CHILDREN'S FAVORITE POEMS
Reading edition
The Three Children 75
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat—Edward Lear 75
Kindness to Animals[page xiv] 77
How Doth the Little Busy Bee—Isaac Watts 77
Suppose—Phoebe Cary 78
Twinkle, Twinkle 79
Pretty Cow—Jane Taylor 80
The Three Little Kittens—Eliza Lee Follen 80
The Land of Counterpane—Robert Louis Stevenson 82
There was a Little Girl—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 82
The Boy who never Told a Lie 83
Foreign Children—Robert Louis Stevenson 84
The Unseen Playmate—Robert Louis Stevenson 84
I saw Three Ships 85
A Was an Ant—Edward Lear 86
The Table and the Chair—Edward Lear 91
Precocious Piggy—Thomas Hood 93
A Boy's Song—James Hogg 94
Buttercups and Daisies—Mary Howitt 95
The Violet—Jane Taylor 96
If ever I See—Lydia Maria Child 97
The Little Land—Robert Louis Stevenson 97
A Lobster Quadrille—Lewis Carroll 99
Where Go the Boats—Robert Louis Stevenson 100
The Wind and the Moon—George Macdonald 101
Where are you Going my Pretty Maid 103
The Lost Doll—Charles Kingsley 104
Foreign Lands—Robert Louis Stevenson 104
Bed in Summer—Robert Louis Stevenson 105
Try Again 106
A Good Play—Robert Louis Stevenson 106
Good Night and Good Morning—Richard Monckton Milnes 107
The Wind—Robert Louis Stevenson 108
The Spider and the Fly—Mary Howitt 109
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite—Isaac Watts 110
Child's Evening Hymn—Sabine Baring-Gould 111