Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

by Kenneth Grahame

82 chapters2h 17mEnglish1916

About this book

A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Chapters (81)

1Merry are the Bells

2Safe in Bed

3Jenny Wren

4Curly Locks

5Pussy-Cat Mew

6Draw a Pail of Water

7I Saw a Ship A-Sailing

8The Nut-Tree

9My Maid Mary

10The Wind and the Fisherman

11Blow, Wind, Blow

12All Busy

13Winter Has Come

14Poor Robin

15I Have a Little Sister

16In Marble Walls

17The Moon by Eliza Lee Follen

18The Star by A. and J. Taylor

19Kitty by Mrs. E. Prentiss

20Kitty: How to Treat Her

21Kitty: What She Thinks of Herself by W.B. Rands

22The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell

23The Cuckoo

24The Bird-Scarer's Song

25Cradle Song

26Good-Night! by A. and J. Taylor

27Daffodils by W. Shakespeare

28To Daffodils by R. Herrick

29Daffodils by W. Wordsworth

30The Months by Sara Coleridge

31The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt

181

32The Four Sweet Months by R. Herrick

33Glad Day by W.G. Robertson

34Buttercups and Daisies by Mary Howitt

35The Merry Month of March by W. Wordsworth

36What the Birds Say by S.T. Coleridge

37Spring's Procession by Sydney Dobell

108

38The Call of the Woods by W. Shakespeare

39A Prescription for a Spring Morning by John Davidson

40The Country Faith by Norman Gale

41The Butterfly's Ball by W. Roscoe

240

42A Wish by Samuel Rogers

43Wishing by W. Allingham

44Bunches of Grapes by Walter Ramal

45Contentment by Eugene Field

150

46The Land of Story-Books by R.L. Stevenson

47Sand Castles by W.G. Robertson

48Ring o' Roses by W.G. Robertson

49Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field

146

50The Drummer-Boy and the Shepherdess by W.B. Rands

51The Land of Dreams by William Blake

52Sweet and Low by Lord Tennyson

114

53Cradle Song by Sir Walter Scott

54Mother and I by Eugene Field

116

55The Fairies by W. Allingham

130

56Shakespeare's Fairies by W. Shakespeare

232

57The Lavender Beds by W.B. Rands

58Farewell to the Fairies by Richard Corbet

114

59Death of Oberon by G.W. Thornbury

60Kilmeny by James Hogg

386

61A Boy's Song by James Hogg

62A Girl's Song by Thomas Moore

63Three Things to Remember by William Blake

64The Knight of Bethlehem by H.N. Maugham

65The Lamb by William Blake

66The Tiger by William Blake

67I Had a Dove by J. Keats

68Robin Redbreast by W. Allingham

106

69Black Bunny by W.B. Rands

125

70The Cow by A. and J. Taylor

71The Skylark by James Hogg

72Christmas Eve by John Davidson

115

73A Christmas Carol by R. Herrick

74A Child's Present by R. Herrick

75The Peace-Giver by A.C. Swinburne

76To a Singer by P.B. Shelley

102

77The Happy Piper by William Blake

78The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron

139

79Sheridan's Ride by T. Buchanan Read

190

80Columbus by Joaquin Miller

141

81Horatius by Lord Macaulay

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