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Poetry - Lyric Genre
Books in the Poetry - Lyric genre:
Hebrew Melodies (1815)
Author(s):
Lord George Gordon Byron
Illustrator(s):
None
Day and Night Songs; and The Music Master. A Love Poem (1860)
Author(s):
William Allingham
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Hughes
John Everett Millais
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Old Homestead Poems (1888)
Author(s):
Wallace Bruce
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Lullaby Land, Songs of Childhood (1894)
Author(s):
Eugene Field
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Charles Robinson
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Children’s Longfellow (1908)
This is a much larger selection of Longfellow’s work Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Children’s Own Longfellow (1908)
This version contains only eight poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Seven Ages of Childhood (1909)
Author(s):
Carolyn Wells
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
A Child’s Book of Old Verses (1910)
An anthology of verse for children. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children (1916)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Maud Fuller
Poems of American Patriotism (1922)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1923)
A collection of new and old stories and poems for very young children. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Ada M. Skinner
Eleanor L. Skinner
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
When We Were Very Young (1924)
A book of poems in which we first meet Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Flying Carpet (1925)
An anthology of leading authors and illustrators of the first part of the twentieth century.
Playtime & Company: A Book for Children (1925)
A book of verse for children.
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Teddy Bear and Other Songs from When We Were Very Young (1926)
Author(s):
H. Fraser-Simson
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Hither and Thither (1927)
Only the line drawing on the cover is by Shepard.
Author(s):
Barbara Euphan Todd
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Margaret W. Tarrant
Let’s Pretend (1927)
A book of poems for children.
Author(s):
Georgette Agnew
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Now We Are Six (1927)
More poems featuring Christopher Robin.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Menagerie (1928)
Poems, mainly about animals.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mary Britton Miller
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell