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Luminarium

Luminarium: Middle English Lyrics

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides links to full texts of Middle English song lyrics, which are illustraed with illuminated manuscript art and fully annotated. Links to essays, articles, and related resources.
eBook
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Lyrical Ballads (1798)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto features the complete text of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads". It includes Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: Poems vs Lyrics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After listening and analyzing song lyrics and, subsequently, doing the same analysis with poems, students will discover how similar song writing and poetry writing can be. Students will get their own chance to write a small version of...
eBook
Luminarium

Luminarium: Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the book of poems, "Lyrical Ballads" presented in a straightforward way, easily navigated.
eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: William Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Virginia provides the text to the book of poems "Lyrical Ballads," featuring the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth.
Unit Plan
Other

Alphasongs: Lyrics and Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
AlphaSongs song lyrics--for teaching the alphabet--feature suggested activities to enhance your students' learning experience in conjunction with an optional CD.
Website
Other

Lyrics to Shanties and Sea Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
Find lyrics to numerous sea songs, shanties, and pilot songs.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Lilliput Lyrics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands, a book of poetry for children.
Primary
Other

Lyrics to "In the Good Old Summer Time"

For Students 9th - 10th
These are the lyrics to the 1902, Ren Shields/George Evans song, "In the Good Old Summer Time." (Audio content is downloadable by clicking on "Melody" at the top.)
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Other

Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder: Lyrics to "Sidewalks of New York"

For Students 9th - 10th
This page presents the lyrics to the song "Sidewalks of New York," by Charles E. Lawlor and James W. Blake. (Does not include audio content.)
eBook
University of Michigan

Making of America: War Lyrics and Other Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Michigan offers the full text of "War-lyrics and Other Poems," which was written by a Union sailor and dedicated to former commander, Vice-Admiral David G. Farragut. Users are able to read the text in its entirety, or...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century.: Donne to Butler

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to J.C. Herbert Grierson's book, Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century. This provides a good explanation of metaphysical poetry as a type, and you can access the rest of the book which is a collection of the...
Unit Plan
Luminarium

Luminarium: Middle English Lyrics: Texts

For Students 9th - 10th
A site with links to various Middle English works and their lyrics. Several images and related links.
Handout
Other

Guillaume De Machaut: Discography, Biography, Lyrics

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography of this landmark 14th-century composer, poet and novelist, is in English. The discography is extensive, and the site includes the text of dozens of his songs.
Website
Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Lyric Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief note about the English lyric poetry prior to Chaucer and how it relates to Chaucer's "tales." Links provided to related topics.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: American Roots Music: Lesson One: Finding the Story in the Song

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will identify and discuss themes expressed in song lyrics, analyze the social use and historical meaning of a song, and write a verse of a song drawing on contemporary events.
Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus

For Students 9th - 10th
A general biography of Qintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace, an outstanding lyric poet and satirist.
Website
Other

Roughstock: Cowpie Song Corral

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an interesting resource site for country music and lyrics. Geared especially for singers, and musicians.
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PBS

Pbs: Archives of the West: Songs of the Plains a Selection of Cowboy Folk Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the lyrics of five cowboy songs from 1860's and 1870's.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Anglo-Saxon Literature including the importance of the monks who listened to the stories and poems and wrote them down and the two nonfiction pieces that had an impact on creation of the written language: The...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: The Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on the Romantic Period including the shift in thoughts away from reason and science and toward the power of nature, emotion, imagination, and the individual man. It features links to a vocabulary...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: The First Generation: William Wordsworth

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on Romantic Poetry focuses on William Wordsworth who is famous for lyrical ballads. It features links to information about the French Revolution, two of his poems: "The World Is Too Much With Us" and "Lines...
Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 1958 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960 CE), a writer who was honored for "his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian...
Article
New York Times

New York Times: Week of 5 26 14: Lyrical Witness of Jim Crow South, Dies at 86

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] African American poet Maya Angelou passed away this week. Learn about her difficult early life and rise to fame as a critically acclaimed author.

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