Kate Douglas Wiggin and her sister Nora Archibald Smith gathered several hundred poems for older children and young people, arranged in sections that open with a chanted calendar of daybreak, morning and evening. Herbert, Heber, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, Whitman and George MacDonald appear alongside rousing ballads such as “Sheridan’s Ride”, with an introduction on the reading of poetry.
A family poetry book from 1902, for reading aloud by the fire. Download the free EPUB.