played in...
Snicker the Brownie and other stories
Peter's Noah's Ark, The Boy Who Wanted a Pet, Snicker the Brownie, The Little Old Donkey, The Purple Pig, The Great Big Fish,...
Six Young Men by Ted Hughes
The celluloid of a photograph holds them well – Six young men, familiar to their friends. Four decades that have faded and ochre-...
The Sneezing Dog and other stories
The Sneezing Dog and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of seventeen short stories titled The Sneezing Dog, Wagger Goes...
An Extract from Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole...
The Donkey on the Sands and other stories
The Donkey on the Sands and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of seventeen short stories titled The Donkey on the...
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone...
The Very Peculiar Cow and other stories
The Very Peculiar Cow and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of short stories titled The Very Peculiar Cow, The Land of...
Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
This principle is the great spring of the activity of our minds, and their chief feeder. From this principle the direction of the...
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series. It begins with a...
Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
(Contiuned from last week)The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of Science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves...
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling is the second book in the Harry Potter series. It begins with a...
An Extract from The World by Henry Vaughan
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it,...
The Tower in Ho-Ho Wood and other stories
The Tower in Ho-Ho Wood and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of short stories titled The Enchanted Gloves, The Elm-...
O What Is That Sound by W.H. Auden
O what is that sound which so thrills the earDown in the valley drumming, drumming?Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,The soldiers...
Mr Twiddle Fetches Polly and other stories
Mr Twiddle Fetches Polly and other stories is a collection of short stories titled Mr Twiddle Fetches Polly, When the Sun Rises,...
Ode to Evening By William Collins
If aught of oaten stop, or past'ral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy...
The Little Witch-Dog and other stories
The Little Witch-Dog and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of sixteen short stories titled The Little Witch-Dog, The...
The Sun Rising By John Donne
    Busy old fool, unruly sun,              ...
The Three Strange Travellers and other stories
The Three Strange Travellers and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of seventeen short stories titled The Three Strange...
God's Grandeur By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;  ...
The Pulley by George Herbert
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by,“Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can.Let the world’s...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl revolves around five children named Charlie Bucket, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt,...
An Extract from 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' By Thomas Gray
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,          The lowing herd wind slowly o'...
Series of activities during Holidays at the British Council library, Kandy.
To engage the children during the school holidays, we organised a series of activities that were fun and interactive. On 6th and...
Preface to Lyrical Ballads By William Wordsworth contd.
If in a Poem there should be found a series of lines, or even a single line, in which the language, though naturally arranged and...
The Ugly Old Scarecrow and other stories
The Ugly Old Scarecrow and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled, The Very Old Kettle,...
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads By William Wordsworth contd
Having dwelt thus long on the subjects and aim of these Poems, I shall request the Reader's permission to apprize him of a few...
The Wishing Jug and other stories by Enid Blyton
The Wishing Jug and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled The Wishing Jug, Bushy's Secret...
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads By William Wordsworth contd
I will not abuse the indulgence of my Reader by dwelling longer upon this subject; but it is proper that I should mention one...
The Goblin Hat and other stories
The Goblin Hat and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of short stories titled The Forgotten Canary, Pockets in His...
Preface to Lyrical Ballads By William Wordsworth contd.
For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our...
The Magic Brush and other stories
The Magic Brush and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of seventeen short stories titled The Magic Brush, The Horrid...
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads By William Wordsworth contd.
The language, too, of these men is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and...
Mr Wumble and the Dragon and other stories
Mr Wumble and the Dragon and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled Mr Wumble and the...
An Extract from 'Tintern Abbey' By William Wordsworth
Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their...
The Enchanted Table and other stories
The Enchanted Table and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled The Enchanted Table, Andrew'...
An Extract from 'To William Wordsworth' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More than historic, that prophetic Lay...
The Magic Watering Can and other stories
The Magic Watering Can and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of seventeen short stories titled The Magic Watering Can...
The Enchanted Table and other stories
The Enchanted Table and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled The Enchanted Table, Andrew'...
An Extract from Preface to Lyrical Ballads By William Wordsworth
The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped...
An Extract from 'To William Wordsworth' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good !Into my heart have I received that LayMore than historic, that prophetic LayWherein...

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