Little compliments of the season, and other tiny rhymes for tiny readers. Simple verses, original, selected and translated, for namedays, birthdays, Christmas, New Year, and other festive and social occasions (1887)
Donnelly, Eleanor C. (Eleanor Cecilia), 1838-1917. comp · New York [etc.] Benziger Brothers · leaf 120
ay from town. Though of sweetmeats she had none On that blessed day,—Thinking where her coin had gone, She was bright and gay. All the candy in the shop, All the sweetest cake,Were not sweeter than her deed Done for Gods dear sake ! —E. C. D. The Birds. Who taught you to sing,My sweet, pretty… … It was God, said a lark,As he rose from the earth : He gives us the good we enjoy ;He painted our wings, He gave us our voice,He finds us our food,He bids us rejoice ;—Good-morning, my beautiful boy ! — Mrs. Sigourney.
Children's poetry · Poetry
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