POETRY AND PROSE FOR SCHOOL-DAYS.

EDITED BY

BLANCHE WILDER BELLAMY

AND

MAUD WILDER GOODWIN.

Volume I.

ARRANGED FOR CHILDREN FROM FOUR TO
TWELVE YEARS OLD.

Educt 758, 59,710

MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE GIFT OF
CHARLES HERBERT THURBER
Mar 2941g F

COPYRIGHT, 1889,

BY BLANCHE WILDER BELLAMY AND MAUD WILDER GOODWIN

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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PREFACE.

"OPEN SESAME!" a collection of poetry and prose for school-days, has been prepared with the hope that it will encourage children, first, to learn by heart; secondly, to learn things worth learning; and thirdly, to learn these things because they like them.

In this volume will be found some of those simple words by which little people may come to know great authors, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Addison, Swift, Gay, and Cowper; Byron, Scott, and Burns; Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Southey, Campbell, and Lamb; the Brownings, Thackeray, Dickens, Ruskin, and Charlotte Brontë; Tennyson and Swinburne; Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, and Lowell; Schiller, Victor Hugo, and many others. Here, too, are favorites, new and old, which, while of less famous authorship, have been stamped "classic" by the verdict of childhood. Some selections which appeal to children on the emotional rather than on the intellectual side have been admitted upon the theory that children may