初中英语晨读经典美文

2017-02-07

初中英语晨读美文：Beauty of July

One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of leaves. It is no longer a difference in degrees of maturity, for all the trees have darkened to their final tone, and stand in their differences of character and not of mere date. Almost all the green is grave, not sad and not dull. It has a darkened and a daily colour, in majestic but not obvious harmony with dark grey skies, and might look, to inconstant eyes, as prosaic after spring as eleven o’clock looks after the dawn.

Gravity is the word — not solemnity as towards evening, nor menace as at night. The daylight trees of July are signs of common beauty, common freshness, and a mystery familiar and abiding as night and day. In childhood we all have a more exalted sense of dawn and summer sunrise than we ever fully retain or quite recover; and also a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings — a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled. But, on the other hand, childhood has so quickly learned to find daily things tedious, and familiar things importunate, that it has no great delight in the mere middle of the day, and feels weariness of the summer that has ceased to change visibly.

The poetry of mere day and of late summer becomes perceptible to mature eyes that have long ceased to be sated, have taken leave of weariness, and cannot now find anything in nature too familiar; eyes which have, indeed, lost sight of the further awe of midsummer daybreak, and no longer see so much of the past in April twilight as they saw when they had no past; but which look freshly at the dailiness of green summer, of early afternoon, of every sky of any form that comes to pass, and of the darkened elms.

初中英语晨读美文：Feed Your Mind

Hunger of the mind can be actually satiated through extensive reading. Now why reading and not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to take help of reading. You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your “How to?” questions. Once you read a book, you just don't run your eyes through the lines, but even your mind decodes it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity. More the number of books you read, your mind will open up like never before.

初中英语晨读美文：Love Your Life

However mean your life is, meet it and live it;

do not shun it and call it hard names.

It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest

when you are richest. The fault-finder will

find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,

glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sun

is reflected from the windows of the almshouse

as brightly as from the rich man’s abode;

the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,

and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

The town’s poor seem to me often to live

the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply

great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that

they are above being supported by the town;

but it often happens that they are not above

supporting themselves by dishonest means,

which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty

like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much

to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.