Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children


A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. - Summary by Lynne Thompson (2 hr 17 min)

Chapters

Preface
Merry are the Bells
Safe in Bed
Jenny Wren
Curly Locks
Pussy-Cat Mew
Draw a Pail of Water
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
The Nut-Tree
My Maid Mary
The Wind and the Fisherman
Blow, Wind, Blow
All Busy
Winter Has Come
Poor Robin
I Have a Little Sister
In Marble Walls
The Moon by Eliza Lee Follen
The Star by A. and J. Taylor
Kitty by Mrs. E. Prentiss
Kitty: How to Treat Her
Kitty: What She Thinks of Herself by W.B. Rands
The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell
The Cuckoo
The Bird-Scarer's Song
Cradle Song
Good-Night! by A. and J. Taylor
Daffodils by W. Shakespeare
To Daffodils by R. Herrick
Daffodils by W. Wordsworth
The Months by Sara Coleridge
The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt
The Four Sweet Months by R. Herrick
Glad Day by W.G. Robertson
Buttercups and Daisies by Mary Howitt
The Merry Month of March by W. Wordsworth
What the Birds Say by S.T. Coleridge
Spring's Procession by Sydney Dobell
The Call of the Woods by W. Shakespeare
A Prescription for a Spring Morning by John Davidson
The Country Faith by Norman Gale
The Butterfly's Ball by W. Roscoe
A Wish by Samuel Rogers
Wishing by W. Allingham
Bunches of Grapes by Walter Ramal
Contentment by Eugene Field
The Land of Story-Books by R.L. Stevenson
Sand Castles by W.G. Robertson
Ring o' Roses by W.G. Robertson
Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field
The Drummer-Boy and the Shepherdess by W.B. Rands
The Land of Dreams by William Blake
Sweet and Low by Lord Tennyson
Cradle Song by Sir Walter Scott
Mother and I by Eugene Field
The Fairies by W. Allingham
Shakespeare's Fairies by W. Shakespeare
The Lavender Beds by W.B. Rands
Farewell to the Fairies by Richard Corbet
Death of Oberon by G.W. Thornbury
Kilmeny by James Hogg
A Boy's Song by James Hogg
A Girl's Song by Thomas Moore
Three Things to Remember by William Blake
The Knight of Bethlehem by H.N. Maugham
The Lamb by William Blake
The Tiger by William Blake
I Had a Dove by J. Keats
Robin Redbreast by W. Allingham
Black Bunny by W.B. Rands
The Cow by A. and J. Taylor
The Skylark by James Hogg
Christmas Eve by John Davidson
A Christmas Carol by R. Herrick
A Child's Present by R. Herrick
The Peace-Giver by A.C. Swinburne
To a Singer by P.B. Shelley
The Happy Piper by William Blake
The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron
Sheridan's Ride by T. Buchanan Read
Columbus by Joaquin Miller
Horatius by Lord Macaulay