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Book: Poems For Children

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  • I.
    There breathes not a breath of the summer air
    97 lines
  • Winter froze both brook and well;
    Fast and fast the snowflakes fell;
    132 lines
  • Beautiful mother is busy all day,
    So busy she neither can sing nor say;
    12 lines
  • I will think as thinks the rabbit:—
    Oh, delight
    174 lines
  • Kiss me: there now, little Neddy,
    Do you see her staring steady?
    91 lines
  • King Cole he reigned in Aureoland,
    But the sceptre was seldom in his hand
    100 lines
  • Nobody knows the world but me.
    The rest go to bed; I sit up and see.
    24 lines
  • Little Boy Blue lost his way in a wood—
    Sing apples and cherries, roses and honey:
    245 lines
  • I will sing a song,
    Said the owl.
    36 lines
  • "What! you Dr. Doddridge's dog, and not know who made you?"
    My little dog, who blessed you
    35 lines
  • I.
    I have only one foot, but thousands of toes;
    44 lines
  • Loving looks the large-eyed cow,
    Loving stares the long-eared ass
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Where did you come from, baby dear?
    Out of the everywhere into here.
    34 lines, 2 comments
  • Willie speaks.
    Is it wrong, the wish to be great,
    374 lines, 2 comments
  • The sun is gone down
    And the moon's in the sky
    18 lines, 5 comments
  • Said the boy as he read, "I too will be bold,
    I will fight for the truth and its glory!"
    18 lines
  • What would you see, if I took you up
    My little aerie-stair?
    18 lines
  • There was a girl that lost things--
    Nor only from her hand;
    88 lines, 3 comments
  • The lightning and thunder
    They go and they come:
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • "Little one, who straight hast come
    Down the heavenly stair,
    8 lines
  • Little Bo-Peep, she has lost her sheep,
    And will not know where to find them;
    78 lines, 2 comments
  • There is a river
    whose waters run asleep
    213 lines
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