# A Child's Own Book of Verse/Volume 3

A CHILD'S OWN
BOOK of VERSE
BOOK THREE
BY
ADA M. SKINNER
ST. AGATHA'S SCHOOL
AND
FRANCES GILLESPY WICKES
ST. AGATHA'S SCHOOL
Illustrated by MAUD S. FULLER
and MICHAEL PETERSHAM
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
New York MCMXVII
Copyright, 1917,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 1917.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co. — Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks are due to Mr. Bliss Carman for permission to use two of his poems, "The Daisies" and "The Dustman," from "Poems from Vagabondia," published by Small, Maynard Company ; to Mr. Richard Le Gallienne and the Century Company for permission to use the poem "The Pine Lady" ; to Laura E. Richards for permission to include "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe ; to Katharine Tynan Hinkson for "Daffodil" and "Chanticleer" ; to G. P. Putnam & Sons for permission to use "White Horses," by Hamish Hendry; and to The Macmillan Company for permission to use "The Owlet" and "The Song of the Elf" by Madison Cawein. The selection from Frank Dempster Sherman is used by permission of, and special arrangement with, the Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of his works.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| White Horses | Hamish Hendry | 1 |
| The World of Wonder | William Stanley Braithwaite | 2 |
| Gaelic Lullaby | | 2 |
| The Windy Night | Thomas Buchanan Read | 3 |
| The Brook | Alfred Tennyson | 4 |
| On the Desert | William Wetmore Story | 5 |
| The Owlet | Madison Cawein | 7 |
| A Canadian Folk-Song | William Wilfred Campbell | 9 |
| An Old Song Re-Sung | John Masefield | 10 |
| Robert of Lincoln | William Cullen Bryant | 10 |
| Out in the Cold | George MacDonald | 13 |
| Milking Song | Jean Ingelow | 15 |
| Scythe Song | Andrew Lang | 16 |
| White Butterflies | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 16 |
| The Green Gnome | Robert Buchanan | 17 |
| A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea | Allan Cunningham | 20 |
| Chanticleer | Katharine Tynan Hinkson | 21 |
| Verse | | 22 |
| Daffodil | Katharine Tynan Hinkson | 23 |
| The Pine Lady | Richard Le Gallienne | 24 |
| Song of Illyrian Peasants | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 25 |
| The Old, Old Song | Charles Kingsley | 26 |
| The Eagle | Alfred Tennyson | 26 |
| The Sands of Dee | Charles Kingsley | 27 |
| The Tiger | William Blake | 28 |
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| Ghost Fairies | Frank Dempster Sherman | 26 |
| Kentucky Babe | Richard Henry Buck | 30 |
| Fairy Dawn. | Joseph Rodman Drake | 31 |
| Song of the Elf | Madison Cawein | 31 |
| Song for Music | Thomas Hood | 33 |
| The Fairy Queen | From Percys “Reliques” | 34 |
| Lullaby for Titania | William Shakespeare | 36 |
| Over Hill, Over Dale | William Shakespeare | 37 |
| Dirge on the Death of Oberon, the Fairy King | G. Walter Thornbury | 37 |
| Verse | | 38 |
| On the Grasshopper and the Cricket | John Keats | 38 |
| To Daffodils | Robert Herrick | 39 |
| Daisies | Bliss Carman | 40 |
| The Cloud | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 40 |
| Auld Daddy Darkness | James Ferguson | 41 |
| Wee Davie Daylicht | Robert Tennant | 42 |
| The Sea . | Barry Cornwall | 43 |
| Old Winter | Thomas Noel | 44 |
| The First Snow Fall | James Russell Lowell | 45 |
| The Unbroken Song | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 47 |
| De Sheepfol’ | Sarah Platt Greene | 47 |
| March | Celia Thaxter | 49 |
| Home Thoughts from Abroad | Robert Browning | 50 |
| Verse. | Robert Browning . | 50 |
| Hunting Song | Sir Walter Scott | 51 |
| The Bugle Song | Alfred Tennyson | 52 |
| The Hag | Robert Herrick | 53 |
| The Dustman | Bliss Carman | 54 |
| Cuddle Doon | Alexander Anderson | 56 |
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| Requiem. | Robert Louis Stevenson . | 58 |
| Lift up Your Heads, O Ye Gates . | Psalm xxiv | 58 |
| The Chambered Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes . | 59 |
| To an Autumn Leaf | | 60 |
| The Captain Stood on the Carronade | Frederick Marryat | 61 |
| The Whale. | | 62 |
| The Cavalier’s Escape | Walter Thornbury | 65 |
| The Salcombe Seaman’s Flaunt . | | 67 |
| Lord Lovel | Old Ballad | 69 |
| Jane Jones | Benjamin Franklin King | 71 |
| Sir Patrick Spens | Old Ballad | 73 |
| How Sleep the Brave | Willison Collins | 76 |
| The Burial of Sir John Moore | Charles Wolfe | 77 |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Robert Browning | 79 |
| Allen-A-Dale | Sir Walter Scott | 90 |
| The Bonnets O’ Bonnie Dundee | Sir Walter Scott | 91 |
| The Campbells Are Comin' . | | 94 |
| My Heart ’s in the Highlands . | Robert Burns | 95 |
| The Skeleton in Armor | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 96 |
| Ceremonies for Christmas . | Robert Herrick | 102 |
| The Inchcape Rock | Robert Southey | 103 |
| The Forsaken Merman | Matthew Arnold | 106 |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred Tennyson | 112 |
| The Star-Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key . | 114 |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | Julia Ward Howe | 115 |
| Paul Revere’s Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 117 |
| Nathan Hale | Francis Miles Finch | 122 |
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