The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1

Produced by Dennis Schreiner





THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, VOLUME 1

By Various

Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson







THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE, VOLUME 1

By Various

Edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson


Contents of Volume I of the two volume set
This includes contents of Volumes 1 through 4 of our Etext editions.


     PART I

     POEMS OF YOUTH AND AGE

     The Human Seasons            John Keats


     THE BABY

     "Only a Baby Small"          Matthias Barr
     Only                         Harriet Prescott Spofford
     Infant Joy                   William Blake
     Baby                         George Macdonald
     To a New-Born Baby Girl      Grace Hazard Conkling
     To Little Renee              William Aspenwall Bradley
     A Rhyme of One               Frederick Locker-Lampson
     To a New-Born Child          Cosmo Monkhouse
     Baby May                     William Cox Bennett
     Alice                        Herbert Bashford
     Songs for Fragoletta         Richard Le Gallienne
     Choosing a Name              Mary Lamb
     Weighing the Baby            Ethel Lynn Beers
     Etude Realiste               Algernon Charles Swinburne
     Little Feet                  Elizabeth Akers
     The Babie                    Jeremiah Eames Rankin
     Little Hands                 Laurence Binyon
     Bartholomew                  Norman Gale
     The Storm-Child              May Byron
     "On Parent Knees"            William Jones
     "Philip, My King"            Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
     The King of the Cradle       Joseph Ashby-Sterry
     The Firstborn                John Arthur Goodchild
     No Baby in the House         Clara Dolliver
     Our Wee White Rose           Gerald Massey
     Into the World and Out       Sarah M. P. Piatt
     "Baby Sleeps"                Samuel Hinds
     Baby Bell                    Thomas Bailey Aldrich


     IN THE NURSERY

     Mother Goose's Melodies      Unknown
     Jack and Jill                Unknown
     The Queen of Hearts          Unknown
     Little Bo-Peep               Unknown
     Mary's Lamb                  Sarah Josepha Hale
     The Star                     Jane Taylor
     "Sing a Song of Sixpence"    Unknown
     Simple Simon                 Unknown
     A Pleasant Ship              Unknown
     "I Had a Little Husband"     Unknown
     "When I Was a Bachelor"      Unknown
     "Johnny Shall Have a New
      Bonnet"                     Unknown
     The City Mouse and the
      Garden Mouse                Christina Rossetti
     Robin Redbreast              Unknown
     Solomon Grundy               Unknown
     "Merry Are the Bells"        Unknown
     "When Good King Arthur
      Ruled This Land"            Unknown
     The Bells of London          Unknown
     "The Owl and the Eel and
      the Warming Pan"            Laura E. Richards
     The Cow                      Ann Taylor
     The Lamb                     William Blake
     Little Raindrops             Unknown
     "Moon, So Round and Yellow"  Matthias Barr
     The House That Jack Built    Unknown
     Old Mother Hubbard           Unknown
     The Death and Burial of
      Cock Robin                  Unknown
     Baby-Land                    George Cooper
     The First Tooth              William Brighty Rands
     Baby's Breakfast             Emilie Poulsson
     The Moon                     Eliza Lee Follen
     Baby at Play                 Unknown
     The Difference               Laura E. Richards
     Foot Soldiers                John Banister Tabb
     Tom Thumb's Alphabet         Unknown
     Grammar in Rhyme             Unknown
     Days of the Month            Unknown
     The Garden Year              Sara Coleridge
     Riddles                      Unknown
     Proverbs                     Unknown
     Kind Hearts                  Unknown
     Weather Wisdom               Unknown
     Old Superstitions            Unknown


     THE ROAD TO SLUMBERLAND

     Wynken, Blynken, and Nod     Eugene Field
     The Sugar-Plum Tree          Eugene Field
     When the Sleepy Man Comes    Charles G. D. Roberts
     Auld Daddy Darkness          James Ferguson
     Willie Winkle                William Miller
     The Sandman                  Margaret Thomson Janvier
     The Dustman                  Frederick Edward Weatherly
     Sephestia's Lullaby          Robert Greene
     "Golden Slumbers Kiss Your
      Eyes"                       Thomas Dekker
     "Sleep, Baby, Sleep"         George Wither
     Mother's Song                Unknown
     A Lullaby                    Richard Rowlands
     A Cradle Hymn                Isaac Watts
     Cradle Song                  William Blake
     Lullaby                      Carolina Nairne
     Lullaby of an Infant Chief   Walter Scott
     Good-Night                   Jane Taylor
     "Lullaby, O Lullaby"         William Cox Bennett
     Lullaby                      Alfred Tennyson
     The Cottager to Her Infant   Dorothy Wordsworth
     Trot, Trot!