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Golden Numbers

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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  1. 1Epigraph — Epigraph
  2. 2Introduction — On the Reading of Poetry
  3. 3Golden Numbers — Interleaves — A Chanted Calendar
  4. 4I — A Chanted Calendar
  5. 5Morning
  6. 6A Morning Song
  7. 7Evening — in Paradise
  8. 8Evening Song
  9. 9Night
  10. 10A Fine Day
  11. 11The Seasons
  12. 12The Eternal Spring
  13. 13March
  14. 14Spring
  15. 15Song to April
  16. 16April in England
  17. 17April and May
  18. 18May
  19. 19Song on May Morning
  20. 20Summer
  21. 21June Weather
  22. 22July
  23. 23August
  24. 24In August
  25. 25Autumn
  26. 26Sweet September
  27. 27Autumn’s Processional — October’s Bright Blue Weather
  28. 28Maple Leaves
  29. 29“Down to Sleep”
  30. 30Winter
  31. 31When Icicles Hang by the Wall
  32. 32A Winter Morning
  33. 33The Snow Storm
  34. 34Old Winter
  35. 35Midwinter
  36. 36Dirge for the Year
  37. 37Interleaves — The World Beautiful
  38. 38II — The World Beautiful
  39. 39The Harvest Moon
  40. 40The Cloud
  41. 41Before the Rain
  42. 42Rain in Summer
  43. 43Invocation to Rain in Summer
  44. 44The Latter Rain
  45. 45The Wind
  46. 46Ode to the Northeast Wind
  47. 47The Windy Night
  48. 48The Brook
  49. 49The Brook in Winter
  50. 50Clear and Cool
  51. 51Minnows
  52. 52Snow-Bound
  53. 53Highland Cattle
  54. 54A Scene in Paradise
  55. 55The Tiger
  56. 56The Spacious Firmament on High
  57. 57Interleaves — Green Things Growing
  58. 58III — Green Things Growing
  59. 59The Sigh of Silence
  60. 60Under the Greenwood Tree
  61. 61The Planting of the Apple Tree
  62. 62An Apple Orchard in the Spring
  63. 63Mine Host of “The Golden Apple”
  64. 64The Tree
  65. 65A Young Fir-Wood
  66. 66The Snowing of the Pines
  67. 67The Procession of the Flowers
  68. 68Sweet Peas
  69. 69A Snowdrop
  70. 70Almond Blossom
  71. 71Wild Rose
  72. 72Tiger-Lilies
  73. 73To the Fringed Gentian
  74. 74To a Mountain Daisy
  75. 75Bind-Weed
  76. 76The Rhodora
  77. 77A Song of Clover
  78. 78To the Dandelion
  79. 79To Daffodils
  80. 80The Daffodils
  81. 81The White Anemone
  82. 82The Grass
  83. 83The Corn-Song
  84. 84Columbia’s Emblem
  85. 85Scythe Song
  86. 86Time to Go
  87. 87The Death of the Flowers
  88. 88Autumn’s Mirth
  89. 89Interleaves on the Wing
  90. 90IV — On the Wing
  91. 91To a Skylark
  92. 92Sir Lark and King Sun: A Parable
  93. 93The Skylark
  94. 94The Skylark
  95. 95The Bobolinks
  96. 96To a Waterfowl
  97. 97Goldfinches
  98. 98The Sandpiper
  99. 99The Eagle
  100. 100Child’s Talk in April
  101. 101The Flight of the Birds
  102. 102The Shepherd’s Home
  103. 103To a Cricket
  104. 104On the Grasshopper and Cricket
  105. 105The Tax-Gatherer
  106. 106To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
  107. 107The Bee
  108. 108The Humble-Bee
  109. 109All Things Wait Upon Thee
  110. 110Providence
  111. 111Interleaves — The Inglenook
  112. 112V — The Inglenook
  113. 113Two Heavens
  114. 114A Song of Love
  115. 115Mother’s Song
  116. 116The Bonniest Bairn in a’ the Warl’
  117. 117Cuddle Doon
  118. 118I Am Lonely
  119. 119Brother and Sister
  120. 120Home
  121. 121Love Will Find Out the Way
  122. 122The Sailor’s Wife
  123. 123Evening at the Farm
  124. 124Home Song
  125. 125Etude Rêaliste
  126. 126We Are Seven
  127. 127Interleaves — Fairy Songs and Songs of Fancy
  128. 128VI — Fairy Songs and Songs of Fancy Fairy Land
  129. 129II — Lullaby for Titania
  130. 130III — Oberon and Titania to the Fairy Train
  131. 131IV — Ariel’s Songs
  132. 132Orpheus With His Lute
  133. 133The Arming of Pigwiggen
  134. 134Hesperus’ Song
  135. 135L’Allegro
  136. 136Sabrina Fair
  137. 137Alexander’s Feast
  138. 138Kubla Khan
  139. 139The Magic Car Moved on
  140. 140Arethusa
  141. 141The Culprit Fay (Extracts)
  142. 142IV — The Assembling of the Fays
  143. 143VI — The Throne of the Lily-King
  144. 144VII — The Fay’s Crime
  145. 145VIII — The Fay’s Sentence
  146. 146X — The Fay’s Departure
  147. 147A Myth
  148. 148The Fairy Folk
  149. 149The Merman
  150. 150The Mermaid
  151. 151Bugle Song
  152. 152The Raven
  153. 153The Bells
  154. 154Interleaves — Sports and Pastimes
  155. 155VII — Sports and Pastimes
  156. 156Bicycling Song
  157. 157Going A Maying
  158. 158Jog on, Jog on
  159. 159A Vagabond Song
  160. 160Swimming
  161. 161Swimming
  162. 162The Angler’s Reveille
  163. 163The Angler’s Invitation
  164. 164Skating
  165. 165Reading
  166. 166On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
  167. 167Music’s Silver Sound
  168. 168The Power of Music
  169. 169Descend, Ye Nine
  170. 170Old Song
  171. 171The Barefoot Boy
  172. 172Leolin and Edith
  173. 173Going A-Nutting
  174. 174Whittling
  175. 175Hunting Song
  176. 176The Hunter’s Song
  177. 177The Blood Horse
  178. 178The Northern Seas
  179. 179The Needle
  180. 180Interleaves — A Garden of Girls
  181. 181VIII — A Garden of Girls
  182. 182Little Bell
  183. 183A Child of Twelve
  184. 184Chloe
  185. 185O Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet
  186. 186Who Is Silvia?
  187. 187To Mistress Margaret Hussey
  188. 188Ruth
  189. 189My Peggy
  190. 190Annie Laurie
  191. 191Lucy
  192. 192Jessie
  193. 193Olivia
  194. 194Nikolina
  195. 195The Solitary Reaper
  196. 196Helena and Hermia
  197. 197Phyllis
  198. 198So Sweet Is She
  199. 199I Love My Jean
  200. 200My Nannie’s Awa’
  201. 201Interleaves — The World of Waters
  202. 202IX — The World of Waters
  203. 203A Life on the Ocean Wave
  204. 204The Sea
  205. 205A Sea-Song
  206. 206A Visit From the Sea
  207. 207Drifting
  208. 208Tacking Ship Off Shore
  209. 209Windlass Song
  210. 210The Coral Grove
  211. 211The Shell
  212. 212Bermudas
  213. 213Where Lies the Land?
  214. 214Interleaves for Home and Country
  215. 215X — For Home and Country
  216. 216My Native Land
  217. 217Loyalty
  218. 218My Heart’s in the Highlands
  219. 219The Minstrel-Boy
  220. 220The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls
  221. 221Fife and Drum
  222. 222The Cavalier’s Song
  223. 223The Old Scottish Cavalier
  224. 224The Song of the Camp
  225. 225Border Ballad
  226. 226Gathering Song of Donuil Dhu
  227. 227The Reveille
  228. 228Ye Mariners of England
  229. 229The Knight’s Tomb
  230. 230How Sleep the Brave!
  231. 231Dirge
  232. 232The Burial of Sir John Moore
  233. 233Soldier, Rest!
  234. 234Recessional
  235. 235The Fatherland
  236. 236Interleaves — New World and Old Glory
  237. 237XI — New World and Old Glory
  238. 238Columbus
  239. 239Pocahontas
  240. 240Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
  241. 241The Twenty-second of December
  242. 242Washington
  243. 243Warren’s Address
  244. 244Carmen Bellicosum
  245. 245The American Flag (Extract)
  246. 246Old Ironsides
  247. 247Indians
  248. 248Crossing the Plains
  249. 249Concord Hymn — Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, April…
  250. 250Ode
  251. 251Stanzas on Freedom
  252. 252Abraham Lincoln
  253. 253Lincoln the Great Commoner
  254. 254Abraham Lincoln
  255. 255O Captain! My Captain!
  256. 256The Flag Goes by
  257. 257The Black Regiment
  258. 258Night Quarters
  259. 259Battle-Hymn of the Republic
  260. 260Sheridan’s Ride
  261. 261Song of the Negro Boatman
  262. 262Barbara Frietchie
  263. 263Two Veterans
  264. 264Stand by the Flag!
  265. 265At Gibraltar
  266. 266At Gibraltar
  267. 267Faith and Freedom — Our Mother Tongue
  268. 268The English Language
  269. 269To America
  270. 270The Name of Old Glory
  271. 271Interleaves in Merry Mood
  272. 272XII — In Merry Mood
  273. 273The Priest and the Mulberry Tree
  274. 274The Council of Horses
  275. 275The Diverting History of John Gilpin
  276. 276To a Child of Quality
  277. 277Charade
  278. 278A Riddle
  279. 279A Riddle
  280. 280A Riddle
  281. 281Feigned Courage
  282. 282Baucis and Philemon
  283. 283The Lion and the Cub
  284. 284Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
  285. 285The Walrus and the Carpenter
  286. 286Song of the Turtle and Flamingo
  287. 287Captain Reece
  288. 288The Cataract of Lodore
  289. 289The Enchanted Shirt
  290. 290Made in the Hot Weather
  291. 291The Housekeeper
  292. 292The Monkey
  293. 293November
  294. 294Captain Sword
  295. 295Interleaves — Story Poems: Romance and Reality
  296. 296XIII — Story Poems: Romance and Reality
  297. 297Seven Times Two
  298. 298The Long White Seam
  299. 299Hannah Binding Shoes
  300. 300Lord Ullin’s Daughter
  301. 301The King of Denmark’s Ride
  302. 302The Shepherd to His Love
  303. 303Ballad
  304. 304Romance of the Swan’s Nest
  305. 305Lochinvar
  306. 306Jock of Hazeldean
  307. 307The Lady of Shalott
  308. 308The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
  309. 309The Forsaken Merman
  310. 310The Sands of Dee
  311. 311The “Gray Swan”
  312. 312The Wreck of the Hesperus
  313. 313A Greyport Legend
  314. 314The Glove and the Lions
  315. 315How’s My Boy?
  316. 316The Child-Musician
  317. 317How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix
  318. 318The Inchcape Rock
  319. 319A Night With a Wolf
  320. 320The Dove of Dacca
  321. 321The Abbot of Inisfalen
  322. 322The Cavalier’s Escape
  323. 323The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  324. 324Hervé Riel
  325. 325Vision of Belshazzar
  326. 326Solomon and the Bees
  327. 327The Burial of Moses
  328. 328Interleaves When Banners Are Waving
  329. 329XIV — When Banners Are Waving
  330. 330Battle of the Baltic
  331. 331The Pipes at Lucknow
  332. 332The Battle of Agincourt
  333. 333The Battle of Blenheim
  334. 334The Armada: A Fragment
  335. 335Ivry
  336. 336On the Loss of the Royal George
  337. 337The Charge of the Light Brigade
  338. 338Bannockburn
  339. 339The Night Before Waterloo
  340. 340Hohenlinden
  341. 341Incident of the French Camp
  342. 342Marco Bozzaris
  343. 343The Destruction of Sennacherib
  344. 344Interleaves — Tales of the Olden Time
  345. 345XV — Tales of the Olden Time
  346. 346The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
  347. 347King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
  348. 348Lord Beichan and Susie Pye
  349. 349The Gay Gos-hawk
  350. 350Earl Mar’s Daughter
  351. 351Chevy-Chace
  352. 352Hynde Horn
  353. 353Glenlogie
  354. 354Interleaves — Life Lessons
  355. 355XVI — Life Lessons
  356. 356In a Child’s Album
  357. 357To-Day
  358. 358The Noble Nature
  359. 359Forbearance
  360. 360The Chambered Nautilus
  361. 361Duty — On His Blindness
  362. 362Sir Launfal and the Leper
  363. 363Opportunity
  364. 364Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel
  365. 365Be True
  366. 366The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation
  367. 367A Turkish Legend
  368. 368Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  369. 369Polonius to Laertes
  370. 370The Olive Tree
  371. 371Coronation
  372. 372December
  373. 373The End of the Play
  374. 374A Farewell
  375. 375A Boy’s Prayer
  376. 376Chartless
  377. 377Peace
  378. 378Consider
  379. 379The Elixir
  380. 380One by One
  381. 381The Commonwealth of the Bees
  382. 382The Pilgrim
  383. 383Be Useful
  384. 384Interleaves — The Glad Evangel
  385. 385XVII — The Glad Evangel
  386. 386The Angels
  387. 387“While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night”
  388. 388The Star Song
  389. 389Hymn for Christmas
  390. 390New Prince, New Pomp
  391. 391The Three Kings
  392. 392The Three Kings
  393. 393A Christmas Hymn
  394. 394O Little Town of Bethlehem
  395. 395While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
  396. 396Christmas Carol
  397. 397Old Christmas
  398. 398God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
  399. 399Minstrels and Maids
  400. 400An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour
  401. 401Old Christmas Returned
  402. 402Ceremonies for Christmas
  403. 403Christmas in England
  404. 404The Gracious Time
  405. 405Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
  406. 406Index by Authors
  407. 407Index by Titles

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