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A BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE

by Mabel Quiller-Couch; Lilian Quiller-Couch

Illustrated by M. Etheldreda Gray

Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. 1920

Good condition. Blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations and titles. 20 beautiful colour plates mounted on grey card with captions below. Verses arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch.

Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Gilt to spine has dulled. Name in ink to front endpaper. Joint between fly-leaf and title-page is cracked causing frontispiece to be missing in this copy. Page edges are ragged from rough opening during binding process.

Stock no. 1311385

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Contents

  • FAIRIES AND FANCIES
  • A Pleasant Ship - Old Rhyme
  • Toys at Night - Fred E. Weatherly
  • The Old Man in the Moon - Anon
  • Tartary - Walter de La Mare
  • A Lake and a Fairy Boat - Thomas Hood
  • Queen Mab - Thomas Hood
  • Catching Fairies - William Cory
  • The Fairies - William Allingham
  • Pigwiggin Arms Himself - Michael Drayton
  • Queen Mab Setting Forth - Michael Drayton
  • Ariel's Song - William Shakespeare
  • Puck's Song - William Shakespeare
  • The Fairy's Song - William Shakespeare
  • The Flower of Old Japan - Alfred Noyes
  • Peterkin - Alfred Noyes
  • The Rainbow Fairies - Lizzie M. Hadley
  • Santa Claus - Anon
  • A Visit From St Nicholas - Clement C. Moore
  • When the Worlds Asleep - A. St John Adcock
  • The Forsaken Merman - Matthew Arnold
  • The Fairies of the Caldon low - Mary Howitt
  • Little Boy Blue - Eugene Field
  • The Merman - Alfred Tennyson
  • The Mermaid - Alfred Tennyson
  • Fairy Days - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Fairy Queen - from Percy's "Reliques"
  • Lady Moon - Lord Houghton
  • BIRDS AND FLOWERS,BEASTS AND INSECTS
  • Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World - William Brighty Rands
  • The Fly - Walter de la Mare
  • The Bee - Anon
  • The Rat, Cat and Mouse - Anon
  • The Cow - Jane and Ann Taylor
  • Birds's Names - William Allingham
  • A Warning for Birds' Nesters - Anon
  • Mister Fly - Thomas Miller
  • The Months - Sara Coleridge
  • Against Idleness and Mischief - Isaac Watts
  • The Mountain and the Squirrel - R. W. Emerson
  • Little White Lily - George Macdonald
  • What Might Have Been - Fred E. Weatherly
  • Wishing - William Allingham
  • The Dove - John Keats
  • The Eagle - Alfred Tennyson
  • The Owl - Alfred Tennyson
  • Answer To A Child's Question - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Written in March - William Wordsworth
  • The First of June - William Brighty Rands
  • Envy - Charles and Mary Lamb
  • Lessons on Cruelty - William Blake
  • To the Small Celandine - William Wordsworth
  • Epitaph on a Hare - William Cowper
  • Mary's Lamb - Old Rhyme
  • I've Been Roaming - George Darley
  • Robin's Cross - George Darley
  • Eye Bright - Harley Coleridge
  • Seven Times One - Jean Ingelow
  • Lessons To Be Derived from Birds - G.W. Doane
  • The Gentianella - Hartley Coleridge
  • The Angel of the Rose - Hartley Coleridge
  • Who Stole the BIrd's Nest - Maria L. Child
  • The Spider and the Fly - Mary Howitt
  • The Pet Lamb - William Wordsworth
  • The Succession of Four Sweet Months - Robert Herrick
  • Birds, Beasts, and Fishes - Adelaide O'Keeffe
  • Pussy Cat - Anne Hawkshaw
  • The Butterfly's Ball - W. Roscoe
  • The Golden Crested Wren - T. Miller
  • The Pond - Jane Taylor
  • The Spider and His Wife - Jane Taylor
  • Employment - Jane Taylor
  • The Little Bird's Complaint To His Mistress - Ann Taylor
  • The Discontented Elm Tree - Fred E. Weatherly
  • STORIES IN VERSE
  • Perseverance - From the German
  • The Babes in the Wood - Old Ballad
  • Lucy Gray; or, Solitude - William Wordsworth
  • Bishop Hatto - Robert Southey
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning
  • The Glove and the Lions - Leigh Hunt
  • The Boy and The Snake - Charles and Mary lamb
  • ROMANCE AND HEROISM
  • King Henry's Address Before Agincourt - William Shakespeare
  • The Wreck of the Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The Battle of Blenheim - Robert Southey
  • Bethgelert - W.R. Spencer
  • The Inchcape Rock - Robert Southey
  • Lord Ullin's Daughter - Thomas Campbell
  • The Loss of the Royal George - William Cowper
  • Incident of the French Camp - Robert Browning
  • The Red Thread of Honour - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
  • Barbara Frietchie - John Greenleaf Whittier
  • The Burial of St John Moore - Charles Wolfe
  • Ballad for a Boy - William Cory
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Tennyson
  • How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix - Robert Browning
  • Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The Spartan Boy - Charles and Mary Lamb
  • Sherwood - Alfred Noyes
  • Captain Sword - Leigh Hunt
  • The Old Navy - Captain Marryat
  • GOOD BEHAVIOUR
  • Meddlesome Matty - Ann Taylor
  • The Two Gardens - Ann Taylor
  • The Little Coward - Ann and Jane Taylor
  • The Boy Who Knew Nothing - Anon
  • The Alarum Bell - Adelaide O'Keeffe
  • The Hoyden - Elizabeth Turner
  • Susan and Patty - Elizabeth Turner
  • The Sluggard - Isaac Watts
  • The Bad Boy - Norman Gale
  • FUN AND FROLIC
  • The Comical Girl - Anon
  • Topsy Turvy World - William Brighty Rands
  • The Conceited Piggies - Old Rhyme
  • The Precise Guinea Pig - Old Rhyme
  • A Loving Husband - Anon
  • A Tragic Story - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Marvels - Old Rhyme
  • The Three Jovial Welshman - Old Song
  • The Little Doll's House in Arcady - William Brighty Rands
  • The Wind in a Frolic - William Howitt
  • Unless - Fred E. Weatherly
  • The Lobster and the Maid - Fred E. Weatherly
  • Clean Clara - William Brighty Rands
  • The Dream of a Boy Who Lived at Nine Elms - William Brighty Rands
  • The Dream of a Girl Who Lived at Seven Oaks - William Brighty Rands
  • The Owl Critic - James T. Fields
  • To Henrietta, On Her Departure For Calais - Thomas Hood
  • Lincoln Lane: The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse - Anon
  • The Mock Turtle's Song - Lewis Carroll
  • Father William - Lewis Carroll
  • The Diverting History of John Gilpin - William Cowper
  • An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog - Oliver Goldsmith
  • BEDTIME
  • Bedtime - George MacDonald
  • Sleep, Baby, Sleep - Anon
  • Baby Song - Alfred Tennyson
  • Lullaby of an Infant Chief - Sir Walter Scott
  • Wynken, Blynken and Nod - Eugene Field
  • The Baby - Ann Taylor
  • Wee Willie Winkie - W. Miller
  • Sweet and Low - Alfred Tennyson
  • The Star - Ann and Jane Taylor
  • Good Night and Good Morning - Lord Houghton
  • Escape at Bedtime - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Windy Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • To A Sleeping Child -Arthur Hugh Clough
  • The Rock A By lady - Eugene Field
  • FOR SUNDAYS AND QUIET DAYS
  • Grace For a Child - Robert Herrick
  • The Lamb - William Blake
  • The Sabbath - Anon
  • Today - Thomas Carlyle
  • The Lily of the Valley - Ann and jane Taylor
  • Against Quarrelling and Fighting - Isaac Watts
  • A Christmas Guest - G. Robertson-Glasgow
  • Love Between Brothers and Sisters - Isaac Watts
  • To His Saviour, A Child - Robert Herrick
  • The Better Land - Felicia Dorothea Hemans
  • The Ruler - Jane Taylor
  • I Saw Three Ships - Old Carol
  • Here We Come A Whistling - Old Carol
  • The Holly and the Ivy - Old Carol
  • God Rest Yopu Merry Gentleman - Old Carol
  • Aunt Mary - R.S. Hawker
  • Approaches - George MacDonald
  • Deeds of Kindness - Fanny Van Alstyne
  • The Grden on the Sands - Mrs. Reed
  • MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
  • The Merry Heart - William Shakespeare
  • England - William Shakespeare
  • The Thames Summoned By Neptune - John Dryden
  • The Lost Doll - Charles Kingsley
  • Mustard and Cress - Norman Gale
  • Bunches of Grapes - Walter de la Mare
  • Baby - George MacDonald
  • A Man of Words - Old Rhyme
  • The Pedlar's Caravan - William Brighty Rands
  • The Sand Castle - Anon
  • The Windmill - Anon
  • The River God's Song - Beaumont and Fletcher
  • The Dessert - Charles and Maryn Lamb
  • Our Treasure - William Canton
  • Polly - William Brighty Rands
  • Bubble Blowing - William Canton
  • To Be Rid of Care - William Canton
  • A Boy's Song - James Hogg
  • The Child Musician - Austin Dobson
  • The Lamp Lighter - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Beginning of a Battle - Beaumont and Fletcher
  • The Sands O' Dee - Charles Kingsley
  • The Song of the Corn - Fred E. Weatherly
  • The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Water Mill - Anne Hawkshaw
  • Chanticleer The Cock and Russell the Fox - Adapted frpm Chaucer
  • Little Raindrops - Anne Hawkshaw
  • Kind Mary - Anon
  • Poor Dog Tray - Thomas Campbell
  • The Sea - Barry Cornwall
  • Song of the Wooden Legged Fiddler - Alfred Noyes
  • Choosing a Name - Charles Lamb
  • Going Into Breeches - Charles and Mary Lamb
  • The Arab's Farewell To His Favourite Steed - Mrs Norton
  • Seven Times Two - Jean Ingelow
  • I Remember, i Remember - Thomas Hood
  • The Cataract of Lodore - Robert Southey
  • Ring Out, Wild Bells - Alfred Tennyson

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