The Posy Ring
A Book of Verse for Children

The Posy Ring
is a companion volume to
Golden Numbers
A Book of Verse for Youth
Edited by
Kate Douglas Wiggin and
Nora Archibald Smith

THANKS are due to the following publishers for permission to reprint poems on which they hold copyright:
Charles Scribner39;s Sons, for permission to use the following poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: quot;wind Nights,quot; quot;Where Go the Boats?quot; quot;The Little Land,quot; quot;The Land of Story Booksquot; and quot;Bed Timequot;; for the following poems by Mary Mapes Dodge: quot;Nearly Ready,quot; quot;Now the Noisy Winds are Still,quot; quot;Snowflakes,quot; quot;Birdies with Broken Wings,quot; and quot;Night and Dayquot;; for the following poems by Eugene Field: quot;Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,quot; and quot;Nightfall in Dordrechtquot;; for quot;Rockaby, Lullaby,quot; by J. G. Holland; and for quot;One, Two, Three,quot; by H. C. Bunner. G. P. Putnam39;s Sons, for permission to use quot;High and Low,quot; by Dora Goodale. D. Appleton amp; Son, publishers of Bryant39;s Complete Poetical Works, for permission to reprint quot;Robert of Lincoln,quot; by W. C. Bryant. E. P. Dutton amp; Co., for permission to reprint quot;The birds in Spring,quot; by Thomas Nashe. A. C. McClurg amp; Co., for permission to reprint quot;Baby seed Songquot; and quot;Bird39;s Song in Spring,quot; by E. Nesbit. The Century Company, for permission to reprint the quot;Seal Lullaby,quot; by Rudyard Kipling. The quot;Independent,quot; for permission to reprint quot;Baby Corn,quot; Anon. Dana, Estes amp; Co., for permission to reprint quot;The Blue Jay,quot; by Susan Hartley Swett. Small, Maynard amp; Co., for permission to reprint the following poems by John B. Tabb: quot;The Fern Song,quot; quot;A Bunch of Roses,quot; quot;The child at Bethlehem.quot; George Routledge amp; Sons, for permission to reprint the following poems by W. B. Rands: quot;The Child39;s World,quot; quot;The Wonderful World,quot; quot;Love and the Child,quot; quot;Dolladine,quot; quot;Dressing the Doll,quot; quot;The Pedlar39;s Caravan,quot; and quot;Little Christelquot;; also for quot;Little White Lilyquot; and quot;What Would You See?quot; by George Macdonald, and quot;The Wind,quot; by L. E. Landon. Houghton, Mifflin amp; Co., for the right to reprint the following poems: quot;Marjorie39;s Almanac,quot; by T. B. Aldrich; quot;Dandelion,quot; by Helen Grey Cone; quot;The Fairies39; Shoppingquot; and quot;The Christmas Silence,quot; by Margaret Deland; quot;The Titmousequot; and quot;Fable,quot; by Ralph Waldo Emerson; quot;Hiawatha39;s Chickensquot; and quot;Hiawatha39;s Brothers,quot; by Henry W. Longfellow; quot;The Fountain,quot; by James Russell Lowell; quot;The Rivulet,quot; by Lucy Larcom; quot;The Coming of Spring,quot; by Nora Perry; quot;May,quot; quot;The Waterfall,quot; quot;Clouds,quot; and quot;Bells of Christmas,quot; by Frank Dempster Sherman; quot;What the Winds Bringquot; and quot;The Singer,quot; by E. C. Stedman; quot;Spring,quot; quot;Wild Geese,quot; quot;Chanticleer,quot; and quot;Little Gustava,quot; by Celia Thaxter. Little, Brown amp; Co., for the right to reprint quot;September,quot; by Helen Hunt Jackson; quot;When the Leaves Come Down,quot; by Susan Coolidge; and quot;Summer Days,quot; quot;A Year39;s Windfalls,quot; quot;The Flower Folk,quot; quot;There39;s Nothing Like the Rose,quot; quot;Milking Time,quot; quot;A Chill,quot; and quot;A birthday Gift,quot; by Christina G. Rossetti. St. Nicholas, for permission to reprint quot;The Little Elf,quot; by John Kendrick Bangs. The Macmillan Company, for permission to reprint quot;O Lady Moon,quot; by Christina G. Rossetti. Frederick Warne amp; Co., for permission to reprint quot;By Cool Siloam39;s Shady Rill,quot; by Reginald Heber. Cassell amp; Co., Ltd., for permission to reprint quot;The Last Voyage of the Fairies,quot; by W. H. Davenport Adams.