Identifier: poetryforchildre00lamb (find matches)
Title: Poetry for children
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 Green, Winifred Gollancz, Israel, Sir, 1864-1930 Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Subjects: Children's poetry, English
Publisher: (London) : Published by J.M. Dent & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image:
POETRY FOR
CHILDREN
By
Charles and
Mary Lamb
Text Appearing After Image:
ILLUSTRATED BY
WINIFRED GREEN
With a prefatory note by
I ISRAEL GOLLANcZ
PUBLISHED BY J M DENT & C^o


To the
Gentle Reader

AS often as I pass a little Blue-coat boy I
gaze upon him lovingly : I reverence the
quaint vision of a bygone age called up by the
long blue gaberdine, the red leathern belt, the
yellow stockings — a quaint monkish figure still
to be seen in crowded London streets, still
adding to their picturesqueness and ever-varying
charm. You, too, dear Reader, have yourself probably
asked the meaning of the strange sight, as you
have passed one of these English lads so strangely
attired. Perhaps you have been shown the
famous old school, in the midst of the bustle of
London, surrounded by ugly warehouses, offices,
and shops ; and you have seen the effigy of the
Founder, that "godly and royal child, King
Edward the Sixth, the flower of the Tudor
name — the young flower that was untimely
cropped as it began to fill our land with it


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