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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... storm came on before its time : She wandered up and down ; And many a hill did Lucy climb ; But never reached the town . The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide ; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve ...
... storm came on before its time : She wandered up and down ; And many a hill did Lucy climb ; But never reached the town . The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide ; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve ...
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... storm drew near. Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, And every night at play. I kept him for his humours' sake, For he would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache ...
... storm drew near. Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, And every night at play. I kept him for his humours' sake, For he would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache ...
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... storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surges' swell, The Mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok. The sun in ...
... storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surges' swell, The Mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok. The sun in ...
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... storm, And turn'd him o'er and o'er. They filled up a darksome pit With water to the brim, They heaved in John Barleycorn, There let him sink or swim. They laid him out upon the floor, To work him further woe, And still, as signs of ...
... storm, And turn'd him o'er and o'er. They filled up a darksome pit With water to the brim, They heaved in John Barleycorn, There let him sink or swim. They laid him out upon the floor, To work him further woe, And still, as signs of ...
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... storms, In his business a-toiling for bread; And she, as the wind in the elm-heads did roar, Did grieve to think he was all night out of door. And her kinsfolk and neighbours did say of her child (Under the lofty elm-tree), That a ...
... storms, In his business a-toiling for bread; And she, as the wind in the elm-heads did roar, Did grieve to think he was all night out of door. And her kinsfolk and neighbours did say of her child (Under the lofty elm-tree), That a ...
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