A Child's Garden of Verses

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664625625

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

I

BED IN SUMMER

II

A THOUGHT

III

AT THE SEASIDE

IV

YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT

V

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

VI

RAIN

VII

PIRATE STORY

VIII

FOREIGN LANDS

IX

WINDY NIGHTS

X

TRAVEL

XI

SINGING

XII

LOOKING FORWARD

XIII

A GOOD PLAY

XIV

WHERE GO THE BOATS?

XV

AUNTIE'S SKIRTS

XVI

THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE

XVII

THE LAND OF NOD

XVIII

MY SHADOW

XIX

SYSTEM

XX

A GOOD BOY

XXI

ESCAPE AT BEDTIME

XXII

MARCHING SONG

XXIII

THE COW

XXIV

HAPPY THOUGHT

XXV

THE WIND

XXVI

KEEPSAKE MILL

XXVII

GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN

XXVIII

FOREIGN CHILDREN

XXIX

THE SUN'S TRAVELS

XXX

THE LAMPLIGHTER

XXXI

MY BED IS A BOAT

XXXII

THE MOON

XXXIII

THE SWING

XXXIV

TIME TO RISE

XXXV

LOOKING-GLASS RIVER

XXXVI

FAIRY BREAD

XXXVII

FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE

XXXVIII

WINTER-TIME

XXXIX

THE HAYLOFT

XL

FAREWELL TO THE FARM

XLI

NORTH-WEST PASSAGE

THE CHILD ALONE

I

THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE

II

MY SHIP AND I

III

MY KINGDOM

IV

PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER

V

MY TREASURES

VI

BLOCK CITY

VII

THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS

VIII

ARMIES IN THE FIRE

IX

THE LITTLE LAND

GARDEN DAYS

I

NIGHT AND DAY

II

NEST EGGS

III

THE FLOWERS

IV

SUMMER SUN

V

THE DUMB SOLDIER

VI

AUTUMN FIRES

VII

THE GARDENER

VIII

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

ENVOYS

I

TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA

II

TO MY MOTHER

III

TO AUNTIE

IV

TO MINNIE

V

TO MY NAME-CHILD

VI

TO ANY READER

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	PAGE
The Gardener	Frontispiece
O how much wiser you would be
To play at Indian wars with me!
Pirate Story	23
Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.
The Land of Nod	43
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
The Wind	60
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all—
The Swing	81
Up in the air and down.
The Hayloft	93
The mice that in these mountains dwell
No happier are than I.
My Ship and I	109
And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about.
The Little Land	134
In that forest to and fro
I can wander, I can go.

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A CHILD'S GARDEN
OF VERSES

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BED IN SUMMER

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IN winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

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A THOUGHT

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IT is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.

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AT THE SEASIDE

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WHEN I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.
My holes were empty like a cup,
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.

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YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT

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ALL night long and every night,
When my mamma puts out the light,
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day, before my eye.

Armies and emperors and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.

So fine a show was never seen,
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.

At first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside them close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.

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WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

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A CHILD should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.

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RAIN

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THE rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.

Pirate Story
Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea

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PIRATE STORY