PART I

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