Christina Rossetti, an English poet, was born in London in 1830 and died in 1894. She wrote many poems for children. Among her works are "A Nursery Rhyme Book," and "Short Stories in Prose." O LADY MOON, your horns point toward the east; O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west; Wane, be at rest. WH A wooden spade they gave to me My holes were empty like a cup, In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more. From "A Child's Garden of Verses," copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons. MAKING A HOUSE JOSEPHINE PEABODY IRST of all I draw the smoke Trailing up the sky; Then the chimney underneath; And the birds all flying by; Then the house; and every window |