THE CHILDREN'S TREASURY OF LYRICAL POETRY SELECTED AND ARRANGED WITH NOTES BY FRANCIS. TURNER PALGRAVE LATE FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME Engl Biol Grey NEW EDITION London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1878 500180-A. Neu- ENGL. The Publishers owe their thanks to Mr. William Cullen Bryant for the use of his two Poems "To a Waterfowl," and "The Death of the Flowers"; also to Messrs. James R. Osgood & Co. for permission to print Professor Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus," from their copyright edition of his works. Tonal ་ོཏེ PREFACE THIS selection is planned for children between nine or ten, and fifteen or sixteen years of age; the pleasure and advantage of the older students in Elementary, and the younger in Grammar and Public Schools, being especially kept in view. As it is meant for their own possession and study, not less than for use as a class-book in the teacher's hand, sufficient notes (it is thought) have been added to render the volume by itself fairly comprehensible to children of average intelligence and the editor hopes that this object may be his excuse with those who may consider the annotations too numerous. : The scheme of choice followed has produced a selection different from any known to the editor. Suitability to childhood is, of course, the common principle of all. But, this quality secured (so far as individual judgment can), nothing has been here admitted which does not reach a high rank in poetical merit; and the available stores of English poetry have been carefully reviewed for the purpose. The editor's wish has been to collect all songs, narratives, descriptions, or reflective pieces of a lyrical quality, fit to give pleasure, -high, pure, manly, (and therefore lasting)— to children in the stage between early childhood and early youth and no pieces which are not of this character. Poetry, for poetry's sake, is what |