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The Children’s Garland from the Best Poets

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2I — The Child and the Piper
  3. 3II — On May Morning
  4. 4III — The Approach of the Fairies
  5. 5IV — Answer to a Child’s Question
  6. 6V — The Brook
  7. 7VI — Stars
  8. 8VII — The Shepherd to his Love
  9. 9VIII — The Kitten and Falling Leaves
  10. 10IX — The Ferryman, Venus, and Cupid
  11. 11X — Song
  12. 12XI — Lucy Gray
  13. 13XII — Rain in Summer
  14. 14XIII — Epitaph on a Hare
  15. 15XIV — Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel
  16. 16XV — La Belle Dame sans Mercy
  17. 17XVI — Winter
  18. 18XVII — The Inchcape Rock
  19. 19XVIII — Written in March
  20. 20XIX — Lord Randal
  21. 21XX — John Barleycorn
  22. 22XXI — Mary-Ann’s Child
  23. 23XXII — The Useful Plough
  24. 24XXIII — A Wren’s Nest
  25. 25XXIV — A Fine Day
  26. 26XXV — Casabianca
  27. 27XXVI — Signs of Rain
  28. 28XXVII — How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
  29. 29XXVIII — The Rainbow
  30. 30XXIX — The Raven and the Oak
  31. 31XXX — Ode to the Cuckoo
  32. 32XXXI — Robin Hood and Allin a Dale
  33. 33XXXII — Violets
  34. 34XXXIII — The Palmer
  35. 35XXXIV — The Forsaken Merman
  36. 36XXXVI — The Loss of the Royal George
  37. 37XXXVII — A Sea Dirge
  38. 38XXXVIII — The Ancient Mariner
  39. 39XXXIX — Song of Ariel
  40. 40XL — How’s my Boy?
  41. 41XLI — The Spanish Armada
  42. 42XLII — The Tar for all Weathers
  43. 43XLIII — The Fisherman
  44. 44XLIV — The Sailor
  45. 45XLV — The Wreck of the Hesperus
  46. 46XLVI — A Canadian Boat Song
  47. 47XLVII — Rosabelle
  48. 48XLVIII — The Ballad of the Boat
  49. 49XLIX — Verses
  50. 50L — Home-Thoughts from Abroad
  51. 51Li — The Dream of Eugene Aram
  52. 52LII — The Beleaguered City
  53. 53LIII — Jaffar
  54. 54LIV — Colin and Lucy
  55. 55LV — The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly
  56. 56LVI — The Children in the Wood
  57. 57LVII — Robin Redbreast
  58. 58LVIII — The Owl
  59. 59LIX — Hart Leap Well
  60. 60LX — The Summer Shower
  61. 61LXI — The Mouse’s Petition
  62. 62LXII — The Grasshopper
  63. 63LXIII — The Shepherd’s Home
  64. 64LXIV — The Lord of Burleigh
  65. 65LXV — The Mountain and the Squirrel
  66. 66LXVI — Evening
  67. 67LXVII — The Parrot
  68. 68LXVIII — Song
  69. 69LXIX — The Blind Boy
  70. 70LXX — False Friends-like
  71. 71LXXI — Goody Blake and Harry Gill
  72. 72LXXII — The Jovial Beggar
  73. 73LXXIII — Bishop Hatto
  74. 74LXXIV — The Old Courtier
  75. 75LXXV — John Gilpin
  76. 76LXXVI — The Milkmaid
  77. 77LXXVII — Sir Sidney Smith
  78. 78LXXVIII — The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  79. 79LXXIX — The Tiger
  80. 80LXXX — King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
  81. 81LXXXI — The Fairies
  82. 82LXXXII — The Suffolk Miracle
  83. 83LXXXIII — The Nightingale
  84. 84LXXXIV — On a favourite Cat drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
  85. 85LXXXV — The Fox at the Point of Death
  86. 86LXXXVI — The Old Man’s Comforts, and how he gained them
  87. 87LXXXVII — The Charge of the Light Brigade
  88. 88LXXXVIII — Ye Mariners of England
  89. 89LXXXIX — Napoleon and the Sailor
  90. 90XC — Boadicea
  91. 91XCI — The Soldier’s Dream
  92. 92XCII — Love and Glory
  93. 93XCIII — After Blenheim
  94. 94XCIV — The Sailor’s Mother
  95. 95XCV — Mahmoud
  96. 96XCVI — Autumn
  97. 97XCVII — The Raven
  98. 98XCVIII — The Nix
  99. 99XCIX — The Seven Sisters; or, the Solitude of Binnorie
  100. 100C — The Beggar Maid
  101. 101CI — The Wild Huntsman
  102. 102CII — To Daffodils
  103. 103CIII — The Homes of England
  104. 104CIV — Mary the Maid of the Inn
  105. 105CV — The Witches’ Meeting
  106. 106CVI — Adelgitha
  107. 107CVII — The Council of Horses
  108. 108CVIII — St. Romuald
  109. 109CIX — Lady Alice
  110. 110CX — The Outlandish Knight
  111. 111CXI — Spring
  112. 112CXII — Sweet William’s Ghost
  113. 113CXIII — The Fountain
  114. 114CXIV — Fair Rosamund
  115. 115CXV — The Hitchen May-Day Song
  116. 116CXVI — The Spanish Lady’s Love
  117. 117CXVII — Little White Lily
  118. 118CXVIII — Minstrel’s Song in Ella
  119. 119CXIX — An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
  120. 120CXX — Nongtongpaw
  121. 121CXXI — Poor Dog Tray
  122. 122CXXII — The Faithful Bird
  123. 123CXXIII — Lord Ullin’s Daughter
  124. 124CXXIV — The Sea
  125. 125CXXV — Fidelity
  126. 126CXXVI — The Fox and the Cat
  127. 127CXXVII — The Dog and the Water-Lily
  128. 128CXXVIII — An Epitaph on a Robin-Redbreast
  129. 129CXXIX — Baucis and Philemon
  130. 130CXXX — Lullaby for Titania
  131. 131CXXXI — Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor
  132. 132CXXXII — Queen Mab
  133. 133CXXXIII — Young Lochinvar
  134. 134CXXXIV — Incident
  135. 135CXXXV — King Lear and his Three Daughters
  136. 136CXXXVI — The Butterfly and the Snail
  137. 137CXXXVII — The Dæmon Lover
  138. 138CXXXVIII — The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
  139. 139CXXXIX — The Lady turned Serving-Man
  140. 140CXL — Pairing Time Anticipated
  141. 141CXLI — To a Water Fowl
  142. 142CXLII — Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
  143. 143CXLIII — Sir John Suckling’s Campaign
  144. 144CXLIV — The Nun’s Lament for Philip Sparrow
  145. 145CXLV — To a Butterfly
  146. 146CXLVI — The Dragon of Wantley
  147. 147CXLVII — The Ungrateful Cupid
  148. 148CXLVIII — The King of the Crocodiles
  149. 149CXLIX — The Lion and the Cub
  150. 150CL — The Snail
  151. 151CLI — The Colubriad
  152. 152CLII — The Priest and the Mulberry-Tree
  153. 153CLIII — The Pride of Youth
  154. 154CLIV — Sir Lancelot du Lake
  155. 155CLV — The Three Fishers
  156. 156CLVI — Alice Fell; or, Poverty
  157. 157CLVII — The First Swallow
  158. 158CLVIII — The Graves of a Household
  159. 159CLIX — The Thrush’s Nest
  160. 160CLX — The Last of the Flock
  161. 161CLXI — The Romance of the Swan’s Nest
  162. 162CLXII — Song
  163. 163CLXIII — Timothy
  164. 164CLXIV — The Sleeping Beauty
  165. 165CLXV — Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants
  166. 166CLXVI — The Destruction of Sennacherib
  167. 167CLXVII — The Widow Bird
  168. 168CLXVIII — Dora
  169. 169CLXIX — A Witch
  170. 170CLXX — Nursery Rhymes
  171. 171CLXXI — The Age of Children Happiest
  172. 172CLXXII — The Noble Nature
  173. 173CLXXIII — The Rainbow

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