MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS 83 POEMS ARRANGED BY GRADES AND RECOMMENDED FOR READING AND MEMORIZING SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED LANSING, MICHIGAN 1915 545910910 GRADED POEMS HAPPY THOUGHT The world is so full of a number of things, First Grade 37 THE LAMPLIGHTER My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; For every night at tea time and before you take your seat, Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be, But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, Robert Louis Stevenson THE LOST DOLL I once had a sweet little doll, dears, Her cheeks were so red and white, dears, As I played on the heath one day; And I cried for her more than a week, dears, I found my poor little doll, dears, As I played on the heath one day; Folks say she is terribly changed, dears, And her arms trodden off by the cows, dears, Yet for old sake's sake, she is still, dears, 300371 Charles Kingsley |