Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems that suit them? Will they say despairingly, 'This is too long,' and 'That is too hard,' and 'I don't like that because it is not interesting'? Are there three or four pleasing poems and are all the rest put in to fill up the book? Nay, verily! The poems in this collection are those that children love. With the exception of...

Alfred Lord Tennyson was the typically English poet, and none, perhaps not even Shakespeare, has appealed so keenly to the human heart. No other man's poems have caused as many readers to shed tears of sympathy nor have awakened higher sentiments in the human heart. The critics agree in pronouncing him the ideal poet laureate. In his 'Idylls from the King' are found the loftiest and proudest deeds of English history and even in the retelling of these...

A collection of illustrated poems and rhymes for children

Each poem is titled after a flower.

A playful Christmas poem for children

Upon the dim Judean hills, The shepherds watched their flock by night, When on their unexpectant gaze Outshone that vision of delight, The fairest that did ever rise To awe and gladden earthly eyes. From no far realm those shepherds came, Treading the pilgrim’s weary road; Not theirs the vigil and the fast Within the hermit’s mean abode; ’Twas at their usual task they stood, When dawned that light of matchless good. Not only to the sage and...

King Diderik and the lion's fight with the dragon -- Diderik and Olger the Dane -- Olger the Dane and Burman. Excerpt from King Diderik and the Fight Between the Lion and Dragon: And Other Ballads The horse she cast before her, young, The man in a nook she throws Assuage your greed upon the steed.

Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men of the village were sitting on Samhain Eve. It had been a dwelling-house, and when the man that owned it had built a better one, he had put the two rooms together, and kept it for a place to store one thing or another. There was a fire on the old hearth, and there were dip candles stuck in bottles, and there was a black quart bottle upon...

The Atlantic Monthly, or what is today known as The Atlantic, is an American journal of news, literature, and opinion that was founded in 1857 by Moses Dresser Phillips and Francis H. Underwood in Boston, and the first issue was published in November 1857. The journal quickly became known for the quality of its fiction and general articles, contributed by a long line of distinguished editors and authors that includes James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo...