The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America.

The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America.

A collection of American poems written for children or traditionally enjoyed by children, by such authors as Longfellow, Poe, Eugene Field, Langston Hughes, Dr. Seuss, and Jack Prelutsky.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Hall, Donald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1985
Subjects:
Children's poetry, American.
American poetry.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • The Bay Psalm Book
  • Psalm 23
  • Psalm 121
  • MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH, 1631-1705
  • from The Day of Doom
  • The New England Primer
  • Alphabets
  • John Rogers' Exhortation to His Children
  • PHILIP FRENEAU, 1752-1832
  • Columbus to Ferdinand
  • CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE, 1779-1863
  • A Visit from St. Nicholas
  • ELIZA LEE FOLLEN, 1787-1860
  • The Good Moolly Cow
  • The Three Little Kittens
  • SARAH JOSEPHA HALE, 1788-1879
  • Mary's Lamb
  • The Mole and the Eagle
  • HANNAH F. GOULD, 1789-1865
  • The Dying Child's Request
  • The Spider
  • LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, 1791-1865
  • Indian Names
  • Request of a Dying Child
  • WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, 1794-1878
  • The Death of the Flowers
  • Robert of Lincoln
  • CAROLINE GILMAN, 1794-1888
  • Anna Playing in a Graveyard
  • The Boat
  • The Dead Sister
  • ANNA MARIA WELLS, 1795-1868
  • The Cow-Boy's Song
  • The Little Maid
  • LYDIA MARIA CHILD, 1802-1880
  • The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day
  • RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882
  • Fable
  • EMMA C. EMBURY, 1806-1863
  • The Pilgrim
  • N. P. WILLIS, 1806-1867
  • Ambition
  • HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882
  • The Children's Hour
  • Excelsior
  • Paul Revere's Ride
  • A Psalm of Life
  • The Village Blacksmith
  • The Wreck of the Hesperus
  • JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892
  • Barbara Frietchie
  • The Barefoot Boy
  • In School-Days
  • Skipper Ireson's Ride
  • OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894
  • The Deacon's Masterpiece
  • The Height of the Ridiculous
  • EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-1849
  • Annabel Lee
  • The Bells
  • The Raven
  • C. P. CRANCH, 1813-1892
  • The Bear and the Squirrels
  • An Old Cat's Confessions
  • JOHN GODFREY SAXE, 1816-1887
  • The Blind Men and the Elephant
  • JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891
  • The Fountain
  • Hob Gobbling's Song
  • WALT WHITMAN, 1819-1892
  • O Captain! My Captain!
  • ALICE CARY, 1820-1871
  • November.
  • To Mother Fairie
  • PHOEBE CARY, 1824-1871
  • A Legend of the Northland
  • LUCY LARCOM, 1824-1893
  • The Brown Thrush
  • Dumpy Ducky
  • In the Tree-Top
  • Spring Whistles
  • The Volunteer's Thanksgiving
  • ROSE TERRY COOKE, 1827-1892
  • The Snow-Filled Nest
  • JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, 1827-1916
  • Darius Greene and His Flying-Machine
  • EMILY DICKINSON, 1830-1886
  • A bird came down the walk
  • I like to see it lap the miles
  • I'm nobody, who are you?
  • The morns are meeker than they were
  • A narrow fellow in the grass
  • There is no frigate like a book
  • To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
  • Will there really be a morning?
  • HELEN HUNT JACKSON, 1830-1885
  • Grab-bag
  • September
  • MARY MAPES DODGE, 1831-1905
  • The Letters at School
  • Poor Crow!
  • That's What We'd Do
  • LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, 1832-1888
  • Our Little Ghost
  • ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN, 1832-1911
  • Rock Me to Sleep
  • A Toad
  • SUSAN COOLIDGE (SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY), 1835-1905
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Edenhall
  • NATHANIEL GRAHAM SHEPHERD, 1835-1869
  • Calling the Roll
  • HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, 1835-1921
  • The Fossil Raindrops
  • CELIA THAXTER, 1835-1894
  • The Sandpiper
  • Jack Frost
  • The Cruise of the Mystery
  • CLARA DOTY BATES, 1838-1895
  • At Grandfather's
  • Gray Thrums
  • PALMER COX, 1840-1924
  • The Brownies' Celebration
  • The Lazy Pussy
  • The Mouse's Lullaby
  • CHARLES E. CARRYL, 1841-1920
  • The Camel's Complaint
  • The Walloping Window-blind
  • MARIAN DOUGLAS (ANNIE DOUGLAS GREEN ROBINSON), 1842-1913
  • Ant-Hills
  • The Snow-Man
  • SARAH ORNE JEWETT, 1849-1909
  • A Country Boy in Winter
  • JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, 1849-1916
  • The Days Gone By
  • Little Orphant Annie
  • The Nine Little Goblins
  • The Raggedy Man
  • ELIZABETH T. CORBETT, fl. 1878
  • A Misspelled Tail
  • A Tail of the See
  • Three Wise Old Women
  • ANONYMOUS
  • What Became of Them?.
  • Two Little Kittens
  • Poor Old Lady
  • SYDNEY DAYRE (MRS. COCHRAN), fl. 1881
  • A Lesson for Mama
  • Grandma's Lost Balance
  • EUGENE FIELD, 1850-1895
  • Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
  • The Duel
  • Little Boy Blue
  • LAURA E. RICHARDS, 1850-1943
  • Alibazan
  • Antonio
  • Eletelephony
  • The King of the Hobbledygoblins
  • The Mermaidens
  • The Mouse
  • The Owl, the Eel and the Warming-pan
  • Punkydoodle and Jollapin
  • Why Does It Snow?
  • JOHN BROWNJOHN (CHARLES REMINGTON TALBOT), 1851-1891
  • The School-Master and the Truants
  • MARY E. WELKINS FREEMAN, 1852-1930
  • Blue-eyed Mary
  • Marm Grayson's Guests
  • The Ostrich Is a Silly Bird
  • A Pretty Ambition
  • R. K. MUNKITTRICK, 1853-1911
  • Molasses River
  • Old King Cabbage
  • The Redingote and the Vamoose
  • The Song of the Owl
  • EDITH M. THOMAS, 1854-1925
  • The Cricket Kept the House
  • Mrs. Kriss Kringle
  • LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE, 1856-1935
  • A Christmas Folk-Song
  • A Little Song of Life
  • A Street Scene
  • TUDOR JENKS, 1857-1922
  • An Accommodating Lion
  • Hard To Bear
  • HAMLIN GARLAND, 1860-1940
  • Prairie Fires
  • A Dakota Wheat-field
  • FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN, 1860-1916
  • Baseball
  • Blossoms
  • ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, 1861-1937
  • The Cooky-Nut Trees
  • The Dancing Bear
  • JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, 1862-1922
  • The Dreadful Fate of Naughty Nate
  • The Hired Man's Way
  • If
  • The Little Elf
  • AMOS R. WELLS, 1862-1933
  • The Ambitious Ant
  • The Considerate Crocodile
  • CAROLYN WELLS, 1862-1942
  • from A Baker's Dozen of Wild Beasts
  • A Marvel
  • Puzzled
  • OLIVER HERFORD, 1863-1935
  • The Crocodile
  • A Bunny Romance
  • The Musical Lion
  • KATHARINE PYLE, 1863-1938
  • August
  • The Circus Parade
  • Clever Peter and the Ogress
  • The Toys Talk of the World
  • Waking
  • from The Wonder Clock
  • ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER, 1863-1940
  • Casey at the Bat
  • JOHN BENNETT, 1865-1956
  • A Tiger Tale.
  • GELETT BURGESS, 1866-1951
  • I Wish That My Room Had a Floor
  • A Low Trick
  • The Purple Cow
  • Table Manners
  • ARTHUR GUITERMAN, 1871-1943
  • Ancient History
  • Habits of the Hippopotamus
  • On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
  • GUY WETMORE CARRYL, 1873-1904
  • The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet
  • The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven
  • ROBERT FROST, 1874-1963
  • The Rose Family
  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • GERTRUDE STEIN, 1874-1946
  • I Am Rose
  • CARL SANDBURG, 1878-1967
  • Buffalo Dusk
  • Fog
  • Sea-Wash
  • Soup
  • Splinter
  • VACHEL LINDSAY, 1879-1931
  • Factory Windows Are Always Broken
  • The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
  • The King of Yellow Butterflies
  • The Little Turtle
  • The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky
  • The Mysterious Cat
  • SARA TEASDALE, 1884-1933
  • The Falling Star
  • February Twilight
  • Full Moon: Santa Barbara
  • ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS, 1886-1941
  • The Hens
  • Milking Time
  • The Rabbit
  • The Woodpecker
  • T. S. ELIOT, 1888-1965
  • Macavity: The Mystery Cat
  • Growltiger's Last Stand
  • Gus: The Theatre Cat
  • EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, 1892-1950
  • Afternoon on a Hill
  • Portrait by a Neighbor
  • Travel
  • MORRIS BISHOP, 1893-1973
  • How To Treat Elves
  • ELIZABETH COATSWORTH, 1893-
  • The Bad Kittens
  • Daniel Webster's Horses
  • The Mouse
  • No Shop Does the Bird Use
  • On a Night of Snow
  • Song of the Rabbits Outside the Tavern
  • The Storm
  • This Is the Hay That No Man Planted
  • Nosegay
  • RACHEL FIELD, 1894-1942
  • A Circus Garland
  • Something Told the Wild Geese
  • DAVID MCCORD, 1897-
  • Books Fall Open
  • Cocoon
  • Singular Indeed
  • The Walnut Tree
  • When I Was Christened
  • STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT, 1898-1943 and ROSEMARY BENÉT, 1898-1962
  • Peregrine White and Virginia Dare
  • John Quincy Adams
  • LANGSTON HUGHES, 1902-1967
  • April Rain Song
  • Ennui
  • Hope
  • Mother to Son.
  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  • OGDEN NASH, 1902-1971
  • Adventures of Isabel
  • The Panther
  • The Purist
  • The Tale of Custard the Dragon
  • The Termite
  • COUNTEE CULLEN, 1903-1946
  • Incident
  • The Unknown Color
  • DR. SEUSS ( THEODORE GEISEL ), 1904-
  • Too Many Daves
  • PHYLLIS MCGINLEY, 1905-1978
  • The Adversary
  • Triolet Against Sisters
  • SARA HENDERSON HAY, 1906-
  • Interview
  • THEODORE ROETHKE, 1908-1963
  • Dinky
  • The Bat
  • The Donkey
  • The Cow
  • The Sloth
  • MARGARET WISE BROWN, 1910-1952
  • The Secret Song
  • RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965
  • Bats
  • The Chipmunk's Day
  • JOHN CIARDI, 1916-
  • The Man Who Sang the Sillies
  • About the Teeth of Sharks
  • Captain Spud and His First Mate, Spade
  • On Learning To Adjust to Things
  • EVE MERRIAM, 1916-
  • Catch a Little Rhyme
  • WILLIAM JAY SMITH, 1918-
  • Crocodile
  • The Floor and the Ceiling
  • MAY SWENSON, 1919-
  • Cardinal Ideograms
  • Living Tenderly
  • RICHARD WILBUR, 1921-
  • Some Opposites
  • X. J. KENNEDY, 1929-
  • Mingled Yarns
  • One Winter Night in August
  • The Whales off Wales
  • MARY ANN HOBERMAN, 1930-
  • Cockroach
  • Combinations
  • The Folk Who Live in Backward Town
  • SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 1932-
  • Clarence
  • The Dirtiest Man in the World
  • Jimmy Jet and His TV Set
  • One Inch Tall
  • Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out
  • JOHN UPDIKE, 1932-
  • May
  • August
  • NANCY WILLARD, 1936-
  • Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way
  • The King of Cats Sends a Postcard to His Wife
  • JACK PRELUTSKY, 1940-
  • The Ghoul
  • The Pancake Collector
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • W
  • Index of First Lines and Titles
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y.

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