A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
Contents
To Alison Cunningham --Happy thought -- Foreign lands -- My shadow -- The wind -- The lamplighter -- My treasures -- From a railway carriage -- At the seaside -- A good play -- Northwest Passage -- The hayloft -- Windy nights -- A thought -- Keepsake mill -- The land of story-books -- The unseen playmate -- Pirate story -- Looking-glass river -- The swing -- My bed is a boat -- The land of Nod -- Wintertime -- Autumn fires -- Auntie's skirts -- The dumb soldier -- Escape at bedtime -- Good and bad children -- Young night thought -- The Moon -- The sun's travels -- Picture-books in winter -- Foreign children -- Looking forward -- Armies in the fire -- Rain -- Nest eggs -- Summer sun -- System -- Whole duty of children -- Marching song -- My kingdom -- Fairy bread -- A good boy -- The land of Counterpane -- My ship and I -- Travel -- Singing -- Farewell tot he farm -- Block city -- Night and day -- Where go the boats? -- The flowers -- Time to rise -- The gardner -- The Little land -- The cow -- Bed in summer -- Historical associations -- To Minnie -- To my Name-Chid -- To Willie and Henrietta -- To my mother -- To auntie -- To any reader.