The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children

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THE POSY RING


        _The Posy Ring
        is a companion volume to
        Golden Numbers
        A Book of Verse for Youth
        Edited by
        Kate Douglas Wiggin and
        Nora Archibald Smith_




THE POSY RING


A BOOK OF VERSE FOR CHILDREN

CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY


Kate Douglas Wiggin


AND


Nora Archibald Smith

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        _"A box of jewels, shop of rarities,
          A ring whose posy was 'My pleasure'"_
                                   GEORGE HERBERT


        MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
        NEW YORK
        MCMVI

        _Copyright, 1903, by_
        McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

        Published, February, 1903, N
        Fifth Impression.




A NOTE

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_THANKS are due to the following publishers for permission to reprint
poems on which they hold copyright:_

_Charles Scribner's Sons, for permission to use the following poems
by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Windy Nights," "Where Go the Boats?" "The
Little Land," "The Land of Story Books" and "Bed Time"; for the
following poems by Mary Mapes Dodge: "Nearly Ready," "Now the Noisy
Winds are Still," "Snowflakes," "Birdies with Broken Wings," and "Night
and Day"; for the following poems by Eugene Field: "Wynken, Blynken, and
Nod," and "Nightfall in Dordrecht"; for "Rockaby, Lullaby," by J. G.
Holland; and for "One, Two, Three," by H. C. Bunner. G. P. Putnam's
Sons, for permission to use "High and Low," by Dora Goodale. D. Appleton
& Son, publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, for permission to
reprint "Robert of Lincoln," by W. C. Bryant. E. P. Dutton & Co., for
permission to reprint "The Birds in Spring," by Thomas Nashe. A. C.
McClurg & Co., for permission to reprint "Baby Seed Song" and "Bird's
Song in Spring," by E. Nesbit. The Century Company, for permission to
reprint the "Seal Lullaby," by Rudyard Kipling. The "Independent," for
permission to reprint "Baby Corn," Anon. Dana, Estes & Co., for
permission to reprint "The Blue Jay," by Susan Hartley Swett. Small,
Maynard & Co., for permission to reprint the following poems by John B.
Tabb: "The Fern Song," "A Bunch of Roses," "The Child at Bethlehem."
George Routledge & Sons, for permission to reprint the following poems
by W. B. Rands: "The Child's World," "The Wonderful World," "Love and
the Child," "Dolladine," "Dressing the Doll," "The Pedlar's Caravan,"
and "Little Christel"; also for "Little White Lily" and "What Would You
See?" by George Macdonald, and "The Wind," by L. E. Landon. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., for the right to reprint the following poems: "Marjorie's
Almanac," by T. B. Aldrich; "Dandelion," by Helen Grey Cone; "The
Fairies' Shopping" and "The Christmas Silence," by Margaret Deland; "The
Titmouse" and "Fable," by Ralph Waldo Emerson; "Hiawatha's Chickens" and
"Hiawatha's Brothers," by Henry W. Longfellow; "The Fountain," by James
Russell Lowell; "The Rivulet," by Lucy Larcom; "The Coming of Spring,"
by Nora Perry; "May," "The Waterfall," "Clouds," and "Bells of
Christmas," by Frank Dempster Sherman; "What the Winds Bring" and "The
Singer," by E. C. Stedman; "Spring," "Wild Geese," "Chanticleer," and
"Little Gustava," by Celia Thaxter. Little, Brown & Co., for the right
to reprint "September," by Helen Hunt Jackson; "When the Leaves Come
Down," by Susan Coolidge; and "Summer Days," "A Year's Windfalls," "The
Flower Folk," "There's Nothing Like the Rose," "Milking Time," "A
Chill," and "A Birthday Gift," by Christina G. Rossetti. St. Nicholas,
for permission to reprint "The Little Elf," by John Kendrick Bangs. The
Macmillan Company, for permission to reprint "O Lady Moon," by Christina
G. Rossetti. Frederick Warne & Co., for permission to reprint "By Cool
Siloam's Shady Rill," by Reginald Heber. Cassell & Co., Ltd., for
permission to reprint "The Last Voyage of the Fairies," by W. H.
Davenport Adams._

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        PUBLIC NOTICE.--_This is to state,
        That these are the specimens left at the gate
        Of Pinafore Palace, exact to date,
        In the hands of the porter, Curlypate,
        Who sits in his plush on a chair of state,
        By somebody who is a candidate
        For the office of Lilliput Laureate._
                               _William Brighty Rands._



CONTENTS

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  LILLIPUT NOTICE. By _William Brighty Rands_                    ix

A YEAR'S WINDFALLS

  Marjorie's Almanac. By _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_                  3
  In February. By _John Addington Symonds_                        5
  March. By _William Wordsworth_                                  6
  Nearly Ready. By _Mary Mapes Dodge_                             7
  Spring Song. By _George Eliot_                                  7
  In April.