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1. The Purpose of Poetry by Bliss Carman
2. Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock
3. The Baby by Kalidasa
4. Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond)
5. The Baby by George MacDonald
6. Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn)
7. Laus Infantium by William Canton
8. Étude réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne
9. The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin
10. The Angel's Whisper by Samuel Lover
11. Lullaby: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
12. The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts
13. Cradle Song by Anonymous
14. Cradle Song: From 'Bitter-Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland
15. Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field
16. Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
17. Baby May by William Cox Bennett
18. Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers
19. Baby Louise by Margaret Eytinge
20. Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier
21. The Household Sovereign: From 'The Hanging of the Crane' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
22. On the Picture of an Infant (Playing Near a Precipice) by Leonidas of Alexandria
23. The Mother's Sacrifice by Seba Smith
24. Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms
25. Children by Walter Savage Landor
26. Polly by William Brighty Rands
27. To My Infant Son by Thomas Hood
28. Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner
29. Willie Winkie by William Miller
30. To J. H. (Four Years Old: A Nursery Song) by Leigh Hunt
31. Seven Times Four: Maternity by Jean Ingelow
32. The Mother's Hope by Laman Blanchard
33. Bedtime by Francis, Earl of Rosslyn
34. To Hartley Coleridge (Six Years Old) by William Wordsworth
35. My Little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck
36. Little Goldenhair by Mrs. F. Burge Smith
37. The Unfinished Prayer by Anonymous
38. Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson
39. The Witch in the Glass by Sarah M. B. Piatt
40. Small and Early by Tudor Jenks
41. Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow
42. The Lost Heir by Thomas Hood
43. The Gambols of Children by George Darley
44. The Child in the Garden by Henry van Dyke
45. A Portrait by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
46. To a Child During Sickness by Leigh Hunt
47. Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
48. Our Wee White Rose by Gerald Massey
49. Baby's Shoes by William Cox Bennett
50. Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol by Augustus Julian Requier
51. On the Death of an Infant by Dirk Smits
52. She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell
53. Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth
54. We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
55. Boyhood by Washington Allston
56. Pictures of Memory by Alice Cary
57. The Mitherless Bairn by William Thom
58. My Mother's Picture by William Cowper
59. I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
60. The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier
61. Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney
62. Whittling (A National Portrait) by John Pierpont
63. The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth
64. The Old Arm-chair by Eliza Cook
65. Woodman, Spare That Tree by George Pope Morris
66. A Parable by Mathilde Blind
67. The Piper by William Blake
68. Choosing a Name by Mary Lamb
69. What Does Little Birdie Say?: From 'Sea Dreams' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
70. A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts
71. Go Sleep, Ma Honey by Edward D. Barker
72. No Baby in the House by Clara G. Dolliver
73. A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field
74. Half-Waking by William Allingham
75. Twinkle, Twinkle by Anonymous
76. Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor
77. The Three Little Kittens (A Cat's Tale, with Additions) by Eliza Lee Follen
78. The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson
79. How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts
80. Try Again by Anonymous
81. Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
82. The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
83. Thread and Song by John Williamson Palmer
84. Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts
85. The Children's Church by Karl von Gerok
86. Child's Evening Hymn by Sabine Baring-Gould
87. 'It Is Finished' by Christina Georgina Rossetti
88. A Little Child's Hymn (For Night and Morning) by Francis Turner Palgrave
89. Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson
90. 'By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill' by Reginald Heber
91. The Romance of the Swan's Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
92. A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
93. A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley
94. The Dead Doll by Margaret Vandegrift
95. Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson
96. The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson
97. The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman
98. The Dancers by Michael Field
99. My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
100. Little Bell by Thomas Westwood
101. Wings by Mary Louise Ritter
102. Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson
103. Under My Window by Thomas Westwood
104. The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson
105. Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray
106. The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt
107. The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson
108. The Man in the Moon by James Whitcomb Riley
109. The Fairies of the Caldon Low (A Midsummer Legend) by Mary Howitt
110. The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford
111. A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin
112. The First Rose of Summer by Oliver Herford
113. A Belated Violet by Oliver Herford
114. The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould
115. A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
116. Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley
117. Old-School Punishment by Anonymous
118. In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier
119. Seein' Things by Eugene Field
120. A Mortifying Mistake by Anna Maria Pratt
121. The Smack in School by William Pitt Palmer
122. There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
123. The Story of Cruel Frederick: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann
124. The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann
125. The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann
126. The Three Children by Anonymous
127. The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear
128. Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow by Edward Lear
129. The Walrus and the Carpenter: From 'Alice in Wonderland' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
130. Good King Arthur by Anonymous
131. From 'Max and Maurice' by Wilhelm Busch
132. The Jumblies by Edward Lear
133. The History Lesson by Anonymous
134. Sage Counsel by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
135. Limericks: From 'A Book of Nonsense' by Edward Lear
136. There Was a Small Boy of Quebec by Rudyard Kipling
137. More Limericks by Anonymous
138. Finis by Anonymous

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The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for children, and fun for little folk. It also includes a general introduction to the series by Carman himself, as well as an introductory essay to the volume by University of Chicago English professor William Darnall MacClintock (1858-1936). (Summary by Tomas Peter)

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