A Book of Verses for Children

Edward Verrall Lucas

Grant Richards, 1897 - Children's poetry - 348 pages

Contents

• Happy Thought: 3
• Two Promises: 9
• Days of Birth: 17
• Oxfordshire Childrens May Song: 19
• The Old English Christmas: 31
• God rest you merry gentlemen: 37
• The Farmers Round: 43
• The WaterMill: 49
• Oxfordshire Guy Fawkes Song: 57
• A Grace for a Child: 63
• A Rule for Birds Nesters: 71
• The Perfect Greyhound: 79
• The Ballad of Jenny the Mare: 87
• The Tiger: 93
• Birds Beasts and Fishes: 97
• The Spider and the Fly: 103
• The Three Little Pigs: 110
• The Butterflys Ball: 116
• Jemima: 123
• History: 129
• The Author of the Pobble: 136
• The SnuffBoxes: 142
• The Wreck of the Steamship Puffin: 144
• Whole Duty of Children: 153
• The Wonders: 159
• The Vulgar Little Lady: 169
• Ephibol on My Dear Love Isabella: 177
• Going into Breeches: 181
• The Cruel Boy: 187
• The Little Fisherman: 193
• James and the Shoulder of Mutton: 199
• The Lamplighter: 205
• Hiawathas Childhood: 211
• BEDTIME Page: 303
• 13: 315
• wwwwww: 320
• Song of Fairies robbing an Orchard: 322
• Speak gently to the herring: 328
• 6 My child and schollar take good heed: 334
• The ChimneySweeper: 340
• 51: 347

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Book of Verses for Children; A Book of Verses for Children, Edward Verrall Lucas
• Editor: Edward Verrall Lucas
• Compiled by: Edward Verrall Lucas
• Illustrated by: F. D. Bedford
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Grant Richards, 1897
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: May 8, 2012
• Length: 348 pages