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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
[Illustration]
_"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
[Illustration]
_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._

[Illustration]
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
[Illustration]
Page
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