The Cambridge Book of Poetry for ChildrenKenneth Grahame University Press, 1962 - 235 pages |
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... feet . May brings flocks of pretty lambs , Skipping by their fleecy dams . June brings tulips , lilies , roses , Fills the children's hands with posies . Hot July brings cooling showers , Apricots and gillyflowers . August brings the ...
... feet . May brings flocks of pretty lambs , Skipping by their fleecy dams . June brings tulips , lilies , roses , Fills the children's hands with posies . Hot July brings cooling showers , Apricots and gillyflowers . August brings the ...
Page 69
... feet ? What the hammer , what the chain , Knit thy strength and forged thy brain ? What the anvil ? What dread grasp Dared thy deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spears , And water'd heaven with their tears , Did He ...
... feet ? What the hammer , what the chain , Knit thy strength and forged thy brain ? What the anvil ? What dread grasp Dared thy deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw down their spears , And water'd heaven with their tears , Did He ...
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... feet were tied With a silken thread of my own hands ' weaving . Sweet little red feet ! why should you die- Why would you leave me , sweet bird ! why ? You lived alone in the forest tree , Why , pretty thing ! would you not live with me ...
... feet were tied With a silken thread of my own hands ' weaving . Sweet little red feet ! why should you die- Why would you leave me , sweet bird ! why ? You lived alone in the forest tree , Why , pretty thing ! would you not live with me ...
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A. A. MILNE Avès baby bells birds Blow high blow low Blynken bonny coasts bower brave bright Camelot cloud Clusium coasts of Barbary cried dance dead dear deep doth dream earth Echo eyes fairy father ferry float flowers gleam glory green hand Hark hath hear heard heart heaven hill Horatius JOAQUIN MILLER KENNETH GRAHAME Kilmeny King ladies gay Lady of Shalott land Lars Porsena laugh light Little lamb Lochinvar look look'd LORD TENNYSON loud lulla maids merry moon morning never night o'er pale PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY poem Ring river ROBERT HERRICK Robin Rome rose round sailed Samian wine silent silver sing sleep smile snow song soul sound spake stars steed stood stream sweet sword thee thou Tournament towers town tree voice W. H. DAVIES waves wild WILLIAM BLAKE wind wood Wynken