Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

IV

NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

In matters of taste and genius we should not limit our children; we should rather rejoice that their larger souls perceive a beauty where ours find none. We must not say, “ The trees of the forest may be beautiful, but I first learned beauty from my stately poplars, and they must satisfy my children.” Nor should we reject the flora of a new world, because rumor says that Eden also has its weeds.

It is not necessary to make known to teachers the want of a collection like the one now offered. The best book of the sort has been for some time out of print, and was intended exclusively for older pupils. While this collection has many pieces which must delight persons of any age, it has some for the youngest readers, and is as well adapted to the family circle as to the school. It gives to children all they could cull from many volumes, and, if inwoven with their earliest recollections, will be remembered with delight in future years.

NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

A new edition of the Poetry for Home and School being called for, it was desirable to reduce its contents sufficiently to form with the Second Part a volume of conven, ient size. For this reason, the Robin Hood Ballads, and some other pieces of limited interest, have been omitted.

The Second Part, being designed for pupils and readers of more mature minds, contains poems of a more imaginative cast than those in the former collection.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

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Mary Howitt.

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The Children in the Wood,

The Use of Flowers,

Mary Howitt.

To my Little Cousin with her First Bon-

net,

Mrs. Southey..

The Young Letter-writer,

Miss Lamb.

On Another's Sorrow,

Blake.

The Pebble and the Acorn, .

The Little Black Boy,

The Rook and the Sparrow,

The Town and Country Child,

Cunningham.

The Two Boys,

Miss Lamb.

A Song to Creating Wisdom,.

Watts.' :

The Coffee Slips, .

Miss Lamb.

The Battle of Blenheim,

The Castle by the Sea,

Long fellou.

Casabianca,

Mrs. Hemans.

Lamentation for the Death of Celin, Lockhart.

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To the Grasshopper and Cricket, Leigh Hunt. 100

Lord Ullen's Daughter,

Campbell.

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To the Fringed Gentian, -

The Universal Prayer,

To a Mountain Daisy, .

Burns.

116

The Graves of a Household,

Old Eng. Poetry. . 123

An Elegy written in a Country Church-

yard,

Gray.

125

Ye Mariners of England,

Campbell.

130

On Mungo Park's finding a Tuft of

Green Moss in the African Desert, Edin. Ch. Herald. 132

Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,

Mrs. Hemans. 134

A Child's First Impression of a Star, Willis.

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To a Child during Sickness,

Leigh Hunt. • 137

The Dirge in Cymbeline,

That each Thing is Hurt of itself, Old Eng. Poetry. . 140

Tha King of the Crocodiles,

Southey.

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Burial of Sir John Moore,

Wolfe.

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The Traveller's Return,

Southey.

145

Adoration of the Deity in the Midst of

Launching into Eternity, .

Watts..

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On a Leaf from the Tomb of Virgil, Mrs. Hemans. 149

The May Queen,

Tennyson.

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New Year's Eve,

She was a Phantom of Delight,

The Lost Pleiad,

Coronach,

The Pauper's Death-bed, .

An Invitation to praise God,

To the Evening Wind,

The Erl King,

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots,

Avarice,

The Trumpet,

Farewell to the Muse,

True Riches,

The Moss Rose,

A Monarch's Death-bed,

On Time,

Virtue,

To a Skylark,

To the Bramble-flower,

Lines written in a Highland Glen,

The Evening Rainbow,

Book of the World,

The Skylark, .

To Daffodils,
The Hermit,
Song of the Silent Land,
Ode,.
To our Eldest Heir,
The Husbandman,
Hellvellyn, .
The Reaper and the Flowers,
The Flowers of the Forest,
The Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube,
Autumn Musings, .
On the Shortness of Human Life,
Sensibility,.
To Blossoms,

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