Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading | Page 3

Robert Louis Stevenson
RHYMES
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Mistress Mary, quite
contrary
Old King Cole
Old Mother Hubbard Mother
Goose
RUNAWAY BROOK Eliza Lee Fallen
BED IN SUMMER Robert Louis Stevenson
AT THE SEASIDE Robert Louis Stevenson
THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS Thomas
Moore
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
Three little kittens

Once I saw a little bird
One misty, moisty morning
Peter Piper

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross
Three wise men of Gotham
See,
saw, sacradown
Simple Simon met a pieman Mother Goose
PRETTY COW Jane Taylor
THE STAR Jane Taylor
MARY'S LAMB Sara Josepha Hale
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES
Solomon Grundy
The King of France
The man in the
wilderness
There was a crooked man

Tom, Tom, the piper's son

There was a little boy
There was a man of our town
This pig went

to market
Tom, Tom, of Islington Mother Goose
WEE WILLIE WINKIE William Miller
SINGING Robert Louis Stevenson
THE COW Robert Louis Stevenson
GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORNING Richard Monckton Milnes
MOTHER'S EYES Mary D.B.Hull
THE LAND OF NOD Robert Louis Stevenson
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES
When I was a little boy
Where are you going, my pretty
maid?
Who killed Cock Robin Mother Goose
EPITAPH FOR ROBIN REDBREAST Edith Matilda Thomas
PLAY WITH ME Edith Matilda Thomas
THE PIPER William Blake
INFANT JOY William Blake
THE LAMB William Blake
THE LITTLE BOY LOST William Blake
THE LITTLE BOY FOUND William Blake
ON THE VOWELS Jonathan Swift
LETTERS Ralph Waldo Emerson
ON A CIRCLE Jonathan Swift

ARIEL'S SONG William Shakespeare
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
SONG Thomas Hood
YOUTH AND AGE Thomas Hood
UPON SUSANNA'S FEET Robert Herrick
UPON A CHILD THAT DIED Robert Herrick
CHERRY-RIPE Robert Herrick
ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
"ONE, TWO, THREE!" Henry Cuyler Bunner
THE BIRD AND ITS NEST Alfred Tennyson
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
WINDY NIGHTS Robert Louis Stevenson
NONSENSE VERSES Edward Lear
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
SONG Robert Burns
SWEET AND LOW Alfred Tennyson
AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF Isaac Watts
"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK" Alfred Tennyson
THE ARROW AND THE SONG Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR Edward Lear
THE OWL Alfred Tennyson
THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT Edward Lear
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
FABLE Ralph Waldo Emerson
WRITTEN IN MARCH William Wordsworth
THOSE EVENING BELLS Thomas Moore
TO A BUTTERFLY William Wordsworth
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
LUCY William Wordsworth
LUCY GRAY, OR SOLITUDE William Wordsworth
POOR SUSAN William Wordsworth
VERSE AND PROSE FOR BEGINNERS IN READING.
ALPHABET.
A was an apple-pie;
B bit it;
C cut it;
D dealt it;
E ate it;
F
fought for it;
G got it;
H had it;
J joined it;
K kept it;
L longed
for it:
M mourned for it;
N nodded at it;
O opened it;
P peeped
into it;
Q quartered it;
R ran for it;
S stole it;
T took it;
V
viewed it;
W wanted it;
X, Y, Z, and amperse-and,
All wished for
a piece in hand.
A DEWDROP.

Little drop of dew,
Like a gem you are;
I believe that you
Must
have been a star.
When the day is bright,
On the grass you lie;
Tell me then, at night

Are you in the sky?
BEES.
Bees don't care about the snow;
I can tell you why that's so:
Once I caught a little bee
Who was much too warm for me!

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, marry, have I,

Three bags full;
One for my master,
And one for my dame,
But none for the little
boy
Who cries in the lane.

Bless you, bless you, burnie bee;
Say, when will your wedding be?

If it be to-morrow day,
Take your wings and fly away.

Bow, wow, wow,
Whose dog art thou?
Little Tom Tinker's dog,

Bow, wow, wow.

Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting,
To get a little rabbit
skin
To wrap the baby bunting in.

Star light, star bright,
First star I see to-night;
I wish I may, I wish I
might,
Have the wish I wish to-night.

The little moon came out too soon,
And in her fright looked thin and
white,
The stars then shone,
And every one
Twinkled and winked
and laughed and blinked.
The great sun now rolled forth in might

And drove them all quite out of sight.
TO A HONEY-BEE.
"Busy-body, busy-body,
Always on the wing,
Wait a bit, where you
have lit,
And tell me why you sing."
Up, and in the air again,
Flap,