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Title: The Posy Ring
A Book of Verse for Children

Author: Various

Editor: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith

Release Date: October 8, 2007 [EBook #22922]

Language: English

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THE POSY RING

_The Posy Ring
is a companion volume to
Golden Numbers
A Book of Verse for Youth
Edited by
Kate Douglas Wiggin and
Nora Archibald Smith_

THE POSY RING

A BOOK OF VERSE FOR CHILDREN

CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY

Kate Douglas Wiggin

AND

Nora Archibald Smith

[Illustration]

_"A box of jewels, shop of rarities,
A ring whose posy was 'My pleasure'"_
GEORGE HERBERT

MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
NEW YORK
MCMVI

_Copyright, 1903, by_
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, February, 1903, N
Fifth Impression.

A NOTE

[Illustration]

_THANKS are due to the following publishers for permission to reprint
poems on which they hold copyright:_

_Charles Scribner's Sons, for permission to use the following poems
by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Windy Nights," "Where Go the Boats?" "The
Little Land," "The Land of Story Books" and "Bed Time"; for the
following poems by Mary Mapes Dodge: "Nearly Ready," "Now the Noisy
Winds are Still," "Snowflakes," "Birdies with Broken Wings," and "Night
and Day"; for the following poems by Eugene Field: "Wynken, Blynken, and
Nod," and "Nightfall in Dordrecht"; for "Rockaby, Lullaby," by J. G.
Holland; and for "One, Two, Three," by H. C. Bunner. G. P. Putnam's
Sons, for permission to use "High and Low," by Dora Goodale. D. Appleton
& Son, publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, for permission to
reprint "Robert of Lincoln," by W. C. Bryant. E. P. Dutton & Co., for
permission to reprint "The Birds in Spring," by Thomas Nashe. A. C.
McClurg & Co., for