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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

by Kenneth GRAHAME (1859 - 1932)

A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. - Summary by Lynne Thompson


A Boy's Song by James Hogg

A Child's Present by R. Herrick

A Christmas Carol by R. Herrick

A Girl's Song by Thomas Moore

A Prescription for a Spring Morning by John Davidson

A Wish by Samuel Rogers

All Busy

Black Bunny by W.B. Rands

Blow, Wind, Blow

Bunches of Grapes by Walter Ramal

Buttercups and Daisies by Mary Howitt

Christmas Eve by John Davidson

Columbus by Joaquin Miller

Contentment by Eugene Field

Cradle Song

Cradle Song by Sir Walter Scott

Curly Locks

Daffodils by W. Shakespeare

Daffodils by W. Wordsworth

Death of Oberon by G.W. Thornbury

Draw a Pail of Water

Farewell to the Fairies by Richard Corbet

Glad Day by W.G. Robertson

Good-Night! by A. and J. Taylor

Horatius by Lord Macaulay

I Had a Dove by J. Keats

I Have a Little Sister

I Saw a Ship A-Sailing

In Marble Walls

Jenny Wren

Kilmeny by James Hogg

Kitty by Mrs. E. Prentiss

Kitty: How to Treat Her

Kitty: What She Thinks of Herself by W.B. Rands

Merry are the Bells

Mother and I by Eugene Field

My Maid Mary

Poor Robin

Preface

Pussy-Cat Mew

Ring o' Roses by W.G. Robertson

Robin Redbreast by W. Allingham

Safe in Bed

Sand Castles by W.G. Robertson

Shakespeare's Fairies by W. Shakespeare

Sheridan's Ride by T. Buchanan Read

Spring's Procession by Sydney Dobell

Sweet and Low by Lord Tennyson

The Bird-Scarer's Song

The Butterfly's Ball by W. Roscoe

The Call of the Woods by W. Shakespeare

The Country Faith by Norman Gale

The Cow by A. and J. Taylor

The Cuckoo

The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron

The Drummer-Boy and the Shepherdess by W.B. Rands

The Fairies by W. Allingham

The Four Sweet Months by R. Herrick

The Happy Piper by William Blake

The Knight of Bethlehem by H.N. Maugham

The Lamb by William Blake

The Land of Dreams by William Blake

The Land of Story-Books by R.L. Stevenson

The Lavender Beds by W.B. Rands

The Merry Month of March by W. Wordsworth

The Months by Sara Coleridge

The Moon by Eliza Lee Follen

The Nut-Tree

The Peace-Giver by A.C. Swinburne

The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell

The Skylark by James Hogg

The Star by A. and J. Taylor

The Tiger by William Blake

The Wind and the Fisherman

The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt

Three Things to Remember by William Blake

To a Singer by P.B. Shelley

To Daffodils by R. Herrick

What the Birds Say by S.T. Coleridge

Winter Has Come

Wishing by W. Allingham

Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field