Old Fashioned Poems

The Man in the Moon—James Whitcombe Riley

Sage Counsel—Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Limericks—Edward Lear

More Limericks—Rudyard Kipling and Anonymous

The Dead Doll—Margaret Vandergrift

Little Things—Ascribed to Julia A. F. Carney

The Golden Rule—Unknown

Do the Best You Can—Unknown

The Voice of Spring

The Lark and the Rook—Unknown

Thanksgiving Day—Lydia Maria Child

The Magpie's Nest—Unknown

The Fairies of Caldon Low—Mary Howitt

The Land of Story Books—Robert Louis Stevenson

A Visit From St. Nicholas—Clement Clarke Moore

Little Orphant Annie—James Whitcombe Riley

The Chatterbox—Ann Taylor

The Voice of Spring—Felicia Dorothea Hemans

The History Lesson—Anonymous

Song of Life—Charles Mackay

The Good Time Coming—Charles Mackay

Windy Nights—Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wonderful World—William Brighty Rands

Hark! Hark! The Lark—William Shakespeare

Jog On, Jog On—William Shakespeare[page xvi]

Sweet Story of Old—Jemima Luke

My Shadow—Robert Louis Stevenson

By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill—Reginald Heber

The Wind in a Frolic—William Howitt

The Graves of a Household—Felicia Dorothea Hemans

We Are Seven—William Wordsworth

The Better Land—Felicia Dorothea Hemans

The Juvenile Orator—David Everett

The Fox and the Crow—Little B. (Taylor?)

The Use of Flowers—Mary Howitt

Contented John—Jane Taylor

The Old Man's Comforts, and How He Gained Them—Robert Southey

The Frost—Hannah Flagg Gould

The Battle of Blenheim—Robert Southey

The Chameleon—James Merrick (from M. de Lamotte)

The Blackberry Girl—Unknown

Mabel on Midsummer Day—Mary Howitt

Llewellyn and his Dog—Willim Robert Spencer

The Snowbird's Song—Francis C. Woodworth

For A' That and A' That—Robert Burns