Ballads for Little FolkHurd and Houghton, 1875 - 189 pages |
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apples Barbara Blue better bird blackbird bluebird brown bugs Captain Gray child Child's Wisdom Christmas light Christmas Story cried Dappledun darling dear little Dimple eyes fair Fanny Field farmer feathers feet Field and Mary Flippity-flop friends Frogs Sing girls and boys gold gone Grateful Swan Griselda Goose Gudhand Happy Little Wife hard to crack head heart hide Hide and Seek Hippity hop Jenny Joe and John John M'Clary lesson Little Sister live look Make-believe MARY CLEMMER AMES morning neighbor never night Northland once Phoebe Cary play poor pretty rain Robin Robin's Nest rose Saint Peter shining spider stay stiff upper lip stop sunshine suppose sure sweet tell There's thing thought Tilly told tree turn Twas Twit-twit Twit-twit-twee waiting wild wing Wise Fairy wren
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Page 146 - Twas Dolly's And not your head that broke ? " Suppose you're dressed for walking, And the rain comes pouring down, Will it clear off any sooner Because you scold and frown ? And wouldn't it be...
Page 86 - Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Page 147 - And wouldn't it be nicer For you to smile than pout, And so make sunshine in the house When there is none without? Suppose your task, my little man, Is very hard to get, Will it make it any easier For you to sit and fret? And wouldn't it be wiser Than waiting like a dunce To go to work in earnest And learn the thing at once'? Suppose that some boys have a horse, And some a coach and pair, Will it tire you less while walking To say, "It isn't fair"?
Page 167 - said the other, " I don't think you know ! " So he walked in boldly — Nobody in sight ; First he took a nibble. Then he took a bite ; Close the trap together Snapped as quick as wink, Catching mousey fast there, 'Cause he did n't think.
Page 9 - The quail will come back to the clover, And the swallow back to the eaves. The robin will wear on his bosom A vest that is bright and new, And the loveliest wayside blossom Will shine with the sun and dew. The leaves to-day are whirling, The brooks are all dry and dumb...
Page 157 - they're the prettiest birds, And the whitest that ever flew ! " So off went the sportsman, whistling, And off, too, went his gun ; And its startling echoes never ceased Again till the day was done. And the old crow sat untroubled, Cawing away in her nook ; For she said, " He'll never kill my birds, Since I told him how they look. " Now there's the hawk, my neighbor, She'll see what she will see, soon ; And that saucy, whistling blackbird May have to change his tune...
Page 146 - And wouldn't it be pleasanter To treat it as a joke, And say you're glad " 'twas Dolly's, And not your head, that broke"?
Page 168 - Cause she was so headstrong That she wouldn't think. Once there was a robin, Lived outside the door, Who wanted to go inside And hop upon the floor. "Oh, no," said the mother, "You must stay with me; Little birds are safest Sitting in a tree.
Page 149 - He came to the door of a cottage, In traveling round the earth, Where a little woman was making cakes, And baking them on the hearth; And being faint with fasting, For the day was almost done, He asked her, from her store of cakes, To give him a single one. So she made a very little cake, But as it baking lay, She looked at it, and thought it seemed Too large to give away.
Page 48 - I would say : Be you tempted as you may, Each day, and every day, Speak what is true ! True things, in great and small ; Then, though the sky should fall, Sun, moon, and stars, and all, Heaven would show through ! Figs, as you see and know, Do not out of thistles grow ; And.