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Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:

Poems and Songs (1883)

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Dialect poems by the “Lancashire Burns.” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott
Et al

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Chatterbox Hall (1884)

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Stories and verses to accompany the pictures.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

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Come Lasses and Lads (1884)

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A traditional ballad. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Gray Mare (1884)

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This R. Caldecott picture book contains two traditional rhymes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Language of Flowers (1884)

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Includes a list of flowers and their meanings, a list of sentiments and which flowers express them and a selection of flower poems. Read online at archve.org.... View More

Author(s): Kate Greenaway
Various
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

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Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross (1884)

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This R. Caldecott picture book contains two traditional rhymes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)

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‘In winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite the other way,I have to go to bed by day.’ And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): None

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Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes (1885)

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A collection of original poems and pictures. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Kate Greenaway
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

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Mrs. Mary Blaize (1885)

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A humorous rhyme about a pawnbroker. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Randolph Caldecott’s Second Collection of Pictures and Songs (1885)

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This omnibus contains the last eight of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books: Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting (1882) The Milkmaid (1882) The Fox Jumps Over the Parson’s Gate (1883) A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1883) Come Lasses and Lads (1884... View More

Author(s): Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Dream Land (1886)

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A collection of poetry and prose intended for schools. Includes a Palmer Cox mouse story. Read online at Baldwin Library.... View More

Author(s): Palmer Cox
Various
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox
Various

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Jack and the Beanstalk (1886)

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The familiar story of Jack and the Beanstalk in English hexameters by the son of the Poet Laureate. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg. Or Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Hallam Tennyson
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Rhymes for the Young Folk (1886)

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A collection of poems by the author of “The Fairies.” Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): William Allingham
Illustrator(s): Harry Furniss
Kate Greenaway
Et al

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The Baby’s Own Æsop (1887)

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Aesop’s Fables, condensed and converted to rhyme. Read for free online at Internet Archive and at the University of Florida.... View More

Author(s): W. J. Linton
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott’s Pictures and Songs (1887)

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All the picture books in one volume.

Author(s): Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1888)

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The burghers of Hamelin town outsmart themselves. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Robert Browning
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

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The Wonder Clock (1888)

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A collection of original tales, embellished with poems. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Katharine Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers (1889)

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Humanized flowers. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Walter Crane
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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The Turtle Dove’s Nest and Other Nursery Rhymes (1890)

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This collection of nursery rhymes, nonsense and songs, appears to be part of a longer work as the pagination begins with page 191. Read for free online at the University of Florida.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
Et al

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Renascence: A Book of Verse (1891)

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A book of collected verse. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Walter Crane
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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