Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
_As often as I pass a little Blue-coat boy I gaze upon him lovingly: I reverence the quaint vision of a bygone age called up by the long blue gaberdine, the red leathern belt, the yellow stockings--a quaint monkish figure still to be seen in crowded London streets, still addin...
_As often as I pass a little Blue-coat boy I gaze upon him lovingly: I reverence the quaint vision of a bygone age called up by the long blue gaberdine, the red leathern belt, t...
2. Part 2Come, my little Robert, near-- Fie! what filthy hands are here! Who, that e’er could understand The rare structure of a hand, With its branching fingers fine, Work itself of han...
3. Part 3This was talk’d of the whole country round; You might hear it on every bough sung, “Now no longer upon the rough ground Will fond mothers brood over their young:
4. Part 4Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned where they occurred in the original book, often within poems. Each poem’s name is enclosed in a decorative floral border and fol...