INDEX
Adoration of the Wise Men, The, [257]
All Things Bright and Beautiful, [237]
Angel's Whisper, The, [139]
Answer to a Child's Question, [62]
Ant and the Cricket, The, [78]
April, In, [8]
Auld Daddy Darkness, [221]
Baby Corn, [93]
Baby Seed Song, [88]
Beau's Reply, [112]
Bed-Time, [232]
Bells of Christmas, [255]
Birdies with Broken Wings, [133]
Birds in Spring, The, [54]
Birds in Summer, [65]
Bird's Song in Spring, [102]
Birthday Gift, A, [267]
Blessing for the Blessed, A, [129]
Blind Boy, The, [160]
Bluebird, The, [68]
Blue Jay, The, [74]
Boy and the Sheep, The, [114]
Boy, The, [128]
Boy's Song, A, [165]
Breeches, Going Into, [174]
Bunch of Roses, A, [155]
Butterflies, White, [78]
By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill, [244]
Camel's Nose, The, [240]
Chanticleer, [72]
Child, A Sleeping, [132]
Child at Bethlehem, The, [155]
Child's Fancy, A, [95]
Child's Grace, A, [241]
Child's Laughter, A, [145]
Child's Prayer, A, [252]
Child's Thought of God, A, [241]
Children, Little, [137]
Children, Other Little, [123]
Chill, A, [144]
Christmas Holly, The, [273]
Christmas Lullaby, A, [267]
Christmas Silence, The, [260]
Christmas Song, [261]
Christmas Trees, The, [265]
City Child, The, [173]
Cleanliness, [126]
Clouds, [40]
Corn-Fields, [248]
Cottager to Her Infant, [230]
Cow-Boy's Song, The, [217]
Cradle Hymn (Watts), [258]
Cradle Hymn (Luther), [272]
Daffy-Down-Dilly, [91]
Daisy's Song, The, [103]
Dandelions, [98]
Day, A, [28]
Deaf and Dumb, [159]
Dear Little Violets, [101]
Discontent, [193]
Doll, Dressing the, [167]
Doll, The Lost, [166]
Dolladine, [167]
Elf and the Dormouse, The, [213]
Elf, The Little, [188]
Fable, [206]
Fairies of the Caldon-Low, The, [209]
Fairies' Shopping, The, [204]
Fairies, The Child and the, [187]
Fairies, The Last Voyage of The, [184]
Fairy Folk, The, [181]
Fairy in Armor, A, [183]
February, In, [5]
Fern, A New, [186]
Fern Song, [90]
Flax Flower, The, [99]
Flower Folk, The, [81]
Fountain, The, [34]
Garaine, Little, [140]
Garden, In a, [151]
Good Luck, For, [105]
Good-Morning, [29]
Good-Night and Good-Morning, [136]
Grass, The Voice of the, [36]
Guessing Song, [45]
Hie Away, [176]
High and Low, [244]
How the Leaves Came Down, [17]
Hunting Song, [176]
Infant Joy, [129]
I Remember, I Remember, [135]
I Saw Three Ships, [268]
Jack Frost, [47]
Kitten and Falling Leaves, The, [121]
Lady Moon, [30]
Lamb, The, [242]
Lamb, The Pet, [116]
Lambs in the Meadow, [115]
Land of Story-Books, The, [172]
Lark and the Rook, The, [56]
Letter, A, to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, when a Child, [141]
Little Christel, [250]
Little Dandelion, [97]
Little Gustava, [152]
Little Land, The, [148]
Little White Lily, [83]
Lobster Quadrille, A, [202]
Love and the Child, [142]
Lucy Gray, [156]
Lullaby of an Infant Chief, [226]
Lullaby, Old Gaelic, [228]
Magpie's Nest, The, [198]
March, [6]
Marjorie's Almanac, [3]
May, [13]
Meg Merrilies, [214]
Midsummer Song, A, [207]
Milking Time, [113]
My Pony, [109]
Nearly Ready, [7]
Neighbors of the Christ Night, [271]
Night, [232]
Night and Day, [243]
Nightfall in Dordrecht, [233]
Nightingale and the Glowworm, The, [195]
Now the Noisy Winds Are Still, [33]
Offertory, An, [261]
O Lady Moon, [31]
Old Gaelic Lullaby, [228]
"One, Two, Three," [188]
Owl, The, [70]
Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The, [201]
Pedlar's Caravan, The, [170]
Piping Down the Valleys Wild, [131]
Play-Time, [163]
Polly, [143]
Rain, Signs of, [41]
Rivulet, The, [46]
Robert of Lincoln, [75]
Robin Redbreast, [54]
Robin Redbreast, An Epitaph on a, [67]
Rockaby, Lullaby, [224]
Romance, [215]
St. Nicholas, A Visit from, [262]
Sandman, The, [228]
Santa Claus, [269]
Sea-Song from the Shore, A, [171]
Seal Lullaby, [113]
September, [16]
Seven Times One, [133]
Sheep and Lambs, [245]
Shower, A Sudden, [43]
Singer, The, [73]
Sleep, A Charm to Call, [231]
Sleep, My Treasure, [225]
Snowbird, The, [57]
Snowdrops, [89]
Snowflakes, [49]
Song (Keats), [69]
Song (Peacock), [104]
Spaniel, On a, Called Beau, Killing a Young Bird, [111]
Spring, [9]
Spring and Summer, [14]
Spring Song, [7]
Spring, The Coming of, [11]
Spring, The Voice of, [10]
Storm, After the, [156]
Strange Lands, [44]
Summer Days, [15]
Swallows, The, [53]
Sweet and Low, [227]
Thank You, Pretty Cow, [114]
Thanksgiving Day, [196]
Thanksgiving Fable, A, [197]
The Water! the Water! 49
There's Nothing Like the Rose, [89]
Thimble, What May Happen to a, [190]
Titmouse, The, [64]
To His Saviour, a Child; A Present by a Child, [246]
Tree, The, [102]
Violet Bank, A, [88]
Violet, The, [90]
Violets, [85]
Voice, The Still Small, [238]
Waterfall, The, [35]
What Does Little Birdie Say? [69]
What the Winds Bring, [29]
What Would You See? [247]
Where Go the Boats? [125]
Who Stole the Bird's Nest? [59]
Wild Geese, [71]
Wild Winds, [32]
Wind in a Frolic, The, [38]
Wind, The, [33]
Windy Nights, [31]
Winter Night, [19]
Wishing, [127]
Wonderful World, The, [27]
World's Music, The, [146]
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, [222]
Year's Windfalls, A (Rossetti), [20]
Young Dandelion, [86]
FOOTNOTES:
[A] From "Rhymes and Jingles," by Mary Mapes Dodge. By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[B] From "Sing-Song," by Christina G. Rossetti. By permission of the Macmillan Company.
[C] From "A Child's Garden of Verses," by Robert Louis Stevenson. By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[D] From "Along the Way," by Mary Mapes Dodge. By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[E] From "Along the Way," by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[F] Courtesy of D. Appleton & Co., Publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works.
[G] From "A Child's Garden of Verses." By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[H] From "Rhymes and Jingles." By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[I] From "A Child's Garden of Verses." By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[J] From "A Child's Garden of Verses," by Robert Louis Stevenson. By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[K] From "The Poems of H. C. Bunner." Copyright, 1889, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
[L] From "A Child's Garden of Verses," by Robert Louis Stevenson. By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[M] From "With Trumpet and Drum," by Eugene Field. Copyright, 1892, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
[N] From "The Poetical Works of J. G. Holland." Copyright, 1881, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
[O] From "With Trumpet and Drum," by Eugene Field. Copyright, 1892, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
[P] From "Rhymes and Jingles," by Mary Mapes Dodge. By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[Q] From "Apple Blossoms," by Dora Read Goodale. By permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page [151], a break was inserted between the lines:
Fairer though they be than dreams of ours.
Baby, hear the birds!
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