Silver Pennies: A Collection of Modern Poems for Boys and Girls

xxvi, 138 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, silver moon & pennies and black girl silhouette on front cover, black titles. Includes index of titles, authors, and first lines. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; Some One by Walter de la Mare; Have You Watched the Fairies? by Rose Fyleman; The Little Elf by John Kendrick Bangs; Fairies by Hilda Conkling; The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend by Rose Fyleman; The Child Next Door by Rose Fyleman; The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford; The Find by Francis Ledwidge; The Shadow People by Francis Ledwidge; Overheard on a Saltmarsh by Harold Monro; For a Child Named Katherine by Louise Townsend Nicholl; Night Magic by Amelia Josephine Burr; Moon Song by Hilda Conkling; The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky by Vachel Lindsay; Mockery by Katherine Dixon Riggs; Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be by Vachel Lindsay; Moon Folly by Fannie Stearns Davis; Stars by Sara Teasdale; Evening Song by Fannie Stearns Davis; The Sleepy Song by Josephine Daskam Bacon; Baby Seed Song by E. Nesbit; Rain in the Night by Amelia Josephine Burr; The Old Bridge by Hilda Conkling; The Day Before April by Mary Carolyn Davies; The Pasture by Robert Frost; I Meant to Do My Work To-Day by Richard Le Gallienne; Fringed Gentians by Amy Lowell; Queen Anne's Lace by Mary Leslie Newton; The Hens by Elizabeth Madox Roberts; Strange Tree by Elizabeth Madox Roberts; Water Noises by Elizabeth Madox Roberts; The Rivals by James Stephens; The Faithless Flowers by Margaret Widdemer; Little Folks in the Grass by Annette Wynne; Parliament Hill by H.H. Bashford; Fog by Carl Sandburg; The Plaint of the Camel by Charles Edward Carryl; Bartholomew by Norman Gale; The Bells of Heaven by Ralph Hodgson; The Little Turtle by Vachel Lindsay; The Mysterious Cat by Vachel Lindsay; The Potatoes' Dance by Vachel Lindsay; Animal Crackers by Christopher Morley; A Bunch of Roses by John Bannister Tabb; Check by James Stephens; A Wish Is Quite a Tiny Thing by Annette Wynne; Song Against Children by Aline Kilmer; A Christmas Folk Song by Lizette Woodworth Reese; The Coin by Sara Teasdale; Paper Boats by Rabindranath Tagore; Barter by Sara Teasdale; Stupidity Street by Ralph Hodgson; After All and After All by Mary Carolyn Davies; Ellis Park by Helen Hoyt; The Spirit of the Birch by Arthur Ketchum; A Tree at Dusk by Winifred Welles; Who Loves the Rain by Frances Shaw; Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie; The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats; Do You Fear the Wind? by Hamlin Garland; A Chant Out of Doors by Marguerite Wilkinson; The Army of the Sidhe by Lady Gregory; The Good Joan by Lizette Woodworth Reese; In Flanders Fields by John McCrae; Cargoes by John Masefield; Tartary by Walter de la Mare; Sea-Fever by John Masefield; A Song of Sherwood by Alfred Noyes; America for Me by Henry van Dyke; Lincoln by John Gould Fletcher; The Vinegar Man by Ruth Comfort Mitchell; Portrait by a Neighbor by Edna St. Vincent Millay; I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson; A Little Song of Life by Lizette Woodworth Reese; Days by Karle Wilson Baker; The House with Nobody in It by Joyce Kilmer; An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum; He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats; Grace for Light by Moira O'Neill; The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats; Lone Dog by Irene Rutherford McLeod; Work by Henry van Dyke; Souls by Fannie Stearns Davis.