Table of Contents

'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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First published in 1933, this book was created to provide children with an introduction to a broad range of poetry.