World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)

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The Purpose of Poetry by Bliss Carman
Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock
The Baby by Kalidasa
Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond)
The Baby by George MacDonald
Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn)
Laus Infantium by William Canton
Étude réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin
The Angel's Whisper by Samuel Lover
Lullaby: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts
Cradle Song by Anonymous
Cradle Song: From 'Bitter-Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland
Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field
Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Baby May by William Cox Bennett
Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers
Baby Louise by Margaret Eytinge
Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier
The Household Sovereign: From 'The Hanging of the Crane' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On the Picture of an Infant (Playing Near a Precipice) by Leonidas of Alexandria
The Mother's Sacrifice by Seba Smith
Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms
Children by Walter Savage Landor
Polly by William Brighty Rands
To My Infant Son by Thomas Hood
Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner
Willie Winkie by William Miller
To J. H. (Four Years Old: A Nursery Song) by Leigh Hunt
Seven Times Four: Maternity by Jean Ingelow
The Mother's Hope by Laman Blanchard
Bedtime by Francis, Earl of Rosslyn
To Hartley Coleridge (Six Years Old) by William Wordsworth
My Little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck
Little Goldenhair by Mrs. F. Burge Smith
The Unfinished Prayer by Anonymous
Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson
The Witch in the Glass by Sarah M. B. Piatt
Small and Early by Tudor Jenks
Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow
The Lost Heir by Thomas Hood
The Gambols of Children by George Darley
The Child in the Garden by Henry van Dyke
A Portrait by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To a Child During Sickness by Leigh Hunt
Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Our Wee White Rose by Gerald Massey
Baby's Shoes by William Cox Bennett
Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol by Augustus Julian Requier
On the Death of an Infant by Dirk Smits
She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell
Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth
We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
Boyhood by Washington Allston
Pictures of Memory by Alice Cary
The Mitherless Bairn by William Thom
My Mother's Picture by William Cowper
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier
Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney
Whittling (A National Portrait) by John Pierpont
The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth
The Old Arm-chair by Eliza Cook
Woodman, Spare That Tree by George Pope Morris
A Parable by Mathilde Blind
The Piper by William Blake
Choosing a Name by Mary Lamb
What Does Little Birdie Say?: From 'Sea Dreams' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts
Go Sleep, Ma Honey by Edward D. Barker
No Baby in the House by Clara G. Dolliver
A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field
Half-Waking by William Allingham
Twinkle, Twinkle by Anonymous
Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor
The Three Little Kittens (A Cat's Tale, with Additions) by Eliza Lee Follen
The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson
How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts
Try Again by Anonymous
Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
Thread and Song by John Williamson Palmer
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts
The Children's Church by Karl von Gerok
Child's Evening Hymn by Sabine Baring-Gould
'It Is Finished' by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Little Child's Hymn (For Night and Morning) by Francis Turner Palgrave
Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson
'By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill' by Reginald Heber
The Romance of the Swan's Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley
The Dead Doll by Margaret Vandegrift
Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman
The Dancers by Michael Field
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Bell by Thomas Westwood
Wings by Mary Louise Ritter
Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson
Under My Window by Thomas Westwood
The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt
The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Man in the Moon by James Whitcomb Riley
The Fairies of the Caldon Low (A Midsummer Legend) by Mary Howitt
The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford
A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin
The First Rose of Summer by Oliver Herford
A Belated Violet by Oliver Herford
The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley
Old-School Punishment by Anonymous
In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier
Seein' Things by Eugene Field
A Mortifying Mistake by Anna Maria Pratt
The Smack in School by William Pitt Palmer
There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Story of Cruel Frederick: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann
The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann
The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann
The Three Children by Anonymous
The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear
Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow by Edward Lear
The Walrus and the Carpenter: From 'Alice in Wonderland' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Good King Arthur by Anonymous
From 'Max and Maurice' by Wilhelm Busch
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
The History Lesson by Anonymous
Sage Counsel by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Limericks: From 'A Book of Nonsense' by Edward Lear
There Was a Small Boy of Quebec by Rudyard Kipling
More Limericks by Anonymous
Finis by Anonymous

The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for children, and fun for little folk. It also includes a general introduction to the series by Carman himself, as well as an introductory essay to the volume by University of Chicago English professor William Darnall MacClintock (1858-1936). (Summary by Tomas Peter)