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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

by Kenneth Grahame

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Rhymes and Jingles
  4. 4Merry Are the Bells
  5. 5Safe in Bed
  6. 6Jenny Wren
  7. 7Curly Locks
  8. 8Pussy-Cat Mew · Draw a Pail of Water — I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
  9. 9The Nut-Tree
  10. 10My Maid Mary
  11. 11The Wind and the Fisherman
  12. 12Blow, Wind, Blow
  13. 13All Busy
  14. 14Winter Has Come — Poor Robin
  15. 15I Have a Little Sister
  16. 16In Marble Walls
  17. 17Familiar Objects
  18. 18The Moon
  19. 19The Star
  20. 20Kitty
  21. 21Kitty: How to Treat Her
  22. 22Kitty: What She Thinks of Herself
  23. 23The Sea Shell
  24. 24Country Boys’ Songs
  25. 25The Bird-Scarer’s Song — Cradle Song
  26. 26Good Night!
  27. 27A Bunch of Lent Lilies
  28. 28Daffodils — To Daffodils
  29. 29Daffodils
  30. 30Seasons and Weather
  31. 31The Wind in a Frolic
  32. 32The Four Sweet Months
  33. 33Glad Day
  34. 34Buttercups and Daisies
  35. 35The Merry Month of March
  36. 36What the Birds Say
  37. 37Spring’s Procession
  38. 38The Call of the Woods
  39. 39A Prescription for a Spring Morning
  40. 40The Country Faith
  41. 41The Butterfly’s Ball
  42. 42Tastes and Preferences
  43. 43Wishing
  44. 44Bunches of Grapes
  45. 45Contentment
  46. 46Toys and Play, In-Doors and Out
  47. 47Sand Castles
  48. 48Ring o’ Roses
  49. 49Dream-Land
  50. 50The Drummer-Boy and the Sheperdess
  51. 51The Land of Dreams
  52. 52Sweet and Low
  53. 53Cradle Song
  54. 54Mother and I
  55. 55Fairy-Land
  56. 56Shakespeare’s Fairies
  57. 57The Lavender Beds
  58. 58Farewell to the Fairies
  59. 59Dirge on the Death of Oberon, the Fairy King
  60. 60Kilmeny
  61. 61Two Songs
  62. 62A Girl’s Song
  63. 63Fur and Feather
  64. 64Three Things to Remember
  65. 65The Knight of Bethlehem
  66. 66The Lamb
  67. 67The Tiger
  68. 68I Had a Dove
  69. 69Robin Redbreast
  70. 70Black Bunny
  71. 71The Cow
  72. 72The Skylark
  73. 73Christmas Poems
  74. 74Christmas Eve
  75. 75A Christmas Carol
  76. 76A Child’s Present to His Child-Saviour
  77. 77The Peace-Giver
  78. 78Various
  79. 79The Happy Piper
  80. 80The Destruction of Sennacherib
  81. 81Sheridan’s Ride
  82. 82Columbus
  83. 83Horatius
  84. 84The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
  85. 85Nature, Country, and the Open Air
  86. 86The Brook
  87. 87Recollections of Early Childhood
  88. 88To Autumn
  89. 89Ode to the West Wind
  90. 90To a Skylark
  91. 91The Moon-Goddess
  92. 92Home-Thoughts From Abroad
  93. 93Home-Thoughts From the Sea
  94. 94Green Seas and Sailor Men — 1 — The Call of the Sea
  95. 95The Secret of the Sea
  96. 96A Dutch Picture
  97. 97Sea Memories
  98. 98The Sea Gypsy
  99. 99The Greenwich Pensioner
  100. 100The Press-gang
  101. 101A Sea Dirge
  102. 1022 | Its Lawless Joys
  103. 103The Salcombe Seaman’s Flaunt to the Proud Pirate
  104. 104The Smuggler
  105. 105Arms and the Man
  106. 106The Maid
  107. 107The Eve of Waterloo
  108. 108The Glory That Was Greece
  109. 109Battle Hymn of the American Republic
  110. 110To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
  111. 111The Black Prince
  112. 112The Burial of Sir John Moore
  113. 113How Sleep the Brave
  114. 114Soldier, Rest!
  115. 115The Other Side of It
  116. 1162 — For Those Who Fail
  117. 1173 — Keeping on
  118. 118Story-Poems
  119. 119The Forsaken Merman
  120. 120The Legend Beautiful
  121. 121Abou Ben Adhem
  122. 122The Sands of Dee
  123. 123Lochinvar
  124. 124Day-Dreams
  125. 125Dreams to Sell
  126. 126The Lost Bower
  127. 127Echo and the Ferry
  128. 128Poor Susan’s Dream
  129. 129Fancy
  130. 130Two Home-Comings
  131. 1312 — The Soldier Relieved
  132. 132When Knights Were Bold
  133. 133The Riding to the Tournament
  134. 134Various
  135. 135Blow, Bugle, Blow
  136. 136West and East
  137. 137Genseric
  138. 138Kubla Khan
  139. 139Something to Remember
  140. 140Ring Out, Wild Bells

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