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• The Wind

  I Saw you toss the kites on high
  And blow the birds about the sky;
  And all around I heard you pass, …

  Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Man in the Moon

  Said the Raggedy Man on a hot afternoon,
  “My!
  Sakes! …

  James Whitcomb Riley

• The Fairies of the Caldon Low

  A Midsummer Legend
  “AND where have you been, my Mary,
  And where have you been from me?” …

  Mary Howitt

• The First Rose of Summer

  “oh dear! is Summer over?”
  I heard a rosebud moan,
  When first her eyes she opened, …

  Oliver Herford

• The Frost

  The Frost looked forth, one still, clear night,
  And he said, “Now I shall be out of sight;
  So through the valley and over the height …

  Hannah Flagg Gould

• A Visit from St. Nicholas

  ’t Was 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, …

  Clement Clarke Moore

• Old-School Punishment

  Old Master Brown brought his ferule down,
  And his face looked angry and red.
  “Go, seat you there, now, Anthony Blair, …

  Anonymous

• Seein’ Things

  I Ain’t afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,
  An’ things ’at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice!
  I ’m pretty brave, I guess; an’ yet I hate to go to bed, …

  Eugene Field

• A Mortifying Mistake

  I Studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too;
  But I couldn’t remember six times nine, and I didn’t know what to do,
  Till sister told me to play with my doll, and not to bother my head. …

  Anna Maria Pratt

• The Smack in School

  A District school, not far away,
  Mid Berkshire hills, one winter’s day,
  Was humming with its wonted noise …

  William Pitt Palmer

• “There was a little girl”

  There was a little girl,
  And she had a little curl
  Right in the middle of her forehead. …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Story of Cruel Frederick

  From “The English Struwwelpeter”
  HERE is cruel Frederick, see!
  A horrid wicked boy was he; …

  Heinrich Hoffmann

• The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches

  From “The English Struwwelpeter”
  IT almost makes me cry to tell
  What foolish Harriet befel. …

  Heinrich Hoffmann

• The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air

  From “The English Struwwelpeter”
  AS he trudged along to school,
  It was always Johnny’s rule …

  Heinrich Hoffmann

• The Three Children

  Three children sliding on the ice
  Upon a summer’s day,
  As it fell out they all fell in, …

  Anonymous

• The Owl and the Pussy-cat

  I.
  the Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
  In a beautiful pea-green boat: …

  Edward Lear

• Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow

  I.
  on a little piece of wood
  Mr. Spikky Sparrow stood: …

  Edward Lear

• The Walrus and the Carpenter

  From “Alice in Wonderland”
  THE SUN was shining on the sea,
  Shining with all his might: …

  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

• Good King Arthur

  When good King Arthur ruled the land,
  He was a goodly king:
  He stole three pecks of barley meal, …

  Anonymous

• “Max and Maurice”: Preface

  Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks
  AH, how oft we read or hear of
  Boys we almost stand in fear of! …

  Wilhelm Busch

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