BOOK ONE—POETRY
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NURSERY JINGLES
CHARACTER SKETCHES Little Miss Muffet Diddle, diddle, dumpling Let's go to bed Jack Sprat There was a little girl
SCENES AND INCIDENTS Jack and Jill Hickory, dickory, dock There was an old woman Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater Little Jack Horner
TALES Old Mother Hubbard Little Bo-peep The Babes in the Woods
NONSENSE AND HUMOROUS RHYMES Old Dan Tucker Old Man John We're all in the dumps I had a little horse
SATIRES AND TAUNTS Georgy-porgy April fool Johnny's mad Cry, baby, cry Tell-tale-tit
TONGUE TWISTERS Peter Piper Swan swam over the sea
COUNTING-OUT JINGLES Ickity, pickity One-ery, two-ery Inty, minty Intery, mintery
GESTURE AND ACTION SONGS Trit-trot Hippity-hop This little mouse Here we go up, up, up
RIDDLES A Cherry A Fodder Field, a Hog, and a Dog Hens A Churn An Egg A Star
CATCHES There, was a man who had no eyes I am a gold lock As I was going to St. Ives
CHARMS AND SUPERSTITIONS Star of light Marble, marble, roll away Honest and true Come, butter, come Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Mole on the neck
WEATHER WISDOM Rain before seven Evening red When the fog goes up the hill When the bees all homeward fly
AIDS TO MEMORY One, two, three, four Naught, one In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Thirty days hath September
PROVERBS Birds of a feather He that would thrive Little strokes See a pin and pick it up For every evil under the sun
PEDDLER'S CRIES Pease porridge hot Hot-cross buns
SOME CHILDREN'S POETS
WILLIAM BLAKE Piping down the valleys wild The Lamb Laughing Song
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI The Wind The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse Lullaby A Flint The Sisters
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Wind Windy Nights The Whole Duty of Children My Bed Is a Boat The Land of Counterpane The Land of Storybooks
LUCY LARCOM If I Were a Sunbeam The Rivulet The Brown Thrush
ANN AND JANE TAYLOR Meddlesome Matty The Violet The Star The Way to be Happy
ISAAC WATTS Against Idleness and Mischief A Morning Song A Cradle Hymn
LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky You Are Old, Father William The Walrus and the Carpenter
EDWARD LEAR There was an Old Man of the West There was an Old Man with a beard There was an Old Person of Dean There was a Young Lady whose chin There is a Young Lady whose nose The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Jumblies
BALLADS
POPULAR Bonny Barbara Allan Sir Patrick Spence Robin Hood and Allin a Dale Kinmont Willie
MODERN The Wreck of the Hesperus, Longfellow La Belle Dame sans Merci, Keats Lord Ullin's Daughter, Campbell Young Lochinvar, Scott How They Brought the Good News, Browning The Revenge, Tennyson
LYRICS
OUR COUNTRY America, Smith My Native Land, Scott Columbus, Miller Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Hemans Concord Hymn, Emerson Old Ironsides, Holmes O Captain! My Captain!, Whitman
LOVE LYRICS To Lucasta, Lovelace She Walks in Beauty, Byron A Red, Red Rose, Burns
POEMS OF NATURE The Greenwood Tree, Shakespeare A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, Cunningham I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Wordsworth The Rhodora, Emerson To the Fringed Genlian, Bryant The Eagle, Tennyson On the Grasshopper and Cricket, Keats
LESSONS FROM NATURE To a Waterfowl, Bryant The Chambered Nautilus, Holmes The Bugle Song, Tennyson
SONGS OF LIFE The Noble Nature, Jonson The Character of a Happy Life, Wotton Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, Clough For A' That and A' That, Burns Invictus, Henley Opportunity, Sill A Psalm of Life, Longfellow
BOOK TWO
PROSE
STORIES
FABLES The Dog and the Shadow, Æsop The Fox and the Grapes, Æsop The Hare and the Tortoise, Æsop The Shepherd's Boy, Æsop The Husbandman and the Stork, Æsop The Wind and the Sun, Æsop The Tortoise and the Geese, Bidpai The Partridge and the Crow, Bidpai The Fox and the Grapes, La Fontaine The Wolf and the Stork, La Fontaine
FAIRY STORIES AND NURSERY TALES
TRADITIONAL
THE ACCUMULATIVE TALE The Old Woman and Her Pig, Jacobs
THE ANIMAL STORY The Three Little Pigs, Jacobs
THE NOODLE STORY Hans in Luck, Grimm
THE HUMBLE HERO STORY The Valiant Little Tailor, Grimm Cinderella, Perrault Whittington and His Cat, Old Chapbook
THE SYMBOLISTIC STORY The Ugly Duckling, Andersen The Flax, Andersen
THE STORY OF HORROR Blue Beard, Perrault
THE GIANT STORY Jack and the Beanstalk, Jacobs
MISCELLANEOUS STORIES The Elves, Grimm Te Frog-Prince, Grimm The Quern at the Bottom of the Sea, Asbjørnsen
THE NEGRO FOLK TALE Brother Rabbit and Brother Bull-Frog, Harris
MODERN Brownie and the Cook, Craik The King of the Golden River, Ruskin
THE ORIENTAL WONDER STORY The Story of Aladdin, Arabian Nights
MYTHS AND LEGENDS
CLASSIC The Gorgon's Head, Hawthorne Theseus, Kingsley
GERMANIC Thor Goes a-Fishing, Mabie Baldur, Keary-Morss
THE HERO STORY Sir William Wallace, Scott
THE REPRODUCTION The Tempest, Shakespeare-Lamb
DIDACTIC STORIES The Purple Jar, Edgeworth Difference and Agreement, Aiken and Barbauld Eyes and No Eyes, Aiken and Barbauld
ANIMAL SKETCHES AND STORIES Rab and His Friends, Brown The Busy Blue Jay, Miller A Cry in the Night, Long
SELECTIONS FROM THE BIBLE The Story of Joseph The Story of Samson David's Psalms: First, Nineteenth, Twenty-third Christ's Sermon on the Mount Paul's Discourse on Charity
OTHER PROSE FORMS
LETTERS Lewis Carroll to Miss Standen Thomas Hood to Miss Elliot Charles Dickens to Master Hughes
ESSAYS Traits of Indian Character, Irving Of Studies, Bacon The American Boy, Roosevelt
ORATIONS Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Henry Supposed Speech of John Adams, Webster Gettysburg Address, Lincoln