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प्रश्न
"And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne’er give heed:"
What is the advice given to the readers?
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उत्तर
Never listen to idle, silly flattering words, “is the advice given to the readers”.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
How is ‘it’ watered?
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
What does ‘it’ refer to?
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
What grew both day and night?
Complete the summary by filling in the given spaces with suitable words.
Once the poet was angry with his friend. He expressed his (i) ____________ and it ended. They became friends. But when he grew angry with his foe, he (ii) ___________ it and allowed his anger to grow. Day and night he watered it with his tears and allowed it to grow. He (iii) _________ his foe with false smiles and cunning tricks. The tree kept growing and yielded a bright apple which (iv) __________ his foe to eat it stealthily during the night. The next morning the poet was happy to see his foe lying (v) _________ under the tree.
It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it.
Why does it take much time to kill a tree?
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing.
What is meant by ‘foliage’?
Memorise the first three stanzas of the poem.
If one should come too close to earth
The atmosphere will shake,
With shock wave reaching to the ground
Causing the land to quake.
Pick out the rhyming words.
There are some who seem to fancy that for gladness they must roam,
That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home.
According to them, when do they get bright smiles?
It's the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth,
That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth;
Who wins the joys of the earth?
