From Wee Wisdom, 1920.

From Introduction to Physical Science by Alfred Gage, 1894.

From The Creepie-Stool, an unusual "single-poet anthology for chidlren" by Elizabeth Fleming and illustrated by Hugh Chesterman, peppered with Scots words like "stravaiging."

From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.

From We Want To Know by Craig, Burke & Babcock, 1940.

From Wee Wisdom, 1933.

At the end of the rainbow.  From Wahbegwannee, The White Flower by Anne Spottsword Young, 1907.

For all sorts of surprising things documented as being at the ends of rainbows, see our previous post here.

From The Hiawatha Primer by Florence Holbrook, 1898.

Heimdall rides his horse over the rainbow bridge and blows his horn to warn the gods of the end of the world.  From Tales from the Far North by Maria Klugh, 1909. 

"Winged rainbows."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.

"The rainbow by night and the bat by day."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.

"He held out the little shell in the beam of coloured light."  From Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1910.

From The Haliburton First Reader by Margaret Haliburton, 1912.

"At the end of the rainbow," from The Bluebird's Garden by Patten Beard, 1915.

"The rainbow that never was."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.

From Lighted Pathway, 1963.

From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.

From Wee Wisdom, 1920.

From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.

Six rainbows at once.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).