Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston 1910 New York

COPYRIGHT 1903 BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
COPYRIGHT 1908 BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TO Alison
AND OLDER CHILDREN

NOTE

Of the poems of child-life brought together in this book
many are wholly new; some are reprinted from "The
Singing Leaves," published in 1903; and others have
appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine, to the editor
of which I am indebted for permission to reprint them.
J. P. M.
JULY, 1908

Contents

Making A House[1]
The Busy Child[2]
Sunset[4]
Wind[5]
Late[6]
Cakes and Ale[7]
The Journey[8]
Pigeons Out Walking[10]
Concerning Love[11]
Curls[12]
I Was Lost[14]
The Polite Visitor[16]
The Mystic[18]
Market[19]
Little Side-Streets[20]
Chestnut Stands[22]
The Play's the Thing[24]
Windows[26]
The Masterpiece[28]
Ode on the Dog[29]
The Sorrows[32]
Secrets[33]
The Christmas Tree[34]
Candle-Light[36]
Cow-Bells[37]
Thunder-Storms[39]
Church-Time[40]
Angels[42]
The Beggar-Man[43]
The Green Singing-Book[44]
Wing-Sprouts[46]
Early[47]
The Wind's East[48]
After-Word[50]

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