Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
METCALF AND COMPANY,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
CONTENTS.
[PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION]
[PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION]
[HYMNS.]
["Suffer little children to come unto me"]
[Hymn]
[Hymn for a Little Boy]
["The Lord is my Strength"]
[Hymn]
["Thy Will be done"]
[Sabbath Day]
[The Good Boy's Hymn on going to Bed]
[God is good]
[Evening]
[Robinson Crusoe's Hymn]
[Hymn]
[On Prayer]
["The Spirit giveth Life"]
[We never part from Thee]
["I will arise and go to my Father"]
[Evening Hymn]
[Autumn]
[The Lord's Day]
[The Ministry of Pain]
["By Faith ye are saved"]
[Evening Prayer]
[Evening Hymn]
[Lines written at Midnight]
["Hope in God"]
[Failure and Success]
[SONGS.]
[The Little Spring]
[The Little Boy's May-day Song]
[Guess what I have heard]
[Spring]
[The Little Boy's Good-night]
[The Shepherd's Sabbath-song]
[To Spring]
[Her Voyage is at an End]
[Charley and his Father. A Ballad]
[Remember the Slave]
[Home-sickness]
[Happiness]
[Children in Slavery]
[To Good Resolutions]
[Thanks for a Pleasant Day]
[To a Butterfly]
[To Nature]
[On the Death of a Young Companion]
[The Sabbath is here]
[The Child at her Mother's Grave]
[Child's Song]
[To a Fountain]
[Song for an Infant School]
[The Summer]
[To a Beautiful Girl]
[The Little Slave's Wish]
[FABLES.]
[The Honest Bird]
[Soliloquy of Ellen's Squirrel]
[The Pin, Needle, and Scissors]
[Learned Fred]
[Little Roland]
[Billy Rabbit to Mary]
[The Old and New Shoes]
[The Monkeys and the Bears]
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
BY CHARLES FOLLEN.
This little book is dedicated to parents and children. Most of the poems were written with no other hope, than that they would instruct or please some child. The pleasure they have given in a limited circle has tempted the writer to print them. Some have never before appeared in public, but most of them have been already published in different works; some few, without the author's knowledge.