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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... stood like little sails, With far more various colours mixt Than be your peacocks' tails! I seeing this little dapper elf Such arms as these to bear, Quoth I, thus softly to myself, What strange things have we here? I never saw the like ...
... stood like little sails, With far more various colours mixt Than be your peacocks' tails! I seeing this little dapper elf Such arms as these to bear, Quoth I, thus softly to myself, What strange things have we here? I never saw the like ...
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... stood That overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood , A furlong from their door . They wept , and , turning homeward , cried , ' In heaven we all shall meet ! ' -When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's ...
... stood That overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood , A furlong from their door . They wept , and , turning homeward , cried , ' In heaven we all shall meet ! ' -When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's ...
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... stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The flames roll'd on. He would not go Without his father's word; That father faint in death below, His voice no ...
... stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The flames roll'd on. He would not go Without his father's word; That father faint in death below, His voice no ...
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