Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Shippen Green’
They Don’t Call them Second Hand they Call them Antiques by Elizabeth Shippen Green circa 1903
Romeo and Juliet – Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Green Singing Book – Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Green Singing Book by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910 I don’t know how to read the words, Nor how the black things go. But if you stand it up, and sing, You never have to know. The music sounds alike each time When grown-up people play; But every…
Read MoreThe Candlelight with Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Candlelight by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910 When I ‘ve wished on my first star, While the rest begin, And the grass is waking up, Oh, She calls us in! Then She calls us in. But I wouldn’t go, unless I were sure there’d be Something more like…
Read MoreThe Masterpiece with Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Masterpiece by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910 Mother cut it out for me, And started it, so I could see; And then she turned some edges in, And let me take it to begin. I made it. But I did not know How very long it takes to…
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