- Verses for Children
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This is a volume of verses by JHG Ewing. Ms. Ewing was best known as an author of short stories and fairy tales, but this is a volume of rhymes for children.
- Chapters
- Preface
- The Burial of the Linnet
- Master Fritz
- The Willow-Man
- Our Garden
- A Friend in the Garden
- Three Little Nest Birds
- Dolly's Lullaby, A Nursery Rhyme
- A Hero to His Hobby-Horse
- The Dolls' Wash
- House-Building and Repairs
- The Blue-Bells on the Lea
- An Only Child's Tea-Party
- Papa Poodle
- Grandmother's Spring
- Big Smith
- Kit's Cradle
- The Mill Stream
- Boy and Squirrel
- Little Master to his Big Dog
- A Sweet Little Dear
- Blue and Red, or, the Discontented Lobster
- The Yellow Fly, A Tale with a Sting in it
- Canada Home
- The Poet and the Brook, a Tale of Transformations
- A Soldier's Children
- 'Touch him if you Dare', a Tale of the Hedge
- Mother's Birthday Review
- The Promise
- Convalescence
- The Adventures of an Elf
- Serenade
- Maiden with the Gipsy Look
- Ah, Would I Could Forget
- Madrigal
- The Elleree, A Song of Second Sight
- Other Stars
- Faded Flowers
- Speed Well
- How Many Years Ago?
- 'With a Difference'
- The Lily of the Lake
- From Fleeting Pleasures: a Requiem for One Alive
- The Runaway's Return
- Fancy Free, A Girl's Song
- My Love's Gift
- Anemones
- Autumn Leaves
- Confirmation
- Whitsuntide
- Christmas Wishes, a Carol
- Teach Me. (From the Danish)