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Individual Item Contents: WPRP 381

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Author

Taylor, Ann (1782-1866)

Title

Original Poems for Infant Minds / by The Taylor Family

Imprint

Philadelphia : H.F. Anners, 1840

Call number

WPRP 381

Physical Description

180 p. : ill. ; 16 cm

Citation

This title in Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, pp. 324-9; this edition has multiple entries in WorldCat.

Notes

Engravings throughout.

Epigraph

"In books, or works, or healthful play,
                  Let my first years be past;
                  That I may give, for every day,
                  Some good account at last." Watts

Online copies

Hathi Trust

Contents

ORIGINAL POEMS
A TRUE STORY	1
THE BIRD'S NEST	8
THE HAND POST	10
SPRING	12
SUMMER	14
AUTUMN	15
WINTER	17
TO A BUTTERFLY, ON GIVING IT LIBERTY	19
THE TEMPEST	20
THE CHURCH-YARD	22
MORNING	24
EVENING	24
THE IDLE BOY	25
THE INDUSTRIOUS BOY	26
THE LITTLE FISHERMAN	27
OLD AGE	29
THE APPLE TREE	31
THE DISAPPOINTMENT	32
THE SHEPARD BOY	33
THE ROBIN	35
JAMES AND THE SHOULDER OF MUTTON	36
THE BOYS AND THE APPLE-TREE	40
THE WOODEN DOLL AND THE WAX DOLL	41
THE CUCKOO AND THE REDBREAST	43
IDLE DICKY AND THE GOAT	44
THE NIGHTINGALE	45
NEVER PLAY WITH FIRE	46
THE LARK	47
THE TRUANT BOYS	48
GEORGE AND THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER	49
SOPHIA'S FOOLSCAP	50
WASHING AND DRESSING	51
THE PLUM CAKE	52
ANOTHER PLUM CAKE	53
FOR A NAUGHTLY LITTLE GIRL	53
HONEST OLD TRAY	54
TO A LITTLE GIRL THAT HAS TOLD A LIE	56
THE TWO GARDEBS	57
MY MOTHER	58
MY FATHER	60
THE PALACE AND COTTAGE	62
BALL	65
THE MOTHER'S WISH	57
TO MARIA	68
THE SNAIL	69
THE HOLIDAYS	70
OLD SARAH	71
OLD SUSAN	72
THE GLEANER	73
SNOW	73
THE PIGS	75
FINERY	76
CRAZY ROBERT	76
EMPLOYMENT	77
THE FIGHTING BIRDS	78
CREATION	79
THE TEMPEST	80
THE HORSE	85
THE LAST DYING SPEECH AND CONFESSION OF POOR PUSS	89
DAY	92
NIGHT	94
DEAF MARTHA	96
THE PIN	97
THE LITTLE BIRD'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS	98
THE MISTRESS'S REPLY TO HER LITTLE BIRD	99
THE TRUE HISTORY OF A POOR LITTLE MOUSE	100
THE CHATTERBOX	101
THE SNOWDROP	102
THE YELLOW LEAF	103
POOR POMPEY'S COMPLAINT	104
THE POND	106
THE ENGLISH GIRL	108
THE SCOTCH LADDIE	109
THE WELCH LAD	110
THE IRISH BOY	111
GREEDY RICHARD	112
DIRTY JACK	113
THE FARM	114
READING	116
IDLENESS	117
THE GOOD-NATURED GIRLS	118
MISCHIEF	119
THE SPIDER	120
THE COW AND THE ASS	121
THE WORM	124
FIRE	125
AIR	126
EARTH	128
WATER	129
TIT FOR TAT	130
JANE AND ELIZA	132
ELIZA AND JANE	133
THE BABY	134
THE POOR OLD MAN	135
THE NOTORIOUS GLUTTON	136
THE LITTLE CRIPPLE’S COMPLAINT	138
POOR DONKEY’S EPITAPH	149
THE ORPHAN	141
RISING IN THE MORNING	142
GOING TO BED AT NIGHT	142
FRANCES KEEPS HER PROMISE	143
MY OLD SHOES	145
TO GEORGE PULLING BUDS	145
A NEW YEAR’S GIFT	146
THE CRUEL THORN	148
NIMBLE DICK	149
THE LINNET’S NEST	151
THE ITALIAN GRAYHOUND	151
THE USE OF SIGHT	152
THE MORNING TASK	154
THE OAK	157
CARELESS MATILDA	157
THE MUSHROOM GIRL	159
BEASTS, BIRDS, AND FISHES	160
THE SPIDER AND HIS WIFE	162
THE POPPY	164
THE VIOLET	164
THE WAY TO BE HAPPY	165
CONTENTED JOHN	166
THTE GAUDY FLOWER	167
SLUTTISHNESS	168
DECEMBER NIGHT	169
POVERTY	170
THE VILLAGE GREEN	171
THE ADVANTAGES OF EDUCATION	172
CRADLE HYMN	173
ON REVENGE	175
THE GNAT	175
TRUE GRANDEUR	176
THE FOOLISH WISH	176
A HYMN	177
ON LOVE TO ONE ANOTHER	177

Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 381

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 381