PART I
Reading edition
The Arrow and the Song 3 Henry W. Longfellow
The Babie 4 Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite 4 Isaac Watts
Little Things 5 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
He Prayeth Best 5 Samuel T. Coleridge
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 6 Anonymous
Pippa 6 Robert Browning
The Days of the Month 7 An Old Song
True Royalty 7 Rudyard Kipling
Playing Robinson Crusoe 8 Rudyard Kipling
My Shadow 9 Robert Louis Stevenson
Little White Lily 10 George Macdonald
How the Leaves Came Down 12 Susan Coolidge
Willie Winkie 13 William Miller
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 15 Edward Lear
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 16 Eugene Field
The Duel 18 Eugene Field
The Boy Who Never Told a Lie 19 Anonymous
Love Between Brothers and Sisters 20 Isaac Watts
The Bluebell of Scotland 20 Anonymous
If I Had But Two Little Wings 21 Samuel T. Coleridge
A Farewell 21 Charles Kingsley
Casabianca 22 Felicia Hemans
The Captain’s Daughter 23 James T. Fields
The Village Blacksmith 25 Henry W. Longfellow
Sweet and Low 27 Alfred Tennyson
The Violet 27 Jane Taylor
The Rainbow (a fragment) 28 William Wordsworth
A Visit From St. Nicholas 29 Clement Clarke Moore
The Star-Spangled Banner 31 Francis Scott Key
Father William 33 Lewis Carroll
The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 34 William Cowper