Child Verse
AMID THE ROSES
'T^HERE was laughter 'mid the Roses,
-*- For it was their natal day ;
And the children in the garden were
As light of heart as they.
AMID THE ROSES
'T^HERE was laughter 'mid the Roses,
-*- For it was their natal day ;
And the children in the garden were
As light of heart as they.
Childrens - Child Verse
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? CHILD VERSE
HARE-BELLS
13 ING ! The little Rabbits' eyes,
-*-^ In the morning clear,
Moisten to the melodies
They alone can hear.
Ring ! The little Rabbits' feet,
Shod with racing rhyme.
If the breezes they would beat.
Must be beating time.
Ring ! When summer days are o'er,
And the snowfalls come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
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? Child Verse
AT COCK-CROW
/^~^ROW ! For the night has thrice denied
^^ The glory of the Sun,
And now, repentant, turns aside
To weep what he has done.
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? Child Verse
A DUET
A LITTLE yellow Bird above,
^^^^ A little yellow Flower below;
The little Bird can sing the love
That Bird and Blossom know ;
The Blossom has no song nor wing,
But breathes the love he cannot sing.
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? Child Verse
THE BOBOLINK
A/OUR notes are few,
-*? But sweet your song
As honey-dew;
And all day long,
Dear Bobolink, a-listening,
I never tire to hear you sing.
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? Child Verse
THE BLUEBIRD
T ^ THEN God had made a host of them,
^ ^ One little flower still lacked a stem
To hold its blossom blue ;
So into it He breathed a song,
And suddenly, with petals strong
As wings, away it flew.
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? Child Verse
THE WOODPECKER
nPHE wizard of the woods is he ;
"*- For in his daily round,
Where'er he finds a rotting tree,
He makes the timber sound.
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? Child Verse
CHIMNEY STACKS
TN winter's cold and summer's heat
? *- The hospitable chimneys greet
Their never-failing guests ;
For when the sparks are upward gone,
The swallows downward come anon,
To build their neighboring nests.
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? Child Verse
BUTTERFLY
T3UTTERFLY, Butterfly, sipping the
? ^^ sand,
Have you forgotten the flowers of the land?
Or are you so sated with honey and dew
That sand-filtered water tastes better to you ?
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? Child Verse
o
THE HONEY-BEE
BEE, good-by !
Your weapon's gone,
And you anon
Are doomed to die ;
But Death to you can bring
No second sting.
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? Child Verse
THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS
" "I "\ THY stand ye idle, blossoms bright,
' ' The livelong summer day ? "
" Alas ! we labour all the night
For what thou takest away. "
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? Child Verse
THE TAX-GATHERER
" A ND pray, who are you ? '
-^"^ Said the violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise
At his wonderful size,
In her eye-glass of dew.
" I, madam," quoth he,
" Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
On honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me ? "
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? Child Verse
JACK-O'-LANTERN
JACK-O'-LANTERN, Jack-o'-Lantern,
Tell me where you hide by day ? "
" In the cradle where the vapours
Dream the sunlit hours away. "
" Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'- Lantern,
Who rekindles you at night ? "
" Any firefly in the meadow
Lends a Jack-o'-Lantern light. "
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THE PLEIADS
"1 II /"HO are ye with clustered light,
' ' Little Sisters seven ? "
" Crickets, chirping all the night
On the hearth of heaven. "
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? Child Verse
JACK FROST'S APOLOGY
nnO strip you of your foliage
-? ? My spirit sorely grieves ;
Nor will I in the work engage
Unless you grant your leaves.
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? Child Verse
A CAVALCADE
nPH ISTLE-DOWN, Thistle<lown,
? *- whither away?
Will you not longer abide ? "
Nay, we have wedded the winds to-day,
And home with the rovers we ride. "
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? Child Verse
SILK
' " I "WAS the shroud of many a worm-like
-*- thing
That rose from its tangled skein ;
'Twas the garb of many a god-like king
Who went to the worms again.
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SEED-TIME
A X /"HEN Trumpet-flowers begin to blow
^ ^ The Thistle-downs take heed,
For then they know 'tis time to go
And plant the winged seed.
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? Child Verse
A LEGACY
T~^0 you remember, little cloud,
-? -^ This morning when you lay --
A mist along the river -- what
The waters had to say?
And how the many-coloured flowers
That on the margin grew,
All promised when the day was done
To leave their tints to you ?
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Child Verse
AMID THE ROSES
'T^HERE was laughter 'mid the Roses,
-*- For it was their natal day ;
And the children in the garden were
As light of heart as they.
There were sighs amid the Roses,
For the night was coming on ;
And the children -- weary now of play --
Were ready to be gone.
There are tears amid the Roses,
For the children are asleep ;
And the silence of the garden makes
The lonely blossoms weep.
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? Child Verse
I
LIGHT AND SHADOW
LOVE you, little maid,"
Said the Sunbeam to the Shade,
As all day long she shrank away before him ;
But at twilight, ere he died,
She was weeping at his side ;
And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him.
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? Child Verse
THE DRAGON-FLY
" TS skimming o'er a stagnant pool
-? - Your only occupation ? "
" Ah, no : 'tis at this Summer School
I get my education. "
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? Child Verse
ARCHERY
A BOW across the sky
-^^^ Another in the river,
Whence swallows upward fly,
Like arrows from a quiver.
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? Child Verse
A SPY
OIGHED the languid Moon to the Morn-
*^ ing Star :
"O little maid, how late you are ! "
" I couldn't rise from my couch," quoth she,
" While the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at
me. "
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A LAMENT
OLADY CLOUD, why are you weep-
ing? " I said.
Because," she made answer, " my rain-beau
is dead. "
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? Child Verse
FERN SONG
DANCE to the beat of the rain, little
Fern,
And spread oiit your palms again,
And say, " Tho' the sun
Hath my vesture spun.
He had laboured, alas, in vain.
But for the shade
That the Cloud hath made.
And the gift of the Dew and the Rain. "
Then laugh and upturn
All your fronds, little Fern,
And rejoice in the beat of the rain !
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? Child Verse
THE BROOK
TT is the mountain to the sea
^ That makes a messenger of me ;
And, lest I loiter on the way
And lose what I am sent to say,
He sets his reverie to song,
And bids me sing it all day long.
Farewell ! for here the stream is slow.
And I have many a mile to go.
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AN INTERVIEW
T SAT with chill December
-*- Beside the evening fire.
" And what do you remember,
I ventured to inquire,
" Of seasons long forsaken ? "
He answered in amaze,
" My age you have mistaken ;
I've lived but thirty days! '
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? Child Verse
BABY'S DIMPLES
T OVE goes playing hide-and-seek
-*-^ 'Mid the roses on her cheek,
With a little imp of Laughter,
Who, the . while he follows after.
Leaves the footprints that we trace
All about the Kissing-place.
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? Child Verse
A BUNCH OF ROSES
THE rosy mouth and rosy toe
Of little baby brother
Until about a month ago
Had never met each other ;
Bu^ nowadays the neighbours sweet,
In every sort of weather,
Half way with rosy fingers meet,
To kiss and play together.
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? Child Verse
FOOT-SOLDIERS
npIS all the way to Toe-town,
? ^ Beyond the Knee-high hill,
That Baby has to travel down
To see the soldiers drill.
One, two, three, four, five, a-row --
A captain and his men --
And on the other side, you know.
Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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? Child Verse
THE BABY'S STAR
nPHE Star that watched you in your sleep
-^ Has just put out his light.
" Good-day, to you on earth," he said,
" Is here in heaven Good-night.
" But tell the Baby when he wakes
To watch for my return ;
For ril hang out my lamp again
When his begins to burn. "
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? Child Verse
SLUMBER-SONG
O, in the west
A cloud at rest --
A babe upon its mother's breast
Is sleeping now.
L'
Above it beams
A star that seems
To shed the light of holy dreams
Upon its brow.
But cloud and star,
Tho' nearer far
They seem, my Babe, more distant are
From heaven than thou.
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? Child Verse
SLEEP
WHEN he is a little chap,
We call him Nap.
When he somewhat older grows,
We call him Doze.
When his age by hours we number,
We call him Slumber.
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? Child Verse
THE FIRE-FLY
" A RE you flying through the night
-^^^ Looking where to find me ? "
" Nay ; I travel with a light
For the folks behind me. "
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AN IDOLATER
'THHE Baby has no skies
? *- But Mother's eyes,
Nor any God above
But Mother's Love.
His angel sees the Father's face,
But he the Mother's, full of grace ;
And yet the heavenly kingdom is
Of such as this.
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THE NEW-YEAR BABE
nnWO together, Babe and Year,
-? - At the midnight chime,
Through the darkness drifted here
To the coast of Time.
Two together, Babe and Year,
Over night and day,
Crossed the desert Winter drear
To the land of May.
On together, Babe and Year
Swift to Summer passed.
" Rest a moment. Brother dear,"
Said the Babe at last.
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? Child Verse
" Nay, but onward," answered Year,
" We must farther go,
Through the Vale of Autumn sere
To the Mount of Snow. "
Toiling upward. Babe and Year
Climbed the frozen height.
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HARE-BELLS
13 ING ! The little Rabbits' eyes,
-*-^ In the morning clear,
Moisten to the melodies
They alone can hear.
Ring ! The little Rabbits' feet,
Shod with racing rhyme.
If the breezes they would beat.
Must be beating time.
Ring ! When summer days are o'er,
And the snowfalls come,
Rabbits count the hours no more,
For the bells are dumb.
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AT COCK-CROW
/^~^ROW ! For the night has thrice denied
^^ The glory of the Sun,
And now, repentant, turns aside
To weep what he has done.
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A DUET
A LITTLE yellow Bird above,
^^^^ A little yellow Flower below;
The little Bird can sing the love
That Bird and Blossom know ;
The Blossom has no song nor wing,
But breathes the love he cannot sing.
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THE BOBOLINK
A/OUR notes are few,
-*? But sweet your song
As honey-dew;
And all day long,
Dear Bobolink, a-listening,
I never tire to hear you sing.
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THE BLUEBIRD
T ^ THEN God had made a host of them,
^ ^ One little flower still lacked a stem
To hold its blossom blue ;
So into it He breathed a song,
And suddenly, with petals strong
As wings, away it flew.
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THE WOODPECKER
nPHE wizard of the woods is he ;
"*- For in his daily round,
Where'er he finds a rotting tree,
He makes the timber sound.
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CHIMNEY STACKS
TN winter's cold and summer's heat
? *- The hospitable chimneys greet
Their never-failing guests ;
For when the sparks are upward gone,
The swallows downward come anon,
To build their neighboring nests.
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BUTTERFLY
T3UTTERFLY, Butterfly, sipping the
? ^^ sand,
Have you forgotten the flowers of the land?
Or are you so sated with honey and dew
That sand-filtered water tastes better to you ?
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o
THE HONEY-BEE
BEE, good-by !
Your weapon's gone,
And you anon
Are doomed to die ;
But Death to you can bring
No second sting.
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THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS
" "I "\ THY stand ye idle, blossoms bright,
' ' The livelong summer day ? "
" Alas ! we labour all the night
For what thou takest away. "
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THE TAX-GATHERER
" A ND pray, who are you ? '
-^"^ Said the violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise
At his wonderful size,
In her eye-glass of dew.
" I, madam," quoth he,
" Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
On honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me ? "
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JACK-O'-LANTERN
JACK-O'-LANTERN, Jack-o'-Lantern,
Tell me where you hide by day ? "
" In the cradle where the vapours
Dream the sunlit hours away. "
" Jack-o'-Lantern, Jack-o'- Lantern,
Who rekindles you at night ? "
" Any firefly in the meadow
Lends a Jack-o'-Lantern light. "
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THE PLEIADS
"1 II /"HO are ye with clustered light,
' ' Little Sisters seven ? "
" Crickets, chirping all the night
On the hearth of heaven. "
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JACK FROST'S APOLOGY
nnO strip you of your foliage
-? ? My spirit sorely grieves ;
Nor will I in the work engage
Unless you grant your leaves.
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A CAVALCADE
nPH ISTLE-DOWN, Thistle<lown,
? *- whither away?
Will you not longer abide ? "
Nay, we have wedded the winds to-day,
And home with the rovers we ride. "
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SILK
' " I "WAS the shroud of many a worm-like
-*- thing
That rose from its tangled skein ;
'Twas the garb of many a god-like king
Who went to the worms again.
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SEED-TIME
A X /"HEN Trumpet-flowers begin to blow
^ ^ The Thistle-downs take heed,
For then they know 'tis time to go
And plant the winged seed.
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A LEGACY
T~^0 you remember, little cloud,
-? -^ This morning when you lay --
A mist along the river -- what
The waters had to say?
And how the many-coloured flowers
That on the margin grew,
All promised when the day was done
To leave their tints to you ?
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Child Verse
AMID THE ROSES
'T^HERE was laughter 'mid the Roses,
-*- For it was their natal day ;
And the children in the garden were
As light of heart as they.
There were sighs amid the Roses,
For the night was coming on ;
And the children -- weary now of play --
Were ready to be gone.
There are tears amid the Roses,
For the children are asleep ;
And the silence of the garden makes
The lonely blossoms weep.
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? Child Verse
I
LIGHT AND SHADOW
LOVE you, little maid,"
Said the Sunbeam to the Shade,
As all day long she shrank away before him ;
But at twilight, ere he died,
She was weeping at his side ;
And he felt her tresses softly trailing o'er him.
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THE DRAGON-FLY
" TS skimming o'er a stagnant pool
-? - Your only occupation ? "
" Ah, no : 'tis at this Summer School
I get my education. "
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ARCHERY
A BOW across the sky
-^^^ Another in the river,
Whence swallows upward fly,
Like arrows from a quiver.
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A SPY
OIGHED the languid Moon to the Morn-
*^ ing Star :
"O little maid, how late you are ! "
" I couldn't rise from my couch," quoth she,
" While the Man-in-the-Moon was looking at
me. "
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A LAMENT
OLADY CLOUD, why are you weep-
ing? " I said.
Because," she made answer, " my rain-beau
is dead. "
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FERN SONG
DANCE to the beat of the rain, little
Fern,
And spread oiit your palms again,
And say, " Tho' the sun
Hath my vesture spun.
He had laboured, alas, in vain.
But for the shade
That the Cloud hath made.
And the gift of the Dew and the Rain. "
Then laugh and upturn
All your fronds, little Fern,
And rejoice in the beat of the rain !
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? Child Verse
THE BROOK
TT is the mountain to the sea
^ That makes a messenger of me ;
And, lest I loiter on the way
And lose what I am sent to say,
He sets his reverie to song,
And bids me sing it all day long.
Farewell ! for here the stream is slow.
And I have many a mile to go.
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AN INTERVIEW
T SAT with chill December
-*- Beside the evening fire.
" And what do you remember,
I ventured to inquire,
" Of seasons long forsaken ? "
He answered in amaze,
" My age you have mistaken ;
I've lived but thirty days! '
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BABY'S DIMPLES
T OVE goes playing hide-and-seek
-*-^ 'Mid the roses on her cheek,
With a little imp of Laughter,
Who, the . while he follows after.
Leaves the footprints that we trace
All about the Kissing-place.
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A BUNCH OF ROSES
THE rosy mouth and rosy toe
Of little baby brother
Until about a month ago
Had never met each other ;
Bu^ nowadays the neighbours sweet,
In every sort of weather,
Half way with rosy fingers meet,
To kiss and play together.
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FOOT-SOLDIERS
npIS all the way to Toe-town,
? ^ Beyond the Knee-high hill,
That Baby has to travel down
To see the soldiers drill.
One, two, three, four, five, a-row --
A captain and his men --
And on the other side, you know.
Are six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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THE BABY'S STAR
nPHE Star that watched you in your sleep
-^ Has just put out his light.
" Good-day, to you on earth," he said,
" Is here in heaven Good-night.
" But tell the Baby when he wakes
To watch for my return ;
For ril hang out my lamp again
When his begins to burn. "
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? Child Verse
SLUMBER-SONG
O, in the west
A cloud at rest --
A babe upon its mother's breast
Is sleeping now.
L'
Above it beams
A star that seems
To shed the light of holy dreams
Upon its brow.
But cloud and star,
Tho' nearer far
They seem, my Babe, more distant are
From heaven than thou.
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SLEEP
WHEN he is a little chap,
We call him Nap.
When he somewhat older grows,
We call him Doze.
When his age by hours we number,
We call him Slumber.
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THE FIRE-FLY
" A RE you flying through the night
-^^^ Looking where to find me ? "
" Nay ; I travel with a light
For the folks behind me. "
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AN IDOLATER
'THHE Baby has no skies
? *- But Mother's eyes,
Nor any God above
But Mother's Love.
His angel sees the Father's face,
But he the Mother's, full of grace ;
And yet the heavenly kingdom is
Of such as this.
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THE NEW-YEAR BABE
nnWO together, Babe and Year,
-? - At the midnight chime,
Through the darkness drifted here
To the coast of Time.
Two together, Babe and Year,
Over night and day,
Crossed the desert Winter drear
To the land of May.
On together, Babe and Year
Swift to Summer passed.
" Rest a moment. Brother dear,"
Said the Babe at last.
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? Child Verse
" Nay, but onward," answered Year,
" We must farther go,
Through the Vale of Autumn sere
To the Mount of Snow. "
Toiling upward. Babe and Year
Climbed the frozen height.
