A Child's Own Book of Verse/Volume 3

by Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes

A CHILD'S OWN
BOOK of VERSE
BOOK THREE

BY
ADA M. SKINNER
ST. AGATHA'S SCHOOL
AND
FRANCES GILLESPY WICKES
ST. AGATHA'S SCHOOL

Illustrated by MAUD S. FULLER
and MICHAEL PETERSHAM

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
New York MCMXVII

Copyright, 1917,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 1917.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing Co. — Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to Mr. Bliss Carman for permission to use two of his poems, "The Daisies" and "The Dustman," from "Poems from Vagabondia," published by Small, Maynard Company ; to Mr. Richard Le Gallienne and the Century Company for permission to use the poem "The Pine Lady" ; to Laura E. Richards for permission to include "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe ; to Katharine Tynan Hinkson for "Daffodil" and "Chanticleer" ; to G. P. Putnam & Sons for permission to use "White Horses," by Hamish Hendry; and to The Macmillan Company for permission to use "The Owlet" and "The Song of the Elf" by Madison Cawein. The selection from Frank Dempster Sherman is used by permission of, and special arrangement with, the Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of his works.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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White Horses	Hamish Hendry	1
The World of Wonder	William Stanley Braithwaite	2
Gaelic Lullaby		2
The Windy Night	Thomas Buchanan Read	3
The Brook	Alfred Tennyson	4
On the Desert	William Wetmore Story	5
The Owlet	Madison Cawein	7
A Canadian Folk-Song	William Wilfred Campbell	9
An Old Song Re-Sung	John Masefield	10
Robert of Lincoln	William Cullen Bryant	10
Out in the Cold	George MacDonald	13
Milking Song	Jean Ingelow	15
Scythe Song	Andrew Lang	16
White Butterflies	Algernon Charles Swinburne	16
The Green Gnome	Robert Buchanan	17
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea	Allan Cunningham	20
Chanticleer	Katharine Tynan Hinkson	21
Verse		22
Daffodil	Katharine Tynan Hinkson	23
The Pine Lady	Richard Le Gallienne	24
Song of Illyrian Peasants	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	25
The Old, Old Song	Charles Kingsley	26
The Eagle	Alfred Tennyson	26
The Sands of Dee	Charles Kingsley	27
The Tiger	William Blake	28

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Ghost Fairies	Frank Dempster Sherman	26
Kentucky Babe	Richard Henry Buck	30
Fairy Dawn.	Joseph Rodman Drake	31
Song of the Elf	Madison Cawein	31
Song for Music	Thomas Hood	33
The Fairy Queen	From Percys “Reliques”	34
Lullaby for Titania	William Shakespeare	36
Over Hill, Over Dale	William Shakespeare	37
Dirge on the Death of Oberon, the Fairy King	G. Walter Thornbury	37
Verse		38
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket	John Keats	38
To Daffodils	Robert Herrick	39
Daisies	Bliss Carman	40
The Cloud	Percy Bysshe Shelley	40
Auld Daddy Darkness	James Ferguson	41
Wee Davie Daylicht	Robert Tennant	42
The Sea .	Barry Cornwall	43
Old Winter	Thomas Noel	44
The First Snow Fall	James Russell Lowell	45
The Unbroken Song	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	47
De Sheepfol’	Sarah Platt Greene	47
March	Celia Thaxter	49
Home Thoughts from Abroad	Robert Browning	50
Verse.	Robert Browning .	50
Hunting Song	Sir Walter Scott	51
The Bugle Song	Alfred Tennyson	52
The Hag	Robert Herrick	53
The Dustman	Bliss Carman	54
Cuddle Doon	Alexander Anderson	56

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Requiem.	Robert Louis Stevenson .	58
Lift up Your Heads, O Ye Gates .	Psalm xxiv	58
The Chambered Nautilus	Oliver Wendell Holmes .	59
To an Autumn Leaf		60
The Captain Stood on the Carronade	Frederick Marryat	61
The Whale.		62
The Cavalier’s Escape	Walter Thornbury	65
The Salcombe Seaman’s Flaunt .		67
Lord Lovel	Old Ballad	69
Jane Jones	Benjamin Franklin King	71
Sir Patrick Spens	Old Ballad	73
How Sleep the Brave	Willison Collins	76
The Burial of Sir John Moore	Charles Wolfe	77
The Pied Piper of Hamelin	Robert Browning	79
Allen-A-Dale	Sir Walter Scott	90
The Bonnets O’ Bonnie Dundee	Sir Walter Scott	91
The Campbells Are Comin' .		94
My Heart ’s in the Highlands .	Robert Burns	95
The Skeleton in Armor	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	96
Ceremonies for Christmas .	Robert Herrick	102
The Inchcape Rock	Robert Southey	103
The Forsaken Merman	Matthew Arnold	106
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred Tennyson	112
The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key .	114
Battle Hymn of the Republic	Julia Ward Howe	115
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	117
Nathan Hale	Francis Miles Finch	122