SELECT POETRY

FOR CHILDREN:

WITH

BRIEF EXPLANATORY NOTES

ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES

BY JOSEPH PAYNE,

FDITOR OF “sTUDIEB IN ENGLISH POETRY.

** We are not proposing to train ap poets or sencimentalists; but to
replenish the mind with bright and available materials, such as shall
inipart to it an abundance of intellectual wealth, and give it breadth and
elevation; and, by these natural means, exclude whatever i frivolous, -
vulgar, selfish, or sensual.”—Isaae Taylor.

TENTH EDITION.

LONDON:
ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO.
(95, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1852.