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• English children's poetry

• When We Were Very Young (New York: Dutton's Children's Books, ca. 1988), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Now We Are Six (reprint; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1961), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Now We Are Six (new edition, 94th printing; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1935), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Now We Are Six (new edition, 106th printing; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1935), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• When We Were Very Young (114th printing; E. P. Dutton, 1928), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• At Home (London and Belfast: Marcus, Ward and Co., ca. 1881), by Eliza Keary, illust. by J. G. Sowerby and Thomas Crane
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• Aunt Charlotte's Evenings at Home With the Poets (second edition; London: Marcus Ward and Co., 1881), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at Florida)
• Country Friends (London: E. Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co, ca. 1901), illust. by William Foster (PDF with commentary at Toronto Public Library)
• Hymns for Mothers and Children (4th edition; Boston: Walker, Wise and Co., 1864), ed. by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)
• Kensington Rhymes (London: M. Secker, c1912), by Compton Mackenzie, contrib. by J. R. Monsell
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• Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., c1885), by Kate Greenaway
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
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• More Beasts (For Worse Children) (London; Duckworth and Co., n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
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• On the Tree Top (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1881), contrib. by Clara Doty Bates, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and Jessie Curtis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rhyme Book (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1906), by Lena Ault and Norman Ault (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Sycamore Square and Other Verses, by Jan Struther (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• When We Were Very Young (23rd edition; E. P. Dutton, 1925), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• When We Were Very Young (59th edition; E. P. Dutton, 1925), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (London; Duckworth, n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
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• The Book of Shops (London: Grant Richards, n. d.), by E. V. Lucas, illust. by F. D. Bedford (page images at Florida)
• Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children Between the Ages of Eight and Fourteen Years, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
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• Little Ann and Other Poems (London: George Routledge and Sons, ca. 1883), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Adelaide O'Keefe, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at LOC)
• Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), illust. by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Original Mother Goose Melodies, With Silhouette Illustrations (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. illingham, 1878), illust. by J. F. Goodridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Very Short Stories and Verses for Children (London: Walter Scott, 1886), by Mrs. Clifford, illust. by Edith Campbell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Beauty and the Beast and Other Stories (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse, Selected and Revised From the Best Authors (London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1814), ed. by Benjamin Tabart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Book for Boys and Girls, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)
• A child's garden of verses (C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Jessie Willcox Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sunday book of poetry (Macmillan and co., 1865), by Cecil Frances Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's garland from the best poets (Sever and Francis, 1863), by Coventry Patmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• This singing world for younger children ; modern poems (Harcourt, Brace, 1926), by Louis Untermeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marigold garden : pictures and rhymes (F. Warne, 1900), by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the luncheon interval; Cricket, and other verses. (Methuen, 1925), by A. A. Milne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dame Wiggins of Lee. (Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent : George Allen, 1885., 1885), by Kate Greenaway, John Ruskin, Richard Scrafton Sharpe, and Mrs Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• When we were very young (Dutton, 1961), by A. A. Milne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meddlesome Matty and other poems for infant minds (The Viking Press, 1926), by Jane Taylor, Edith Sitwell, Miss O'Keeffe, and Ann Taylor Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cautionary tales for children : designed for the admonition of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years (Duckworth, 1900), by Hilaire Belloc and B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Original poems" and others (Wells, Gardner, Darton ;, 1925), by Jane Taylor, F. D. Bedford, E. V. Lucas, Miss O'Keeffe, and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London town (M. Ward, 1883), by Felix Leigh, Ellen E. Houghton, and Thomas Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems for infant minds (Uriah Hunt's Sons, 1864), by Jane Taylor and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyra heroica; a book of verse for boys (C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), by William Ernest Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enchanted tulips and other verses for children (Macmillan and Co., 1914), by M. Keary, Eliza Keary, and A. Keary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A child's garden of verses (W. Heffer & Sons, 1922), by Robert Louis Stevenson, Rolland C. Stewart, A. G. Dew-Smith, and T. R. Glover (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• When we were very young (Dutton Children's Books, 1992), by A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The child's treasury : a selection of verses for little children (J. B. Lippincott, 1861), by Rebecca Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The jackdaw of Rheims (R. Tuck & sons, 1900), by Thomas Ingoldsby and Lucius Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• A medley of rhymes for the children (J. Nisbet, 1870), by A. M. (Anne M.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Now we are six (Dutton Children's Books, 1992), by A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little folks' song service : for the use of Sunday schools (F.H. Revell, 1879), by Nelly H. Bayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sunday book of poetry (Sever and Francis, 1865), by Cecil Frances Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry for children (Published by J.M. Dent & Co., 1898), by Charles Lamb, Fernand Gabriel Renier, Anne Renier, Winifred Green, Edmund Evans, and J.M. Dent & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhymes for the nursery. (R. Carter & Bros., 1856), by Jane Taylor, William Croome, and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems, for infant minds (Darton and Harvey, 1806), by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bumblebee Bogo's budget. (Macmillan, 1887), by W. W. Follett Synge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children of the sun, etc., etc., etc. : poems for the young (F. Warne ;, 1869), by C. M. Gemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems, for infant minds (T. Ash, 1834), by Jane Taylor and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems, for infant minds. (Frankish, 1821), by Jane Taylor, Adelaide O'Keeffe, and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose and poetry (H. Milford, 1925), by Jane Taylor and Florence V. Barry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Queen of the meadow (E.P. Dutton, 1888), by Robert Ellice Mack and H. M. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Very short stories and verses for children (Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, 1886), by W. K. Clifford and Edith Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern poetry for children, (Noble and Noble, 1928), by James Joseph Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Self expression : a reprint of selected verse from Bulletins 9 and 14 of the Bronxville schools. (Bronxville, N.Y., 1900), by Bronxville (N.Y.). Public schools (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poems for reading and memorizing. First[-eighth] grades. (Houghton Mifflin company, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A child's garden of verses (Scribner, 1905), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Jessie Willcox Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Approved selections for supplementary reading and memorizing in the schools of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans, and other cities ... (Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1905), by Melvin Hix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical blossoms : being a selection of short poems, intended for young people to repeat from memory (printed for E. Newbery, Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1793), by R. Johnson, Newbery (Firm), and Elizabeth Newbery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nursery rhymes. (Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1824), by Jane Taylor and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Village verse book (Darton and Clark, 1837), by William Lisle Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems for infant minds (H.F. Anners, 1840), by Ann Taylor, Henry F. Anners, Jane Taylor, and Taylor family (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems for infant minds (Munroe & Francis, 1843), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Munroe & Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sunday book of poetry (Macmillan, 1872), by Cecil Frances Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems, for infant minds (R. Carter, 1869), by Jane Taylor, Adelaide O'Keeffe, and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Original poems" and others, by Ann and Jane Taylor and Adelaide O'Keeffe, ed. by E.V. Lucas, with illustrations by F.D. Bedford. (W. Gardner, Darton & Co.;, 1905), by Jane Taylor, F. D. Bedford, E. V. Lucas, Miss O'Keeffe, and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chimes and rhymes (George Routledge and Sons, 1871), by Oscar Pletsch, Leighton Bros, and George Routledge and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ye jackdaw of Rheims (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1883), by Thomas Ingoldsby and Ernest Maurice Jessop (page images at HathiTrust)
• A child's garden of verses and Underwoods. (Cosmopolitan magazine, 1906), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexander Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems for infant minds (Allen Brothers, 1869), by Jane Taylor, Adelaide O'Keeffe, Miss O'Keeffe, and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of natural history. (Conrad & Parsons, 1834), by Mary Howitt, Jun. & Co James Kay, and H. Conrad & E. Parsons (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems for infant minds (C. S. Francis, 1854), by Jane Taylor, Miss O'Keeffe, Ann Taylor, and C.S. Francis & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast, or Harlequin and the genius of spring; a new comic Christmas pantomime founded on Roscoe's popular poem. (W.S. Johnson, 1855), by William Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns for mothers and children (Walker, Wise, & Co., 1864), by C. S. Guild and Anne E. Guild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems. (G. Routledge, 1868), by Jane Taylor, James Davis Cooper, Miss O'Keefe, Ann Taylor, and Son and Taylor R. Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• An anthology of babyhood (Hutchinson, 1912), by Muriel Nelson D'Auvergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The "Original poems" and others (Wells-Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905), by Ann Taylor, E. V. Lucas, Isaac Taylor, Adelaide O'Keeffe, Jane Taylor, and F. D. Bedford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rhymes for children : illustrated with appropriate wood-cuts. (Poetry Bookshop, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mother Hubbard and her dog (S. & J. Keys, 1840), by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hermit. And the traveller. (Published by Samuel Wood & Sons ... and ;, 1818), by Thomas Parnell, Adelaide O'Keefe, and Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The butterfly's ball, and the grasshopper's feast (Printed for J. Harris, 1808), by William Roscoe and William Mulready (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Tom Thumb. (Printed by J.G. Rusher, 1820), by John Golby Rusher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete Mother Goose (Copp, Clark, 1909), by Mother Goose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The little Mother Goose (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1918), by Jessie Willcox Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Placid pug (Duckworth, 1906), by Alfred Bruce Douglas and P. P. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A child's garden of verses : Underwoods ; Ballads (C. Scribner, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A moral alphabet (Edward Arnold, 1899), by Hilaire Belloc, B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood), and Edward Arnold (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry for children (C. Scribner's Sons, 1889), by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, and Richard Herne Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's Percy : being old ballads of war, adventure and love (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882., 1882), by Thomas Percy, Edmund Birckhead Bensell, Sidney Lanier, Peter J. Solomon, Faires & Rodgers Grant, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast (Griffith & Farran, 1883), by William Roscoe, William Mulready, and Griffith and Farran (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's garland from the best poets. Selected and arranged by Coventry Patmore. (Macmillan, 1879), by Coventry Patmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Turner's cautionary stories. (Grant Richards, 1897), by Mrs. Turner and Edith Farmiloe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A child's garden of verses (Henry Altemus, 1921), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Margaret Campbell Hoopes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child life in poetry (Houghton, Mifflin, 1894), by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry for children (Chatto and Windus, 1878), by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child life : a collection of poems (J.R. Osgood, 1875), by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Princess Marie-Jose's children's book, with 16 colour plates and a profusion of black-and-white illustrations. (Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1916), by Queen Maria José (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A child's garden of verses. (Scribner, 1905), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads of babyland (A. Gardner, 1905), by Robert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's poems that never grow old, for little folks from six to twelve years old (The Reilly & Lee co., 1922), by Clement F. 1833-1937 Benoit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blue Beard. (John Lane ;, 1900), by Edmund Evans and Walter Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's hour (Hyperion Press :, 1944), by Waldo Peirce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old friends and new friends : tales, fables, and emblems in prose and verse (F. Warne and Co., in the 1860s), by H. W. Dulcken, John Dawson Watson, and Dalziel Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child's song (T.De La Rue & Co., 1883), by William Allingham and E. Gertrude Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pussies at mischief. (T.Nelson & Sons, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three bears. (George Routledge & Sons, 1873), by Walter Crane, Edmund Evans, and George Routledge and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's prayers. (Eyre & Spottiswoode, in the 1890s), by Sarah Wilson, Fred Marriott, Jane M. Dealy, and Eyre & Spottiswoode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original poems for infant minds. (J. Miller, 1864), by Jane Taylor, Miss O'Keeffe, and Ann Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy rhymes and simple poems for young children. (Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fairy flute (Methuen & co. ltd., 1922), by Rose Fyleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The golden staircase : poetry for the eleven and twelve year old (T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1900), by Louey Chisholm and M. Dibdin Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Original poems" and others (Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1903), by Jane Taylor, Adelaide O'Keeffe, E. V. Lucas, Miss O'Keeffe, Ann Taylor, and Darton & Co Wells Gardner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The children's garland from the best poets (Macmillan ;, 1908), by Coventry Patmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gammon and spinach (W. Collins Sons & Co., 1927), by Elizabeth Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sing-song : A nursery rhyme book, by Christina Georgina Rossetti, illust. by Arthur Hughes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The fairy flute, by Rose Fyleman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Porridge poetry : Cooked, ornamented and served up by Hugh Lofting, by Hugh Lofting (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poetry for children, by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, contrib. by Israel Gollancz, illust. by Winifred Green (Gutenberg ebook)
• Story-Telling Ballads: Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott, illust. by Milo Winter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Child Whispers, by Enid Blyton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Fairy Green, by Rose Fyleman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard, and Her Dog: In which is shewn the wonderful powers that good old lady possessed in the education of her favourite animal, by Sarah Catherine Martin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes, by Alfred Bruce Douglas, illust. by P. P. (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Daisy, or, Cautionary Stories in Verse.: Adapted to the Ideas of Children from Four to Eight Years Old., by Mrs. Turner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Other Poems: Every Boy's Library, by Robert Browning (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mrs. Turner's Cautionary Stories, by Mrs. Turner, ed. by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Children's Garland from the Best Poets, ed. by Coventry Patmore (Gutenberg ebook)
• Deborah Dent and Her Donkey and Madam Fig's Gala: Two Humorous Tales (Gutenberg ebook)
• Merry Words for Merry Children, by A. Hoatson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fairy's Album: With Rhymes of Fairyland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sweets for Leisure Hours: Amusing Tales for Little Readers, by A. Phillips and E. Phillips (Gutenberg ebook)
• Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys, ed. by William Ernest Henley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems Teachers Ask For: Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nonsense Songs, by Edward Lear (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear (Gutenberg ebook)
• The House That Jack Built: One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books, by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mother's birthday review (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885), by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, R. André, and Emrik & Binger (page images at Florida)
• Bluebeard (London, New York: John Lane, [between 1896 and 1902?]), by Walter Crane, Edmund Evans, Helen Maitland Armstrong, and Gwendolen Ella Rives Armstrong Rives, illust. by Walter Crane (page images at Florida)
• The horkey (London: Macmillan and Co., n.d.), by Robert Bloomfield and F. C. Burnand, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at Florida)
• The poet & the brook (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885), by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, illust. by R. André (page images at Florida)
• Chimes and rhymes for youthful times! (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1871), by Leighton Bros, illust. by Oscar Pletsch (page images at Florida)
• The pleasure book of the year (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1870) (page images at Florida)
• The comic adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1888), by Sarah Catherine Martin, illust. by Will Gibbons (page images at Florida)
• The children's nonsense book (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1895) (page images at Florida)
• A child's garden of verses (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bruce Rogers, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Collection (Library of Congress), and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress), illust. by Charles Robinson (page images at Florida)
• The rose (Birmingham [Warwickshire England]: Cornish Brothers, 1899), by Mary Elvira Elliott (page images at Florida)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin (New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1899), by Robert Browning (page images at Florida)
• Mrs. Turner's cautionary stories (London: Grant Richards, 1898), by E. V. Lucas, illust. by Edith Farmiloe (page images at Florida)

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