The Children's Garland from the Best Poets

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Macmillan, 1908 - 341 pages
A reprint of one of the first anthologies of poetry for children.
 

Contents

Winter
22
The Inchcape Rock
23
Written in March
25
Lord Randal
26
John Barleycorn
27
MaryAnns Child
30
The Useful Plough
31
A Wrens Nest
32
A fine Day XXV Casabianca a True Story
35
Signs of Rain XXVII How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix XXVIII The Rainbow XXIX The Raven and the
41
Ode to the Cuckoo
43
Robin Hood and AllinaDale
44
Violets
48
The Palmer
49
The Forsaken Merman
50
The Sands o
55
The Loss of the Royal George
56
A Sea Dirge
57
The Ancient Mariner
58
Song of Ariel
67
Hows my
68
The Spanish Armada
70
The Tar for all Weathers
74
The Fisherman XLIV The Sailor
76
The Wreck of the Hesperus
78
A Canadian Boat Song
81
Rosabelle
82
The Ballad of the Boat
84
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk
86
Ꮮ Home Thoughts from Abroad LI The Dream of Eugene Aram
88
The Beleaguered City LIII Jaffar
96
Colin and Lucy
98
The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly
99
The Children in the Wood
100
Robin Redbreast
106
The
107
HartLeap Well
108
The Summer Shower
115
The Mouses Petition
116
The Grasshopper
117
The Shepherds Home
118
The Lord of Burleigh
119
The Mountain and the Squirrel
122
Evening
123
The Parrot
124
Song
125
The Blind
126
False Friendslike LXXI Goody Blake and Harry Gill
127
The Jovial Beggar
131
Bishop Hatto
133
The Old Courtier
136
John Gilpin
138
The Milkmaid
147
Sir Sidney Smith
149
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
150
The Tiger
158
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
159
The Fairies
163
The Suffolk Miracle
165
The Nightingale
169
On a favourite Cat drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
170
The Fox at the Point of Death
171
The Old Mans Comforts and how he gained them
173
LXXXVIl The Charge of the Light Brigade
174
Ye Mariners of England
176
Napoleon and the Sailor
178
Boadicea an
180
The Soldiers Dream
182
Love and Glory
183
To Daffodils
207
The Homes of England
208
Mary the Maid of the Im
210
The Witches Meeting
214
Adelgitha
215
The Council of Horses
216
St Romuald
218
Lady Alice
220
The Outlandish Knight
221
Spring
223
Sweet Williams Ghost
224
The Fountain
226
Fair Rosamund
228
The Hitchen MayDay Song
233
The Spanish Ladys Love
234
Little White Lily
238
Minstrels Song in Ella
239
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad
241
Nongtongpaw
242
Poor Dog Tray
243
The Faithful Bird
244
Lord Ullins Daughter
246
The Sea CXXV Fidelity
248
The Fox and the
251
The Dog and the WaterLily
252
An Epitaph on a Robin Redbreast CXXIX Baucis and Philemon
254
Lullaby for Titania
257
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor
258
Queen
261
Young Lochinvar
262
Incident characteristic of a Favourite
264
King Lear and his Three Daughters
265
The Butterfly and the Snail
271
The Nightingale and the Glowworm
276
The Lady turned ServingMan
277
Pairing Time Anticipated
281
To a Water Fowl
283
Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
284
Sir John Sucklings Campaign
287
The Nuns Lament for Philip Sparrow
289
To a Butterfly
291
The Dragon of Wantley
292
The Ungrateful Cupid
295
The King of the Crocodiles
296
The Lion and the
301
The Snail
302
The Colubriad
303
The Priest and the MulberryTree
304
The Pride of Youth
305
Sir Lancelot du Lake
306
The Three Fishers
311
Alice Fell or Poverty
312
The First Swallow
314
The Graves of a Household
315
The Thrushs Nest
316
The Last of the Flock
317
The Romance of the Swans Nest
320
Song
322
Timothy
324
The Sleeping Beauty
325
Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants
327
The Destruction of Sennacherib
328
The Widow Bird CLXVIII Dora
329
A Witch Spoken by a Countryman
335
Nursery Rhymes
336
The Age of Children Happiest
339
The Noble Nature
340
The Rainbow
341

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