Children's Favorite Poems

The Three Children

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat—Edward Lear

Kindness to Animals[page xiv]

How Doth the Little Busy Bee—Isaac Watts

Suppose—Phoebe Cary

Twinkle, Twinkle

Pretty Cow—Jane Taylor

The Three Little Kittens—Eliza Lee Follen

The Land of Counterpane—Robert Louis Stevenson

There was a Little Girl—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Boy who never Told a Lie

Foreign Children—Robert Louis Stevenson

The Unseen Playmate—Robert Louis Stevenson

I saw Three Ships

A Was an Ant—Edward Lear

The Table and the Chair—Edward Lear

Precocious Piggy—Thomas Hood

A Boy's Song—James Hogg

Buttercups and Daisies—Mary Howitt

The Violet—Jane Taylor

If ever I See—Lydia Maria Child

The Little Land—Robert Louis Stevenson

A Lobster Quadrille—Lewis Carroll

Where Go the Boats—Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wind and the Moon—George Macdonald

Where are you Going my Pretty Maid

The Lost Doll—Charles Kingsley

Foreign Lands—Robert Louis Stevenson

Bed in Summer—Robert Louis Stevenson

Try Again

A Good Play—Robert Louis Stevenson

Good Night and Good Morning—Richard Monckton Milnes

The Wind—Robert Louis Stevenson

The Spider and the Fly—Mary Howitt

Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite—Isaac Watts

Child's Evening Hymn—Sabine Baring-Gould