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Come Hither: A Family Treasury of Best-Loved Rhymes and Poems for Children by Walter de la Mare
scaifea's review
3.0
A collection of poetry for kiddos, from Chaucer on up. It's a nice collection, and pretty extensive.
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review
5.0
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU. Now this was a challenge. Some are English, yet not in English. Here’s a sample:
“Hay, nou the day dauis;
The jolie Cok crauis;
Nou shroudis the shauis,
Throu Natur anone….”
Some relate stories that are outside my experiences:
“When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry, ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”
Some are in dialect:
“There were twa brethren in the north,
They went to the school thegither;
The one unto the other said,
‘Will you try a warsle afore?’
Some are familiar with additional verses, including BINGO. Did you know there was a verse about a miller who gets a cask of ale and calls it STINGO?
And then, of course, as I expected, many, many very familiar poems, like Blake’s The Tyger and Tennyson’s The Eagle and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” A whole section on war and lots of poems about death and killing and pain and lovers; all very surprising to find in a “children’s book.” (A question: Is this a children’s book? What makes it so?)
“Hay, nou the day dauis;
The jolie Cok crauis;
Nou shroudis the shauis,
Throu Natur anone….”
Some relate stories that are outside my experiences:
“When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry, ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”
Some are in dialect:
“There were twa brethren in the north,
They went to the school thegither;
The one unto the other said,
‘Will you try a warsle afore?’
Some are familiar with additional verses, including BINGO. Did you know there was a verse about a miller who gets a cask of ale and calls it STINGO?
And then, of course, as I expected, many, many very familiar poems, like Blake’s The Tyger and Tennyson’s The Eagle and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” A whole section on war and lots of poems about death and killing and pain and lovers; all very surprising to find in a “children’s book.” (A question: Is this a children’s book? What makes it so?)
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