The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
PART I
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
Edited by KENNETH GRAHAME
Author of The Golden Age, Dream Days, The Wind in the Willows, etc.
PART I
Cambridge: at the University Press 1916
NOTE
The Editor is indebted to the following authors and publishers for leave to reprint copyright poems: Mr W. Graham Robertson and Mr Norman Gale; Messrs Longmans Green & Co. for a poem by Walter Ramal and for a poem from Stevenson’s Child’s Garden of Verse, Messrs Chatto & Windus for an extract from Swinburne’s Songs Before Sunrise and for a poem from Walter Thornbury’s Ballads and Songs, Messrs G. Routledge & Sons for a poem by Joaquin Miller, Mr Elliot Stock for an extract from a play by H. N. Maugham; and Mr John Lane for the Rands, Eugene Field, and Graham Robertson poems, and for two extracts from John Davidson’s Fleet Street Eclogues.
PREFACE
IN compiling a selection of Poetry for Children, a conscientious Editor is bound to find himself confronted with limitations so numerous as to be almost disheartening. For he has to remember that his task is, not to provide simple examples of the whole range of English poetry, but to set up a wicket-gate giving attractive admission to that wide domain, with its woodland glades, its pasture and arable, its walled and scented gardens here and there, and so to its sunlit, and sometimes misty, mountain-tops—all to be more fully explored later by those who are tempted on by the first glimpse. And always he must be proclaiming to the small tourists that there is joy, light and fresh air in that delectable country.
Briefly, I think that blank verse generally, and the drama as a whole, may very well be left for readers of a riper age. Indeed, I believe that those who can ignore the plays of Shakespeare and his fellow-Elizabethans till they are sixteen will be no losers in the long run. The bulk, too, of seventeenth and eighteenth century poetry, bending under its burden of classical form and crowded classical allusion, requires a completed education and a wide range of reading for its proper appreciation.
Much else also is barred. There are the questions of subject, of archaic language and thought, and of occasional expression, which will occur to everyone. Then there is dialect, and here one has to remember that these poems are intended for use at the very time that a child is painfully acquiring a normal—often quite arbitrary—orthography. Is it fair to that child to hammer into him—perhaps literally—that porridge is spelt porridge, and next minute to present it to him, in an official ‘Reader,’ under the guise of parritch? I think not; and I have accordingly kept as far as possible to the normal, though at some loss of material.
In the output of those writers who have deliberately written for children, it is surprising how largely the subject of death is found to bulk. Dead fathers and mothers, dead brothers and sisters, dead uncles and aunts, dead puppies and kittens, dead birds, dead flowers, dead dolls—a compiler of Obituary Verse for the delight of children could make a fine fat volume with little difficulty. I have turned off this mournful tap of tears as far as possible, preferring that children should read of the joy of life, rather than revel in sentimental thrills of imagined bereavement.
There exists, moreover, any quantity of verse for children, which is merely verse and nothing more. It lacks the vital spark of heavenly flame, and is useless to a selector of Poetry. And then there is the whole corpus of verse—most of it of the present day—which is written about children, and this has even more carefully to be avoided. When the time comes that we send our parents to school, it will prove very useful to the compilers of their primers.
All these restrictions have necessarily led to two results. First, that this collection is chiefly lyrical—and that, after all, is no bad thing. Lyric verse may not be representative of the whole range of English poetry, but as an introduction to it, as a Wicket-gate, there is no better portal. The second result is, that it is but a small sheaf that these gleanings amount to; but for those children who frankly do not care for poetry it will be more than enough; and for those who love it and delight in it, no ‘selection’ could ever be sufficiently satisfying.
KENNETH GRAHAME.
October 1915.
CONTENTS
For the Very Smallest Ones
For Those a Little Older
For the Very Smallest Ones
RHYMES AND JINGLES
We begin with some jingles and old rhymes; for rhymes and jingles must not be despised. They have rhyme, rhythm, melody, and joy; and it is well for beginners to know that these are all elements of poetry, so that they will turn to it with pleasant expectation.
Merry are the Bells
Safe in Bed
Jenny Wren
Curly Locks
Pussy-Cat Mew
Draw a Pail of Water
I Saw a Ship a-sailing
The Nut-Tree
My Maid Mary
The Wind and the Fisherman
Blow, Wind, Blow
All Busy
Winter has Come
Poor Robin
I have a Little Sister
In Marble Walls
FAMILIAR OBJECTS
Here are some poems about things with which we are all quite familiar: the Moon and the Stars that we see through our bedroom window; Pussy purring on the hearthrug, the spotted shell on the mantelpiece.
The Moon
Eliza Lee Follen.
The Star
Ann and Jane Taylor.
Kitty
Mrs E. Prentiss.
Kitty: How to Treat Her
Kitty: what She thinks of Herself
W. B. Rands.
The Sea Shell
Amy Lowell.
COUNTRY BOYS’ SONGS
The Cuckoo
The Bird-Scarer’s Song
Cradle Song
GOOD NIGHT!
Ann and Jane Taylor.
For Those a Little Older
A BUNCH OF LENT LILIES
Here three Poets treat the same flower each from his own distinct and delightful point of view. To the first it appeals as the flower of courage, the brave early comer; to the second it is the early goer, the flower of a too swift departure—though daffodils really bloom for a fairly long time, as flowers go; the third is grateful for an imperishable recollection.
Daffodils
Shakespeare.
To Daffodils
Robert Herrick.
Daffodils
William Wordsworth.
SEASONS AND WEATHER
The Months
Sara Coleridge.
The Wind in a Frolic
William Howitt.
[1] nice: particular.
The Four Sweet Months
Robert Herrick.
Glad Day
W. Graham Robertson.
Buttercups and Daisies
Mary Howitt.
The Merry Month of March
William Wordsworth.
What the Birds Say
S. T. Coleridge.
Spring’s Procession
Sydney Dobell.
The Call of the Woods
Shakespeare.
A Prescription for a Spring Morning
John Davidson.
The Country Faith
Norman Gale.
The Butterfly’s Ball
William Roscoe.
TASTES AND PREFERENCES
A Wish
Samuel Rogers.
Wishing
William Allingham.
Bunches of Grapes
Walter Ramal.
Contentment
Eugene Field.
TOYS AND PLAY, IN-DOORS AND OUT
The Land of Story-Books
R. L. Stevenson.
Sand Castles
W. Graham Robertson.
Ring o’ Roses
W. Graham Robertson.
DREAM-LAND
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Eugene Field.
The Drummer-Boy and the Sheperdess
W. B. Rands.
The Land of Dreams
William Blake.
Sweet and Low
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Cradle Song
Sir Walter Scott.
Mother and I
Eugene Field.
FAIRY-LAND
The Fairies
William Allingham.
Shakespeare’s Fairies
Some of them,—
They Dance and Play,—
Ariel Sings,—
A Busy One
They Sing Their Queen to Sleep,—
Shakespeare.
[2] Demi-puppets: half the size of a doll.
[3] Whist: silent.
[4] Featly: neatly, elegantly.
[5] Orbs: circles, or fairy rings.
The Lavender Beds
W. B. Rands.
Farewell to the Fairies
Richard Corbet (1582–1635).
Dirge on the Death of Oberon, the Fairy King
G. W. Thornbury.
(But he wasn’t dead really. It was all a mistake. So they didn’t slay the dragonfly after all.)
Kilmeny
(A Story about one who went there)
......
......
......
James Hogg.
[6] gaed: went.
[7] yorlin: yellow-hammer.
[8] hindberrye: wild raspberry.
[9] minnie: mother.
[10] greet: weep.
[11] westlin: western.
[12] reek: smoke.
[13] its lane: alone.
[14] ingle: fire.
[15] lowed: flamed.
[16] linn: waterfall.
[17] joup: bodice.
[18] snood: hair-ribbon.
[19] birk: birch.
[20] seymar: a light robe.
[21] raike: wander through.
TWO SONGS
A Boy’s Song
James Hogg.
A Girl’s Song
Thomas Moore.
FUR AND FEATHER
Christina Rossetti.
Three Things to Remember
William Blake.
The Knight of Bethlehem
H. N. Maugham.
The Lamb
William Blake.
The Tiger
William Blake.
I had a Dove
John Keats.
Robin Redbreast
William Allingham.
Black Bunny
W. B. Rands.
The Cow
Ann and Jane Taylor.
The Skylark
James Hogg.
[22] cumberless: unencumbered, free from care.
CHRISTMAS POEMS
Here one would like to have begun with some of the old-time carols. But carols, somehow, seem to demand certain accompaniments—snow and frost, starlight and lantern-light, a mingling of Church bells, and above all their own simple haunting music. In cold print they do not appeal to us to the same extent. But the poems that follow are in the true carol-spirit.
Christmas Eve
John Davidson.
A Christmas Carol
Robert Herrick.
A Child’s Present to His Child-Saviour
Robert Herrick.
[23] handsel: a gift for good luck.
The Peace-Giver
A. C. Swinburne.
VARIOUS
To a Singer
P. B. Shelley.
The Happy Piper
William Blake.
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Lord Byron.
The next two spirited poems—both hailing from America—are inserted with a view to their being useful to boys who have a taste for recitation.
Sheridan’s Ride
Thomas Buchanan Read.
Columbus
Joaquin Miller.
Macaulay’s “Lays of Ancient Rome,” of which this is the first, deal only with the legends that Rome in her greatness liked to tell concerning her early beginnings. Unfortunately there is no similar group of poems treating of Imperial Rome, the centre of a world-empire; but children must please not think of the Mistress of the World purely as a little riverside town which could free itself from outside trouble by chopping down a wooden bridge.
Horatius
Lord Macaulay.
[24] must: grape-juice.
[25] Lucumo: Etruscan nobleman.
INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
PART II
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
Edited by KENNETH GRAHAME
Author of The Golden Age, Dream Days, The Wind in the Willows, etc.
PART II
Cambridge: at the University Press 1916
NOTE
The Editor has to express his thanks for permission to use copyright matter to the Editor of A Sailor’s Garland and its publishers, Messrs Methuen, to Mr Elkin Mathews for the poem by Richard Hovey, to Messrs G. Routledge & Sons for a poem by Joaquin Miller.
CONTENTS
1. The Call of the Sea
2. Its Lawless Joys
NATURE, COUNTRY, AND THE OPEN AIR
To Meadows
Robert Herrick.
The Brook
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
[26] hern: heron.
[27] thorps: villages.
Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth.
(This is only a portion of the poem, which later you should take an opportunity of reading as a whole.)
To Autumn
John Keats.
[28] sallows: willows.
[29] bourn: stream, water-course.
[30] croft: enclosure.
Ode to the West Wind
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
[31] Maenad: a priestess of Bacchus, the wine-god.
[32] coil: confused noise, murmur.
[33] pumice: formed of volcanic lava.
To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Moon-Goddess
Ben Jonson.
Home-Thoughts from Abroad
Robert Browning.
Home-Thoughts from the Sea
Robert Browning.
GREEN SEAS AND SAILOR MEN
1. The Call of the Sea
Ye Mariners of England
Thomas Campbell.
The Secret of the Sea
H. W. Longfellow.
[34] sendal: coarse narrow silken material.
A Dutch Picture
H. W. Longfellow.
[35] buccaneers: sea rovers, pirates.
[36] listed: striped.
[37] Jaen: a town in Spain.
Sea Memories
H. W. Longfellow.
[38] Hesperides: the fabulous “Isles of the Blest” in far western seas.
The Sea Gypsy
Richard Hovey.
The Greenwich Pensioner
From A Sailor’s Garland.
The Press-gang
From A Sailor’s Garland.
[39] tender: a boat or other small vessel, that ‘attends’ a ship with men, stores, etc.
A Sea Dirge
Shakespeare.
2. Its Lawless Joys
The Old Buccaneer
Charles Kingsley.
[40] colibris: humming-birds.
[41] piragua: a “dug-out” canoe.
The Salcombe Seaman’s Flaunt to the Proud Pirate
From A Sailor’s Garland.
[42] trucks: mast-head caps.
The Smuggler
From A Sailor’s Garland.
ARMS AND THE MAN
The generations pass, each in its turn wondering whether it is to be the one to see the ending of War and the awakening of the common sense of nations. But the Poetry of the glory of Battle, the hymning of high heroisms, the dirges for those who nobly died—these will remain, to gild its memory, long after the last echo of the last war-drum has faded out of the world.
The Maid
Theodore Roberts.
The Eve of Waterloo
Lord Byron.
The Glory that was Greece
I include this among the War Poems, because it is a call to a conquered nation to rise in arms against their oppressors—a call that was in due course answered.
Lord Byron.
[43] Scian and Teian: i.e. Homer and Anacreon.
Battle Hymn of the American Republic
Julia Ward Howe.
To Lucasta, on going to the Wars
Richard Lovelace.
The Black Prince
Sir Walter Scott.
The Burial of Sir John Moore
Charles Wolfe.
How Sleep the Brave
William Collins.
Soldier, Rest!
Sir Walter Scott.
THE OTHER SIDE OF IT
1. The Patriot
Robert Browning.
2. For those who fail
Joaquin Miller.
3. Keeping On
A. H. Clough.
STORY-POEMS
The Lady of Shalott
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
[44] greaves: leg-armour below the knee.
[45] galaxy: the “Milky Way.”
[46] blazon’d baldric: a broad shoulder-belt painted heraldically.
[47] burgher: citizen.
The Forsaken Merman
Matthew Arnold.
The Legend Beautiful
H. W. Longfellow.
[48] Elysian: heavenly.
[49] almoner: giver of alms or charity.
Abou Ben Adhem
Leigh Hunt.
The Sands of Dee
Charles Kingsley.
Lochinvar
Sir Walter Scott.
[50] galliard: a gay dance.
[51] scaur: a steep bank.
DAY-DREAMS
This section will appeal to girls rather than to boys. And yet day-dreams are no bad things for either sex—just now and again, as a getting away from realities.
Dreams to Sell
T. L. Beddoes.
The Lost Bower
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
[52] lusus: a sport, a freak.
Echo and the Ferry
Jean Ingelow.
Poor Susan’s Dream
William Wordsworth.
Fancy
Shakespeare.
TWO HOME-COMINGS
1. The Good Woman Made Welcome in Heaven
Richard Crashaw.
2. The Soldier Relieved
Robert Browning.
WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD
Hunting Song
Sir Walter Scott.
[53] knelling: sounding like a bell.
[54] brake: fern, bracken.
[55] antlers: horns.
The Riding to the Tournament
G. W. Thornbury.
[56] shawm: reed pipe.
[57] chalumeau: reed pipe.
VARIOUS
A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns.
[58] gang: go.
Blow, Bugle, Blow
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
[59] scar: a crag, a precipice.
West and East
Rome is chiefly known to young readers through the medium of Macaulay’s spirited “Lays,” which, however, are only a re-telling, in English ballad form, of some of the legends which survived into historical times concerning the infant city, about which nothing certain is known. They give no idea of the Rome of history, the world-power, or of the brooding immensity of her influence through centuries. This and the following poem illustrate, to some slight extent, the later Rome.
Matthew Arnold.
Genseric
Owen Meredith.
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Something to Remember
Robert Browning.
Ring Out, Wild Bells
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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