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Child Verse: Poems Grave & Gay

Title: Child Verse: Poems Grave & Gay

Author: John B. Tabb

Release date: October 20, 2011 [eBook #37810] Most recently updated: January 8, 2021

Language: English

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Child Verse: Poems Grave and Gay

CHILD VERSE

Poems Grave & Gay

by John. B. Tabb

Small, Maynard & Company. Boston 1900

Copyright, 1899 By Small, Maynard & Company (Incorporated.)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

First Edition (1250 copies) November, 1899 Second Edition (1000 copies) December, 1899

The Rockwell and Churchill Press Boston, U.S.A.

TO MY LITTLE FRIEND Henry Dinneen WITH MY LOVE AND BLESSING

NOTE

SOME of these verses have appeared in other places: one in St. Nicholas, one in Harper's Young People; and the Sunday School Times, the Youth's Companion, and the Independent have each published others. To this class belong, I think, all I reprint from my Poems and Lyrics. Most of the contents, however, is new.

J. B. T.

CONTENTS

[1]

[2]

CHILD VERSE

[3]

HARE-BELLS

[4]

AT COCK-CROW

[5]

A DUET

[6]

THE BOBOLINK

[7]

THE BLUEBIRD

[8]

THE WOODPECKER

[9]

CHIMNEY STACKS

[10]

BUTTERFLY

[11]

THE HONEY-BEE

[12]

THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS

[13]

THE TAX-GATHERER

[14]

JACK-O'-LANTERN

[15]

THE PLEIADS

[16]

JACK FROST'S APOLOGY

[17]

A CAVALCADE

[18]

SILK

[19]

SEED-TIME

[20]

A LEGACY

[21]

AMID THE ROSES

[22]

LIGHT AND SHADOW

[23]

SLEEP

[24]

THE FIRE-FLY

[25]

THE DRAGON-FLY

[26]

ARCHERY

[27]

A SPY

[28]

A LAMENT

[29]

FERN SONG

[30]

THE BROOK

[31]

AN INTERVIEW

[32]

BABY'S DIMPLES

[33]

A BUNCH OF ROSES

[34]

FOOT-SOLDIERS

[35]

THE BABY'S STAR

[36]

SLUMBER-SONG

[37]

AN IDOLATER

[38]

THE NEW-YEAR BABE

[40]

BICYCLES! TRICYCLES!

[41]

HIGH AND LOW

[42]

DOCTOR TUMBLE-BUG

[43]

CLOSE QUARTERS

[44]

THE TIME-BROOD

[45]

PAINS-TAKING

[46]

A RUB

[47]

CATS

[48]

AN INSECTARIAN

[49]

THE SQUIRREL

[50]

HOSPITALITY

[51]

FROG-MAKING

[52]

THE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE

[53]

AN EXPLANATION

[54]

THE PARLOUR AND THE FLY

[55]

NO GO

[56]

A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH BULL

[57]

THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE

[58]

AN INCONVENIENCE

[59]

THE TRYST

[60]

ETIQUETTE

[61]

A SUNSTROKE

[62]

A SHUFFLE

[63]

WASHINGTON'S RUSE

[64]

PANIC

[65]

THE END OF IT

[66]

A LITTLE CHILD'S PRAYERS

[67]

THE CHILD

AT BETHLEHEM

[69]

A LILY OF THE FIELD

[70]

THE LAMB-CHILD

[71]

A PAIR OF TURTLE-DOVES

THE PURIFICATION

[72]

HIDE-AND-SEEK

[73]

OUT OF BOUNDS

[74]

THE CHILD ON CALVARY

[75]

THE CHILD

AT NAZARETH

[77]

ST. THERESA AND THE CHILD

[78]

TRADITION

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained from the original.

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