McCLURE'S LIBRARY OF CHILDREN'S CLASSICS

EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

GOLDEN NUMBERS A BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUTH THE POSY RING A BOOK OF VERSE FOR CHILDREN PINAFORE PALACE A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY

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A BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUTH

CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY

Kate Douglas Wiggin

AND

Nora Archibald Smith

WITH INTRODUCTION AND INTERLEAVES BY

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1909 Copyright, 1902, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Published, October, 1902, N

GOLDEN NUMBERS

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A NOTE

We are indebted to the following firms for permission to use poems mentioned:

Frederick Warne & Co., for poems of George Herbert and Reginald Heber; Small, Maynard & Co., for two poems by Walt Whitman, and "The Tax-Gatherer," by John B. Tabb; George Routledge & Son, for "Sir Lark and King Sun," George Macdonald; Longmans, Green & Co., for Andrew Lang's "Scythe Song"; Lee & Shepard, for "A Christmas Hymn," "Alfred Dommett," and "Minstrels and Maids," William Morris; J. B. Lippincott Co., for three poems by Thomas Buchanan Read; John Lane, for "The Forsaken Merman," Matthew Arnold, and "Song to April," William Watson; "The Skylark," Frederick Tennyson; E. P. Dutton & Co., for "O Little Town of Bethlehem," Phillips Brooks; Dana, Estes & Co., for "July," by Susan Hartley Swett; Little, Brown & Co., for poems of Christina G. Rossetti, and for the three[Pg vi] poems, "The Grass," "The Bee," and "Chartless" by Emily Dickinson; D. Appleton & Co., publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, for "March," "Planting of the Apple Tree," "To the Fringed Gentian," "Death of Flowers," "To a Waterfowl," and "The Twenty-second of December"; Charles Scribner's Sons, for "The

Wind" and "A Visit from the Sea," both taken from "A Child's Garden of Verses"; "The Angler's Reveille," from "The Toiling of Felix"; "Dear Land of All My Love," from "Poems of Sidney Lanier," and "The Three Kings," from "With Trumpet and Drum," by Eugene Field; The Churchman, for "Tacking Ship Off Shore," by Walter Mitchell; The Whitaker-Ray Co., for "Columbus" and "Crossing the Plains," from The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller; The Macmillan Co., for "At Gibraltar," from "North Shore Watch and Other Poems," by George Edward Woodberry.

The following poems are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin Co., the authorized publishers:

T. B. Aldrich, "A Turkish Legend," "Before the Rain," "Maple Leaves," and "Tiger Lilies"; Christopher P. Cranch, "The Bobolinks";[Pg vii] Alice Cary, "The Gray Swan"; Margaret Deland, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night"; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Forbearance," "The Humble-Bee," "Duty," "The Rhodora," "Concord Hymn," "The Snow Storm," and Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord; James T. Fields, "Song of the Turtle and the Flamingo"; Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus"; John Hay, "The Enchanted Shirt"; Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Bret Harte, "The Reveille" and "A Greyport Legend"; T. W. Higginson, "The Snowing of the Pines"; H. W. Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Psalm of Life," "Home Song," "The Three Kings," and "The Harvest Moon"; James Russell Lowell, "Washington," extracts from "The Vision of Sir Launfal," "The Fatherland," "To the Dandelion," "The Singing Leaves," and "Stanzas on Freedom"; Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"; Edna Dean Proctor,

"Columbia's Emblem"; T. W. Parsons, "Dirge for One Who Fell in Battle"; E. C. Stedman, "The Flight of the Birds" and "Going A-Nutting"; E. R. Sill, "Opportunity"; W. W. Story, "The English Language"; Celia Thaxter,[Pg viii] "The Sandpiper" and "Nikolina"; J. T. Trowbridge, "Evening at the Farm" and "Midwinter"; Bayard Taylor, "A Night With a Wolf" and "The Song of the Camp"; J. G. Whittier, "The Corn Song," "The Barefoot Boy," "Barbara Frietchie," extracts from "Snow-Bound," "Song of the Negro Boatman," and "The Pipes at Lucknow"; W. D. Howells, "In August"; J. G. Saxe, "Solomon and the Bees."

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CONTENTS

A CHANTED CALENDAR Page Daybreak. By Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 Morning. By John Keats 1 A Morning Song. By William Shakespeare 2 Evening in Paradise. By John Milton 2 Evening Song. By John Fletcher 3 Night. By Robert Southey 4 A Fine Day. By Michael Drayton 5 The Seasons. By Edmund Spenser 5 The Eternal Spring. By John Milton 5 March. By William Cullen Bryant 6 Spring. By Thomas Carew 7 Song to April. By William Watson 7 April in England. By Robert Browning 8 April and May. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 9 May. By Edmund Spenser 9 Song on May Morning. By John Milton 10 Summer. By Edmund Spenser 10 June Weather. By James Russell Lowell 11 July. By Susan Hartley Swett 13 August. By Edmund Spenser 14 [Pg x]In August. By William Dean Howells 14 Autumn. By Edmund Spenser 15 Sweet September. By George Arnold 15 Autumn's Processional. By Dinah M. Mulock 16 October's Bright Blue Weather. By H. H. 16 Maple Leaves. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich 17 Down to Sleep. By H. H. 18 Winter. By Edmund Spenser 19 When Icicles Hang by the Wall. By William Shakespeare 19 A Winter Morning. By James Russell Lowell 20

The Snow Storm. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 21 Old Winter. By Thomas Noel 22 Midwinter. By John Townsend Trowbridge 23 Dirge for the Year. By Percy Bysshe Shelley 25 THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL The World Beautiful. By John Milton 27 The Harvest Moon. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 27 The Cloud. By Percy Bysshe Shelley 28 Before the Rain. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich 31 Rain in Summer. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 32 Invocation to Rain in Summer. By William C. Bennett 34 The Latter Rain. By Jones Very 35 [Pg xi]The Wind. By Robert Louis Stevenson 35 Ode to the Northeast Wind. By Charles Kingsley 36 The Windy Night. By Thomas Buchanan Read 39 The Brook. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 40 The Brook in Winter. By James Russell Lowell 42 Clear and Cool. By Charles Kingsley 44 Minnows. By John Keats 45 Snow-Bound (Extracts). By John G. Whittier 46 Highland Cattle. By Dinah M. Mulock 50 A Scene in Paradise. By John Milton 52 The Tiger. By William Blake 53 The Spacious Firmament on High. By Joseph Addison 54 GREEN THINGS GROWING Green Things Growing. By Dinah M. Mulock 57 The Sigh of Silence. By John Keats 58

Under the Greenwood Tree. By William Shakespeare 59 The Planting of the Apple Tree. By William Cullen Bryant 59 The Apple Orchard in the Spring. By William Martin 63 Mine Host of "The Golden Apple." By Thomas Westwood 64 The Tree. By Jones Very 65 [Pg xii]A Young Fir-Wood. By Dante G. Rossetti 65 The Snowing of the Pines. By Thomas W. Higginson 66 The Procession of the Flowers. By Sydney Dobell 67 Sweet Peas. By John Keats 68 A Snowdrop. By Harriet Prescott Spofford 69 Almond Blossom. By Sir Edwin Arnold 69 Wild Rose. By William Allingham 70 Tiger-Lilies. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich 71 To the Fringed Gentian. By William Cullen Bryant 72 To a Mountain Daisy. By Robert Burns 73 Bind-Weed. By Susan Coolidge 74 The Rhodora. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 76 A Song of Clover. By "Saxe Holm" 76 To the Dandelion (Extract). By James Russell Lowell 77 To Daffodils. By Robert Herrick 78 The Daffodils. By William Wordsworth 79 The White Anemone. By Owen Meredith 80 The Grass. By Emily Dickinson 81 The Corn-Song. By John G. Whittier 82 Columbia's Emblem. By Edna Dean Proctor 84

Scythe Song. By Andrew Lang 86 Time to Go. By Susan Coolidge 86 The Death of the Flowers. By William Cullen Bryant 88 [Pg xiii]Autumn's Mirth. By Samuel Minturn Peck 90 ON THE WING Sing On, Blithe Bird. By William Motherwell 93 To a Skylark. By Percy Bysshe Shelley 94 Sir Lark and King Sun: A Parable. By George Macdonald 99 The Skylark. By Frederick Tennyson 101 The Skylark. By James Hogg 102 The Bobolinks. By Christopher P. Cranch 103 To a Waterfowl. By William Cullen Bryant 105 Goldfinches. By John Keats 107 The Sandpiper. By Celia Thaxter 107 The Eagle. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 109 Child's Talk in April. By Christina G. Rossetti 109 The Flight of the Birds. By Edmund Clarence Stedman 111 The Shepherd's Home. By William Shenstone 112 To a Cricket. By William C. Bennett 113 On the Grasshopper and Cricket. By John Keats 114 The Tax-Gatherer. By John B. Tabb 114 To the Grasshopper and the Cricket. By Leigh Hunt 115 The Bee. By Emily Dickinson 116 The Humble-Bee. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 116 All Things Wait Upon Thee. By Christina G. Rossetti 119 [Pg xiv]Providence. By Reginald Heber 119

THE INGLENOOK A New Household. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 121 Two Heavens. By Leigh Hunt 121 A Song of Love. By "Lewis Carroll" 122 Mother's Song. Unknown 123 The Bonniest Bairn in a' the Warl'. By Robert Ford 125 Cuddle Doon. By Alexander Anderson 126 I am Lonely. By George Eliot 128 Brother and Sister. By George Eliot 129 Home. By William Ernest Henley 131 Love Will Find Out the Way. Unknown 133 The Sailor's Wife. By William J. Mickle 134 Evening at the Farm. By John Townsend Trowbridge 136 Home Song. By Henry W. Longfellow 138 Étude Réaliste. By Algernon C. Swinburne 139 We Are Seven. By William Wordsworth 141 FAIRY SONGS AND SONGS OF FANCY Puck and the Fairy. By William Shakespeare 145 Lullaby for Titania. By William Shakespeare 146 Oberon and Titania to the Fairy Train. By William Shakespeare 147 Ariel's Songs. By William Shakespeare 147 [Pg xv]Orpheus with His Lute. By William Shakespeare 149 The Arming of Pigwiggen. By Michael Drayton 149 Hesperus' Song. By Ben Jonson 151 L'Allegro (Extracts). By John Milton 152 Sabrina Fair. By John Milton 157

Alexander's Feast. By John Dryden 158 Kubla Khan. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge 160 The Magic Car Moved On. By Percy Bysshe Shelley 162 Arethusa. By Percy Bysshe Shelley 165 The Culprit Fay (Extracts). By Joseph Rodman Drake 168 A Myth. By Charles Kingsley 173 The Fairy Folk. By William Allingham 174 The Merman. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 177 The Mermaid. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 178 Bugle Song. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 181 The Raven. By Edgar Allan Poe 182 The Bells. By Edgar Allan Poe 189 SPORTS AND PASTIMES Blowing Bubbles. By William Allingham 195 Bicycling Song. By Henry C. Beeching 196 Going A Maying. By Robert Herrick 197 Jog On, Jog On. By William Shakespeare 200 A Vagabond Song. By Bliss Carman 201 [Pg xvi]Swimming. By Algernon C. Swinburne 201 Swimming. By Lord Byron 202 The Angler's Reveille. By Henry van Dyke 203 The Angler's Invitation. By Thomas Tod Stoddart 207 Skating. By William Wordsworth 207 Reading. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning 209 On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer. By John Keats 210 Music's Silver Sound. By William Shakespeare 210

The Power of Music. By William Shakespeare 211 Descend, Ye Nine! By Alexander Pope 212 Old Song. By Edward Fitzgerald 213 The Barefoot Boy. By John G. Whittier 214 Leolin and Edith. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 218 Going A-Nutting. By Edmund Clarence Stedman 219 Whittling. By John Pierpont 220 Hunting Song. By Sir Walter Scott 222 The Hunter's Song. By Barry Cornwall 223 The Blood Horse. By Barry Cornwall 225 The Northern Seas. By William Howitt 226 The Needle. By Samuel Woodwork 228 A GARDEN OF GIRLS A Portrait. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning 231 Little Bell. By Thomas Westwood 234 [Pg xvii]A Child of Twelve. By Percy Bysshe Shelley 237 Chloe. By Robert Burns 238 O, Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet. By Robert Burns 239 Who Is Silvia? By William Shakespeare 240 To Mistress Margaret Hussey. By John Skelton 240 Ruth. By Thomas Hood 242 My Peggy. By Allan Ramsay 243 Annie Laurie. By William Douglas 243 Lucy. By William Wordsworth 245 Jessie. By Bret Harte 246 Olivia. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 247 Nikolina. By Celia Thaxter 248 The Solitary Reaper. By William Wordsworth 249

Helena and Hermia. By William Shakespeare 250 Phyllis. By William Drummond 251 So Sweet is She. By Ben Jonson 251 I Love My Jean. By Robert Burns 252 My Nannie's Awa'. By Robert Burns 253 THE WORLD OF WATERS To the Ocean. By Lord Byron 255 A Life on the Ocean Wave. By Epes Sargent 257 The Sea. By Barry Cornwall 258 A Sea-Song. By Allan Cunningham 259 A Visit from the Sea. By Robert Louis Stevenson 261 [Pg xviii]Drifting. By Thomas Buchanan Read 262 Tacking Ship Off Shore. By Walter Mitchell 265 Windlass Song. By William Allingham 268 The Coral Grove. By James Gates Percival 269 The Shell. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 270 Bermudas. By Andrew Marvell 272 Where Lies the Land? By Arthur Hugh Clough 273 FOR HOME AND COUNTRY The First, Best Country. By Oliver Goldsmith 275 My Native Land. By Sir Walter Scott 276 Loyalty. By Allan Cunningham 276 My Heart's in the Highlands. By Robert Burns 277 The Minstrel Boy. By Thomas Moore 278 The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls. By Thomas Moore 279 Fife and Drum. By John Dryden 280 The Cavalier's Song. By William Motherwell 280

The Old Scottish Cavalier. By Wm. Edmondstoune Aytoun 281 The Song of the Camp. By Bayard Taylor 284 Border Ballad. By Sir Walter Scott 286 Gathering Song of Donuil Dhu. By Sir Walter Scott 287 The Reveille. By Bret Harte 288 [Pg xix]Ye Mariners of England. By Thomas Campbell 290 The Knight's Tomb. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge 292 How Sleep the Brave! By William Collins 292 Dirge. By Thomas William Parsons 293 The Burial of Sir John Moore. By Charles Wolfe 295 Soldier, Rest! By Sir Walter Scott 296 Recessional. By Rudyard Kipling 297 The Fatherland. By James Russell Lowell 298 NEW WORLD AND OLD GLORY Dear Land of All My Love. By Sidney Lanier 301 Columbus. By Joaquin Miller 301 Pocahontas. By William Makepeace Thackeray 303 Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. By Felicia Hemans 305 The Twenty-second of December. By William Cullen Bryant 306 Washington. By James Russell Lowell 307 Warren's Address. By John Pierpont 308 Carmen Bellicosum. By Guy Humphreys McMaster 309 The American Flag. By Joseph Rodman Drake 311 Old Ironsides. By Oliver Wendell Holmes 312 Indians. By Charles Sprague 313

[Pg xx]Crossing the Plains. By Joaquin Miller 314 Concord Hymn. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 315 Ode. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 316 Stanzas on Freedom. By James Russell Lowell 317 Abraham Lincoln. By Richard Henry Stoddard 318 Lincoln, the Great Commoner. By Edwin Markham 319 Abraham Lincoln. By Henry Howard Brownell 321 O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman 323 The Flag Goes By. By Henry Holcomb Bennett 324 The Black Regiment. By George Henry Boker 326 Night Quarters. By Henry Howard Brownell 329 Battle-Hymn of the Republic. By Julia Ward Howe 331 Sheridan's Ride. By Thomas Buchanan Read 332 Song of the Negro Boatman. By John G. Whittier 335 Barbara Frietchie. By John G. Whittier 337 Two Veterans. By Walt Whitman 340 Stand by the Flag! By John Nichols Wilder 342 At Gibraltar. By George Edward Woodberry 343 Faith and Freedom. By William Wordsworth 345 Our Mother Tongue. By Lord Houghton 345 The English Language (Extracts). By William Wetmore Story 346 To America. By Alfred Austin 347 [Pg xxi]The Name of Old Glory. By James Whitcomb Riley 349 IN MERRY MOOD

On a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes. By Thomas Gray 353 The Priest and the Mulberry Tree. By Thomas Love Peacock 355 The Council of Horses. By John Gay 356 The Diverting History of John Gilpin. By William Cowper 359 To a Child of Quality. By Matthew Prior 369 Charade. By Winthrop M. Praed 370 A Riddle. By Hannah More 371 A Riddle. By Jonathan Swift 372 A Riddle. By Catherine M. Fanshawe 373 Feigned Courage. By Charles and Mary Lamb 374 Baucis and Philemon. By Jonathan Swift 375 The Lion and the Cub. By John Gay 378 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. By Oliver Goldsmith 379 The Walrus and the Carpenter. By "Lewis Carroll" 381 Song of the Turtle and Flamingo. By James T. Fields 385 Captain Reece. By William S. Gilbert 387 The Cataract of Lodore. By Robert Southey 391 The Enchanted Shirt. By John Hay 395 Made in the Hot Weather. By William Ernest Henley 398 [Pg xxii]The Housekeeper. By Charles Lamb 400 The Monkey. By Mary Howitt 401 November. By Thomas Hood 402 Captain Sword. By Leigh Hunt 403 STORY POEMS: ROMANCE AND REALITY The Singing Leaves. By James Russell Lowell 407

Seven Times Two. By Jean Ingelow 411 The Long White Seam. By Jean Ingelow 413 Hannah Binding Shoes. By Lucy Larcom 414 Lord Ullin's Daughter. By Thomas Campbell 416 The King of Denmark's Ride. By Caroline E. Norton 418 The Shepherd to His Love. By Christopher Marlowe 420 Ballad. By Charles Kingsley 422 Romance of the Swan's Nest. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning 423 Lochinvar. By Sir Walter Scott 427 Jock of Hazeldean. By Sir Walter Scott 430 The Lady of Shalott. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 431 The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire. By Jean Ingelow 438 The Forsaken Merman. By Matthew Arnold 444 The Sands of Dee. By Charles Kingsley 450 The "Gray Swan." By Alice Gary 452 [Pg xxiii]The Wreck of the Hesperus. By Henry W. Longfellow 454 A Greyport Legend. By Bret Harte 458 The Glove and the Lions. By Leigh Hunt 460 How's My Boy? By Sydney Dobell 462 The Child-Musician. By Austin Dobson 463 How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. By Robert Browning 464 The Inchcape Rock. By Robert Southey 468 A Night with a Wolf. By Bayard Taylor 471 The Dove of Dacca. By Rudyard Kipling 472

The Abbot of Inisfalen. By William Allingham 474 The Cavalier's Escape. By George Walter Thornbury 479 The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Robert Browning 480 Hervé Riel. By Robert Browning 493 Vision of Belshazzar. By Lord Byron 500 Solomon and the Bees. By John G. Saxe 502 The Burial of Moses. By Cecil Frances Alexander 504 WHEN BANNERS ARE WAVING When Banners Are Waving. Unknown 509 Battle of the Baltic. By Thomas Campbell 511 The Pipes at Lucknow. By John Greenleaf Whittier 514 [Pg xxiv]The Battle of Agincourt. By Michael Drayton 517 The Battle of Blenheim. By Robert Southey 522 The Armada. By Lord Macaulay 524 Ivry. By Lord Macaulay 530 On the Loss of the Royal George. By William Cowper 535 The Charge of the Light Brigade. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 537 Bannockburn. By Robert Burns 539 The Night Before Waterloo. By Lord Byron 540 Hohenlinden. By Thomas Campbell 542 Incident of the French Camp. By Robert Browning 544 Marco Bozzaris. By Fitz-Greene Halleck 545 The Destruction of Sennacherib. By Lord Byron 548 TALES OF THE OLDEN TIME Sir Patrick Spens. Old Ballad 551

The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. Old Ballad 555 King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Old Ballad 558 Lord Beichan and Susie Pye. Old Ballad 563 The Gay Gos-hawk. Old Ballad 569 Earl Mar's Daughter. Old Ballad 576 Chevy-Chace. Old Ballad 582 Hynde Horn. Old Ballad 593 [Pg xxv]Glenlogie. Old Ballad 597 LIFE LESSONS Life. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 601 In a Child's Album. By William Wordsworth 602 To-Day. By Thomas Carlyle 602 The Noble Nature. By Ben Jonson 603 Forbearance. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 603 The Chambered Nautilus. By Oliver Wendell Holmes 604 Duty. By Ralph Waldo Emerson 605 On His Blindness. By John Milton 606 Sir Launfal and the Leper. By James Russell Lowell 606 Opportunity. By Edward Rowland Sill 608 Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel. By Leigh Hunt 609 Be True. By Horatio Bonar 610 The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation. By John Bunyan 610 A Turkish Legend. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich 611 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By Thomas Gray 612 Polonius to Laertes. By William Shakespeare 618 The Olive-Tree. By S. Baring-Gould 619 Coronation. By H. H. 620