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First published in 1914, this book contains a selection of English poetry originally intended to supply pieces for kindergartens and junior schools.
List 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.
Summary
First published in 1914, this book contains a selection of English poetry originally intended to supply 'pieces for recitation and general reading' in kindergartens and junior schools. The poems chosen come from celebrated authors such as Burns and Tennyson, as well as some lesser-known poets.
