Illustrated Poems and Songs for Young People (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Illustrated Poems and Songs for Young People As I look into the pictured volumes of poems for young people, it seems to me that the fairy-stories of my childhood were not untrue, but only prophetic. The two eyes of my little daughter, while she looks over my shoulder, sparkle as those of little "Two Eyes" must have done when she said: "Little kid, milk! Table, appear!" and all the dainties the land afforded were spread before her. When I was a little girl, four pictures in a book of poetry made it an unusual treasure, while, as a rule, I had only the frontispiece. I had the rhymes of Jane and Ann Taylor, but what should I have thought at seeing them adorned with Kate Greenaway's quaint and artistic pictures? And the poetry, too - how the feast has been added to in that respect! There were few men and women of genius who wrote for children. We had to read grown-up poetry, or confine ourselves to a very limited selection. There was no Annie D. Green, nor Mrs. Thaxter, nor Mrs. Dodge, writing whole volumes, not of childish but of youthful poetry - poetry with the freshness and frolic of girls and boys in it. I turned to the old English ballads - "The Child of Elle, " "Chevy Chase, " and "The Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green." Poor enough they were, but they told a story, and I understood them. I remember taking my little sister, winter evenings, by the fire in the deserted kitchen, to read to her "The Lady of the Lake." To my dismay, she fell asleep every evening, but I read right on. At last, one night, she happened to be awake when I reached the thrilling lines: "Midst furs and silks and jewel sheen, He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, - And Snowdon's Knight is Scotland's King!" "What, Fitz-James was the King?" cried my sister. Then I began at the beginning, and read the whole to a most attentive listener. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.