A Book of Verse for Children

Table of Contents

Part I:
1. 'A child's grace' R. Herrick
2. 'The Selkirk grace R. Burns
3. 'Baby' G. Macdonald
4. 'My little brother' M. L. Duncan
5. 'Bed in summer' R. L. Stevenson
6. 'Oh! Look at the moon' E. L. Follen
7. 'The old kitchen clock' Mrs Hawkshawe
8. 'Cradle song' Lord Tennyson
9. 'Dutch lullaby' Eugene Field
10. 'Sweet and low' Lord Tennyson
11. 'Letty's globe' C. Tennyson-Turner
12. 'In a garden' A. C. Swinburne
13. 'Norse lullaby' Eugene Field
14. 'The land of nod' R. L. Stevenson
15. 'Lullaby of an infant chief' Sir W. Scott
16. 'The days are cold' D. Wordsworth
17. 'A sleeping child' A. H. Clough
18. 'Bed-time' T. Hood
19. 'The land of story books' R. L. Stevenson
20. 'Babyland' G. Cooper
21. 'Wishing' W. Allingham
22. 'The pedlar's caravan' W. B. Rands
23. 'A lobster quadrille' Lewis Carroll
24. 'The cherry tree' R. L. Stevenson
25. 'Seven times one' J. Ingelow
26. 'Valentine's day' G. Kingsley
27. 'The fairies' W. Allingham
28. 'My treasures' R. L. Stevenson
Part II:
1. 'A charm' R. Herrick
2. 'A riddle' G. Macdonald
3. 'The curfew' H. W. Longfellow
4. 'The moon' Lord Houghton
5. 'The lamb' W. Blake
6. 'The world' W. B. Rands
7. 'The daisy's song' J. Keats
8. 'Little Garaine' Sir Gilbert Parker
9. 'Written in March' W. Wordsworth
10. 'Buttercups and daisies' M. Howitt
11. 'To a bee' R. Southey
12. 'The lady-bird' Mrs Montgomery
13. Song from The Water Babies C. Kingsley
14. 'The blackbird' Lord Tennyson
15. 'The owl' Lord Tennyson
16. 'The land of dreams' W. Blake
17. 'On Saturday morning early' R. C. Lehman
18. 'Song' W. Watson
19. 'The witches' steeds' W. H. Ogilvie
20. 'Daffy-Down-Dilly' A. B. Warner
21. 'Heigho, my dearie' Eugene Field
22. 'Three men of Gotham' T. L. Peacock
23. 'March' L. Larcom
24. 'Hie away' Sir W. Scott
25. 'The water! The water!' W. Motherwell
26. 'The rivulet' L. Larcom
27. 'The ant' I. Watts
28. 'Little ships in the air' E. A. Rand
29. 'The flowers' W. B. Rands
30. 'Answer to a child's question' S. T. Coleridge
31. 'Over the hills and far away' Eugene Field
32. 'What way does the wind come?' D. Wordsworth
33. 'A tragic story' W. M. Thackeray
34. 'The wind and the moon' G. Macdonald
35. 'The wind in a frolic' W. Howitt
Part III:
1. 'A ceremony for Candlemas Day' R. Herrick
2. 'The year's at the spring' R. Browning
3. 'The morning' A. Cunningham
4. 'The fountain' J. R. Lowell
5. 'The shepherd' W. Blake
6. 'The first sight of spring' J. Clare
7. 'Green fields of England' A. H. Clough
8. 'The tree' B. Björnson
9. 'May' Leigh Hunt
10. 'Impromptu' W. Wordsworth
11. 'The procession of the flowers' S. Dobell
12. 'The housekeeper' C. Lamb
13. 'The sea' Barry Cornwell
14. 'Up, up! Ye dames and lasses gay!' S. T. Coleridge
15. 'Fairy language' W. Shakespeare
16. 'Fairy song' J. Keats
17. 'The fairy queen' Anonymous
18. 'When green leaves come again' T. H. Bayly
19. 'Fairies' recall' F. D. Hemans
20. 'Flowers' H. W. Longfellow
21. 'A field flower' J. Montgomery
22. 'The foolish harebell' G. Macdonald
23. 'Lillies' Leigh Hunt
24. 'The rose' W. Cowper
25. 'The violet' J. Taylor
26. 'The little thirsty lily' G. Macdonald
27. 'The arrow and the song' H. W. Longfellow
28. 'The dog and the water-lily' W. Cowper
29. 'Eldorado' E. A. Poe
30. 'Lilian' Lord Tennyson
31. 'The mermaid' Lord Tennyson
32. 'The merman' Lord Tennyson
33. 'I had a dove' J. Keats
34. 'Long ago' Eugene Field
35. 'If I had but two little wings' S. T. Coleridge
36. 'The water-nymph and the boy' R. Noel
37. 'The night bird' C. Kingsley
38. 'Let me rest' E. Elliot
39. 'Hiawatha's childhood' H. W. Longfellow.

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