OLD FASHIONED POEMS
Reading edition
The Man in the Moon—James Whitcombe Riley 158
Sage Counsel—Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 160
Limericks—Edward Lear 161
More Limericks—Rudyard Kipling and Anonymous 162
The Dead Doll—Margaret Vandergrift 163
Little Things—Ascribed to Julia A. F. Carney 165
The Golden Rule—Unknown 165
Do the Best You Can—Unknown 165
The Voice of Spring 166
The Lark and the Rook—Unknown 166
Thanksgiving Day—Lydia Maria Child 168
The Magpie's Nest—Unknown 169
The Fairies of Caldon Low—Mary Howitt 169
The Land of Story Books—Robert Louis Stevenson 172
A Visit From St. Nicholas—Clement Clarke Moore 173
Little Orphant Annie—James Whitcombe Riley 175
The Chatterbox—Ann Taylor 177
The Voice of Spring—Felicia Dorothea Hemans 178
The History Lesson—Anonymous 179
Song of Life—Charles Mackay 180
The Good Time Coming—Charles Mackay 181
Windy Nights—Robert Louis Stevenson 183
The Wonderful World—William Brighty Rands 184
Hark! Hark! The Lark—William Shakespeare 185
Jog On, Jog On—William Shakespeare[page xvi] 185
Sweet Story of Old—Jemima Luke 186
My Shadow—Robert Louis Stevenson 186
By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill—Reginald Heber 187
The Wind in a Frolic—William Howitt 188
The Graves of a Household—Felicia Dorothea Hemans 189
We Are Seven—William Wordsworth 190
The Better Land—Felicia Dorothea Hemans 193
The Juvenile Orator—David Everett 194
The Fox and the Crow—Little B. (Taylor?) 195
The Use of Flowers—Mary Howitt 196
Contented John—Jane Taylor 197
The Old Man's Comforts, and How He Gained Them—Robert Southey 198
The Frost—Hannah Flagg Gould 199
The Battle of Blenheim—Robert Southey 200
The Chameleon—James Merrick (from M. de Lamotte) 202
The Blackberry Girl—Unknown 205
Mabel on Midsummer Day—Mary Howitt 207
Llewellyn and his Dog—Willim Robert Spencer 214
The Snowbird's Song—Francis C. Woodworth 217
For A' That and A' That—Robert Burns 218