Poems Chosen by Boys and Girls
Arranged by Fowler Wright
and Crompton Rhodes
Basil Blackwell
1925
Preface
THE poems in this anthology have been chosen, not by a man or woman, but by ten thousand boys and girls. This needs an explanation.
Through the pages of Poetry an appeal was made to find out the poems which had given the highest delight, the deepest joy, to boys and girls. The appeal was directed to those teachers who love poetry and have transmitted the love of poetry to their boys and girls. At once it received the cordial sympathy and support of the entire educational Press and a generous response from teachers in every type of school, public and private, primary and secondary, urban and rural. With singular generosity, these lovers of poetry placed at the disposal of the Editors the wisdom and experience of years, often with hundreds of children in several schools. Ten thousand is, indeed, too low a figure to cover the number of boys and girls who are actual and ultimate collaborators in this anthology; and to those teachers who contributed these most valuable essays and lists of poems the warm thanks of the Publishers and Editors are rendered.
The number of poems by contemporary authors is interesting. Many essays showed that the teachers, while not neglecting the earlier periods, have found that boys and girls are moved by the poetry of our own time. The Colonial and American poems are an unusual and unexpected result of the wide nature of the appeal.
Apart from arranging the poems and negotiating copyrights, the Editors' work has been, and been only, the ensuring that the poems chosen are those which, under the guidance of lovers of poetry, have carried their beauty into the hearts of boys and girls - our esteemed collaborators in this new development of educational method.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE Editors wish to thank Miss G. Blades, B.A., assistant editor of Poetry, for her assistance in transcription and collation, and in the work of analysis entailed by the essays.
Acknowledgments for permission to reprint are due to Mrs. Allingham (for William Allingham), Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson, Harold Monro, Eric Pinker and Son (for Walter de la Mare), John Murray (for Robert Bridges), Chatto and Windus (for Robert Louis Stevenson), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hilton Young, Wilfred Meynell (for the late Alice Meynell), A. P. Watt and Son (for William Rutler Yeats), Messrs. Macmillan (for T. E. Browne and Rudyard Kipling), R. C. Lehmann, Esq., Sir William Watson, Messrs. Angus and Robertson of Sydney (for Will H. Ogilvie), Lady Newbolt (for Sir Henry Newbolt), William H. Davies, Hilaire Belloc, John Drinkwater, the Merton Press, Ltd. (for Constance A. Renshaw and Anita Moor), John Masefield, Sidgwick and Jackson (for Rupert Brooke).
CONTENTS
The Fairies | William Allingham |
Piping down the Valleys | William Blake |
Fairyland | Ethel Gate |
You Spotted Snakes | William Blakespeare |
Sheep and Lambs | Katharine Tynan |
The Lamb | William Blake |
The Tiger | William Blake |
Milk for the Cat | Harold Monro |
Gay Robin | Robert Bridges |
Martha | Walter de la Mare |
Sister, awake (English Madrigal) | Anonymous |
The Song of the Bow | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Christmas | Hilton Young |
Sweet and Low | Hilton Young |
The Shepherdess | Alice Meynell |
Home from the Daisied Meadows | R. L. Stevenson |
The Fiddler of Dooney | William Butler Yeats |
Lucy Gray | William Wordsworth |
The Windmill | Robert Bridges |
The Windmill | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
About Ben Adhem | Leigh Hunt |
Meg Merrilies | John Keats |
The Lost Doll | Charles Kingsley |
The Pobble who has no Toes | Edward Lear |
A Boy's Song | James Hogg |
Song of the Shirt | Thomas Hood |
The Inchcape Rock | Robert Southey |
The Sands of Dee | Charles Kingsley |
Lady Clare | Lord Tennyson |
Barbara Freitchie | John Greenleaf Whittier |
The Three Fishers | Charles Kingsley |
The River | Charles Kingsley |
The Brook | Lord Tennyson |
The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Robert Browning |
From 'In Memoriam' | Lord Tennyson |
Flower in the Crannied Wall | Lord Tennyson |
A Musical Instrument | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Young Lochinvar | Sir Walter Scott |
My Garden | Thomas Edward Brown |
Trees | Walter de la Mare |
Silver | Walter de la Mare |
To the Cuckoo | William Wordsworth |
Cuckoo Song | Anonymous |
The Jackdaw of Rheims | Richard H. Barham |
On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in | |
a Tub of Gold Fishes | Thomas Grey |
The Pedlar's Caravan | E. Rand |
The Private of the Buffs | Sir Francis Hastings Doyle |
Ye Mariners of England | Thomas Campbell |
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | Oliver Goldsmith |
Song | Thomas Heywood |
The Slave's Dream | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
To Rufus, a Spaniel | R. C. Lehmann |
The Graves of a Household | Felicia Hemans |
Break, Break, Break | Lord Tennyson |
The Ballald of Semmer-water | Sir William Watson |
To Rlossoms | Robert Herrick |
The Lsser Celandine | William Wordsworth |
To Daffodils | Robert Herrick |
The Daffodils | William Wordsworth |
From the Gulf | Will H. Ogilvie |
The Wreck of the Hesperus | Henry Wordsworth |
Sailor's Song | Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
The Forsaken Merman | Matthew Arnold |
The Diverting History of John Gilpin | William Cowper |
The Bugle | Lord Tennyson |
Langley Lane | Robert Buchanan |
Incident of the French Camp | Robert Browning |
To the Daisy | William Wordsworth |
Vitai Lampada | Sir Henry Newbolt |
Drake's Drum | Sir Henry Newbolt |
The Burial of Sir John Moore at | |
Corunna | Charles Wolfe |
Canadian Boat-Song | Thomas Moore |
BEAUTY | |
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever | John Keats |
Upon Westminster Bridge | William Wordsworth |
The Reaper | William Wordsworth |
Leisure | William H. Davies |
To a Snowflake | Francis Thompson |
Three years she grew in sun and | |
shower | William Wordsworth |
She dwelt among the untrodden ways | William Wordsworth |
Days that have been | William H. Davies |
Kubla Khan | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
To a Skylark | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Life is sweet, brother | George Borrow |
Thou wast not born for death | John Keats |
To the Night | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
To the Moon | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
WINDS AND SEASONS | |
The years' at the spring | William Shakespeare |
Spring goeth all in white | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Spring | Thomas Nash |
Ode to Autumn | John Keats |
Winter | William Shakespeae |
Ode to the West Wind | Percy Bysshe Shelle |
Ode to the North-east Wind | Charles Kingsley |
The Cloud | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
WANDERING AND HOMING | |
Wander-thirst | Gerald Gould |
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea | Allan Cunningham |
The Joys of the Road | Bliss Carman |
A Son of the Sea | Bliss Carman |
The Sick Stockrider | Adam Lindsay Gordon |
A Wish | Samuel Rogers |
Home Thoughts from Abroad | Robert Browning |
Home thoughs from the Sea | Robert Browning |
CHIVALRY | |
America: 'Battle Hymn of the | |
Republic' | Julia Ward Howe |
Hervé Riel | Robert Browning |
Shameful Death | William Morris |
The Young Queen | Rudyard Kipling |
He fell among Thieves | Sir Henry Newbolt |
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars | Colonel Lovelace |
Gathering Song of Donald the Black | Sir Walter Scott |
O Captain! my Captain! | Walt Whitman |
Horatius | Lord Macaulay |
Hohenlinden | Thomas Campbell |
A Passer-by | Robert Bridges |
The Vagabond | John Drinkwater |
Sea-Fever | John Masefield |
Yorkshire Ways | Constance A.Renshaw |
Frorn 'The Lay of the | |
Last Minstrel' | Sir Walter Scott |
The South Country | Hilaire Belloc |
Ozymandias of Egypt | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Buy my English Posies | Rudyard Kipling |
The Fatherland | James Russell Lowell |
Roofs | Joyce Kilmer |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree | William Butler Yeats |
The Shell | Lord Tennyson |
The Chambered Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
La Belle Dame sans Merci | John Keats |
Sir Galahad | Lord Tennyson |
The Little Tower | William Morris |
The Battle of Naseby | Lord Macaulay |
On the late Massacre in Piedmont | John Milton |
The Revenge | Lord Tennyson |
'How they Brought the Good News | |
from Ghent to Aix' | Robert Browning |
From 'Childe Harold' | Lord Byron |
From 'Paradise Lost' (Book 1) | John Milton |
The Parting | Michael Drayton |
Saturn and Thea (From 'Hyperion') | John Keats |
When Love meets Love | Thomas Edward Brown |
Brignall's Banks | Sir Walter Scott |
True Love | William Shakespeare |
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love | Christopher Marlowe |
The Nymph's Reply | Sir Walter Raleigh |
It was a Lover | William Shakespeare |
Counsel to Girls | Robert Herrick |
Go, Lovely Rose | Edmund Waller |
The Blessed Damozel | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
The Valley of Humiliation | John Bunyan |
A Lyric | Persy Bysshe Shelley |
Trust Thou Thy Love | John Ruskin |
The Happy Heart | Thomas Dekker |
On his Blindness | John Milton |
From 'The Light of Asia' | Edwin Arnold |
Where lies the Land? | Arthur Hugh Clough |
Say not the Struggle naught availeth | Arthur Hugh Clough |
A Christmas Hymn | Alfred Domett |
Up-Hill | Christina G. Rossetti |
Sit Lightly in the Saddle, Lads | Anita Moor |
We cannot Kindle when we will | Matthew Arnold |
The Dead | Rupert Brooke |
Prospice | Robert Browning |
Crossing the Bar | Lord Tennyson |
End of this file