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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