Transcriber’s Note:
  Footnotes have been moved from the bottom of the page to the end of the stanza.
  Obvious spelling mistakes have been corrected.
  Old or deprecated spellings have been preserved.
  Periods have been added at the end of authors names which did not have them.

THE BLUE POETRY BOOK

THE FAIRY BOOK SERIES

EDITED BY ANDREW LANG

Crown 8vo, price 4s. 6d. net each volume

 THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK. With 138 Illustrations.
 THE RED FAIRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations.
 THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. With 99 Illustrations.
 THE GREY FAIRY BOOK. With 65 Illustrations.
 THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK. With 104 Illustrations.
 THE PINK FAIRY BOOK. With 67 Illustrations.
 THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and
  54 other Illustrations.
 THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and
  43 other Illustrations.
 THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and
  42 other Illustrations.
 THE OLIVE FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and
  43 other Illustrations.
 THE ORANGE FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and
  50 other Illustrations.
 THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK. With 6 Coloured Plates and
  36 other Illustrations.
 THE BLUE POETRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations.
 THE TRUE STORY BOOK. With 66 Illustrations.
 THE RED TRUE STORY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations.
 THE ANIMAL STORY BOOK. With 67 Illustrations.
 THE RED BOOK OF ANIMAL STORIES. With 65 Illustrations.
 THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. With 66 Illustrations.
 THE BOOK OF ROMANCE. With 8 Coloured Plates and
  44 other Illustrations.
 THE RED ROMANCE BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and
  44 other Illustrations.
 THE BOOK OF PRINCES AND PRINCESSES. By Mrs. Lang.
  With 8 Coloured Plates and 43 other Illustrations.
 THE RED BOOK OF HEROES. By Mrs. Lang.
  With 8 Coloured Plates and 40 other Illustrations.
 THE ALL SORTS OF STORIES BOOK. By Mrs. Lang.
  With 5 Coloured Plates and 45 other Illustrations.
 THE STRANGE STORY BOOK. By Mrs. Lang.
  With a Portrait of Andrew Lang as Frontispiece,
  12 Coloured Plates, and 18 other Illustrations.
 THE BOOK OF SAINTS AND HEROES. By Mrs. Lang.
  With 12 Coloured Plates and 18 other Illustrations.
  ——————
 TALES OF TROY AND GREECE. By Andrew Lang.
  With  17 Illustrations by H. J. Ford,
  and a Map. Crown 8vo, 3s. net.
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TO BEHOLD THE WANDERING MOON
 RIDING NEAR HER HIGHEST NOON.

THE BLUE POETRY BOOK

EDITED BY

ANDREW LANG

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. J. FORD AND LANCELOT SPEED

SEVENTH IMPRESSION

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