The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children
The Posy Ring is a companion volume to Golden Numbers A Book of Verse for Youth Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith
MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. NEW YORK MCMVI
Copyright, 1903, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Published, February, 1903, N Fifth Impression.
THANKS are due to the following publishers for permission to reprint poems on which they hold copyright:
Charles Scribner's Sons, for permission to use the following poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Windy Nights, Where Go the Boats? The Little Land, The Land of Story Books and Bed Time ; for the following poems by Mary Mapes Dodge: Nearly Ready, Now the Noisy Winds are Still, Snowflakes, Birdies with Broken Wings, and Night and Day ; for the following poems by Eugene Field: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, and Nightfall in Dordrecht ; for Rockaby, Lullaby, by J. G. Holland; and for One, Two, Three, by H. C. Bunner. G. P. Putnam's Sons, for permission to use High and Low, by Dora Goodale. D. Appleton & Son, publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, for permission to reprint Robert of Lincoln, by W. C. Bryant. E. P. Dutton & Co., for permission to reprint The Birds in Spring, by Thomas Nashe. A. C. McClurg & Co., for permission to reprint Baby Seed Song and Bird's Song in Spring, by E. Nesbit. The Century Company, for permission to reprint the Seal Lullaby, by Rudyard Kipling. The Independent, for permission to reprint Baby Corn, Anon. Dana, Estes & Co., for permission to reprint The Blue Jay, by Susan Hartley Swett. Small, Maynard & Co., for permission to reprint the following poems by John B. Tabb: The Fern Song, A Bunch of Roses, The Child at Bethlehem. George Routledge & Sons, for permission to reprint the following poems by W. B. Rands: The Child's World, The Wonderful World, Love and the Child, Dolladine, Dressing the Doll, The Pedlar's Caravan, and Little Christel ; also for Little White Lily and What Would You See? by George Macdonald, and The Wind, by L. E. Landon. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for the right to reprint the following poems: Marjorie's Almanac, by T. B. Aldrich; Dandelion, by Helen Grey Cone; The Fairies' Shopping and The Christmas Silence, by Margaret Deland; The Titmouse and Fable, by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Hiawatha's Chickens and Hiawatha's Brothers, by Henry W. Longfellow; The Fountain, by James Russell Lowell; The Rivulet, by Lucy Larcom; The Coming of Spring, by Nora Perry; May, The Waterfall, Clouds, and Bells of Christmas, by Frank Dempster Sherman; What the Winds Bring and The Singer, by E. C. Stedman; Spring, Wild Geese, Chanticleer, and Little Gustava, by Celia Thaxter. Little, Brown & Co., for the right to reprint September, by Helen Hunt Jackson; When the Leaves Come Down, by Susan Coolidge; and Summer Days, A Year's Windfalls, The Flower Folk, There's Nothing Like the Rose, Milking Time, A Chill, and A Birthday Gift, by Christina G. Rossetti. St. Nicholas, for permission to reprint The Little Elf, by John Kendrick Bangs. The Macmillan Company, for permission to reprint O Lady Moon, by Christina G. Rossetti. Frederick Warne & Co., for permission to reprint By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill, by Reginald Heber. Cassell & Co., Ltd., for permission to reprint The Last Voyage of the Fairies, by W. H. Davenport Adams.
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THE POSY RING
THE POSY RING
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Nora Archibald Smith
A NOTE
CONTENTS
THE POSY RING
I
A YEAR'S WINDFALLS
A YEAR'S WINDFALLS
THE CHILD'S WORLD
THE CHILD'S WORLD
HIAWATHA'S CHICKENS
HIAWATHA'S CHICKENS
THE FLOWER FOLK
THE FLOWER FOLK
HIAWATHA'S BROTHERS
HIAWATHA'S BROTHERS
OTHER LITTLE CHILDREN
OTHER LITTLE CHILDREN
VII
PLAY-TIME
PLAY-TIME
STORY TIME
STORY TIME
BED-TIME
FOR SUNDAY'S CHILD
FOR SUNDAY'S CHILD
BELLS OF CHRISTMAS
BELLS OF CHRISTMAS
INDEX