Golden Numbers, edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin

About this eBook

Compiler

Smith, Nora Archibald, 1859-1934

Title

Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

American poetry -- Collections

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34237

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34237

Release Date

November 8, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.McCLURE'S LIBRARY OF CHILDREN'S CLASSICS — EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH — GOLDEN NUMBERS
3. 3.KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
4. 4.GOLDEN NUMBERS
5. 5.A NOTE
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.INTRODUCTION — On the Reading of Poetry
8. 8.GOLDEN NUMBERS
9. 9.INTERLEAVES — A Chanted Calendar
10. 10.A CHANTED CALENDAR — Daybreak — Morning — A Morning Song — Evening in Paradise — Evening Song — Night — A Fine Day — The Seasons — The Eternal Spring — March [1] — Spring — Song to April [2] — April in England — April and May — May — Song on May Morning — Summer — June Weather — July [3] — August — In August — Autumn — Sweet September — Autumn's Processional — October's Bright Blue Weather — Maple Leaves — "Down to Sleep" — Winter — When Icicles Hang by the Wall — A Winter Morning — The Snow Storm — Old Winter — Midwinter — Dirge for the Year
11. 11.INTERLEAVES — The World Beautiful
12. 12.THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL — The World Beautiful — The Harvest Moon — The Cloud — Before the Rain — Rain in Summer — Invocation to Rain in Summer — The Latter Rain — The Wind [4] — Ode to the Northeast Wind — The Windy Night [5] — The Brook — The Brook in Winter — Clear and Cool — Minnows — Snow-Bound — (Extracts) — Highland Cattle — A Scene in Paradise — The Tiger — The Spacious Firmament on High
13. 13.INTERLEAVES — Green Things Growing
14. 14.GREEN THINGS GROWING — Green Things Growing — The Sigh of Silence — Under the Greenwood Tree — The Planting of the Apple Tree [6] — An Apple Orchard in the Spring — Mine Host of "The Golden Apple" — The Tree — A Young Fir-Wood — The Snowing of the Pines — The Procession of the Flowers — Sweet Peas — A Snowdrop — Almond Blossom — Wild Rose — Tiger-Lilies — To the Fringed Gentian [7] — To a Mountain Daisy — On Turning One Down With the Plough in April. — Bind-Weed — The Rhodora — A Song of Clover — To the Dandelion — (Extract) — To Daffodils — The Daffodils — The White Anemone — The Grass — The Corn-Song — Columbia's Emblem — Scythe Song [8] — Time to Go — The Death of the Flowers [9] — Autumn's Mirth
15. 15.INTERLEAVES — On the Wing
16. 16.ON THE WING — Sing On, Blithe Bird! — To a Skylark — Sir Lark and King Sun: A Parable — The Skylark [10] — The Skylark — The Bobolinks — To a Waterfowl [11] — Goldfinches — The Sandpiper — The Eagle — (Fragment) — Child's Talk in April — The Flight of the Birds — The Shepherd's Home — To a Cricket — On the Grasshopper and Cricket — The Tax-Gatherer — To the Grasshopper and the Cricket — The Bee — The Humble-Bee — All Things Wait Upon Thee — Providence
17. 17.INTERLEAVES — The Inglenook
18. 18.THE INGLENOOK — A New Household — Two Heavens — A Song of Love — Mother's Song — The Bonniest Bairn in a' the Warl' — Cuddle Doon — I Am Lonely — Brother and Sister — Home — Love Will Find Out the Way — The Sailor's Wife — Evening at the Farm — Home Song — Etude Rêaliste — We Are Seven
19. 19.INTERLEAVES — Fairy Songs and Songs of Fancy
20. 20.FAIRY SONGS AND SONGS OF FANCY — FAIRY LAND — I — Puck and the Fairy — II — Lullaby for Titania — III — Oberon and Titania to the Fairy Train — IV — Ariel's Songs — Orpheus With His Lute — The Arming of Pigwiggen — Hesperus' Song — L'Allegro — (Extracts) — Sabrina Fair — Alexander's Feast — Kubla Khan — The Magic Car Moved On — Arethusa — The Culprit Fay — (Extracts) — III — Fairy Dawn — IV — The Assembling of the Fays — VI — The Throne of the Lily-King — VII — The Fay's Crime — VIII — The Fay's Sentence — X — The Fay's Departure — A Myth — The Fairy Folk — The Merman — The Mermaid — Bugle Song — The Raven — The Bells
21. 21.INTERLEAVES — Sports and Pastimes
22. 22.VII — SPORTS AND PASTIMES — Blowing Bubbles — Bicycling Song — Going A Maying — Jog On, Jog On [12] — A Vagabond Song — Swimming — Swimming — The Angler's Reveille [13] — The Angler's Invitation — Skating — Reading — On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer — Music's Silver Sound — The Power of Music — Descend, Ye Nine — Old Song — The Barefoot Boy — Leolin and Edith — Going A-Nutting — Whittling — Hunting Song — The Hunter's Song — The Blood Horse — The Northern Seas — The Needle
23. 23.INTERLEAVES — A Garden of Girls
24. 24.A GARDEN OF GIRLS — A Portrait — Little Bell — A Child of Twelve — Chloe — O Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet — Who Is Silvia? — To Mistress Margaret Hussey — Ruth — My Peggy — Annie Laurie — Lucy — Jessie — Olivia — Nikolina — The Solitary Reaper — Helena and Hermia — Phyllis — So Sweet Is She — I Love My Jean — My Nannie's Awa'
25. 25.INTERLEAVES — The World of Waters
26. 26.THE WORLD OF WATERS — To the Ocean — A Life on the Ocean Wave [14] — The Sea — A Sea-Song — A Visit From the Sea [15] — Drifting [16] — Tacking Ship Off Shore [17] — Windlass Song — The Coral Grove — The Shell — Bermudas — Where Lies the Land?
27. 27.INTERLEAVES — For Home and Country
28. 28.FOR HOME AND COUNTRY — The First, Best Country — My Native Land — Loyalty — My Heart's in the Highlands — The Minstrel-Boy — The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls — Fife and Drum — The Cavalier's Song — The Old Scottish Cavalier — The Song of the Camp — Border Ballad — Gathering Song of Donuil Dhu — The Reveille — Ye Mariners of England — The Knight's Tomb — How Sleep the Brave! — Dirge — For One Who Fell in Battle. — The Burial of Sir John Moore — Soldier, Rest! — Recessional — The Fatherland
29. 29.INTERLEAVES — New World and Old Glory
30. 30.NEW WORLD AND OLD GLORY — Dear Land of All My Love [18] — Columbus [19] — Pocahontas — Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers — The Twenty-second of December [20] — Washington — Warren's Address — Carmen Bellicosum — The American Flag — (Extract) — Old Ironsides — (U. S. S. "Constitution.") — Indians — Crossing the Plains [21] — Concord Hymn — Sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836. — Ode — Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857. — Stanzas on Freedom — Abraham Lincoln — Lincoln the Great Commoner — Abraham Lincoln — (Summer, 1865.) — O Captain! My Captain! — The Flag Goes By — The Black Regiment — Night Quarters — Battle-Hymn of the Republic — Sheridan's Ride [22] — October 19, 1864. — Song of the Negro Boatman — Barbara Frietchie — Two Veterans — Stand by the Flag! — At Gibraltar [23] — I — At Gibraltar — II — Faith and Freedom — Our Mother Tongue — The English Language — To America — On a Proposed Alliance Between Two Great Nations. — The Name of Old Glory — 1898
31. 31.INTERLEAVES — In Merry Mood
32. 32.IN MERRY MOOD — On a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes — The Priest and the Mulberry Tree — The Council of Horses — The Diverting History of John Gilpin — Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again. — To a Child of Quality — Five Years Old, 1704, the Author Then Forty. — Charade — (Campbell.) — (Thomas Campbell, the Poet.) — A Riddle — (A Book.) — A Riddle — (The Vowels.) — A Riddle — (The Letter H.) — Feigned Courage — Baucis and Philemon — The Lion and the Cub — Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog — The Walrus and the Carpenter — Song of the Turtle and Flamingo — Captain Reece — The Cataract of Lodore — The Enchanted Shirt — Made in the Hot Weather — The Housekeeper — The Monkey — November — Captain Sword
33. 33.INTERLEAVES — Story Poems: Romance and Reality
34. 34.XIII — STORY POEMS: ROMANCE AND REALITY — The Singing Leaves — Seven Times Two — The Long White Seam — Hannah Binding Shoes — Lord Ullin's Daughter — The King of Denmark's Ride — The Shepherd to His Love — Ballad — a.d. 1400 — Romance of the Swan's Nest — Lochinvar — Jock of Hazeldean — The Lady of Shalott — Part I — Part II — Part III — Part IV — The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire — The Forsaken Merman — The Sands of Dee — The "Gray Swan" — The Wreck of the Hesperus — A Greyport Legend — The Glove and the Lions — How's My Boy? — The Child-Musician — How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix — The Inchcape Rock — A Night With a Wolf — The Dove of Dacca — The Abbot of Inisfalen — The Cavalier's Escape — The Pied Piper of Hamelin — Hervé Riel — Vision of Belshazzar. — Solomon and the Bees — The Burial of Moses
35. 35.INTERLEAVES — When Banners Are Waving
36. 36.WHEN BANNERS ARE WAVING — When Banners Are Waving — Battle of the Baltic — The Pipes at Lucknow — The Battle of Agincourt — The Battle of Blenheim — The Armada: A Fragment — Ivry — A Song of the Huguenots. — On the Loss of the Royal George — Written when the News Arrived, September, 1782. — The Charge of the Light Brigade — Bannockburn — Robert Bruce's Address to his Army. — The Night Before Waterloo — Hohenlinden — Incident of the French Camp — Marco Bozzaris — The Destruction of Sennacherib
37. 37.INTERLEAVES — Tales of the Olden Time
38. 38.TALES OF THE OLDEN TIME — Sir Patrick Spens — The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington — King John and the Abbot of Canterbury — Lord Beichan and Susie Pye — The Gay Gos-hawk — Earl Mar's Daughter — Chevy-Chace — Hynde Horn — Glenlogie
39. 39.INTERLEAVES — Life Lessons
40. 40.LIFE LESSONS — Life — In a Child's Album — To-Day — The Noble Nature — Forbearance — The Chambered Nautilus — Duty — On His Blindness — Sir Launfal and the Leper — Opportunity — Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel — Be True — The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation — A Turkish Legend — Elegy written in a Country Churchyard — Polonius to Laertes — The Olive Tree — Coronation — December — The End of the Play — A Farewell — A Boy's Prayer — Chartless — Peace — Consider — The Elixir — One by One — The Commonwealth of the Bees — (Type of a Well-ordered State.) — The Pilgrim — Be Useful
41. 41.INTERLEAVES — The Glad Evangel
42. 42.THE GLAD EVANGEL — A Christmas Carol [24] — The Angels — " While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" — The Star Song — Hymn for Christmas — New Prince, New Pomp — The Three Kings — The Three Kings [25] — A Christmas Hymn — O Little Town of Bethlehem — While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night — Christmas Carol — Old Christmas — God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen — Minstrels and Maids — An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour — Old Christmas Returned — Ceremonies for Christmas — Christmas in England. — The Gracious Time — Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning — THE END
43. 43.INDEX BY AUTHORS
44. 44.INDEX BY TITLES

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