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An assortment of short lyrical poems and playful verses aimed at young children, offering lullabies, nonsense ditties, simple ballads and nature pieces. Many pieces adopt a mother's voice or address children directly, mixing tenderness, domestic scenes, and childhood mischief. Recurring motifs include the baby and nursery life, animals, imaginative journeys, and small moral or whimsical observations. The volume is organized as numerous brief poems that vary in meter and tone, alternating gentle rhythms for bedtime with brisk, comic songs for play. Overall it celebrates everyday family life and childhood wonder through accessible language, musical phrasing, and occasional humorous absurdity.

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Title: In My Nursery

Author: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Release date: May 20, 2012 [eBook #39741]

Language: English

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In My Nursery
A Book of Verse
By
Laura E. Richards


IN MY NURSERY.

BY

LAURA E. RICHARDS,

AUTHOR OF
"THE JOYOUS STORY OF TOTO," "TOTO'S MERRY WINTER," ETC.

 

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

 

Copyright, 1890,
By Roberts Brothers


All rights reserved.

 

Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A.