A Book of Verse for Children

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. Bjornson; 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.