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    The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children
    The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children
    The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children
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    The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children

    By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 1977
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      The Posy Ring - Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Posy Ring, by Various

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      Title: The Posy Ring

      A Book of Verse for Children

      Author: Various

      Editor: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith

      Release Date: October 8, 2007 [EBook #22922]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POSY RING ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE POSY RING

      The Posy Ring

      is a companion volume to

      Golden Numbers

      A Book of Verse for Youth

      Edited by

      Kate Douglas Wiggin and

      Nora Archibald Smith

      THE POSY RING

      A BOOK OF VERSE FOR CHILDREN

      CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY

      Kate Douglas Wiggin

      AND

      Nora Archibald Smith

      MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

      NEW YORK

      MCMVI

      Copyright, 1903, by

      McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

      Published, February, 1903, N

      Fifth Impression.

      A NOTE

      THANKS are due to the following publishers for permission to reprint poems on which they hold copyright:

      Charles Scribner's Sons, for permission to use the following poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Windy Nights, Where Go the Boats? The Little Land, The Land of Story Books and Bed Time; for the following poems by Mary Mapes Dodge: Nearly Ready, Now the Noisy Winds are Still, Snowflakes, Birdies with Broken Wings, and Night and Day; for the following poems by Eugene Field: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, and Nightfall in Dordrecht; for Rockaby, Lullaby, by J. G. Holland; and for One, Two, Three, by H. C. Bunner. G. P. Putnam's Sons, for permission to use High and Low, by Dora Goodale. D. Appleton & Son, publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, for permission to reprint Robert of Lincoln, by W. C. Bryant. E. P. Dutton & Co., for permission to reprint The Birds in Spring, by Thomas Nashe. A. C. McClurg & Co., for permission to reprint Baby Seed Song and Bird's Song in Spring, by E. Nesbit. The Century Company, for permission to reprint the Seal Lullaby, by Rudyard Kipling. The Independent, for permission to reprint Baby Corn, Anon. Dana, Estes & Co., for permission to reprint The Blue Jay, by Susan Hartley Swett. Small, Maynard & Co., for permission to reprint the following poems by John B. Tabb: The Fern Song, A Bunch of Roses, The Child at Bethlehem. George Routledge & Sons, for permission to reprint the following poems by W. B. Rands: The Child's World, The Wonderful World, Love and the Child, Dolladine, Dressing the Doll, The Pedlar's Caravan, and Little Christel; also for Little White Lily and What Would You See? by George Macdonald, and The Wind, by L. E. Landon. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for the right to reprint the following poems: Marjorie's Almanac, by T. B. Aldrich; Dandelion, by Helen Grey Cone; The Fairies' Shopping and The Christmas Silence, by Margaret Deland; The Titmouse and Fable, by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Hiawatha's Chickens and Hiawatha's Brothers, by Henry W. Longfellow; The Fountain, by James Russell Lowell; The Rivulet, by Lucy Larcom; The Coming of Spring, by Nora Perry; May, The Waterfall, Clouds, and Bells of Christmas, by Frank Dempster Sherman; What the Winds Bring and The Singer, by E. C. Stedman; Spring, Wild Geese, Chanticleer, and Little Gustava, by Celia Thaxter. Little, Brown & Co., for the right to reprint September, by Helen Hunt Jackson; When the Leaves Come Down, by Susan Coolidge; and Summer Days, A Year's Windfalls, The Flower Folk, There's Nothing Like the Rose, Milking Time, A Chill, and A Birthday Gift, by Christina G. Rossetti. St. Nicholas, for permission to reprint The Little Elf, by John Kendrick Bangs. The Macmillan Company, for permission to reprint O Lady Moon, by Christina G. Rossetti. Frederick Warne & Co., for permission to reprint By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill, by Reginald Heber. Cassell & Co., Ltd., for permission to reprint The Last Voyage of the Fairies, by W. H. Davenport Adams.

      PUBLIC NOTICE.—This is to state,

      That these are the specimens left at the gate

      Of Pinafore Palace, exact to date,

      In the hands of the porter, Curlypate,

      Who sits in his plush on a chair of state,

      By somebody who is a candidate

      For the office of Lilliput Laureate.

      William Brighty Rands.

      CONTENTS

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