A Poetry Book for Boys and Girls

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'Cradle song' Alfred, Lord Tennyson
'Minnie and Winnie' Alfred, Lord Tennyson
'Ring o' Roses' W. Graham Robertson
'English lullaby' Alfred, Lord Tennyson
'Highland lullaby' Sir Walter Scott
'South African lullaby' Cullen Gouldsbury
'Indian lullaby' E. Pauline Johnson
'Japanese lullaby' Eugene field
'Dutch lullaby' Eugene Field
'The birds' lullaby' E. Pauline Johnson
'Baby seed song' Edith Nesbit
'A cradle song' Padraic Colum
'Wynken, Blynken, and Nod' Eugene Field
'Baby' George MacDonald
'Little white lily' George MacDonald
'The poet and the child' William Blake
'The lamb' William Blake
'Nurse's song' William Blake
'My shadow' R. L. Stevenson
'The land of story-books' R. L. Stevenson
'Hiawatha's childhood' H. W. Longfellow
'Romance' Gabriel Setoun
'Invitation' Rose Fyleman
'Fairy music' Rose Fyleman
'The fairy lough' Moira O'Neill
'The fairies' William Allingham
'The fairy life' William Shakespeare
'A faery song' William Shakespeare
'Queen Mab' Thomas Hood
'The puk-wudjies' P. R. Chalmers
'When I was six' Zora Cross
'Seven times one' Jean Ingelow
'The moon' Lord Houghton
'The great bear' John Halsham
'Star talk' Robert Graves
'A song about myself' John Keats
'Off the ground' Walter de la Mare
'Robin redbreast' Reed Moorhouse
'As Joseph was a-walking'
'A cradle song' William Blake
'The wind' Christina Rossetti
'The sound of the wind' Christina Rossetti
'Windy nights' R. L. Stevenson
'The sick wind' Hamish Hendry
'Wind's work' T. Sturge Moore
'The hills' Mary Colborne-Veel
'A child's prayer'
'A child's thought of God' E. Barrett-Browning
'A child's hymn' M. Betham-Edwards
'What the birds say' S. T. Coleridge
'The little red lark' Katharine Tynan Hinkson
'The fifteen acres' James Stephens
'When Mary goes walking' P. R. Chalmers
'Michael's song' Wilfrid Gibson
'A boy's song' James Hogg
'The caravan' Madeleine Nightingale
'The ships of yule' Bliss Carman
'Suppose' Walter de la Mare
'The King of China's daughter' Edith Sitwell
'The Princess Ming' Eugene Field
'The early morning' Hilaire Belloc
'Pippa's song' Robert Browning
'Daybreak' H. W. Longfellow
'The miracle' John Drinkwater
'First spring morning' Robert Bridges
'Spring' Thomas Nashe
'Oxfordshire children's song in spring'
'Child's song in spring' Edith Nesbit
'The voice of spring' Victor J. Daley
'Bluebell song' W. Graham Robertson
'Golden weed' Katharine Tynan Hinkson
'Sherwood' Alfred Noyes
'Summer changes' Philip Bourke Marston
'Robin Redbreast' William Allingham
'Alms in autumn' Rose Fyleman
'The little green orchard' Walter de la Mare
'Ariel's songs' William Shakespeare
'The merman' Alfred, Lord Tennyson
'Sleeping sea' John Freeman
'The little waves of Breffny' Eva Gore-Booth
'The house and the road' Josephine P. Peabody
'Home is best' H. W. Longfellow
'Wander-thirst' Gerald Gould
'My heart's in the highlands' Robert Burns
'Eldorado' Edgar Allan Poe
'Will ever?' Walter de la Mare
'Time, you old gipsy man' Ralph Hodgson
'Rilloby-Rill Sir Henry Newbolt
'The seven fiddlers' Sebastian Evans
'The crowning of dreaming John' John Drinkwater
'Romance' R. L. Stevenson
'Tir na n-og' Robin Flower
'The west wind' John Masefield
'Child's song' Thomas Moore
'A child's walking song' Charles Williams
'A child's laughter' A. C. Swinburne
'The fountain' J. Russell Lowell
'The brook' Alfred, Lord Tennyson
'The tiger' William Blake
'Raptures' W. H. Davies
'The beggar maid' Alfred, Lord Tennyson
'Goldenhair' James Joyce
'Meg Merrilies' John Keats
'The ship of Rio' Walter de la Mare
'Tim, an Irish terrier' Winifred M. Letts
'The Kerry cow' Winifred M. Letts
'Bethlehem' William Canton
'How far is Bethlehem?' Frances Chesterton
'A child's song of Christmas' Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
'A Christmas carol' G. K. Chesterton
'The winds at Bethlehem' Winifred M. Letts.

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