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• Whither

  Agnes, thou child of harmony, now fled
  From scenes once bright-illumined with thy smile,
  So innocent and kind, free from the guile …

  Philip Becker Goetz

• Hey Nonny No

  There is a race from eld descent,
  Of heaven by earth in joyous mood,
  Before the world grew wise and bent …

  Marguerite Merington

• The Baby

  Where did you come from, baby dear?
  Out of the everywhere into the here.
  Where did you get your eyes so blue? …

  George MacDonald

• Lullaby

  From “The Princess”
  SWEET and low, sweet and low,
  Wind of the western sea, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Cradle Song

  Sleep, little baby of mine,
  Night and the darkness are near,
  But Jesus looks down …

  Anonymous

• Cradle Song

  From “Bitter-Sweet”
  WHAT is the little one thinking about?
  Very wonderful things, no doubt; …

  Josiah Gilbert Holland

• Letty’s Globe

  When Letty had scarce passed her third glad year,
  And her young, artless words began to flow,
  One day we gave the child a colored sphere …

  Charles Tennyson Turner

• A Portrait

  “One name is Elizabeth.”
  —BEN JONSON.
  I WILL paint her as I see her. …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• “She came and went”

  As a twig trembles, which a bird
  Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent,
  So is my memory thrilled and stirred;— …

  James Russell Lowell

• “Woodman, spare that tree”

  Woodman, spare that tree!
  Touch not a single bough!
  In youth it sheltered me, …

  George Pope Morris

• A Little Dutch Garden

  I Passed by a garden, a little Dutch garden,
  Where useful and pretty things grew,—
  Heart’s-ease and tomatoes, and pinks and potatoes, …

  Harriet Whitney Durbin

• Finis

  My story ’s ended,
  My spoon is bended:
  If you don’t like it, …

  Anonymous

• A Farewell

  My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
  No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;
  Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you …

  Charles Kingsley

• My Mother’s Bible

  This book is all that ’s left me now,—
  Tears will unbidden start,—
  With faltering lip and throbbing brow …

  George Pope Morris

• Youth

  From “Youth and Age”
  VERSE, a breeze ’mid blossoms straying,
  Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee— …

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “Out of the old house, Nancy”

  Out of the old house, Nancy—moved up into the new;
  All the hurry and worry is just as good as through.
  Only a bounden duty remains for you and I— …

  Will Carleton

• The Children

  When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
  And the school for the day is dismissed,
  And the little ones gather around me, …

  Charles Monroe Dickinson

• The Light’ood Fire

  When wintry days are dark and drear
  And all the forest ways grow still,
  When gray snow-laden clouds appear …

  John Henry Boner

• Friendship

  A Ruddy drop of manly blood
  The surging sea outweighs;
  The world uncertain comes and goes, …

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Friendship

  From “Night Thoughts,” Night II.
  CELESTIAL Happiness, whene’er she stoops
  To visit Earth, one shrine the goddess finds, …

  Edward Young

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