



Produced by Dennis Schreiner





THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE,

Volume 3

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