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Book: Poetry For Children
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This rose-tree is not made to bear
The violet blue, nor lily fair,
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If you go to the field where the reapers now bind
The sheaves of ripe corn, there a fine little lass,
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Lately an equipage I overtook,
And helped to lift it o'er a narrow brook.
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SISTER.
Do, my dearest brother John,
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Mamma gave us a single peach,
She shared it among seven;
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I have got a new-born sister;
I was nigh the first that kissed her.
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A bird appears a thoughtless thing,
He's ever living on the wing,
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A little boy with crumbs of bread
Many a hungry sparrow fed.
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JANE.
Miss Lydia every day is drest
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JANE.
Mamma is displeased and looks very grave,
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In your garb and outward clothing
A reservėd plainness use;
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Whether beneath sweet beds of roses,
As foolish little Ann supposes,
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The motes up and down in the sun
Ever restlessly moving we see;
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Henry was every morning fed
With a full mess of milk and bread.
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SISTER.
Through the house what busy joy,
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"Tell me what is the reason you hang down your head?
From your blushes I plainly discern
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Come, my little Robert, near--
Fie! what filthy hands are here--
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My parents sleep both in one grave;
My only friend's a brother.
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Joy to Philip, he this day
Has his long coats cast away,
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O hush, my little baby brother;
Sleep, my love, upon my knee.
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One Sunday eve a grave old man,
Who had not been at church, did say,
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"Our governess is not in school,
So we may talk a bit;
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Horatio, of ideal courage vain,
Was flourishing in air his father's cane,
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An infant is a selfish sprite;
But what of that? the sweet delight
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Why on your sister do you look,
Octavius, with an eye of scorn,
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The wall-trees are laden with fruit;
The grape, and the plum, and the pear,
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SISTER.
I am to write three lines, and you
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Anger in its time and place
May assume a kind of grace.
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In a stage-coach, where late I chanced to be,
A little quiet girl my notice caught;
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"I'll make believe, and fancy something strange:
I will suppose I have the power to change
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My neat and pretty book, when I thy small lines see
They seem for any use to be unfit for me.
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"For gold could Memory be bought,
What treasures would she not be worth?
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Mamma heard me with scorn and pride
A wretched beggar-boy deride.
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But a few words could William say,
And those few could not speak plain,
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O what a joyous joyous day
Is that on which we come
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The month was June, the day was hot,
And Philip had an orange got,
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Dear Sir, Dear Madam, or Dear Friend,
With ease are written at the top;
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Three young girls in friendship met;
Mary, Martha, Margaret.
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I have taught your young lips the good words to say over,
Which form the petition we call the Lord's Prayer,
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To Jesus our Saviour some parents presented
Their children--what fears and what hopes they must feel!
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A FABLE
When the arts in their infancy were,
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A FABLE.
"A wicked action fear to do,
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A FABLE
When beasts by words their meanings could declare,
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A FABLE
Once on a time, Love, Death, and Reputation,
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A sparrow, when sparrows like parrots could speak,
Addressed an old hen who could talk like a jay:
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Brothers and sisters I have many:
Though I know there is not any
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Abject, stooping, old, and wan,
See yon wretched beggar-man;
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A Creole boy from the West Indies brought,
To be in European learning taught,
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A dinner party, coffee, tea,
Sandwich, or supper, all may be
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As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play,
Was labouring industriously hard
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A child's a plaything for an hour;
Its pretty tricks we try
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I saw a boy with eager eye
Open a book upon a stall,
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"Tell me, would you rather be
Changed by a fairy to the fine
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Shut these odious books up, brother;
They have made you quite another
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Sister, fie, for shame, no more,
Give this ignorant babble o'er,
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"Your prayers you have said, and you've wished good night:
What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake?
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In whatsoever place resides
Good Temper, she o'er all presides;
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The drunkard's sin, excess in wine,
Which reason drowns, and health destroys,
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Incorrectness in your speech
Carefully avoid, my Anna;
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O why your good deeds with such pride do you scan,
And why that self-satisfied smile
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A dozen years since in this house what commotion,
What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado;
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Within the precincts of this yard,
Each in his narrow confines barred,
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Anna was always full of thought
As if she'd many sorrows known,
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There, Robert, you have killed that fly,
And should you thousand ages try
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Lucy, what do you espy
In the cast in Jenny's eye
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"I keep it, dear papa, within my glove."
"You do--what sum then usually, my love,
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After the tempest in the sky
How sweet yon rainbow to the eye!
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A little child, who had desired
To go and see the Park guns fired,
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Did I hear the church-clock a few minutes ago,
I was asked, and I answered, I hardly did know,
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"Why so I will, you noisy bird,
This very day I'll advertise you,
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To operas and balls my cousins take me,
And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.
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Whene'er I fragrant coffee drink,
I on the generous Frenchman think,
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With the apples and the plums
Little Carolina comes,
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Why is your mind thus all day long
Upon your music set;
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In many a lecture, many a book,
You all have heard, you all have read,
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Said Ann to Matilda, "I wish that we knew
If what we've been reading of fairies be true.
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Unto a Yorkshire school was sent
A negro youth to learn to write,
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My father's grandfather lives still,
His age is fourscore years and ten;
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When I the memory repeat
Of the heroic actions great,
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This picture does the story express
Of Moses in the bulrushes.
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It is not always to the strong
Victorious battle shall belong.
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David and his three captains bold
Kept ambush once within a hold.
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