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Pretty Lessons in Verse

for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts

Coleridge, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)

THE MONTHS.

THE SUSPICIOUS COCK AND HEN.

GOOD THINGS FROM DISTANT PLACES.

MAMA'S ADVICE TO HERBERT.

THE MOUSE'S RETALIATION.

THE PEACOCK AND THE SWALLOW.

THE NIGHTINGALE.

WARNINGS OF THE WEATHER.

FOOLISH INTERFERENCE.

MONKEYS WITHOUT TAILS.

SIGNS OF RAIN.

TO HERBERT,

HERBERT AND HIS NEW CRIB,

A DISAPPOINTMENT.

THE BOY THAT WON'T LIE IN HIS CRIB.

EI and IE.

DESERT AND DESSERT.

HOW TO SPELL CHEST-NUT, or CHESNUT.

THE WILD AND TAME CANARIES.

HERBERT'S BEVERAGE.

THE GENEROUS HUMBLE or BUMBLE BEES.

FINE NAMES FOR FINE THINGS.

THE BOY THAT WOULD RATHER BE NAUGHTY THAN GOOD.

WHAT ARE LIQUORS MADE OF?

THE GOLDFINCH, or THISTLEFINCH.

THE HAPPY LITTLE SLEEPER.

THE BLESSING OF HEALTH.

[A Father is pater, a mother is mater]

[Ramus means a bough]

[A bird is called avis]

[That rex is a king, regina a queen]

[I fear the wise folks will deride us]

[Stagnum means a pool]

[Saltus is a lawn or glade]

[Grando is hail, and tonitru thunder]

[Aura means a gentle breeze]

[Nox is the night]

[A boy like my Herbert should ne'er]

[Rice is oryza, and milium millet]

[Dens is a tooth, gingīva the gum]

[Nemus and silva I've long understood]

[Sol is the sun]

[A meadow is pratum, a flower is called flos]

[Crater and likewise cratēra, I think]

[The lion in Africa reigns]

CORN.

[Hearing is audītus]

THE LOST SPOON AND FORK.

[Aqua is water, and unda a wave]

[Mare means the sea]

[The top of a tree cacūmen is called]

[Virga's a rod, flagellum a whip]

[Cæna is supper, and prandium dinner]

[An army is exercĭtus—it causes great dismay]

PLANTS.

[An army is exercĭtus]

[Trumpeter's tubĭcen, piper tibīcen]

[Tibia's a flute, which is very sweet]

[A Town is called oppĭdum, urbs is a city]

[Domus means a house, aula means a hall]

[Caudex, and codex, and stirps, all three]

[Cortex means the bark, fructus means the fruit]

[A shrub is called frutex, and arbor's a tree]

[Hoar frost is pruīna, and pluvia's rain]

[A father's brother, mother's brother, are not called the same]

PAIN AND PUNISHMENT.

WORDS ALIKE AND UNLIKE.

THE FIVE DECLENSIONS.

BEES.

THE WINDS, and WHERE THEY COME FROM.

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THE MONTHS.

January brings the snow,
Makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes loud and shrill,
Stirs the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daisies at our feet.

May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their fleecy dams.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.

Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gilliflowers.

August brings the sheaves of corn,
Then the harvest home is borne.

Warm September brings the fruit,
Sportsmen then begin to shoot.

Fresh October brings the pheasant,
Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

Dull November brings the blast,
Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Chill December brings the sleet,
Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.