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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth

Paperback (Forgotten Books March 16, 2010)
THERE is no doubt, I fear, that certain people are born, without, as certain other people are born with, a love of poetry, Any natural gift is a great advantage, of course, be it physical, -mental, or spiritual. The dear old tales which suggest the presence of fairies at the cradle of the new-born child, dealing out, not 'very impartially, talents, charms, graces, are not so far from the real truth, You, may lUl've been given a straight nose, a rosy cheek, a courteous manner, a li'vely wit, a generolls disposition; but perhaps the Fairy Fine-Ear, who heors the grass grow, and the leaf-buds throb, had a pressing engagement at somebody else's cradle-side '[chen you most needed her benefactions. Tlze1'e is another elf too, a Dame 0' Dreams; she is clad all in color-of-rose, and when she tOllches your eyelids you see 'visions fore'['er after; beautiful haunting things hidden frolll duller eyes, visions made o

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; ~h r?-; l' i; ~ 9; A CHANTED CALE~DAH; Daybreak By Percy Bysshe Shelley; :Jlorning ny John Keats; A :Uorlling Song By lVilliam SlzakespearlJ; Evenillg in Paradise By John Jl1ilton; Evening Song By John Fletcher; Night By Hobert So-uthey; A Fine Day By ilfichael Drayton; The Seasons By Edmund Spenser; The Eternal Spri!1g By John ilfilton; lIarch By lrilliam Cullen Bryant; Spring By Thomas Carew; SOllg to April By lr"illiam H'atson; April in England By Hobert Brorcning; April and :Iay By Ralph H'aldo Emerson; lfay By Edmund Spenser; Song on ::Iay ::[ornillg By John lfilton; Summer By Edmund Spenser; June 'Veather By James Russell Lorc'cU; July By Susan Hartley S'wett; August By Edmund Spenser; In August By H"illiflnl Dean Ilo'u'cUs; tIJce; 1; 1; ~; 3; 4; 5; 5; 5; 6; 7; 7; 8; 9; 9; 10; 10; 11; 13; 14; 14 A CHA''!'El> CALE~DAR-Contillued; Autumn Dy Edmund Spenser; Swect Scptembcr Dy George Arnold; Autumn's Proccssional By Dinah 1lf 11fulol;/:; Octobcr's Dright Dluc 'Vcather Dy If I
ISBN
1440083738 / 9781440083730
Pages
768
Weight
44.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 1.7 in.

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