A Child's Garden of Verses Read online

  My tea is nearly ready, 35

  O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, 59

  Of speckled eggs the birdie sings, 14

  Over the borders, a sin without pardon, 28

  Smooth it slides upon its travel, 41

  Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed, 102

  Summer fading, winter comes, 62

  The coach is at the door at last, 48

  The friendly cow, all red and white, 25

  The gardener does not love to talk, 88

  The lamps now glitter down the street, 69

  The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out, 23

  The moon has a face like the clock in the hall, 38

  The rain is raining all around, 6

  The red room with the giant bed, 98

  The sun is not a-bed when I, 34

  The world is so full of a number of things, 26

  These nuts that I keep in the back of the nest, 64

  Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing, 7

  Through all the pleasant meadow-side, 47

  Up into the cherry-tree, 8

  We built a ship upon the stairs, 15

  What are you able to build with your blocks, 65

  When at home alone I sit, 70

  When children are playing alone on the green, 57

  When I am grown to man's estate, 15

  When I was down beside the sea, 3

  When I was sick and lay a-bed, 17

  When the bright lamp is carried in, 50

  When the golden day is done, 77

  When the grass was closely mown, 85

  Whenever Auntie moves around, 17

  Whenever the moon and stars are set, 10

  You too, my mother, read my rhymes, 96