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Poetry - Lyric Genre

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Books in the Poetry - Lyric genre:

A Book of Christmas Verse (1895)

An anthology that begins with St. Ambrose. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Henry Charles Beeching
Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

A Child’s Garden of Verses (1895)

‘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 twenty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Charles Robinson

A London Garland (1895)

A large collection of verse on the subject of London. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

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

A Book of Verses for Children (1897)

A collection of poetry for children - best read aloud. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Edward Verrall Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (1898)

Humanized flowers. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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

Pippa Passes (1898)

A verse drama: “God’s in His heaven, All’s right with the world.” Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Robert Browning
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

The Shepheard’s Calendar (1898)

A pastoral poem for every month of the year by the author of The Faerie Queene .... View More

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

Songs of Childhood (1902)

A collection of poems intended for children. The frontispiece is by Richard Doyle. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

The Visit to London (1902)

Poems and pictures of a visit to London.

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

The Just So Song Book (1903)

The songs from Just So Stories for Little Children are newly titled and set to music. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Edward German
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Rudyard Kipling

The Just So Song Book (1903)

The songs from Just So Stories for Little Children are newly titled and set to music. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Edward German
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Rudyard Kipling

The Original Poems and Others (1903)

“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and many other poems. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The Garden of Years and Other Poems (1904)

Best known for his humorous poetry, this is a selection of Guy Wetmore Carryl’s more serious verse. The frontispiece is by Maxfield Parrish. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

Poems of Childhood (1904)

A collection of poems including ‘Wynken, Blynken and Nod,’ and ‘The Duel.’ Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Eugene Field
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

‘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): Jessie Willcox Smith

The Friendly Town (1905)

This collection of essays on the joys of city life has endpapers by F. D. Bedford. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden: A Posy from the Plays (1906)

Humanized flowers to illustrate Shakespearean lines. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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

The Procession of the Months (1906)

Illustrations of the months with calendars. Read for Free online at Harvard University.

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

Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read for free online at Internet Archive or at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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