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The home book of verse, American and English, 1580-1920; with an appendix containing a few well-known poems in other languages

Burton Egbert Stevenson (Compiler)
Print Book, English, [1937]
6th ed. (Extended in the home book of modern verse) View all formats and editions
H. Holt and Co, New York, [1937]
Children's poetry
2 volumes 21 cm
3632219
Part I : Poems of Youth and Age, The Baby, In the Nursery, The Road to Slumberland, The Duty of children, Rhymes of Childhood, The Glad Evangel, Fairyland, The Children, Maidenhood, The Man, The Woman, Stepping Westward, Looking Backward ; Part II : Poems of Love, "Now What is Love", In Praise of Her, Plaints and Protestations, My Lady's Lips, At Her Window, The Comedy of Love, The Humor of Love, The Irony of Love, Love's Sadness, The Parted Lovers, The Tragedy of Love, Love and Death, Love's Fulfillment, Love Sonnets ; Part III : Poems of Nature, Mother Nature, Dawn and Dark, The Changing Year, Wood and Field and Running Brook, Green Things Growing, God's Creatures, The Sea, The Simple Life, Wanderlust ; Part IV : Familiar Verse, and Poems Humorous and Satiric, The Kindly Muse, The Barb of Satire, The Mimics, Sons of the Emerald Isle, Pipe and Can, Glints O' Sunshine, Just Nonsense, Old Favorites ; Part V : Poems of Patriotism, History, and Legend, My Country, Soldier Songs, "How Sleep the Brave", Poems of History, Poems of Places, Ballads Old and New ; Part VI : Poems of Sentiment and Reflection, The Philosophy of Life, The Conduct of Life, The Transcendentalists, A Mind Content, Friendship and Brotherhood, The Music-Makers, Flower O' the Mind, "Care-Charmer Sleep", Home and Fatherland, Narrative and Descriptive Poems ; Part VIII : Poems of Sorrow, Death, and Immortality, In the Shadow, "The Despot's Despot", "Facing the Sunset", "One Fight More", "They Are All Gone", Sentinel Songs, Jerusalem the Golden, Songs of Praise ; Appendix : Containing a few of the more famous poems in other languages, of which translations or paraphrases occur in the foregoing pages
Paged continuously
"Ninth printing, March 1937."