General Introduction |
| | The Purpose of Poetry by Bliss Carman (18611929) |
Introductory Essay |
| | Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock (18581936) |
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Poems of Home |
I. About Children |
| | The Baby by Kalidasa (c. 4th Century) |
| | Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond) (b. 1855) |
| | The Baby by George MacDonald (18241905) |
| | Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn) (18271879) |
| | Laus Infantium by William Canton (18451926) |
| | Étude Réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne (18371909) |
| | The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin (18281903) |
| | The Angels Whisper by Samuel Lover (17971868) |
| | Lullaby by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts (18901937) |
| | Cradle SongAnonymous |
| | Cradle Song by Josiah Gilbert Holland (18191881) |
| | Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field (18501895) |
| | Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (18261887) |
| | Baby May by William Cox Bennett (18201895) |
| | Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers Allen (18321911) |
| | Baby Louise by Margaret Winship Eytinge (Madge Elliot) (b. 1833) |
| | Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier |
| | The Household Sovereign by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | On the Picture of an Infant by Leonidas of Alexandria |
| | The Mothers Sacrifice by Seba Smith (17921868) |
| | Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms (18061870) |
| | Children by Walter Savage Landor (17751864) |
| | Polly by William Brighty Rands (18231882) |
| | To my Infant Son by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | Lettys Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner (18081879) |
| | Willie Winkie by William Miller (18101872) |
| | To J. H. by Leigh Hunt (17841859) |
| | Seven Times Four by Jean Ingelow (18201897) |
| | The Mothers Hope by Laman Blanchard (18031845) |
| | Bedtime by Francis, Earl of Rosslyn (18331890) |
| | To Hartley Coleridge by William Wordsworth (17701850) |
| | My little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck (18541938) |
| | Little Goldenhair by Mrs. F. Burge Smith (18261900) |
| | The Unfinished PrayerAnonymous |
| | Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson (18451909) |
| | The Witch in the Glass by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (18361919) |
| | Small and Early by Tudor Jenks (18571922) |
| | Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow (18201897) |
| | The Lost Heir by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | The Gambols of Children by George Darley (17951846) |
| | The Child in the Garden by Henry van Dyke (18521933) |
| | A Portrait by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| | To a Child During Sickness by Leigh Hunt (17841859) |
| | Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (18361907) |
| | Our Wee White Rose by Gerald Massey (18281907) |
| | Babys Shoes by William Cox Bennett (18201895) |
| | Baby Zulmas Christmas Carol by Augustus Julian Requier (18251887) |
| | On the Death of an Infant by Dirk Smits (17021752) |
| | She came and went by James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| | Three years she grew by William Wordsworth (17701850) |
| | We are seven by William Wordsworth (17701850) |
| | Boyhood by Washington Allston (17791843) |
| | Pictures of Memory by Alice Cary (18201871) |
| | The Mitherless Bairn by William Thom (17991848) |
| | My Mothers Picture by William Cowper (17311800) |
| | I remember, I remember by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) |
| | Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney (18261904) |
| | Whittling by John Pierpont (17851866) |
| | The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth (17841842) |
| | The Old Arm-Chair by Eliza Cook (18181889) |
| | Woodman, spare that tree by George Pope Morris (18021864) |
| | A Parable by Mathilde Blind (18411896) |
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II. For Children |
| | The Piper by William Blake (17571827) |
| | Choosing a Name by Mary Lamb (17641847) |
| | What does little birdie say? by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts (16741748) |
| | Go Sleep, ma Honey by Edward D. Barker |
| | No Baby in the House by Clara G. Dolliver |
| | A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field (18501895) |
| | Half-Waking by William Allingham (18241889) |
| | Twinkle, TwinkleAnonymous |
| | Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor (17831824) |
| | The Three Little Kittens by Eliza Lee Follen (17871860) |
| | The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | How doth the little busy bee by Isaac Watts (16741748) |
| | Try AgainAnonymous |
| | Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (18091885) |
| | The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt (17991888) |
| | Thread and Song by John Williamson Palmer (18251906) |
| | Let dogs delight to bark and bite by Isaac Watts (16741748) |
| | The Childrens Church by Karl von Gerock (18151890) |
| | Childs Evening Hymn by Sabine Baring-Gould (18341924) |
| | It is finished by Christina Georgina Rossetti (18301894) |
| | A Little Childs Hymn by Francis Turner Palgrave (18241897) |
| | Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson (18611931) |
| | By cool Siloams shady rill by Reginald Heber (17831826) |
| | The Romance of the Swans Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) |
| | A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley (18491916) |
| | The Dead Doll by Margaret Thomson Janvier (Margaret Vandegrift) (18451913) |
| | Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman (18601916) |
| | The Dancers by Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley) (18461914) |
| | My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | Little Bell by Thomas Westwood (18141888) |
| | Wings by Mary Louise Ritter |
| | Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | Under My Window by Thomas Westwood (18141888) |
| | The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) |
| | The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt (17921879) |
| | The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | The Man in the Moon by James Whitcomb Riley (18491916) |
| | The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt (17991888) |
| | The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford (18631935) |
| | A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin |
| | The First Rose of Summer by Oliver Herford (18631935) |
| | A Belated Violet by Oliver Herford (18631935) |
| | The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould (17891865) |
| | A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (17791863) |
| | Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley (18491916) |
| | Old-School PunishmentAnonymous |
| | In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) |
| | Seein Things by Eugene Field (18501895) |
| | A Mortifying Mistake by Anna Maria Pratt |
| | The Smack in School by William Pitt Palmer (18051884) |
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III. Fun for Little Folk |
| | There was a little girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | The Story of Cruel Frederick by Heinrich Hoffmann (18091894) |
| | The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches by Heinrich Hoffmann (18091894) |
| | The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air by Heinrich Hoffmann (18091894) |
| | The Three ChildrenAnonymous |
| | The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear (18121888) |
| | Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow by Edward Lear (18121888) |
| | The Walrus and the Carpenter by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (18321898) |
| | Good King ArthurAnonymous |
| | Max and Maurice by Wilhelm Busch (18321908) |
| | Preface |
| | Trick First |
| | Trick Second |
| | Trick Third |
| | Last Trick |
| | The Jumblies by Edward Lear (18121888) |
| | The History LessonAnonymous |
| | Sage Counsel by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (18631944) |
| | Limericks by Edward Lear (18121888) |
| | There was a small boy of Quebec by Rudyard Kipling (18651936) |
| | There was a young lady of NigerAnonymous |
| | FinisAnonymous |
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IV. Youth |
| | The Days Gone by by James Whitcomb Riley (18491916) |
| | Seven Times Two by Jean Ingelow (18201897) |
| | A Farewell by Charles Kingsley (18191875) |
| | Riding Down by Nora Perry (18311896) |
| | A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sanford Martin (18561939) |
| | In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | Sweet stream that winds by William Cowper (17311800) |
| | To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson (18211895) |
| | The School Girl by William Henry Venable (18361920) |
| | Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth (17701850) |
| | Ruth by Thomas Hood (17991845) |
| | The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson (18101886) |
| | Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English (18191902) |
| | Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley (18491916) |
| | Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse (18491928) |
| | My Mothers Bible by George Pope Morris (18021864) |
| | To the Virgins by Robert Herrick (15911674) |
| | Lauriger Horatius by From the Medieval Latin |
| | The Old, Old Song by Charles Kingsley (18191875) |
| | Gaudeamus Igitur by From the Medieval Latin |
| | To Thaliarchus by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (658 B.C.) |
| | A Knot of Blue by Samuel Minturn Peck (18541938) |
| | Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck (18541938) |
| | Beware! by From the German |
| | Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) |
| | The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore (18231896) |
| | On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray (17161771) |
| | Spring Song by Bliss Carman (18611929) |
| | Youth and Love by Philip James Bailey (18161902) |
| | The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman (18611929) |
| | Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne (18371909) |
| | The Heritage by James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| | To Youth by Walter Savage Landor (17751864) |
| | My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Youth by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) |
| | The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard (18251903) |
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V. The Home |
| | Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope (16881744) |
| | Home by Leonidas of Alexandria |
| | The day is done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney (18481922) |
| | Out of the old house, Nancy by Will Carleton (18451912) |
| | The Homes of England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (17931835) |
| | The Auld House by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (17661845) |
| | The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) |
| | If we knew by May Riley Smith (1842?1927) |
| | The Soldiers Dream by Thomas Campbell (17771844) |
| | The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing (17871857) |
| | Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith (1842?1927) |
| | The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats (18651939) |
| | Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Allen (18321911) |
| | The Children by Charles M. Dickinson (18421924) |
| | Not One to SpareAnonymous |
| | Seven Times Six by Jean Ingelow (18201897) |
| | I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslie (17921878) |
| | By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom (18261893) |
| | My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton (17581816) |
| | A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell (18191891) |
| | The Lightood Fire by John Henry Boner (18451903) |
| | The Cotters Saturday Night by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | A New England Home in Winter by John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) |
| | Heart-Rest by Sir Henry Taylor (18001886) |
| | The Means to attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (15171547) |
| | Homeward Bound by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84c. 54 B.C.) |
| | The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman (18781958) |
| | The Wanderers Home by Oliver Goldsmith (17301774) |
| | A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman (18161860) |
| | In the Cellar by Josiah Gilbert Holland (18191881) |
| | Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas) (18421913) |
| | A Shepherds Life by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard (18251903) |
| | The Swiss Peasant by Oliver Goldsmith (17301774) |
| | When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell |
| | Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott (18621947) |
| | Labor Song by Denis Florence Mac Carthy (18171882) |
| | The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) |
| | Christmas by George Wither (15881667) |
| | The Auld Folks by Andrew Park (18071863) |
| | A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (17871874) |
| | Home, Sweet Home by John Howard Payne (17911852) |
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Poems of Friendship |
| | Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) |
| | Friendship by Edward Young (16811765) |
| | Bill and Joe by Oliver Wendell Holmes (18091894) |
| | Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere (18141902) |
| | Young Friends by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Friendship by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster (17821852) |
| | A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke (18521933) |
| | Parted Friends by James Montgomery (17711854) |
| | When to the sessions of sweet silent thought by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Jaffar by Leigh Hunt (17841859) |
| | The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | We have been friends together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (18081877) |
| | Too late I stayed by William Robert Spencer (17701834) |
| | We are brethren a by Robert Nicoll (18141837) |
| | Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer (17701834) |
| | Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) |
| | When in disgrace by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Jenny kissed me by Leigh Hunt (17841859) |
| | Not marble, not the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | The Dead Friend by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) |
| | Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns (17591796) |
| | And doth not a meeting like this by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | We Love but FewAnonymous |
| | The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) |
| | A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | Platonic by William B. Terrett |
| | Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) |
| | The Boys by Oliver Wendell Holmes (18091894) |
| | The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) |
| | The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar (c. 1145c. 1220) |
| | Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius by William Shakespeare (15641616) |
| | Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman (18061884) |
| | Wreathe the bowl by Thomas Moore (17791852) |
| | A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger (18111874) |
| | The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) |
| | The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) |
| | The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus (c. 310240 B.C.) |
| | Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington (18441923) |
| | To Seek a Friend by William Cowper (17311800) |
| | Advice by William Dunbar (1460?1520?) |
| | The Friend by Nicholas Grimald (15191562) |
| | Take the world as it is by Charles Swain (18011874) |
| | Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns (17591796) |