Favorite poems of childhood / [electronic resource] edited by Philip Smith ; illustrated by Harriet Golden.

Includes indexes.

The land of nod / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Hurt no living thing / Christina Rossetti -- The cat of cats / William Brighty Rands -- I love little pussy / Jane Taylor -- Mary's lamb / Sarah Josepha Hale -- Holding hands / Lenore M. Link -- The field mouse / William Sharp -- Mr. Finney's turnip / Anonymous -- What do we plant? / Henry Abbey -- A wee little worm / James Whitcomb Riley -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- Trees / Sara Coleridge -- A frisky lamb / Christina Rossetti -- Whisky frisky / Anonymous -- Nurse's song / William Blake -- The three little kittens / Eliza Lee Follen -- There were two ghostesses / Anonymous -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Only one mother / George Cooper -- The cow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Tomorrow's the fair / Anonymous -- The duel / Eugene Field -- The moon's the north wind's cooky / Vachel Lindsay -- Mr. Moon / Bliss Carman -- Judging by appearances / Emilie Poulsson -- The dinkey-bird / Eugene Field -- The elf and the dormouse / Oliver Herford -- The little elf / John Kendrick Bangs -- The fairies / William Allingham -- An unsuspected fact / Edward Cannon -- Minnie and Winnie / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- A sea-song from the shore / James Whitcomb Riley -- Ducks' Ditty / Kenneth Grahame -- Swimming / Clinton Scollard -- If / Anonymous -- The fisherman / Abbie Farwell Brown -- O sailor, come ashore / Christina Rossetti -- In the night / Anonymous -- Dutch Lullaby / Eugene Field -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- Laughing song / William Blake -- The man in the wilderness / Anonymous -- What is pink? / Christina Rossetti -- The purple cow / Gelett Burgess -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Antigonish / Hughes Mearns -- There was a little girl / Anonymous -- A magician / Eunice Ward -- King Arthur / Anonymous --

The young lady of Niger / Anonymous -- Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore / William Brighty Rands -- The rhyme of Dorothy Rose / Pauline Frances Camp -- My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A tragedy / Doris Webb -- The pantry ghosts / Frederic Richardson -- Mr. Coggs, watchmaker / Edward Verrall Lucas -- Little Boy Blue / Eugene Field -- The quangle wangle's hat / Edward Lear -- The butter Betty bought / Anonymous -- Barbershop / Martin Gardner -- The raggedy man / James Whitcomb Riley -- Great fleas have little fleas / A. De Morgan -- The peppery man / Arthur Macy -- August / Celia Thaxter -- The mayor of Scuttleton / Mary Mapes Dodge -- Aunt Eliza / Harry Graham -- Armies in the fire / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The star / Jane Taylor -- The tyger / William Blake -- The children's hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Tender-heartedness / Harry Graham -- Windy Nights / Robert Louis Stevenson -- October / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The whango tree / Anonymous -- Little orphant Annie / James Whitcomb Riley -- Thanksgiving day / Lydia Maria Child -- Extremes / James Whitcomb Riley -- The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A flea and a fly in a flue / Anonymous -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti -- I'm nobody! Who are you? / Emily Dickinson -- November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe.

A collection of familiar poems for and about children, by such authors as Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Eugene Field, and Sarah Josepha Hale.