Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
_Such is the audience--in long clothes or short frocks, in pinafores or kilts, or in the brief trousers that bespeak the budding man--such is the crowing, laughing court, the toddling public that awaits these verses._
A meadow for the little lambs; A honey hive for bees; And pretty nests for singing birds Among the leafy trees. There's rest for all the little ones In one place or another; But...
2. Chapter 2I don't mean to frighten you, Poor little thing, And pussy-cat is not behind me; So hop about pretty, And drop down your wing, And pick up some crumbs, and don't mind me.
3. Chapter 3My dear, do you know, How a long time ago, Two poor little children, Whose names I don't know, Were stolen away on a fine summer's day, And left in a wood, as I've heard people...
4. Chapter 4For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it's a-sailing I shall go, It's a-sailing on the wat...
5. Chapter 5When they are fed by their tender mother, One never will push nor crowd another: Each opens widely his own little bill, And he patiently waits, and gets his fill: Then "Coo," sa...
1. Chapter 1_Such is the audience--in long clothes or short frocks, in pinafores or kilts, or in the brief trousers that bespeak the budding man--such is the crowing, laughing court, the to...
6. Chapter 6Said the Table to the Chair, "You can hardly be aware How I suffer from the heat And from chilblains on my feet. If we took a little walk, We might have a little talk; Pray let...