Literature for Children

Name: Literature for Children
Author: Orton Lowe

by Orton Lowe

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LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
PREFACE
CONTENTS
PART I
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
PART II
FIRST YEAR
Mother Goose Songs
Little Bo-peep
I Saw a Ship A-sailing
Three Happy Thought Songs
Boats Sail on the Rivers
Who Has Seen the Wind?
The Friendly Cow
Windy Nights
Bed in Summer
What Does Little Birdie Say?
A Slumber Song
Psalm XXIII
SECOND YEAR
The Light-hearted Fairy
The Land of Counterpane
My Shadow
Sweet and Low
LULLABY FOR TITANIA
An Old Gaelic Cradle Song
CHILD-SONGS
The Lamb
The Fairies
Spring
Lady Moon
Song To Naomi
THIRD YEAR
The Wind
Ariel's Songs
Songs of Good Cheer
The Owl
Answer to a Child's Question
Robin Redbreast
The Unseen Playmate
A Laughing Song
Lullaby of an Infant Chief
The Fairy Queen
Ring Out, Wild Bells
Song of Spring
FOURTH YEAR
Pippa's Song
A Sea Dirge
Hark! Hark! the Lark
Winter
A Fairy's Song
A Land Dirge
My Heart Leaps Up
A Morning Song
In March
Choral Song to the Illyrian Peasants
The Forsaken Merman
Psalm VIII
FIFTH YEAR
The Bugle Song
The Brook
Hymn to Diana
The Burning Babe
At Sea
Where Lies the Land?
Under the Greenwood Tree
To Daffodils
Autumn
Robin Goodfellow
Boot and Saddle
Psalm XIX
SIXTH YEAR
The Northern Star
The First Swallow
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
The Death of the Flowers
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Sands of Dee
Canadian Boat Song
Return of the Ancient Mariner
Now Fades the Last Long Streak of Snow
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Psalm XCI
SEVENTH YEAR
The Pilgrim
The Cloud
The Gathering Song of Donald the Black
Indian Summer
Morning
Who is Sylvia?
The Revenge
How Sleep the Brave
A Life on the Ocean Wave
The Eagle
Psalm XC
EIGHTH YEAR
The Concord Hymn
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Chambered Nautilus
To Autumn
To a Waterfowl
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Recessional
Sir Patrick Spens
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Psalm CIII
ANTHOLOGIES OF CHILDREN'S POEMS
PART III
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES
G—COLLECTIONS OF VERSE
INDIVIDUAL WRITERS OF VERSE
FAIRY STORIES
"TALES OF A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS"
P—"FAIRY AND HOUSEHOLD TALES"
P—"DANISH LEGENDS AND FAIRY TALES"
P—"The History of Little Goody Two Shoes, Otherwise Called Mrs. Margery Two Shoes"
P—"Granny's Wonderful Chair and its Tales of Fairy Times"
P—"The Rose and the Ring; or, the History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children"
P—"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
P—"Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There"
P—"The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby"
G—"At the Back of the North Wind"
FOUR WORTHIES
G—"Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World"
G—"The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream"
G—"The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, as Related by Himself"
BOOKS OF DISTINCTION MADE FROM OTHER BOOKS ON PURPOSE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
G—"The Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys." "Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys: A Second Wonder-Book."
G—"The Adventures of Ulysses"
P—"The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children"
G—"The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha"
MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND STORIES OF ROMANCE FROM VARIOUS SOURCES G—Robin Hood
G—King Arthur
G—Classic Myths of Greece and Rome
G—Norse Myths
G—From Chaucer
G—"The Faerie Queene"
G—Other Legend and Romance
G—A FEW LONG STORIES OF ROMANTIC ADVENTURE
G—"The Last of the Mohicans"
G—"Ivanhoe: a Romance"
G—"Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor"
G—TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY
G—OLD FAVOURITES
G—MORE RECENT BOOKS
THE HOLY BIBLE
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