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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... TREE CLIII THE PRIDE OF YOUTH CLIV SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE CLV THE THREE FISHERS CLVI ALICE FELL; OR, POVERTY CLVII THE FIRST SWALLOW CLVIII THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD CLIX THE THRUSH'S NEST CLX THE LAST OF THE FLOCK CLXI THE ROMANCE OF THE ...
... TREE CLIII THE PRIDE OF YOUTH CLIV SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE CLV THE THREE FISHERS CLVI ALICE FELL; OR, POVERTY CLVII THE FIRST SWALLOW CLVIII THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD CLIX THE THRUSH'S NEST CLX THE LAST OF THE FLOCK CLXI THE ROMANCE OF THE ...
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... tree ! Through the calm and frosty air Of this morning bright and fair , Eddying round and round they sink Softly , slowly : one might think From the motions that are made , Every little leaf conveyed Sylph or Fairy hither tending , To ...
... tree ! Through the calm and frosty air Of this morning bright and fair , Eddying round and round they sink Softly , slowly : one might think From the motions that are made , Every little leaf conveyed Sylph or Fairy hither tending , To ...
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... tree, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither; Here shall we see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun, And loves to live in the sun ...
... tree, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither; Here shall we see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun, And loves to live in the sun ...
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... Seem to thank the Lord, More than man's spoken word. Near at hand, From under the sheltering trees, The farmer sees His pastures and his fields of grain, As they bend their tops To the numberless beating drops Of the incessant rain. He.
... Seem to thank the Lord, More than man's spoken word. Near at hand, From under the sheltering trees, The farmer sees His pastures and his fields of grain, As they bend their tops To the numberless beating drops Of the incessant rain. He.
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... trees overhead, For her husband was out in the night and the storms, In his business a-toiling for bread; And she ... tree), That a prettier never did babble and smile Up a-top of a proud mother's knee; And his mother did toss him, and ...
... trees overhead, For her husband was out in the night and the storms, In his business a-toiling for bread; And she ... tree), That a prettier never did babble and smile Up a-top of a proud mother's knee; And his mother did toss him, and ...
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