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Favorite Poems Old and New, Various Selections

by Helen Ferris Tibbets Author

Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry.Helen Ferris edited 17 books for young readers and was editor-in-chief of the Junior Literary Guild from 1929–1959.Leonard Weisgard was one of the foremost illustrators in the children’s book field, with more than 200 books to his name.

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Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0385076967
Print Status
In Print
Poems
726
Pages
598
Suggested Grades
Early Years - 12th
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Edition
(all poems listed)
Copyright
1957

Poems

  • 1 Me - Walter de la Mare
  • 2 Everybody Says - Dorothy Aldis
  • 3 My Inside-Self - Rachel Field
  • 4 Washing - John Drinkwater
  • 5 I Want to Know - John Drinkwater
  • 6 Somewhere - Walter de la Mare
  • 7 Halfway Down - A.A. Milne
  • 8 This is my Rock - David McCord
  • 9 The Secret Cavern - Margaret Widdemer
  • 10 The Land of Story Books - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 11 I’d Leave - Andrew Lang
  • 12 A Book - Emily Dickinson
  • 13 My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 14 The Invisible Playmate - Margaret Widdemer
  • 15 Wishing - William Allingham
  • 16 Rathers - Mary Austin
  • 17 A Word Fitly Spoken - the Bible
  • 18 The Cave-boy - Laura E. Richards
  • 19 I Am - Hilda Conkling
  • 20 A Little Song of Life - Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • 21 For a Child - Fannie Stearns Davis
  • 22 Primer Lesson - Carl Sandburg
  • 23 The Day Before April - Mary Carolyn Davies
  • 24 Beauty - E-Yeh-Shure
  • 25 Barter - Sara Teasdale
  • 26 Good Company - Karle Wilson Baker
  • 27 Measure Me, Sky - Leonora Speyer
  • 28 Hold Fast to Your Dreams - Louise Driscoll
  • 29 A Child’s Thought of God - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • 30 My Gift - Christina Rossetti
  • 31 A Song of Greatness - A Chippewa Indian song
  • 32 He That Is Slow to Anger - the Bible
  • 33 A Child’s Prayer - John Banister Tabb
  • 34 A Grace for a Child - Robert Herrick
  • 35 The Lord Is My Shepherd - Psalm 23
  • 36 Song for a Little House - Christopher Marley
  • 37 We Thank Thee
  • 38 Let’s Be Merry - Christina Rosetti
  • 39 What Do They Do? - Christina Rosetti
  • 40 Only One Mother - George Cooper
  • 41 Mother - Theresa Helburn
  • 42 When Mother Reads Aloud
  • 43 Her Words - Anna Hempstead Branch
  • 44 Father’s Story - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 45 Father - Frances Frost
  • 46 Automobile Mechanics - Dorothy W. Baruch
  • 47 Daddy Fell Into the Pond - Alfred Noyes
  • 48 To My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months - Thomas Hood
  • 49 Infant Joy - William Blake
  • 50 A Baby’s Feet - Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • 51 Little - Dorothy Aldis
  • 52 In Go-Cart So Tiny - Kate Greenaway
  • 53 Slippery - Carl Sandburg
  • 54 Sisters - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 55 Two In Bed - A. B. Ross
  • 56 Our Silly Little Sister - Dorothy Aldis
  • 57 Big Brother - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 58 The Quarrel - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 59 The Cupboard - Walter de la Mare
  • 60 Afternoon With Grandmother - Barbara A. Huff
  • 61 Animal Crackers - Christopher Morley
  • 62 Setting the Table - Dorothy Aldis
  • 63 Manners - Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
  • 64 I’ve Got A New Book From My Grandfather Hyde - Leroy F. Jackson
  • 65 A Child’s Grace - Robert Burns
  • 66 A Pop Corn Song - Nancy Byrd Turner
  • 67 When Young Melissa Sweeps - Nancy Byrd Turner
  • 68 I Like Housecleaning - Dorothy Brown Thompson
  • 69 Mumps - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 70 The Land of Counterpane - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 71 Mr. Nobody
  • 72 Little Brother’s Secret - Katherine Mansfield
  • 73 The Birthday Child - Rose Fyleman
  • 74 Seven Times One - Jean Ingelow
  • 75 The Children’s Hour - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 76 Night - William Blake
  • 77 Good Night - Victor Hugo
  • 78 Sweet and Low - Alfred Tennyson
  • 79 Cradle Song - Sarojini Naidu
  • 80 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Eugene Field
  • 81 Slumber Song - Louis V. Ledoux
  • 82 Prayer for This House - Louis Untermeyer
  • 83 Time, You Old Gypsy Man - Ralph Hodgson
  • 84 The Months - Christina Rossetti
  • 85 Majorie’s Almanac - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • 86 The Bells (excerpt) - Edgar Allan Poe
  • 87 Ring Out Wild Bells (excerpt) - Alfred Tennyson
  • 88 When Icicles Hang By The Wall - William Shakespeare
  • 89 The First Snow-Fall (excerpt) - James Russell Lowell
  • 90 White Fields - James Stephens
  • 91 Velvet Shoes - Elinor Wylie
  • 92 Stop by the Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
  • 93 February Twilight - Sara Teasdale
  • 94 My Valentine - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 95 Song - William Shakespeare
  • 96 Written in March - William Wordsworth
  • 97 Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti
  • 98 The Night Wind - Eugene Field
  • 99 Lo, The Winter Is Past - the Bible
  • 100 Spring - William Blake
  • 101 Awake! - the Bible
  • 102 Pippa’s Song - Robert Browning
  • 103 Chanson Innocente - e.e. Cummings
  • 104 On Easter Day - Celia Thaxter
  • 105 April - Sara Teasdale
  • 106 April Rain Song - Langston Hughes
  • 107 The Rainbow - David McCord
  • 108 I Will Sing Praise - Psalm 9
  • 109 'Tis Merry in Greenwood - Walter Scott
  • 110 The Cloud - Percy Blythe Shelley
  • 111 A Day In June - James Russell Lowell
  • 112 July: The Succession of the Four Sweet Months - Robert Herrick
  • 113 August - Celia Thaxter
  • 114 Leisure - William H. Davies
  • 115 September - Helen Hunt Jackson
  • 116 School-bell - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 117 Arithmetic - Carl Sandburg
  • 118 Our History - Catherine Cate Coblentz
  • 119 Geography - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 120 Autumn - Emily Dickinson
  • 121 A Vagabond Song - Bliss Carman
  • 122 The Mist and All - Dixie Wilson
  • 123 Fog - Carl Sandburg
  • 124 Hallowe’en - Harry Behn
  • 125 November Night - Adelaide Crapsey
  • 126 Thanksgiving Day - Lydia Maria Child
  • 127 Be Thankful Unto Him - Psalm 100
  • 128 Christmas Bells - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 129 A Visit From St. Nicholas - Clement Clarke Moore
  • 130 An Old Christmas Greeting
  • 131 Christmas Carol - Kenneth Grahame
  • 132 On Christmas Morn - Traditional/Ruth Sawyer
  • 133 Here We Come A-Caroling
  • 134 Tidings of Great Joy
  • 135 Long, Long, Ago
  • 136 The Friendly Beasts - An old carol from France
  • 137 A Christmas Folk Song - Lizette Woodsworth Reese
  • 138 Cradle Hymn - Martin Luther
  • 139 It Came Upon The Midnight Clear - E. H. Sears
  • 140 O Little Town of Bethlehem - Phillips Brooks
  • 141 Frolic - A.E. (G.W. Russell)
  • 142 Play Time - William Blake
  • 143 Allie - Robert Graves
  • 144 Ring-A-Ring - Kate Greenaway
  • 145 A Good Play - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 146 Hiding - Dorothy Aldis
  • 147 Block City - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 148 Extremes - James Whitcomb Riley
  • 149 The Bear Hunt - Margaret Widdemer
  • 150 The Little Jumping Girls - Kate Greenaway
  • 151 Marching Song - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 152 Roller Skates - John Farrar
  • 153 Different Bicycles - Dorothy W. Baruch
  • 154 The Playhouse Key - Rachel Field
  • 155 The Lost Doll - Charles Kingsley
  • 156 Pirate Story - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 157 The Archer - Clinton Scollard
  • 158 The Kite - Harry Behn
  • 159 A Swing Song - William Allingham
  • 160 The Fishing Pole - Mary Carolyn Davies
  • 161 Swimming - Clinton Scollard
  • 162 My Plan - Marchette Chute
  • 163 At the Sea-Side - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 164 Lullaby - Robert Hillyer
  • 165 Paper Boats - Rabindranath Tagore
  • 166 The Kayak
  • 167 A Sledding Song - Norman C. Schlichter
  • 168 Skating - Herbert Asquith
  • 169 Counting-Out Rhymes
  • 170 Feathers or Fur - John Becker
  • 171 At the Garden Gate - David McCord
  • 172 Our Little Kinsmen - Emily Dickinson
  • 173 Fourth Things - The Bible
  • 174 The Ant Village - Marion Edey and Dorothy Grider
  • 175 Go to the Ant - The Bible
  • 176 The Humble-Bee - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 177 How Doth the Little Busy Bee - Isaac Watts
  • 178 The Bees - Lola Ridge
  • 179 The Beetle - James Whitcomb Riley
  • 180 Little Black Bug - Margaret Wise Brown
  • 181 Caterpillar - Christina Rossetti
  • 182 Only My Opinion - Monica Shannon
  • 183 Little Charlie Chipmunk - Helen Cowles Le Cron
  • 184 Spring Ricket - Frances Rodman
  • 185 Splinter - Carl Sandburg
  • 186 White Butterflies - Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • 187 The Chameleon - A.P. Herbert
  • 188 The Puzzled Centipede
  • 189 A Dragon-Fly - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 190 Fireflies - Carolyn Hall
  • 191 The Spring - Rose Fyleman
  • 192 Alas, Alack! - Walter de la Mare
  • 193 Grasshopper Green
  • 194 An Explanation of the Grasshopper
  • 195 To the Lady-Bird
  • 196 Clock-A-Clay - John Clare
  • 197 Minnows - John Keats
  • 198 The Locust - From the Zuni
  • 199 The Lobster Quadrille - Lewis Carroll
  • 200 Mice - Rose Fyleman
  • 201 The Mouse - Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • 202 The Field Mouse - William Sharp
  • 203 The City Mouse and the Country Mouse - Christina Rossetti
  • 204 All But Blind - Walter de la Mare
  • 205 Green Moth - Winifred Welles
  • 206 Little Snail - Hilda Conkling
  • 207 Snail - Langston Hughes
  • 208 The Silent Snake
  • 209 Starfish - Winnifred Welles
  • 210 Of A Spider - Wilfrid Thorley
  • 211 The Tree Toad - Monica Shannon
  • 212 The Song of the Toad - John Burroughs
  • 213 A Friend in the Garden - Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • 214 Little Horned Toad - From the Navajo
  • 215 The Little Turtle - Vachel Lindsay
  • 216 The Tortoise in Eternity - Elinor Wylie
  • 217 The Wasp - William Sharp
  • 218 The Worm - Ralph Bergengren
  • 219 Little Talk - Aileen Fisher
  • 220 He Prayeth Best (From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 221 Near Dusk - Joseph Auslander
  • 222 End-of-Summer Poem - Rowena Bastin Bennett
  • 223 Little Things - James Stephens
  • 224 Hurt No Living Thing - Christina Rossetti
  • 225 Puppy and I - A.A. Milne
  • 226 My Dog - Marchette Chute
  • 227 The Hairy Dog - Herbert Asquith
  • 228 Dogs and Weather - Winifred Welles
  • 229 Lone Dog - Irene Rutherford McLeod
  • 230 Little Puppy - From the Navajo
  • 231 The Kitten at Play - William Wordsworth
  • 232 The Rum Tum Tugger - T.S. Eliot
  • 233 The Mysterious Cat - Vachel Lindsay
  • 234 Poem - William Carlos Williams
  • 235 The Bad Kittens - Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • 236 Hearth - Peggy Bacon
  • 237 The Runaway - Robert Frost
  • 238 Noonday Sun - Kathryn and Byron Jackson
  • 239 The Horse - the Bible
  • 240 Burro With The Long Ears - From the Navajo
  • 241 The Cow - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 242 Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep - Carl Sandburg
  • 243 Hoosen Johnny
  • 244 The Lamb - William Blake
  • 245 The Unknown Color - Countee Cullen
  • 246 Rabbit - Tom Robinson
  • 247 White Season - Frances Frost
  • 248 To a Squirrel, At Kyle-Na-No - W.B. Yeats
  • 249 The Squirrel
  • 250 The Skunk - Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • 251 The Jolly Woodchuck - Marion Edey and Dorothy Grider
  • 252 The Brown Bear - Mary Austin
  • 253 Grizzly Bear - Mary Austin
  • 254 Twelfth Night: Song of Camels - Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • 255 The Deer - Mary Austin
  • 256 Holding Hands - Lenore M. Link
  • 257 Night of the Wind - Frances Frost
  • 258 Four Little Foxes - Lew Sarett
  • 259 The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo - Rudyard Kipling
  • 260 The Lion - Mary Howitt
  • 261 The Monkeys and the Crocodile - Laura E. Richards
  • 262 Prarie-Dog Town - Mary Austin
  • 263 Seal Lullaby - Rudyard Kipling
  • 264 The Tiger - William Blake
  • 265 The Wolf-Cry - Lew Sarett
  • 266 The Peaceable Kingdom - the Bible
  • 267 Roads Go Ever On and On - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 268 Roads - Rachel Field
  • 269 There Are So Many Ways of Going Places - Leslie Thompson
  • 270 Song For A Blue Roadster - Rachel Field
  • 271 Stop-Go - Dorothy W. Baruch
  • 272 Funny The Way Different Cars Start - Dorothy W. Baruch
  • 273 Trucks - James S. Tippett
  • 274 B’s The Bus - Phyllis McGinley
  • 275 The Locomotive - Emily Dickinson
  • 276 Trains - James S. Tippett
  • 277 Song of the Train - David McCord
  • 278 From a Railway Carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 279 Travel - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • 280 Sea Fever - John Masefield
  • 281 The Sea Gypsy - Richard Honey
  • 282 A Windy Day - Winifred Howard
  • 283 On A Steamer - Dorothy W. Baruch
  • 284 Back and Forth - Lucy Sprague Mitchell
  • 285 Riding in a Motor Boat - Dorothy W. Baruch
  • 286 Tugs - James S. Tippett
  • 287 Freight Boats - James S. Tippett
  • 288 Cargoes - John Masefield
  • 289 They That Go Down to the Sea - Psalm 107
  • 290 The Airplane - Rowena Bastin Bennett
  • 291 The Dirigible - Ralph Bergengren
  • 292 Go Fly a Saucer - David McCord
  • 293 Silver Ships - Mildred Plew Meigs
  • 294 Riding in an Airplane - Dorothy W. Baruch
  • 295 Cockpit in the Clouds - Dick Dorrance
  • 296 Night Plane - Frances Frost
  • 297 Prayer for a Pilot - Cecil Roberts
  • 298 When I Consider Thy Heavens - Psalm 8
  • 299 Flight - Harold Final
  • 300 High Flight - John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
  • 301 Trees - Joyce Kilmer
  • 302 Song to a Tree - Edwin Markham
  • 303 Be Different to Trees - Mary Carolyn Davies
  • 304 Strange Tree - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 305 Tapestry Trees - William Morris
  • 306 Under the Greenwood Tree - William Shakespeare
  • 307 What Do We Plant? - Henry Abbey
  • 308 The Oak - Alfred Tennyson
  • 309 Autumn Fancies
  • 310 The Willows - Walter Prichard Eaton
  • 311 Forester’s Song - A.E. Coppard
  • 312 A Comparison - John Farrar
  • 313 Oh, Fair to See - Christina Rossetti
  • 314 Baby Seed Song - Edith Nesbit
  • 315 Green Rain - Mary Webb
  • 316 Flower in the Crannied Wall - Alfred Tennyson
  • 317 Cycle - Langston Hughes
  • 318 The Flowers - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 319 The Little Rose Tree - Rachel Field
  • 320 Daffodils - William Wordsworth
  • 321 Queen Anne’s Lace - Mary Leslie Newton
  • 322 A Violet Bank - William Shakespeare
  • 323 Dandelion - Hilda Conkling
  • 324 To the Dandelion - James Russell Lowell
  • 325 Fringed Gentians - Amy Lowell
  • 326 The Lilac - Humbert Wolfe
  • 327 The Golden Rod - Frank Dempster Sherman
  • 328 Window Boxes - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 329 Flowers - Harry Behn
  • 330 The Grass - Emily Dickinson
  • 331 The Grass on the Mountain - From The Paiute
  • 332 Spring Grass - Carl Sandburg
  • 333 Who Maketh the Grass to Grow - Psalm 147
  • 334 My Land is Fair for Any Eyes to See - Jesse Stuart
  • 335 Barefoot Days - Rachel Field
  • 336 New Farm Tractor - Carl Sandburg
  • 337 The Pasture - Robert Frost
  • 338 I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing - Joseph Campbell
  • 339 Ploughing on Sunday - Wallace Stevens
  • 340 The Earth Is The Lord’s - Psalm 24
  • 341 The Hay Appeareth - the Bible
  • 342 Vegetables - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 343 Millions of Strawberries - Genevieve Taggard
  • 344 The Potatoes Dance - Vachel Lindsay
  • 345 The Last Corn Shock - Glenn Ward Dresbach
  • 346 Evening at the Farm - John Townsend Trowbridge
  • 347 Apple Song - Frances Frost
  • 348 Milking Time - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 349 Old Log House - James S. Tippett
  • 350 The House on the Hill - Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • 351 The Way Through the Woods - Rudyard Kipling
  • 352 Farewell to the Farm - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 353 Country Trucks - Monica Shannon
  • 354 Saturday Market - Charlotte Mew
  • 355 City - Langston Hughes
  • 356 Skyscrapers - Rachel Field
  • 357 Motor Cars - Rowena Bastin Bennett
  • 358 F is the Fighting Firetruck
  • 359 Taxis - Rachel Field
  • 360 Bus Ride - Selma Robinson
  • 361 People - Lois Lenski
  • 362 J’s the Jumping Jay-walker - Phyllis McGinley
  • 363 Bobby Blue - John Drinkwater
  • 364 The Postman
  • 365 On Their Appointed Rounds
  • 366 A Man With a Little Pleated Piano - Winifred Welles
  • 367 The Ice-Cream Man - Rachel Field
  • 368 City Trees - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • 369 The Library - Barbara A. Huff
  • 370 At the Zoo - A.A. Milne
  • 371 At the Aquarium - Max Eastman
  • 372 At the Theatre - Rachel Field
  • 373 The Circus - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 374 City Lights - Rachel Field
  • 375 Prayers of Steel - Carl Sandburg
  • 376 Praise of Created Things - Saint Francis of Assisi
  • 377 The Earth Abideth Forever - The Bible
  • 378 The Wonderful World - William Brighty Rands
  • 379 The Creation - Cecil Frances Alexander
  • 380 Morning - Emily Dickinson
  • 381 The Sun - John Drinkwater
  • 382 The Sun’s Travels - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 383 The Light is Sweet - the Bible
  • 384 Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun - Walt Whitman
  • 385 The Night Will Never Stay - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 386 Night - Sara Teasdale
  • 387 Questions At Night - Louis Untermeyer
  • 388 Silver - Walter de la Mare
  • 389 The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky - Vachel Lindsay
  • 390 My Star - Robert Browning
  • 391 Stars - Sara Teasdale
  • 392 Baby Toes - Carl Sandburg
  • 393 The Heavens Declare the Glory of God - Psalm 19
  • 394 I Never Saw a Moor - Emily Dickinson
  • 395 My Prairies - Hamlin Garland
  • 396 Afternoon on a Hill - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • 397 I Stood Tiptoe Upon A Little Hill - John Keats
  • 398 I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes - Psalm 121
  • 399 Open Range - Kathryn and Byron Jackson
  • 400 The Noise of Waters - James Joyce
  • 401 The Brook - Alfred Tennyson
  • 402 The River-God’s Song - Beaumont and Fletcher
  • 403 The Horses of the Sea - Christina Rossetti
  • 404 Sea Shells - Amy Lowell
  • 405 Roll On, Thou Dark Blue Ocean - Lord Byron
  • 406 Joy of the Morning - Edwin Markham
  • 407 A Bird - Emily Dickinson
  • 408 Be Like the Bird - Victor Hugo
  • 409 Three Things to Remember - William Blake
  • 410 The Rivals - James Stephens
  • 411 The Hens - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 412 The Chickens
  • 413 Duck’s Ditty - Kenneth Grahame
  • 414 The New Duckling - Alfred Noyes
  • 415 Wild Geese - Elinor Chipp
  • 416 What Robin Told - George Cooper
  • 417 The Blackbird - Humbert Wolfe
  • 418 The Last Word of a Bluebird - Robert Frost
  • 419 Invitation - Harry Behn
  • 420 Robert of Lincoln - William Cullen Bryant
  • 421 Wings - from Psalm 55
  • 422 Song - John Keats
  • 423 The Chickadee - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 424 Hard, Hark the Lark - William Shakespeare
  • 425 The Humming Bird - Harry Hibbard Kemp
  • 426 The Eagle - Alfred Tennyson
  • 427 Look at Six Eggs - Carl Sandburg
  • 428 The Sandpiper - Celia Thaxter
  • 429 Song: The Owl - Alfred Tennyson
  • 430 To a Skylark - Percy Blythe Shelley
  • 431 The Sparrow - the Bible
  • 432 The Throstle - Alfred Tennyson
  • 433 Swallow Tails - Tom Robinson
  • 434 The Brown Thrush - Lucy Larcom
  • 435 Little Trotty Wagtail - John Clare
  • 436 A Widow Bird - Percy Blythe Shelley
  • 437 The Woodpecker - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 438 Little Lady Wren - Tom Robinson
  • 439 A Boy’s Son - James Hogg
  • 440 Little Garaine - Sir Gilbert Parker
  • 441 The Child Next Door - Rose Fyleman
  • 442 O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy - Walt Whitman
  • 443 Jenny White and Johnny Black - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 444 Da Boy From Rome - Thomas Augustine Daly
  • 445 Gipsy Jane - William Brighty Rands
  • 446 Little Papoose - Hilda Conkling
  • 447 A Feller I Know - Mary Austin
  • 448 Dark Danny - Ivy O. Eastwick
  • 449 Wired Tim - Walter de la Mare
  • 450 Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore - William Brighty Rands
  • 451 Felicia Ropps - Galett Burgess
  • 452 Some People - Rachel Field
  • 453 Old Ellen Sullivan - Winifred Welles
  • 454 Strawberry Jam - May Justus
  • 455 This and That - Florence Boyce Davis
  • 456 Goody O’Grumpity - Carol Ryrie Brink
  • 457 Portrait by a Neighbor - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • 458 Our Hired Man - Monica Shannon
  • 459 Mr. Wells - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • 460 Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern - David McCord
  • 461 Mr. Coggs, Watchmaker - Edward Verrall Lucas
  • 462 The Shoemaker
  • 463 Mister Beers - Hugh Lofting
  • 464 The Fisherman - Abbie Farwell Brown
  • 465 The Sheepherder - Lew Sarett
  • 466 Seumas Beg - James Stephens
  • 467 The Peppery Man - Arthur Macy
  • 468 Antique Shop - Carl Career
  • 469 An Old Woman of the Roads - Padraic Colum
  • 470 The Last Leaf - Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • 471 Doorbells - Rachel Field
  • 472 There Isn’t Time - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 473 Laughing Time - William Jay Smith
  • 474 The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
  • 475 The Panther - Ogden Nash
  • 476 The Rhinoceros - Hilaire Belloc
  • 477 The Ostrich is a Silly Bird - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • 478 Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail - Dylan Thomas
  • 479 The Tale of Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash
  • 480 Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
  • 481 Jonathan Bing - Beatrice Curtis Brown
  • 482 The Strange Man
  • 483 The Modern Hiawatha - George A. Strong
  • 484 The Ingenious Little Old Man - John Bennett
  • 485 Archy, The Cockroach, Speaks - Don Marquis
  • 486 How to Tell the Wild Animals - Carolyn Wells
  • 487 The Yak - Hilaire Belloc
  • 488 The Octopussycat - Kenyon Cox
  • 489 There Was a Young Lady Whose Nose - Edward Lear
  • 490 The Jellyfish - Ogden Nash
  • 491 There was an Old Person Whose Habits - Edward Lear
  • 492 The Plaint of the Camel - Charles Edward Carryl
  • 493 The Song of Mr. Toad - Kenneth Grahame
  • 494 A Nautical Ballad - Charles Edward Carryl
  • 495 The Frog - Hilaire Belloc
  • 496 The Elf and the Dormouse - Oliver Herford
  • 497 The Melancholy Pig - Lewis Carroll
  • 498 Eletelephony - Laura E. Richards
  • 499 The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet - Guy Wetmore Carryl
  • 500 The Duel - Eugene Field
  • 501 The Duke of Plaza-Toro - W.S. Gilbert
  • 502 Father William - Lewis Carroll
  • 503 The Fable of the Magnet and the Churn - W.S. Gilbert
  • 504 The Centipede - Ogden Nash
  • 505 How Doth the Little Crocodile - Lewis Carroll
  • 506 A Tragic Story - Albert Von Chamisso
  • 507 The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear
  • 508 The Twins - Henry S. Leigh
  • 509 The Lama - Ogden Nash
  • 510 Calico Pie - Edward Lear
  • 511 The Fly - Ogden Nash
  • 512 The Eel - Ogden Nash
  • 513 Song of the Pop-bottles - Morris Bishop
  • 514 Peter Piper
  • 515 If A Woodchuck Would Chuck
  • 516 After the Party - William Wise
  • 517 Old Man With A Beard - Edward Lear
  • 518 A Young Lady of Norway - Edward Lear
  • 519 The Young Lady of Niger
  • 520 Once a Big Molicepan
  • 521 There Was An Old Man Who Said “Do”
  • 522 A Young Lady Named Bright
  • 523 Algy Met A Bear
  • 524 She Called Him Mr.
  • 525 The Little Man Who Wasn’t There - Hughes Mearns
  • 526 Little Willie
  • 527 Careless Willie
  • 528 Sister Nell
  • 529 Stately Verse
  • 530 The Kitten - Ogden Nash
  • 531 A Canner, Exceedingly Canny - Carolyn Wells
  • 532 Celery - Ogden Nash
  • 533 Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?
  • 534 The Swan
  • 535 On Digital Extremities - Gelette Burgess
  • 536 The Purple Cow - Gelett Burgess
  • 537 Peas
  • 538 The Flea and the Fly
  • 539 Goblin Feet - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 540 Someone - Walter de la Mare
  • 541 The Pointed People - Rachel Field
  • 542 Mr. Moon - Bliss Carman
  • 543 Cornish Magic - Ann Durell
  • 544 Bugle Song - Alfred Tennyson
  • 545 The Elves’ Dance - Thomas Ravenscroft
  • 546 Very Nearly - Queen Scott-Hopper
  • 547 The Man Who Hid His Own Front Door - Elizabeth MacKinstry
  • 548 The Fairies - William Allingham
  • 549 The Fairies - Rose Fyleman
  • 550 Stocking Fairy - Winifred Welles
  • 551 The Light-Hearted Fairy
  • 552 The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend - Rose Fyleman
  • 553 A Fairy in Armor - Joseph Rodman Drake
  • 554 I’d Love to Be a Fairy’s Child - Robert Graves
  • 555 Buttercups - Wilfrid Thorley
  • 556 Fairy Lullaby - William Shakespeare
  • 557 Fairy’s Wander-Song - William Shakespeare
  • 558 Queen Mab - William Shakespeare
  • 559 The Fairies - Robert Herrick
  • 560 A Musical Instrument - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • 561 The Gnome - Harry Behn
  • 562 In the Hours of Darkness - James Flexner
  • 563 How to Tell Goblins From Elves - Monica Shannon
  • 564 Overheard on a Saltmarsh - Harold Monro
  • 565 Faith, I Wish I Were a Leprechaun - Margaret Ritter
  • 566 Could It Have Been a Shadow - Monica Shannon
  • 567 The Mermaid - Alfred Tennyson
  • 568 The Merman - Alfred Tennyson
  • 569 The Sea Wolf - Violet McDougal
  • 570 The Unicorn - Ella Young
  • 571 The Ride-by-Nights - Walter de la Mare
  • 572 The Broomstick Train - Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • 573 The Plumpuppets - Christopher Morley
  • 574 For Good Luck - Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • 575 Fancy - William Shakespeare
  • 576 Fairy Song - John Keats
  • 577 The Star-Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key
  • 578 America the Beautiful - Katharine Lee Bates
  • 579 Columbus - Joaquin Miller
  • 580 Sonnet - J.C. Squire
  • 581 Hiawatha’s Childhood - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 582 Pocahontas - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 583 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers - Felicia Dorothea Hemans
  • 584 First Thanksgiving of All - Nancy Byrd Turner
  • 585 The Wilderness is Tamed - Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • 586 School Days in New Amsterdam - Arthur Guiterman
  • 587 Washington - Nancy Byrd Turner
  • 588 Leetla Giogio Washeenton - Thomas Augustine Daly
  • 589 Young Washington - Arthur Guiterman
  • 590 George Washington - Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
  • 591 Paul Revere’s Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 592 Concord Hymn - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 593 Yankee Doodle
  • 594 America - Samuel Francis Smith
  • 595 Benjamin Franklin - Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
  • 596 Thomas Jefferson - Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
  • 597 Song of the Settlers - Jessamyn West
  • 598 Daniel Boone - Arthur Guiterman
  • 599 Johnny Appleseed - Vachel Lindsay
  • 600 The Oregon Trail: 1843 - Arthur Guiterman
  • 601 The Flower-Fed Buffaloes - Vachel Lindsay
  • 602 The Cowboy - John Antrobus
  • 603 Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along, Little Doggies - John A. Lomax
  • 604 Spanish Johnny - Willa Cather
  • 605 The Railroad Car Are Coming
  • 606 Nancy Hanks - Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
  • 607 Lincoln - Nancy Byrd Turner
  • 608 Dixie - Daniel Decatur Emmett
  • 609 Negro Spirituals - Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
  • 610 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - A Negro Spiritual
  • 611 Battle Hymn of the Republic - Julia Ward Howe
  • 612 Barbara Frietchie - John Greenleaf Whittier
  • 613 The Flag Goes By - Henry Holcomb Bennett
  • 614 The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
  • 615 O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman
  • 616 The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
  • 617 I Am an American - Elias Lieberman
  • 618 Indian Names - Lydia Huntley Sigourney
  • 619 I Hear America Singing - Walt Whitman
  • 620 A Nation’s Strength - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 621 Washington Monument By Night - Carl Sandburg
  • 622 Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight - Vachel Lindsay
  • 623 Sail On, O Ship of State! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 624 Travel - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 625 Home Thoughts From Abroad - Robert Browning
  • 626 A Song of Sherwood - Alfred Noyes
  • 627 Lullaby of an Infant Chief - Walter Scott
  • 628 My Heart’s in the Highlands - Robert Burns
  • 629 The Lake Isle of Inisfree - W.B. Yeats
  • 630 A Piper - Seumas O’Sullivan
  • 631 We Who Were Born - Eiluned Lewis
  • 632 All Through the Night
  • 633 Cradle Song - Carl Michael Bellman
  • 634 The Tree - Bjornsjerne Bjornson
  • 635 There is a Charming Land - Adam Oehlenschlager
  • 636 The Good Joan - Lizette Woodsworth Reese
  • 637 The Sky is Up Above the Roof - Paul Verlaine
  • 638 The Child Reads an Almanac - Francis Jammes
  • 639 The Giraffe - Nikolai Gumileo
  • 640 Spring’s Arrival
  • 641 Sleep, Baby, Sleep
  • 642 To the Sun from a Flower - Guido Gezelle
  • 643 Robinson Crusoe Returns to Amsterdam - Frances Jammes
  • 644 The Fisherman
  • 645 She Was a Pretty Girl - Ramon Perez de Ayala
  • 646 Italian Lullaby
  • 647 Cincirella Had a Mule
  • 648 Sleep, Baby Boy
  • 649 The Swan and the Goose - Aesop
  • 650 The Children’s Song
  • 651 The Grasshopper’s Song - H.N. Bialik
  • 652 My Little Birds
  • 653 Dates
  • 654 Adoration of the Disk - King Akhenaten and Princess Neferiu Aten
  • 655 Wake! - Omar Khayyam
  • 656 The Wildebeest - June Daly
  • 657 African Dance - Langston Hughes
  • 658 The Little Rain - Tu Fu
  • 659 Dancing - Yang Kuei-Fei
  • 660 River Fog - Fukayabu Kiyowara
  • 661 Plum Trees - Ranko
  • 662 Hey! My Pony! - Eleanor Farjeon
  • 663 In the Bazaars of Hyderabad - Sarojini Naidu
  • 664 Vocation - Rabindranath Tagore
  • 665 Fun with Fishing - Eunice Tietjens
  • 666 When I Was Six - Zora Cross
  • 667 The Hurricane - Pales Matos
  • 668 Proposition - Nicolas Guillen
  • 669 The Indians Come Down from Mixco - Miguel Angel Asturias
  • 670 Thoughts of a Little Girl - Maria Enriqueta
  • 671 Cradle Song of the Elephants - Adriano del Valle
  • 672 I Have Lost My Shoes - Constantino Suasnavar
  • 673 The Sower - R. Olivares Figueroa
  • 674 The Little Girl That Lost a Finger - Gabriela Mistral
  • 675 The Wreck of the “Julie Plante” - William Henry Drummond
  • 676 The Song My Paddle Sings - E. Pauline Johnson
  • 677 Paul Bunyan - Arthur Bourinot
  • 678 Let the Nations Be Glad - Psalm 67
  • 679 The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
  • 680 Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe
  • 681 Lochinvar - Walter Scott
  • 682 The Dorchester Giant - Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • 683 Lord Lovel
  • 684 The Raggle, Taggle Gypsies
  • 685 The Sands of Dee - Charles Kingsley
  • 686 The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron
  • 687 Meg Merrilies - John Keats
  • 688 The Listeners - Walter de la Mare
  • 689 Spanish Waters - John Masefield
  • 690 The Glove and the Lions - Leigh Hunt
  • 691 Lady Clare - Alfred Tennyson
  • 692 Lord Ullin’s Daughter - Thomas Campbell
  • 693 The Star - Jane Taylor
  • 694 I Love My Little Pussy - Jane Taylor
  • 695 The Three Little Kittens - Eliza Lee Follen
  • 696 The Baby - George McDonald
  • 697 Mary’s Lamb - Sarah Josepha Hale
  • 698 The Mountain and the Squirrel - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 699 The Spider and the Fly - Mary Howitt
  • 700 Little Orphant Annie - James Whitcomb Riley
  • 701 The Raggedy Man - James Whitcomb Riley
  • 702 Little Gustava - Celia Thaxter
  • 703 Little Boy Blue - Eugene Field
  • 704 One, Two, Three! - Henry Cuyler Bunner
  • 705 Jest ‘fore Christmas - Eugene Field
  • 706 Try, Try Again - T.H. Palmer
  • 707 Little Things - Julia A.F. Carney
  • 708 Four-Leaf Clover - Ella Higginson
  • 709 Come, Little Leaves - George Cooper
  • 710 I Remember, I Remember - Thomas Hood
  • 711 The Old Oaken Bucket - Samuel Woodsworth
  • 712 In School-Days - John Greenleaf Whittier
  • 713 The Barefoot Boy - John Greenleaf Whittier
  • 714 The Village Blacksmith - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 715 Woodman, Spare That Tree - George Pope Morris
  • 716 Sea Memories - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 717 Old Ironsides - Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • 718 Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
  • 719 The Little Black-Eyed Rebel - Will Carleton
  • 720 Casabianca - Felicia Dorothea Hemans
  • 721 The Leak in the Dike - Phoebe Cary
  • 722 Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight - Rosa Hartwick Thorpe
  • 723 The Wreck of the Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 724 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Tennyson
  • 725 About Ben Adhem and the Angel - Leigh Hunt
  • 726 Excelsior - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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