Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth
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McCLURE'S LIBRARY OF CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
GOLDEN NUMBERS
A BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUTH
CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY
Kate Douglas Wiggin
AND
Nora Archibald Smith
WITH INTRODUCTION AND INTERLEAVES BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
GOLDEN NUMBERS
A NOTE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
On the Reading of Poetry
GOLDEN NUMBERS
INTERLEAVES
A Chanted Calendar
I
A CHANTED CALENDAR
Daybreak
Morning
A Morning Song
Evening in Paradise
Evening Song
Night
A Fine Day
The Seasons
The Eternal Spring
March[1]
Spring
Song to April[2]
April in England
April and May
May
Song on May Morning
Summer
June Weather
July[3]
August
In August
Autumn
Sweet September
Autumn's Processional
October's Bright Blue Weather
Maple Leaves
"Down to Sleep"
Winter
When Icicles Hang by the Wall
A Winter Morning
The Snow Storm
Old Winter
Midwinter
Dirge for the Year
INTERLEAVES
The World Beautiful
II
THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL
The World Beautiful
The Harvest Moon
The Cloud
Before the Rain
Rain in Summer
Invocation to Rain in Summer
The Latter Rain
The Wind[4]
Ode to the Northeast Wind
The Windy Night[5]
The Brook
The Brook in Winter
Clear and Cool
Minnows
Snow-Bound
(Extracts)
Highland Cattle
A Scene in Paradise
The Tiger
The Spacious Firmament on High
INTERLEAVES
Green Things Growing
III
GREEN THINGS GROWING
Green Things Growing
The Sigh of Silence
Under the Greenwood Tree
The Planting of the Apple Tree[6]
An Apple Orchard in the Spring
Mine Host of "The Golden Apple"
The Tree
A Young Fir-Wood
The Snowing of the Pines
The Procession of the Flowers
Sweet Peas
A Snowdrop
Almond Blossom
Wild Rose
Tiger-Lilies
To the Fringed Gentian[7]
To a Mountain Daisy
On Turning One Down With the Plough in April.
Bind-Weed
The Rhodora
A Song of Clover
To the Dandelion
(Extract)
To Daffodils
The Daffodils
The White Anemone
The Grass
The Corn-Song
Columbia's Emblem
Scythe Song[8]
Time to Go
The Death of the Flowers[9]
Autumn's Mirth
INTERLEAVES
On the Wing
IV
ON THE WING
Sing On, Blithe Bird!
To a Skylark
Sir Lark and King Sun: A Parable
The Skylark[10]
The Skylark
The Bobolinks
To a Waterfowl[11]
Goldfinches
The Sandpiper
The Eagle
(Fragment)
Child's Talk in April
The Flight of the Birds
The Shepherd's Home
To a Cricket
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
The Tax-Gatherer
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
The Bee
The Humble-Bee
All Things Wait Upon Thee
Providence
INTERLEAVES
The Inglenook
V
THE INGLENOOK
A New Household
Two Heavens
A Song of Love
Mother's Song
The Bonniest Bairn in a' the Warl'
Cuddle Doon
I Am Lonely
Brother and Sister
Home
Love Will Find Out the Way
The Sailor's Wife
Evening at the Farm
Home Song
Etude Rêaliste
We Are Seven
INTERLEAVES
Fairy Songs and Songs of Fancy
VI
FAIRY SONGS AND SONGS OF FANCY
FAIRY LAND
I
Puck and the Fairy
II
Lullaby for Titania
III
Oberon and Titania to the Fairy Train
IV
Ariel's Songs
Orpheus With His Lute
The Arming of Pigwiggen
Hesperus' Song
L'Allegro
(Extracts)
Sabrina Fair
Alexander's Feast
Kubla Khan
The Magic Car Moved On
Arethusa
The Culprit Fay
(Extracts)
III
Fairy Dawn
IV
The Assembling of the Fays
VI
The Throne of the Lily-King
VII
The Fay's Crime
VIII
The Fay's Sentence
X
The Fay's Departure
A Myth
The Fairy Folk
The Merman
The Mermaid
Bugle Song
The Raven
The Bells
INTERLEAVES
Sports and Pastimes
VII
SPORTS AND PASTIMES
Blowing Bubbles
Bicycling Song
Going A Maying
Jog On, Jog On[12]
A Vagabond Song
Swimming
Swimming
The Angler's Reveille[13]
The Angler's Invitation
Skating
Reading
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
Music's Silver Sound
The Power of Music
Descend, Ye Nine
Old Song
The Barefoot Boy
Leolin and Edith
Going A-Nutting
Whittling
Hunting Song
The Hunter's Song
The Blood Horse
The Northern Seas
The Needle
INTERLEAVES
A Garden of Girls
VIII
A GARDEN OF GIRLS
A Portrait
Little Bell
A Child of Twelve
Chloe
O Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
Who Is Silvia?
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
Ruth
My Peggy
Annie Laurie
Lucy
Jessie
Olivia
Nikolina
The Solitary Reaper
Helena and Hermia
Phyllis
So Sweet Is She
I Love My Jean
My Nannie's Awa'
INTERLEAVES
The World of Waters
IX
THE WORLD OF WATERS
To the Ocean
A Life on the Ocean Wave[14]
The Sea
A Sea-Song
A Visit From the Sea[15]
Drifting[16]
Tacking Ship Off Shore[17]
Windlass Song
The Coral Grove
The Shell
Bermudas
Where Lies the Land?
INTERLEAVES
For Home and Country
X
FOR HOME AND COUNTRY
The First, Best Country
My Native Land
Loyalty
My Heart's in the Highlands
The Minstrel-Boy
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
Fife and Drum
The Cavalier's Song
The Old Scottish Cavalier
The Song of the Camp
Border Ballad
Gathering Song of Donuil Dhu
The Reveille
Ye Mariners of England
The Knight's Tomb
How Sleep the Brave!
Dirge
For One Who Fell in Battle.
The Burial of Sir John Moore
Soldier, Rest!
Recessional
The Fatherland
INTERLEAVES
New World and Old Glory
XI
NEW WORLD AND OLD GLORY
Dear Land of All My Love[18]
Columbus[19]
Pocahontas
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
The Twenty-second of December[20]
Washington
Warren's Address
Carmen Bellicosum
The American Flag
(Extract)
Old Ironsides
(U. S. S. "Constitution.")
Indians
Crossing the Plains[21]
Concord Hymn
Sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836.
Ode
Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857.
Stanzas on Freedom
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln the Great Commoner
Abraham Lincoln
(Summer, 1865.)
O Captain! My Captain!
The Flag Goes By
The Black Regiment
Night Quarters
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Sheridan's Ride[22]
October 19, 1864.
Song of the Negro Boatman
Barbara Frietchie
Two Veterans
Stand by the Flag!
At Gibraltar[23]
I
At Gibraltar
II
Faith and Freedom
Our Mother Tongue
The English Language
To America
On a Proposed Alliance Between Two Great Nations.
The Name of Old Glory
1898
INTERLEAVES
In Merry Mood
XII
IN MERRY MOOD
On a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
The Priest and the Mulberry Tree
The Council of Horses
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again.
To a Child of Quality
Five Years Old, 1704, the Author Then Forty.
Charade
(Campbell.)
(Thomas Campbell, the Poet.)
A Riddle
(A Book.)
A Riddle
(The Vowels.)
A Riddle
(The Letter H.)
Feigned Courage
Baucis and Philemon
The Lion and the Cub
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Song of the Turtle and Flamingo
Captain Reece
The Cataract of Lodore
The Enchanted Shirt
Made in the Hot Weather
The Housekeeper
The Monkey
November
Captain Sword
INTERLEAVES
Story Poems: Romance and Reality
XIII
STORY POEMS: ROMANCE AND REALITY
The Singing Leaves
Seven Times Two
The Long White Seam
Hannah Binding Shoes
Lord Ullin's Daughter
The King of Denmark's Ride
The Shepherd to His Love
Ballad
a.d. 1400
Romance of the Swan's Nest
Lochinvar
Jock of Hazeldean
The Lady of Shalott
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
The Forsaken Merman
The Sands of Dee
The "Gray Swan"
The Wreck of the Hesperus
A Greyport Legend
The Glove and the Lions
How's My Boy?
The Child-Musician
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
The Inchcape Rock
A Night With a Wolf
The Dove of Dacca
The Abbot of Inisfalen
The Cavalier's Escape
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Hervé Riel
Vision of Belshazzar.
Solomon and the Bees
The Burial of Moses
INTERLEAVES
When Banners Are Waving
XIV
WHEN BANNERS ARE WAVING
When Banners Are Waving
Battle of the Baltic
The Pipes at Lucknow
The Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Blenheim
The Armada: A Fragment
Ivry
A Song of the Huguenots.
On the Loss of the Royal George
Written when the News Arrived, September, 1782.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Bannockburn
Robert Bruce's Address to his Army.
The Night Before Waterloo
Hohenlinden
Incident of the French Camp
Marco Bozzaris
The Destruction of Sennacherib
INTERLEAVES
Tales of the Olden Time
XV
TALES OF THE OLDEN TIME
Sir Patrick Spens
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
Lord Beichan and Susie Pye
The Gay Gos-hawk
Earl Mar's Daughter
Chevy-Chace
Hynde Horn
Glenlogie
INTERLEAVES
Life Lessons
XVI
LIFE LESSONS
Life
In a Child's Album
To-Day
The Noble Nature
Forbearance
The Chambered Nautilus
Duty
On His Blindness
Sir Launfal and the Leper
Opportunity
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel
Be True
The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation
A Turkish Legend
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
Polonius to Laertes
The Olive Tree
Coronation
December
The End of the Play
A Farewell
A Boy's Prayer
Chartless
Peace
Consider
The Elixir
One by One
The Commonwealth of the Bees
(Type of a Well-ordered State.)
The Pilgrim
Be Useful
INTERLEAVES
The Glad Evangel
XVII
THE GLAD EVANGEL
A Christmas Carol[24]
The Angels
"While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night"
The Star Song
Hymn for Christmas
New Prince, New Pomp
The Three Kings
The Three Kings[25]
A Christmas Hymn
O Little Town of Bethlehem
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
Christmas Carol
Old Christmas
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
Minstrels and Maids
An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour
Old Christmas Returned
Ceremonies for Christmas
Christmas in England.
The Gracious Time
Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
THE END
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