The Children's Garland from the Best PoetsThis collection of poems for children, edited by Coventry Patmore, will delight many parents with young children. There are literally dozens of poems in this book, indexed by first line and also by title. They are mostly rhyming and cover a huge variety of subjects. They are the sort of poems that older generations often knew by heart forming the fabric of our children's literature. |
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... night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the churchway paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run, By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are ...
... night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the churchway paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run, By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are ...
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... Night : They follow in the track of Day , In divine delight . Shine on , sweet orbed Souls for aye , For ever calm , for ever bright : We ask not whither lies your way , Nor whence ye came , nor what your light . Be - still a dream ...
... Night : They follow in the track of Day , In divine delight . Shine on , sweet orbed Souls for aye , For ever calm , for ever bright : We ask not whither lies your way , Nor whence ye came , nor what your light . Be - still a dream ...
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... night will be a stormy night— You to the town must go; And take a lantern, child, to light Your mother through the snow.' 'That, Father, will I gladly do! 'Tis scarcely afternoon— The minster-clock has just struck two, And yonder is the ...
... night will be a stormy night— You to the town must go; And take a lantern, child, to light Your mother through the snow.' 'That, Father, will I gladly do! 'Tis scarcely afternoon— The minster-clock has just struck two, And yonder is the ...
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... night Went shouting far and wide ; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide . At day - break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood , A furlong from their door ...
... night Went shouting far and wide ; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide . At day - break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood , A furlong from their door ...
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... night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw; Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his maw. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippin's ...
... night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw; Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his maw. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippin's ...
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