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| Preface | v | |
For the Very Smallest Ones |
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| RHYMES AND JINGLES | ||
| Merry are the Bells | 1 | |
| Safe in Bed | 2 | |
| Jenny Wren | 2 | |
| Curly Locks | 3 | |
| Pussy-Cat Mew | 3 | |
| Draw a Pail of Water | 4 | |
| I Saw a Ship a-sailing | 4 | |
| The Nut-Tree | 5 | |
| My Maid Mary | 5 | |
| The Wind and the Fisherman | 6 | |
| Blow, Wind, Blow | 6 | |
| All Busy | 6 | |
| Winter has Come | 7 | |
| Poor Robin | 7 | |
| I have a Little Sister | 7 | |
| In Marble Walls | 8 | |
| FAMILIAR OBJECTS | ||
| The Moon | Eliza Lee Follen | 8 |
| The Star | A. & J. Taylor | 9 |
| Kitty | Mrs E. Prentiss | 10 |
| Kitty: How to Treat Her | 11 | |
| Kitty: what She thinks of Herself | W. B. Rands | 12 |
| The Sea Shell | Amy Lowell | 12 |
| COUNTRY BOYS’ SONGS | ||
| The Cuckoo | 13 | |
| The Bird-Scarer’s Song | 13 | |
| Cradle Song | 13 | |
| Good Night! | A. & J. Taylor | 14 |
For Those a Little Older |
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| A BUNCH OF LENT LILIES | ||
| Daffodils | W. Shakespeare | 15 |
| To Daffodils | R. Herrick | 15 |
| Daffodils | W. Wordsworth | 16 |
| SEASONS AND WEATHER | ||
| The Months | Sara Coleridge | 17 |
| The Wind in a Frolic | William Howitt | 19 |
| The Four Sweet Months | R. Herrick | 22 |
| Glad Day | W. G. Robertson | 22 |
| Buttercups and Daisies | Mary Howitt | 24 |
| The Merry Month of March | W. Wordsworth | 24 |
| What the Birds Say | S. T. Coleridge | 25 |
| Spring’s Procession | Sydney Dobell | 26 |
| The Call of the Woods | W. Shakespeare | 28 |
| A Prescription for a Spring Morning | John Davidson | 28 |
| The Country Faith | Norman Gale | 29 |
| The Butterfly’s Ball | W. Roscoe | 30 |
| TASTES AND PREFERENCES | ||
| A Wish | Samuel Rogers | 33 |
| Wishing | W. Allingham | 34 |
| Bunches of Grapes | Walter Ramal | 35 |
| Contentment | Eugene Field | 36 |
| TOYS AND PLAY, IN-DOORS AND OUT | ||
| The Land of Story-Books | R. L. Stevenson | 38 |
| Sand Castles | W. G. Robertson | 39 |
| Ring o’ Roses | ” | 41 |
| DREAM-LAND | ||
| Wynken, Blynken, and Nod | Eugene Field | 42 |
| The Drummer-Boy and the Shepherdess | W. B. Rands | 44 |
| The Land of Dreams | William Blake | 45 |
| Sweet and Low | Lord Tennyson | 45 |
| Cradle Song | Sir Walter Scott | 46 |
| Mother and I | Eugene Field | 47 |
| FAIRY-LAND | ||
| The Fairies | W. Allingham | 48 |
| Shakespeare’s Fairies | W. Shakespeare | 51 |
| The Lavender Beds | W. B. Rands | 54 |
| Farewell to the Fairies | Richard Corbet | 55 |
| Death of Oberon | G. W. Thornbury | 57 |
| Kilmeny | James Hogg | 58 |
| TWO SONGS | ||
| A Boy’s Song | James Hogg | 62 |
| A Girl’s Song | Thomas Moore | 63 |
| FUR AND FEATHER | ||
| Three Things to Remember | William Blake | 65 |
| The Knight of Bethlehem | H. N. Maugham | 65 |
| The Lamb | William Blake | 65 |
| The Tiger | ” | 66 |
| I had a Dove | J. Keats | 67 |
| Robin Redbreast | W. Allingham | 68 |
| Black Bunny | W. B. Rands | 69 |
| The Cow | A. & J. Taylor | 71 |
| The Skylark | James Hogg | 72 |
| CHRISTMAS POEMS | ||
| Christmas Eve | John Davidson | 73 |
| A Christmas Carol | R. Herrick | 75 |
| A Child’s Present | ” | 76 |
| The Peace-Giver | A. C. Swinburne | 77 |
| VARIOUS | ||
| To a Singer | P. B. Shelley | 78 |
| The Happy Piper | William Blake | 80 |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib | Lord Byron | 81 |
| Sheridan’s Ride | T. Buchanan Read | 83 |
| Columbus | Joaquin Miller | 86 |
| Horatius | Lord Macaulay | 88 |
| Index of Authors | 113 | |
| Index of First Lines | 115 | |