World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)

by Various

138 chapters6h 28mEnglish1904

About this book

The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for children, and fun for little folk. It also includes a general introduction to the series by Carman himself, as well as an introductory essay to the volume by University of Chicago English professor William Darnall MacClintock (1858-1936). (Summary by Tomas Peter)

Chapters (137)

1Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock

2140

2The Baby by Kalidasa

3Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond)

4The Baby by George MacDonald

111

5Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn)

134

6Laus Infantium by William Canton

7Étude réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne

125

8The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin

9The Angel's Whisper by Samuel Lover

10Lullaby: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

11The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts

12Cradle Song by Anonymous

13Cradle Song: From 'Bitter-Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland

172

14Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field

15Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

146

16Baby May by William Cox Bennett

177

17Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers

167

18Baby Louise by Margaret Eytinge

19Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier

113

20The Household Sovereign: From 'The Hanging of the Crane' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

116

21On the Picture of an Infant (Playing Near a Precipice) by Leonidas of Alexandria

22The Mother's Sacrifice by Seba Smith

103

23Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms

127

24Children by Walter Savage Landor

25Polly by William Brighty Rands

26To My Infant Son by Thomas Hood

202

27Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner

28Willie Winkie by William Miller

100

29To J. H. (Four Years Old: A Nursery Song) by Leigh Hunt

274

30Seven Times Four: Maternity by Jean Ingelow

107

31The Mother's Hope by Laman Blanchard

175

32Bedtime by Francis, Earl of Rosslyn

33To Hartley Coleridge (Six Years Old) by William Wordsworth

141

34My Little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck

35Little Goldenhair by Mrs. F. Burge Smith

144

36The Unfinished Prayer by Anonymous

37Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson

153

38The Witch in the Glass by Sarah M. B. Piatt

39Small and Early by Tudor Jenks

149

40Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow

129

41The Lost Heir by Thomas Hood

531

42The Gambols of Children by George Darley

43The Child in the Garden by Henry van Dyke

44A Portrait by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

214

45To a Child During Sickness by Leigh Hunt

153

46Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

305

47Our Wee White Rose by Gerald Massey

146

48Baby's Shoes by William Cox Bennett

108

49Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol by Augustus Julian Requier

252

50On the Death of an Infant by Dirk Smits

101

51She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell

52Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth

149

53We Are Seven by William Wordsworth

189

54Boyhood by Washington Allston

55Pictures of Memory by Alice Cary

121

56The Mitherless Bairn by William Thom

168

57My Mother's Picture by William Cowper

444

58I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood

101

59The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier

304

60Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney

141

61Whittling (A National Portrait) by John Pierpont

165

62The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth

150

63The Old Arm-chair by Eliza Cook

131

64Woodman, Spare That Tree by George Pope Morris

65A Parable by Mathilde Blind

66The Piper by William Blake

67Choosing a Name by Mary Lamb

68What Does Little Birdie Say?: From 'Sea Dreams' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

69A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts

245

70Go Sleep, Ma Honey by Edward D. Barker

153

71No Baby in the House by Clara G. Dolliver

72A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field

154

73Half-Waking by William Allingham

74Twinkle, Twinkle by Anonymous

160

75Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor

76The Three Little Kittens (A Cat's Tale, with Additions) by Eliza Lee Follen

129

77The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson

78How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts

79Try Again by Anonymous

80Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

121

81The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt

248

82Thread and Song by John Williamson Palmer

83Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts

84The Children's Church by Karl von Gerok

152

85Child's Evening Hymn by Sabine Baring-Gould

219

86'It Is Finished' by Christina Georgina Rossetti

151

87A Little Child's Hymn (For Night and Morning) by Francis Turner Palgrave

88Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson

89'By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill' by Reginald Heber

177

90The Romance of the Swan's Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

306

91A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson

92A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley

93The Dead Doll by Margaret Vandegrift

194

94Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson

95The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson

101

96The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman

97The Dancers by Michael Field

98My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

99Little Bell by Thomas Westwood

245

100Wings by Mary Louise Ritter

101Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson

102Under My Window by Thomas Westwood

105

103The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson

104

104Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray

169

105The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt

181

106The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson

107The Man in the Moon by James Whitcomb Riley

171

108The Fairies of the Caldon Low (A Midsummer Legend) by Mary Howitt

279

109The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford

110A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin

111The First Rose of Summer by Oliver Herford

112A Belated Violet by Oliver Herford

137

113The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould

142

114A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore

231

115Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley

163

116Old-School Punishment by Anonymous

117In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier

155

118Seein' Things by Eugene Field

150

119A Mortifying Mistake by Anna Maria Pratt

109

120The Smack in School by William Pitt Palmer

148

121There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

122The Story of Cruel Frederick: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann

110

123The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann

198

124The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann

172

125The Three Children by Anonymous

126The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear

134

127Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow by Edward Lear

227

128The Walrus and the Carpenter: From 'Alice in Wonderland' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

301

129Good King Arthur by Anonymous

130From 'Max and Maurice' by Wilhelm Busch

632

131The Jumblies by Edward Lear

217

132The History Lesson by Anonymous

133Sage Counsel by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

134Limericks: From 'A Book of Nonsense' by Edward Lear

378

135There Was a Small Boy of Quebec by Rudyard Kipling

136More Limericks by Anonymous

137Finis by Anonymous

World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)

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