CONTENTS

  1. [The Child and the Piper]
  2. [On May Morning]
  3. [The Approach of the Fairies]
  4. [Answer to a Child's Question]
  5. [The Brook]
  6. [Stars]
  7. [The Shepherd to his Love]
  8. [The Kitten and Falling Leaves]
  9. [The Ferryman, Venus, and Cupid]
  10. [Song]
  11. [Lucy Gray, or Solitude]
  12. [Rain in Summer]
  13. [Epitaph on a Hare]
  14. [Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel]
  15. [La Belle Dame sans Mercy]
  16. [Winter]
  17. [The Inchcape Rock]
  18. [Written in March]
  19. [Lord Randal]
  20. [John Barleycorn]
  21. [Mary-Ann's Child]
  22. [The Useful Plough]
  23. [A Wren's Nest]
  24. [A Fine Day]
  25. [Casabianca, a True Story]
  26. [Signs of Rain]
  27. [How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix]
  28. [The Rainbow]
  29. [The Raven and the Oak]
  30. [Ode to the Cuckoo]
  31. [Robin Hood and Allin a Dale]
  32. [Violets]
  33. [The Palmer]
  34. [The Forsaken Merman]
  35. [The Sands o' Dee]
  36. [The Loss of the Royal George]
  37. [A Sea Dirge]
  38. [The Ancient Mariner]
  39. [Song of Ariel]
  40. [How's my Boy?]
  41. [The Spanish Armada]
  42. [The Tar for all Weathers]
  43. [The Fisherman]
  44. [The Sailor]
  45. [The Wreck of the Hesperus]
  46. [A Canadian Boat Song]
  47. [Rosabelle]
  48. [The Ballad of the Boat]
  49. [Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk]
  50. [Home Thoughts from Abroad]
  51. [The Dream of Eugene Aram]
  52. [The Beleaguered City]
  53. [Jaffar]
  54. [Colin and Lucy]
  55. [The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly]
  56. [The Children in the Wood]
  57. [Robin Redbreast]
  58. [The Owl]
  59. [Hart Leap Well]
  60. [The Summer Shower]
  61. [The Mouse's Petition]
  62. [The Grasshopper]
  63. [The Shepherd's Home]
  64. [The Lord of Burleigh]
  65. [The Mountain and the Squirrel]
  66. [Evening]
  67. [The Parrot]
  68. [Song]
  69. [The Blind Boy]
  70. [False Friends-like]
  71. [Goody Blake and Harry Gill]
  72. [The Jovial Beggar]
  73. [Bishop Hatto]
  74. [The Old Courtier]
  75. [John Gilpin]
  76. [The Milkmaid]
  77. [Sir Sidney Smith]
  78. [The Pied Piper of Hamelin]
  79. [The Tiger]
  80. [King John and the Abbot of Canterbury]
  81. [The Fairies]
  82. [The Suffolk Miracle]
  83. [The Nightingale]
  84. [On a favourite Cat drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes]
  85. [The Fox at the Point of Death]
  86. [The Old Man's Comforts and how he gained them]
  87. [The Charge of the Light Brigade]
  88. [Ye Mariners of England]
  89. [Napoleon and the Sailor]
  90. [Boadicea, an Ode]
  91. [The Soldier's Dream]
  92. [Love and Glory]
  93. [After Blenheim]
  94. [The Sailor's Mother]
  95. [Mahmoud]
  96. [Autumn, a Dirge]
  97. [The Raven]
  98. [The Nix]
  99. [The Seven Sisters, or the Solitude of Binnorie]
  100. [The Beggar Maid]
  101. [The Wild Huntsman]
  102. [To Daffodils]
  103. [The Homes of England]
  104. [Mary the Maid of the Inn]
  105. [The Witches' Meeting]
  106. [Adelgitha]
  107. [The Council of Horses]
  108. [St. Romuald]
  109. [Lady Alice]
  110. [The Outlandish Knight]
  111. [Spring]
  112. [Sweet William's Ghost]
  113. [The Fountain]
  114. [Fair Rosamund]
  115. [The Hitchen May-Day Song]
  116. [The Spanish Lady's Love]
  117. [Little White Lily]
  118. [Minstrel's Song in Ella]
  119. [An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog]
  120. [Nongtongpaw]
  121. [Poor Dog Tray]
  122. [The Faithful Bird]
  123. [Lord Ullin's Daughter]
  124. [The Sea]
  125. [Fidelity]
  126. [The Fox and the Cat]
  127. [The Dog and the Water-Lily]
  128. [An Epitaph on a Robin Redbreast]
  129. [Baucis and Philemon]
  130. [Lullaby for Titania]
  131. [Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor]
  132. [Queen Mab]
  133. [Young Lochinvar]
  134. [Incident Characteristic of a Favourite Dog]
  135. [King Lear and his Three Daughters]
  136. [The Butterfly and the Snail]
  137. [The Dæmon Lover]
  138. [The Nightingale and the Glow-worm]
  139. [The Lady turned Serving-Man]
  140. [Pairing Time Anticipated]
  141. [To a Water Fowl]
  142. [Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford]
  143. [Sir John Suckling's Campaign]
  144. [The Nun's Lament for Philip Sparrow]
  145. [To a Butterfly]
  146. [The Dragon of Wantley]
  147. [The Ungrateful Cupid]
  148. [The King of the Crocodiles]
  149. [The Lion and the Cub]
  150. [The Snail]
  151. [The Colubriad]
  152. [The Priest and the Mulberry-Tree]
  153. [The Pride of Youth]
  154. [Sir Lancelot du Lake]
  155. [The Three Fishers]
  156. [Alice Fell, or Poverty]
  157. [The First Swallow]
  158. [The Graves of a Household]
  159. [The Thrush's Nest]
  160. [The Last of the Flock]
  161. [The Romance of the Swan's Nest]
  162. [Song]
  163. [Timothy]
  164. [The Sleeping Beauty]
  165. [Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants]
  166. [The Destruction of Sennacherib]
  167. [The Widow Bird]
  168. [Dora]
  169. [A Witch, Spoken by a Countryman]
  170. [Nursery Rhymes]
  171. [The Age of Children Happiest]
  172. [The Noble Nature]
  173. [The Rainbow]

The Children's Garland from the Best Poets

I

THE CHILD AND THE PIPER

Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he, laughing, said to me,

'Pipe a song about a lamb,'
So I piped with merry cheer;
'Piper, pipe that song again,'
So I piped, he wept to hear.