Favourites of a Nursery of Seventy Years Ago: And Some Others of Later DateHoughton Miffin Company, 1916 - Počet stran: 620 "This collection of nursery rhymes and ballads has been selected to preserve for the children of this century the quaint little stories and verses which were popular about a hundred years ago, and in later years of the nineteenth century"--Preface. |
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Ann Augusta Gray bells of St bird Bob-o'-link Bobolink bow wow brave bright brother chair chee Chicken Little child Cowslip cried Daisy dance Dandelion dear door Duck Luck eyes fair fairy father fear Follen's Little Songs frog girl green head hear heard heart house of leaves Hurrah Jane Taylor King kiss kittens Kitty lady lady lee laugh lay on Meenachug Loesome look Lord mamma Mary Howitt mee-ow merry milk mooly moon morning mother mouse naughty nest never night Nursery Nursery Rhymes o'er papa peep play poor porridge pray Puss Pussy Rhymes ride Ringely ringely Robin rod to lay round share of fruit sing sister sleep soon stars sweet tail tell thee There's thing thou William Allingham wings wood
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Strana 442 - TwrvKLE, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Strana 590 - In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me ; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free...
Strana 589 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Strana 505 - Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow.
Strana 512 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Strana 508 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Strana 508 - Gave a lustre of midday to objects below ; When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St.
Strana 491 - Why had they come to wither there. Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar...
Strana 89 - Soon as the little ones chip the shell, Six wide mouths are open for food, Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well, Gathering seeds for the hungry brood; "Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link. Spink, spank, spink, This new life is likely to be Hard for a gay young fellow like me. Chee, chee, chee.
Strana 492 - To you, in David's town, this day, is born of David's line, The Saviour who is Christ the Lord, and this shall be the sign : The heavenly Babe you there shall find, to human view displayed, All meanly wrapt in swathing bands, and in a manger laid...