The Posy Ring

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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
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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
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_"A box of jewels, shop of rarities,?A ring whose posy was 'My pleasure'"_
GEORGE HERBERT
MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.?NEW YORK?MCMVI
_Copyright, 1903, by_?McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, February, 1903, N?Fifth Impression.
A NOTE
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_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._
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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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LILLIPUT NOTICE. By _William Brighty Rands_ ix
A YEAR'S WINDFALLS
Marjorie's Almanac. By _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 3
In February. By _John Addington Symonds_ 5
March. By _William Wordsworth_