en brought out. An effort has been made to call attention to the
education of the poet and his equipment for his life work rather than to
the literary qualities of his style.

CONTENTS

FIRST HALF YEAR

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The Owl and the Pussy-cat. _Edward Lear_ 7
Wishing _William Allingham_ 9
The Piper _William Blake_ 10
A Year's Windfalls _Christina G. Rossetti_ 11
The Voice of Spring _Mary Howitt_ 16
The Spring Walk _Thomas Miller_ 18
"Over Hill, Over Dale" _William Shakespeare_ 21
The Throstle _Alfred Tennyson_ 22
The Violet _Jane Taylor_ 23
Bobolink _Clinton Scollard_ 24
The Four Winds _Frank Dempster Sherman_ 26
The Violet _Lucy Larcom_ 27
Pebbles _Frank Dempster Sherman_ 28
The Tree _Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson_ 29
September _Frank Dempster Sherman_ 30
The Swallow _Christina G. Rossetti_ 32
Thanksgiving Day _Lydia Maria Child_ 32
Hiawatha's Childhood _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 34
Hiawatha's Sailing _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 39
Child's Evening Prayer _Sabine Baring-Gould_ 44

SECOND HALF YEAR

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean 45
Corinna going a-Maying _Robert Herrick_ 47
Sweet Peas _John Keats_ 49
The Bluebird _Emily Huntington Miller_ 50
Where go the Boats? _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 51
The Magpie's Nest _Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb_ 52
The Sandman _Margaret Vandegrift_ 56
The Fairies of the Caldon-Low _Mary Howitt_ 58
Night-scented Flowers _Felicia Dorothea Hemans_ 63
Indian Summer