DR. CORNWELL'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES. EASY POETRY: A FIRST BOOK OF SELECTED POEMS FOR SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT; HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW; WHITTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE. EDINBURGH: OLIVER AND BOYD. PREFACE. IN a COLLECTION of Poetry little more is required than taste and judgment in the selection of pieces which are suited to the persons for whose use it is intended. In this little book the aim has been to form a collection of such Poems as will be interesting to children; and which, while cultivating the imagination, and so forming a correct taste, shall at the same time instil into their minds only pure and noble sentiments and right principles. With the poems of each Poet not now living is given the date of his birth and death; and a few Notes are scattered here and there explanatory of |