



Produced by Dennis Schreiner





THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE,

Volume 4

By Burton Egbert Stevenson



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!                  Mary F. Butts
     Holy Innocents               Christina Georgina Rossetti
     Lullaby                      Josiah Gilbert Holland
     Cradle Song                  Josiah Gilbert Holland
     An Irish Lullaby             Alfred Perceval Graves
     Cradle Song                  Josephine Preston Peabody
     Mother-Song from "Prince
      Lucifer"                    Alfred Austin
     Kentucky Babe                Richard Henry Buck
     Minnie and Winnie            Alfred Tennyson
     Bed-Time Song                Emilie Poulsson
     Tucking the Baby In          Curtis May
     "Jenny Wi' the Airn Teeth"   Alexander Anderson
     Cuddle Doon                  Alexander Anderson
     Bedtime                      Francis Robert St. Clair Erskine


     THE DUTY OF CHILDREN

     Happy Thought                Robert Louis Stevenson
     Whole Duty of Children       Robert Louis Stevenson
     Politeness                   Elizabeth Turner
     Rules of Behavior            Unknown
     Little Fred                  Unknown
     The Lovable Child            Emilie Poulsson
     Good and Bad Children        Robert Louis Stevenson
     Rebecca's After-Thought      Elizabeth Turner
     Kindness to Animals          Unknown
     A Rule for Birds' Nesters    Unknown
     "Sing on, Blithe Bird"       William Motherwell
     "I Like Little Pussy"        Jane Taylor
     Little Things                Julia Fletcher Carney
     The Little Gentleman         Unknown
     The Crust of Bread           Unknown
     "How Doth the Little Busy
      Bee"                        Isaac Watts
     The Brown Thrush             Lucy Larcom
     The Sluggard                 Isaac Watts
     The Violet                   Jane Taylor
     Dirty Jim                    Jane Taylor
     The Pin                      Ann Taylor
     Jane and Eliza               Ann Taylor
     Meddlesome Matty             Ann Taylor
     Contented John               Jane Taylor
     Friends                      Abbie Farwell Brown
     Anger                        Charles and Mary Lamb
     "There Was a Little Girl"    H. W. Longfellow
     The Reformation of Godfrey
      Gore                        William Brighty Rands
     The Best Firm                Walter G. Doty
     A Little Page's Song         William Alexander Percy
     How the Little Kite Learned
      to Fly                      Unknown
     The Butterfly and the Bee    William Lisle Bowles
     The Butterfly                Adelaide O'Keefe
     Morning                      Jane Taylor
     Buttercups and Daisies       Mary Howitt
     The Ant and the Cricket      Unknown
     After Wings                  Sarah M. B. Piatt
     Deeds of Kindness            Epes Sargent
     The Lion and the Mouse       Jeffreys Taylor
     The Boy and the Wolf         John Hookham Frere
     The Story of Augustus, Who
      Would Not Have Any Soup     Heinrich Hoffman
     The Story of Little
      Suck-A-Thumb                Heinrich Hoffman
     Written in a Little Lady's
      Little Album                Frederick William Faber
     My Lady Wind                 Unknown
     To a Child                   William Wordsworth
     A Farewell                   Charles Kingsley


     RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD

     Reeds of Innocence           William Blake
     The Wonderful World          William Brighty Rands
     The World's Music            Gabriel Setoun
     A Boy's Song                 James Hogg
     Going Down Hill On a Bicycle Henry Charles Beeching
     Playgrounds                  Laurence Alma-Tadema
     "Who Has Seen the Wind?"     Christina Georgina Rossetti
     The Wind's Song              Gabriel Setoun
     The Piper on the Hill        Dora Sigerson Shorter
     The Wind and the Moon        George Macdonald
     Child's Song in Spring       Edith Nesbit
     Baby Seed Song               Edith Nesbit
     Little Dandelion             Helen Barron Bostwick
     Little White Lily            George Macdonald
     Wishing                      William Allingham
     In the Garden                Ernest Crosby
     The Gladness of Nature       William Cullen Bryant
     Glad Day                     W. Graham Robertson
     The Tiger                    William Blake
     Answer to a Child's Question Samuel Taylor Coleridge
     How the Leaves Came Down     Susan Coolidge
     A Legend of the Northland    Phoebe Cary
     The Cricket's Story          Emma Huntington Nason
     The Singing-Lesson           Jean Ingelow
     Chanticleer                  Katherine Tynan
     "What Does Little Birdie
      Say?"                       Alfred Tennyson
     Nurse's Song                 William Blake
     Jack Frost                   Gabriel Setoun
     October's Party              George Cooper
     The Shepherd                 William Blake
     Nikolina                     Celia Thaxter
     Little Gustava               Celia Thaxter
     Prince Tatters               Laura E. Richards
     The Little Black Boy         William Blake
     The Blind Boy                Colley Cibber
     Bunches of Grapes            Walter de la Mare
     My Shadow                    Robert Louis Stevenson
     The Land of Counterpane      Robert Louis Stevenson
     The Land of Story-Books      Robert Louis Stevenson
     The Gardener                 Robert Louis Stevenson
     Foreign Lands                Robert Louis Stevenson
     My Bed is a Boat             Robert Louis Stevenson
     The Peddler's Caravan        William Brighty Rands
     Mr. Coggs                    Edward Verrall Lucas
     The Building of the Nest     Margaret Sangster
     "There was a Jolly Miller"   Isaac Bickerstaff
     One and One                  Mary Mapes Dodge
     A Nursery Song               Laura E. Richards
     A Mortifying Mistake         Anna Maria Pratt
     The Raggedy Man              James Whitcomb Riley
     The Man in the Moon          James Whitcomb Riley
     Little Orphant Annie         James Whitcomb Riley
     Our Hired Girl               James Whitcomb Riley
     See'n Things                 Eugene Field
     The Duel                     Eugene Field
     Holy Thursday                William Blake
     A Story for a Child          Bayard Taylor
     The Spider and the Fly       Mary Howitt
     The Captain's Daughter       James Thomas Fields
     The Nightingale and the
      Glow-Worm                   William Cowper
     Sir Lark and King Sun: A
      Parable                     George Macdonald
     The Courtship, Merry
      Marriage, and Picnic
      Dinner of Cock Robin
      and Jenny Wren              Unknown
     The Babes in the Wood        Unknown
     God's Judgment on a
      Wicked Bishop               Robert Southey
     The Pied Piper of Hamelin    Robert Browning


     THE GLAD EVANGEL

     A Carol                      Unknown
     "God Rest You Merry
      Gentlemen"                  Unknown
     'O Little Town of Bethlehem" Phillips Brooks
     A Christmas Hymn             Alfred Domett
     "While Shepherds Watched
      their Flocks by Night"      Nahum Tate
     Christmas Carols             Edmund Hamilton Sears
     The Angels                   William Drummond
     The Burning Babe             Robert Southwell
     Tryste Noel                  Louise Imogen Guiney
     Christmas Carol              Unknown
     "Brightest and Best of the
      Sons of the Morning"        Reginald Heber
     Christmas Bells              Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
     A Christmas Carol            Gilbert Keith Chesterton
     The House of Christmas       Gilbert Keith Chesterton
     The Feast of the Snow        Gilbert Keith Chesterton
     Mary's Baby                  Shaemas OSheel
     Gates and Doors              Joyce Kilmer
     The Three Kings              Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
     Lullaby in Bethlehem         Henry Howarth Bashford
     A Child's Song of Christmas  Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
     Jest 'Fore Christmas         Eugene Field
     A Visit from St. Nicholas    Clement Clarke Moore
     Ceremonies for Christmas     Robert Herrick
     On the Morning of Christ's
      Nativity                    John Milton


     FAIRYLAND

     The Fairy Book               Norman Gale
     Fairy Songs                  William Shakespeare
     Queen Mab                    Ben Jonson
     The Elf and the Dormouse     Oliver Herford
     "Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide
      Their Heads?"               Thomas Haynes Bayly
     Fairy Song                   Leigh Hunt
     Dream Song                   Richard Middleton
     Fairy Song                   John Keats
     Queen Mab                    Thomas Hood
     The Fairies of the
      Caldon-Low                  Mary Howitt
     The Fairies                  William Allingham
     The Fairy Thrall             Mary C. G. Byron
     Farewell to the Fairies      Richard Corbet
     The Fairy Folk               Robert Bird
     The Fairy Book               Abbie Farwell Brown
     The Visitor                  Patrick R. Chalmers
     The Little Elf               John Kendrick Bangs
     The Satyrs and the Moon      Herbert S. Gorman


     THE CHILDREN

     The Children                 Charles Monroe Dickinson
     The Children's Hour          Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
     Laus Infantium               William Canton
     The Desire                   Katherine Tynan
     A Child's Laughter           Algernon Charles Swinburne
     Seven Years Old              Algernon Charles Swinburne
     Creep Afore Ye Gang          James Ballantine
     Castles in the Air           James Ballantine
     Under My Window              Thomas Westwood
     Little Bell                  Thomas Westwood
     The Barefoot Boy             John Greenleaf Whittier
     The Heritage                 James Russell Lowell
     Letty's Globe                Charles Tennyson Turner
     Dove's Nest                  Joseph Russell Taylor
     The Oracle                   Arthur Davison Ficke
     To a Little Girl             Helen Parry Eden
     To a Little Girl             Gustav Kobbe
     A Parental Ode to My Son     Thomas Hood
     A New Poet                   William Canton
     To Laura W-, Two Years Old   Nathaniel Parker Willis
     To Rose                      Sara Teasdale
     To Charlotte Pulteney        Ambrose Philips
     The Picture of Little T. C.
      in a Prospect of Flowers    Andrew Marvell
     To Hartley Coleridge         William Wordsworth
     To a Child of Quality        Matthew Prior
     Ex Ore Infantium             Francis Thompson
     Obituary                     Thomas William Parsons
     The Child's Heritage         John G. Neihardt
     A Girl of Pompeii            Edward Sandford Martin
     On the Picture of a "Child
      Tired of Play"              Nathaniel Parker Willis
     The Reverie of Poor Susan    William Wordsworth
     Children's Song              Ford Madox Hueffer
     The Mitherless Bairn         William Thom
     The Cry of the Children      Elizabeth Barrett Browning
     The Shadow-Child             Harriet Monroe
     Mother Wept                  Joseph Skipsey
     Duty                         Ralph Waldo Emerson
     Lucy Gray                    William Wordsworth
     In the Children's Hospital   Alfred Tennyson
     "If I Were Dead"             Coventry Patmore
     The Toys                     Coventry Patmore
     A Song of Twilight           Unknown
     Little Boy Blue              Eugene Field
     The Discoverer               Edmund Clarence Stedman
     A Chrysalis                  Mary Emily Bradley
     Mater Dolorosa               William Barnes
     The Little Ghost             Katherine Tynan
     Motherhood                   Josephine Daskam Bacon
     The Mother's Prayer          Dora Sigerson Shorter
     Da Leetla Boy                Thomas Augustin Daly
     On the Moor                  Gale Young Rice
     Epitaph of Dionysia          Unknown
     For Charlie's Sake           John Williamson Palmer
     "Are the Children at Home?"  Margaret Sangster
     The Morning-Glory            Maria White Lowell
     She Came and Went            James Russell Lowell
     The First Snow-fall          James Russell Lowell
     "We Are Seven"               William Wordsworth
     My Child                     John Pierpont
     The Child's Wish Granted     George Parsons Lathrop
     Challenge                    Kenton Foster Murray
     Tired Mothers                May Riley Smith
     My Daughter Louise           Homer Greene
     "I Am Lonely"                George Eliot
     Sonnets from "Mimma Bella"   Eugene Lee-Hamilton
     Rose-Marie of the Angels     Adelaide Crapsey


     MAIDENHOOD

     Maidenhood                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
     To the Virgins, to Make
      Much of Time                Robert Herrick
     To Mistress Margaret Hussey  John Skelton
     On Her Coming To London      Edmund Waller
     "O, Saw Ye Bonny Lesley"     Robert Burns
     To a Young Lady              William Cowper
     Ruth                         Thomas Hood
     The Solitary Reaper          William Wordsworth
     The Three Cottage Girls      William Wordsworth
     Blackmwore Maidens           William Barnes
     A Portrait                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning
     To a Child of Fancy          Lewis Morris
     Daisy                        Francis Thompson
     To Petronilla, Who Has
      Put Up Her Hair             Henry Howarth Bashford
     The Gipsy Girl               Henry Alford
     Fanny                        Anne Reeve Aldrich
     Somebody's Child             Louise Chandler Moulton
     Emilia                       Sarah N. Cleghorn
     To a Greek Girl              Austin Dobson
     "Chamber Scene"              Nathaniel Parker Willis
     "Ah, Be Not False"           Richard Watson Gilder
     A Life-Lesson                James Whitcomb Riley


     THE MAN

     The Breaking                 Margaret Steele Anderson
     The Flight of Youth          Richard Henry Stoddard
     "Days of My Youth"           St. George Tucker
     Ave Atque Vale               Rosamund Marriott Watson
     To Youth                     Walter Savage Landor
     Stanzas Written on the Road
      Between Florence and Pisa   George Gordon Byron
     Stanzas for Music            George Gordon Byron
     "When As a Lad"              Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
     "Around the Child"           Walter Savage Landor
     Aladdin                      James Russell Lowell
     The Quest                    Ellen Mackey Hutchinson Cortissoz
     My Birth-Day                 Thomas Moore
     Sonnet on His having Arrived
      to the Age of Twenty-Three  John