The Oxford Book of Children's Verse

Poems

• 1 Geoffrey Chaucer-Controlling the Tonuge
• 2 John Lydgate-The Boy Serving at Table
• 3 Peter Idley-Sources of Good Counsel
• 4 Idley-Covetousness
• 5 Anon.-A Goodly Child
• 6 Anon.-Customs Change
• 7 Anon.-Manners at Table when away from Home
• 8 Anon.-Symon's Lesson of Wisdom for all Manner of Children
• 9 Anon.-Demeanour
• 10 Anon.-The Unhappy Schoolboy
• 11 Hugh Rhodes-Rising in the Morning
• 12 Francis Seager-A Prayer to be said when thou goest to Bed
• 13 Robert Smith-The Exhortation of a Father to his Children
• 14 Thomas Newberry-The Great Merchant, Dives Pragmaticus, Cries his Wares
• 15 William Bullokar- To his Child
• 16 Thomas Dekker-A Cradle Song
• 17 John Hoskyns-To his little Son Benedict from the Tower of London
• 18 Anonymous-A Schoolmaster's Admonition
• 19 John Wilson-The Armada, 1588
• 20 Richard Corbet-To his Son, Vincent Corbet
• 21 John Penkethman-A Schoolmaster's Precepts
• 22 Penkethman-Some Boys
• 23 George Wither-A Rocking Hymn
• 24 Wither-For Scholars and Pupils
• 25 Robert Herrick-A Child's Present
• 26 Herrick-A Grace for Children
• 27 Herrick-Another Grace
• 28 Herrick-God to be First Served
• 29 Samuel Crossman-My Song is Love Unknown
• 30 Abraham Chear-To My Youngest Kinsman, R. L.
• 31 Thomas Ken-An Evening Hymn
• 32 John Bunyan-Of the Boy and Butterfly
• 33 Bunyan-Upon the Swallow
• 34 Bunyan-Upon a Snail
• 35 Bunyan-Upon the Weathercock
• 36 Bunyan-Of the Child with the Bird on the Bush
• 37 Bunyan-Upon the Horse and his Rider
• 38 Anonymous-The Maiden's Best Adorning
• 39 Nathaniel Crouch-David and Goliath
• 40 Crouch-The Tower of Babel
• 41 Anonymous-A was an Archer
• 42 Anon.-To Theodora
• 43 William Ronksley-To Cheer our Minds
• 44 Isaac Watts-Against Quarrelling and Fighting
• 45 Watts-Against Idleness and Mischief
• 46 Watts-For the Lord's Day Evening
• 47 Watts-Our Saviour's Golden Rule
• 48 Watts-The Sluggard
• 49 Watts-Cradle Hymn
• 50 Matthew Prior-A Letter to the Child Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley
• 51 Henry Dixon-The Description of a Good Boy
• 52 Thomas Foxton-Upon Boys Diverting Themselves in the River
• 53 Foxton-On a Little Boy's Endeavouring to Catch a Snake
• 54 Anonymous-The Ten Commandments
• 55 Colley Cibber-The Blind Boy
• 56 Charles Wesley-Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild
• 57 Anonymous-Tumbling
• 58 Anon.-The English Succession
• 59 John Marchant-Little Miss and Her Parrot
• 60 Marchant-Young Master's Account of a Puppet Show
• 61 Nathaniel Cotton-Contentment
• 62 Cotton-Early Thoughts of Marriage
• 63 Cotton-To a Child Five Years Old
• 64 Cotton-The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow
• 65 Anonymous-The Happy Nightingale
• 66 Christopher Smart-A Morning Hymn
• 67 Smart-Mirth
• 68 Smart-Praise
• 69 Smart-Consideration for Others
• 70 Smart-Hymn For Saturday
• 71 Anonymous-The Bald Cavalier
• 72 Anon.-The Father and his Children
• 73 Anon.-The Stargazer
• 74 Anon.-Epitaph on a Dormouse, which some Children were to bury
• 75 John Huddlestone Wynne-Time
• 76 Wynne-The Horse and the Mule
• 77 Anna Laetitia Barbauld-The Mouse's Petition
• 78 Anonymous-A Guinea-pig Song
• 79 Anon.-The Song of the Reed Sparrow
• 80 Anon.-The Wren
• 81 Dorothy Kilner-Henry's Secret
• 82 John Oakman-The Glutton
• 83 William Blake-The Piper
• 84 Blake-The Lamb
• 85 Blake-The Little Black Boy
• 86 Blake-The Chimney Sweeper
• 87 Blake-Laughing Song
• 88 Blake-Nurse's Song
• 89 Blake-Night
• 90 John Aikin-Tit for Tat: A Tale
• 91 Robert Burns-Wee Willie Gray
• 92 Robert Southey-The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them
• 93 Southey-The Cataract of Lodore
• 94 Anonymous-The Babes in the Wood
• 95 William Wordsworth-Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
• 96 Wordsworth-We are Seven
• 97 Wordsworth-The Pet Lamb
• 98 Wordsworth-Written in the Album of a Child
• 99 Lucy Aikin-The Beggar Man
• 100 Aikin-The Swallow
• 101 Samuel Taylor Coleridge-Answer to a Child's Question
• 102 Coleridge-A Child's Evening Prayer
• 103 Coleridge-Metrical Feet
• 104 Charlotte Smith-Invitation to the Bee
• 105 Ann Taylor-My Mother
• 106 Taylor-Meddlesome Matty
• 107 Taylor-The Pin
• 108 Taylor-The Notorious Glutton
• 109 Taylor-The Baby's Dance
• 110 Jane Taylor-The Gleaner
• 111 Taylor-Greedy Richard
• 112 Taylor-The Star
• 113 Ann and Jane Taylor-The Cow
• 114 Taylors-The Sheep
• 115 Adelaide O'Keeffe-Beasts and Birds
• 116 O'Keeffe-The Kite
• 117 Sarah Catherine Martin-The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog
• 118 Dorothy Wordsworth-The Cottager to her Infant
• 119 Wordsworth-Address to a Child during a Boisterous Winter Evening
• 120 Wordsworth-Loving and Liking
• 121 William Roscoe-The Butterfly's Ball
• 122 Catherine Ann Dorset-The Peacock 'At Home'
• 123 Elizabeth Turner-The Canary
• 124 Turner-Truth the Best
• 125 Turner-How to Write a Letter
• 126 Turner-The Two Little Miss Lloyds
• 127 Richard Scrafton Sharpe-The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
• 128 Charles and Mary Lamb-Envy
• 129 Lamb-Choosing a Name
• 130 Lamb-The Boy and the Snake
• 131 Lamb-The First Tooth
• 132 Lamb-Cleanliness
• 133 Lamb-Going into Breeches
• 134 Lamb-Feigned Courage
• 135 Sir Walter Scott-Lullaby of an Infant Chief
• 136 John Keats-Meg Merrilies
• 137 Keats-There was a Naughty Boy
• 138 John Hookham Frere-The Boy and the Parrot
• 139 Frere-The Fable of the Piece of Glass and the Piece of Ice
• 140 Anonymous-Three Wonderful Old Women
• 141 Anon.-Anecdotes of Four Gentlemen
• 142 Anon.-Dame Wiggins of Lee
• 143 Clement Clarke Moore-A Visit from St. Nicholas
• 144 James Hogg-A Boy's Song
• 145 Theodore Hook-Cautionary Verses to Youth of Both Sexes
• 146 Mary Howitt-The Spider and the Fly
• 147 Howitt-Buttercups and Daisies
• 148 Howitt-The Seagull
• 149 William Howitt-The Wind in a Frolic
• 150 Howitt-The Migration of the Grey Squirrels
• 151 Anonymous-Pussy
• 152 Sarah Josepha Hale-Mary's Lamb
• 153 Maria Jane Jewsbury-Partings
• 154 Jewsbury-To a Young Brother
• 155 Sara Coleridge-The Months
• 156 Coleridge-Trees
• 157 Walter Savage Landor-Before a Saint's Picture
• 158 Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton-Lady Moon
• 159 Houghton-Good Night and Good Morning
• 160 William Miller-Willie Winkie
• 161 Robert Browning-The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• 162 Thomas Hood-To Henrietta, on her Departure for Calais
• 163 Julia A. Carney-Little Things
• 164 Edward Lear-Nonsenses
• 165 Lear-The Owl and the Pussy-cat
• 166 Lear-The Duck and the Kangaroo
• 167 Lear-The Jumblies
• 168 Lear-Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow
• 169 Lear-An Alphabet
• 170 Lear-The Pobble who has No Toes
• 171 Cecil Frances Alexander-All Things Bright and Beautiful
• 172 Alexander-Once in Royal David's City
• 173 Alexander-There is a Green Hill
• 174 Alexander-The Beggar Boy
• 175 Alexander-The Fieldmouse
• 176 Heinrich Hoffmann-The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup
• 177 Hoffmann-The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air
• 178 Hoffmann-The Story of Fidgety Philip
• 179 Eliza Cook-The Mouse and the Cake
• 180 Thomas Miller-Evening
• 181 Miller-The Watercress Seller
• 182 Lord Tennyson-Sweet and Low
• 183 Tennyson-Cradle Song
• 184 Tennyson-The City Child
• 185 Tennyson-Minnie and Winnie
• 186 William Allingham-The Fairies
• 187 Allingham-Riding
• 188 Allingham-Wishing
• 189 Allingham-Robin Redbreast
• 190 William Makepeace Thackeray-At the Zoo
• 191 Aunt Effie (Jane Euphemia Browne)-The Rooks
• 192 Aunt Effie-Little Raindrops
• 193 Aunt Effie-The Great Brown Owl
• 194 Aunt Effie-Pleasant Changes
• 195 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-There Was a Little Girl
• 196 Anonymous-Table Rules for Little Folks
• 197 Charles Kingsley-A Farewell
• 198 Kingsley-The Tide River
• 199 Kingsley-Young and Old
• 200 Kingsley-The Little Doll
• 201 Albert Midlane-Above the Bright Blue Sky
• 202 William E. Hickson-Walking Song
• 203 Robert Tennant-Wee Davie Daylicht
• 204 Charles Henry Ross-John, Tom, and James
• 205 Ross-An Old Woman
• 206 Ross-Jack
• 207 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson-That Little Black Cat
• 208 Thompson-A Very Odd Fish
• 209 William Brighty Rands-Topsyturvey-World
• 210 Rands-The Pedlar's Caravan
• 211 Rands-A Shooting Song
• 212 Rands-The Dream of a Boy who lived at Nine Elms
• 213 Rands-The Dream of a Girl who lived at Sevenoaks
• 214 Rands-The World
• 215 Rands-The Cat of Cats
• 216 Rands-Winifred Waters
• 217 Sabine Baring-Gould-Now the Day is Over
• 218 Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)-You are old, Father William
• 219 Carroll-The Lobster Quadrille
• 220 Carroll-The Lobster
• 221 Carroll-Jabberwocky
• 222 Carroll-The Walrus and the Carpenter
• 223 Carroll-Humpty Dumpty's Song
• 224 Carroll-The Aged Aged Man
• 225 Carroll-The Mad Gardener's Song
• 226 Menella Bute Smedley-A North Pole Story
• 227 Juliana Horatia Ewing-The Burial of the Linnet
• 228 Ewing-The Willow-Man
• 229 Ewing-A Friend in the Garden
• 230 Ewing-The Dolls' Wash
• 231 Ewing-Garden Lore
• 232 John Townsend Trowbridge-Darius Green and his Flying-Machine
• 233 Elizabeth Anna Hart-Mother Tabbyskins
• 234 Jean Ingelow-One Morning, Oh, so Early!
• 235 Jonh Greenleaf Whittier-In School-Days
• 236 George MacDonald-Where did you come from, baby dear?
• 237 MacDonald-A Baby-Sermon
• 238 Alfred Scott Gatty-The Three Little Pigs
• 239 James Ferguson-Auld Daddy Darkness
• 240 Christina Rossetti-A Crown of Windflowers
• 241 Rossetti-Comparisons
• 242 Rossetti-Ferry me across the Water
• 243 Rossetti-Flint
• 244 Rossetti-Lady Moon
• 245 Rossetti-The Wind
• 246 Rossetti-What are Heavy?
• 247 Rossetti-The Rainbow
• 248 Rossetti-What does the Bee do?
• 249 Rossetti-A Riddle
• 250 Rossetti-Caterpillar
• 251 Rossetti-Hope and Joy
• 252 Rossetti-Last Rites
• 253 Rossetti-What is Pink?
• 254 Celia Thaxter-The Sandpiper
• 255 Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey)-Measles in the Ark
• 256 James Russell Lowell-Birthday Verses
• 257 Elizabeth T. Corbett-Three Wise Old Women
• 258 Anonymous-Two Little Kittens
• 259 Sydney Dayre (Mrs. Cochran)-A Lesson for Mamma
• 260 Dayre-Morning Compliments
• 261 Laura E. Richards-Mrs. Snipkin and Mrs. Wobblechin
• 262 Richards-My Uncle Jehoshaphat
• 263 Richards-Eletelephony
• 264 Anonymous-What Became of Them?
• 265 William Cory-A Ballad for a Boy
• 266 Robert Louis Stevenson-Bed in Summer
• 267 Stevenson-At the Seaside
• 268 Stevenson-Whole Duty of Children
• 269 Stevenson-Windy Nights
• 270 Stevenson-Looking Forward
• 271 Stevenson-Where Go the Boats?
• 272 Stevenson-The Land of Counterpane
• 273 Stevenson-My Shadow
• 274 Stevenson-The Cow
• 275 Stevenson-Happy Thought
• 276 Stevenson-Good and Bad Children
• 277 Stevenson-The Lamplighter
• 278 Stevenson-Time to Rise
• 279 Stevenson-From a Railway Carriage
• 280 Stevenson-Winter Time
• 281 Stevenson-The Dumb Soldier
• 282 James Whitcomb Riley-Little Orphant Annie
• 283 Riley-The Raggedy Man
• 284 Eugene Field-Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
• 285 Field-The Sugar-Plum Tree
• 286 Charles E. Carryl-The Camel's Complaint
• 287 Francis Thompson-Ex Ore Infantium
• 288 E. Nesbit-Child's Song in Spring
• 289 Edward Abbott Parry-Pater's Bathe
• 290 Parry-I would like you for a Comrade
• 291 Parry-The Jam Fish
• 292 Hilaire Belloc-The Yak
• 293 Belloc-The Frog
• 294 Belloc-The Python
• 295 Belloc-The Vulture
• 296 Belloc-Jim, Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion
• 297 Belloc-Matilda, Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death
• 298 Laurence Alma-Tadema-If No One Ever Marries Me
• 299 Rudyard Kipling-The Hump
• 300 Kipling-Puck's Song
• 301 Kipling-A Smuggler's Song
• 302 Kipling-The Way through the Woods
• 303 Kipling-If--
• 304 Walter De La Mare-Tartary
• 305 La Mare-John Mouldy
• 306 La Mare-Bunches of Grapes
• 307 La Mare-Alas, Alack!
• 308 La Mare-Old Shellover
• 309 La Mare-The Song of the Mad Prince
• 310 Anonymous-Greedy Jane
• 311 Kenneth Grahame-Ducks' Ditty
• 312 Edward Thomas-If I Should Ever by Chance
• 313 Thomas-What Shall I Give?
• 314 Eleanor Farjeon-Blackfriars
• 315 Farjeon-The Night will Never Stay
• 316 Farjeon-Lewis Carroll
• 317 Farjeon-Tailor
• 318 Farjeon-Mrs. Malone
• 319 Rose Fyleman-Fairies
• 320 Fyleman-A Fairy Went A-Marketing
• 321 Fyleman-The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend
• 322 Fyleman-I Don't Like Beetles
• 323 Fyleman-Mrs. Brown
• 324 Fyleman-Temper
• 325 A. A. Milne-Buckingham Palace
• 326 Milne-The Three Foxes
• 327 Milne-The King's Breakfast
• 328 Milne-Vespers
• 329 Milne-Us Two
• 330 T. S. Eliot-Macavity: The Mystery Cat
• 331 Eliot-The Song of the Jellicles
• 332 Ogden Nash-Morning Prayer