英语美文背诵文选100篇

英语美文背诵文选100篇

1. The First Snow

The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all ni ght long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs on the livi ng, on the graves of the dead! All white save the river, that marked its course be a winding black line across the Ian dscape; and the leafless tress, that aga inst the leade n sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches.

What silenee, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every no ise cha nged to someth ing soft and musical. No more tramp ing hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bell, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of childre n. (118 words)

From Kava nagh

By Henry Wadsworth Lon gfellow

2. The Hummin g-bird

Of all animals being this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to this jewel of Nature. She has placed it least in size of the order of birds. "maxime Mira nda in mini mis." Her masterpiece is this little hum min g-bird, and upon it she has heaped all the gifts

which the other birds may only share. Light ness, rapidity, ni mble ness, grace, and rich apparel all belong to this little favorite. The emerald, the ruby, and the topaz gleam upon its dress. It never soils them with the dust of earth, and in its aerial life scarcely touches the turf an instant. Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it has their freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their n ectar, and dwells only in the climates where they pere nn ially bloom. (149 words)

From Natural History

By George Louise Buffo n

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3. Pin es

The pine, placed nearly always amongscenes disordered and desolate, bring into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadowbreeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips from which their trunks lean aslope. But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow straight. Thrust a rod from its last shoot dow n the stem; it shall point to the cen ter of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowla nd bran ches to reach hither and thither for what they n eed, and to take all kinds of irregular shape and exte nsion. But the pine is trained to n eed nothing and en dure everything. It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness,

content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.

(160 words)

From Moder n Pai nters

By Joh n Rusk in

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4. Readi ng Good Books

Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortun ate in deed are those who con trive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For

book lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people. They need never know Ion ely hours so long as they have books around them, and the better the books the more delightful the compa ny. From good books, moreover, they draw much besides

entertainment. They gain mental food such as few companions can supply. Even while resting from their labors they are, through the books they read, equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may not be deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the ideas they derive from the