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Title: Poems Every Child Should Know
The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library

Author: Various

Editor: Mary E. Burt

Release Date: August 4, 2005 [EBook #16436]

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CONTENTS

- Frontispiece

- Title page

- Acknowledgments to Publishers and Authors

- Preface

- Contents

- Index of Authors

- Part I.

- Part II.

- Part III.

- Part IV.

- Part V.

- Part VI.

- Index of First Lines

When the shadows are long

POEMS

Every Child Should Know
EDITED BY
Mary E. Burt

THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY

Published by

DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC. Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"
9 EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK

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COPYRIGHT. 1904, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS

It sometimes happens that there are people who do not know that authors are protected by copyright laws. A publisher once cited to me an instance of a teacher who innocently put forth a little volume of poems that she loved and admired, without asking permission of any one. Her annoyance was boundless when she found that she had no right to the poems.

Special permission has been obtained for each copyrighted poem in this volume, and the right to publish has been purchased of the author or publisher, except in those cases where the author or the publisher has, for reasons of courtesy and friendship, given the permission.

In addition to the business arrangements which have been made, we wish to extend our thanks and acknowledgments to those firms which have so kindly allowed us to use their material.

To Houghton, Mifflin & Company, of Boston, we are indebted for the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of Longfellow—"The Arrow and the Song," "A Fragment of Hiawatha's Childhood," "The Skeleton in Armour," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Ship of State," "The Psalm of Life," "The Village Blacksmith." From Whittier—"Barbara Frietchie" and "The Three Bells of Glasgow." From Emerson—"The Problem." From Burroughs—"My Own Shall Come to Me." From Lowell—"The Finding of the Lyre," "The Shepherd of King Admetus," and a fragment of "The Vision of Sir Launfal," From Holmes—"The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides." From James T. Fields—"The Captain's Daughter." From Bayard Taylor—"The Song in Camp," From Celia Thaxter—"The Sandpiper." From J. T. Trowbridge—"Farm-Yard Song." From Edith M. Thomas—"The God of Music" and Hermes' "Moly."

To Charles Scribner's Sons we are indebted for the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of Eugene Field—"Wynken Blynken, and Nod," "Krinken," and "The Duel." From Robert Louis Stevenson—"My Shadow." From James Whitcomb Riley's poems—"Little Orphant Annie." From the poems of Sidney Lanier—"Barnacles" and "The Tournament." From "The Poems of Patriotism"—"Sheridan's Ride."

We are further indebted to Charles Scribner's Sons, as well as to Mr. George W. Cable, for "The New Arrival," taken from "The Cable Story Book," and to Mrs. Katherine Miller and Scribner's Magazine for "Stevenson's Birthday."

To J. B. Lippincott Company we are indebted for the use of "Sheridan's Ride," from the complete works of T. Buchanan Read.

To Harper & Brothers for the use of "Driving Home the Cows," by Kate Putnam Osgood.

To Little, Brown & Company, of Boston, "How the Leaves Came Down," by Susan Coolidge.

To the Whitaker & Ray Company, of San Francisco, "Columbus," by Joaquin Miller, from his complete works published and copyrighted by that company.

To D. Appleton & Company for "The Planting of the Apple-Tree" and "Robert of Lincoln," from the complete works of William Cullen Bryant; also for "Marco Bozzaris," from the works of Fitz-Greene Halleck.

To the Macmillan Company for "The Forsaken Merman," by Matthew Arnold, from the complete volume of his poems published by that company.

To the Howard University Print, Washington, D.C., for Jeremiah Rankin's little poem, "The Babie," from "Ingleside Rhaims."

To the heirs of Mary Emily Bradley for "A Chrysalis."

To Henry Holcomb Bennett for "The Flag Goes By."

PREFACE

Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This is too long," and "That is too hard," and "I don't like that because it is not interesting"?

Are there three or four pleasing poems and are all the rest put in to fill up the book? Nay, verily! The poems in this collection are those that children love. With the exception of seven, they are short enough for children to commit to memory without wearying themselves or losing interest in the poem. If one boy learns "The Overland Mail," or "The Recruit," or "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," or "The Song in Camp," or "Old Ironsides," or "I Have a Little Shadow," or "The Tournament," or "The Duel," nine boys out of ten will be eager to follow him. I know because I have tried it a dozen times. Every boy loves "Paul Revere's Ride" (alas! I have not been able to include it), and is ambitious to learn it, but only boys having a quick memory will persevere to the end. Shall the slower boy be deprived of the pleasure of reading the whole poem and getting its inspiring sentiment and learning as many stanzas as his mind will take? No, indeed. Half of such a poem is better than none. Let the slow boy learn and recite as many stanzas as he can and the boy of quick memory follow him up with the rest. It does not help the slow boy's memory to keep it down entirely or deprive it of its smaller activity because he cannot learn the whole. Some people will invariably give the slow child a very short poem. It is often better to divide a long poem among the children, letting each child learn a part. The sustained interest of a long poem is worth while. "The Merman," "The Battle of Ivry," "Horatius at the Bridge," "Krinken," "The Skeleton in Armour," "The Raven" and "Hervé Riel" may all profitably be learned that way. Nevertheless, the child enjoys most the poem that is just long enough, and there is much to be said in favour of the selection that is adapted, in length, to the average mind; for the child hesitates in the presence of quantity rather than in the presence of subtle thought. I make claim for this collection that it is made up of poems that the majority of children will learn of their own free will. There are people who believe that in the matter of learning poetry there is no "ought," but this is a false belief. There is a duty, even there; for every American citizen ought to know the great national songs that keep alive the spirit of patriotism. Children should build for their future—and get, while they are children, what only the fresh imagination of the child can assimilate.

They should store up an untold wealth of heroic sentiment; they should acquire the habit of carrying a literary quality in their conversation; they should carry a heart full of the fresh and delightful associations and memories, connected with poetry hours to brighten mature years. They should develop their memories while they have memories to develop.

Will the boy who took every poetry hour for a whole school year to learn "Henry of Navarre" ever regret it, or will the children who listened to it? No. It was fresh every week and they brought fresh interest in listening. The boy will always love it because he used to love it. There were boys who scrambled for the right to recite "The Tournament," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "The Star-Spangled Banner," and so on. The boy who was first to reach the front had the privilege. The triumph of getting the chance to recite added to the zest of it. Will they ever forget it?

I know Lowell's "The Finding of the Lyre." Attention, Sir Knights! See who can learn it first as I say it to you. But I find that I have forgotten a line of it, so you may open your books and teach it to me. Now, I can recite every word of it. How much of it can you repeat from memory? One boy can say it all. Nearly every child has learned the most of it. Now, it will be easy for you to learn it alone. And Memory, the Goddess Beautiful, will henceforth go with you to recall this happy hour.

Mary E. Burt.
The John A. Browning School, 1904.

CONTENTS

PART I

1. The Arrow and the Song 3
Henry W. Longfellow

2. The Babie 4
Jeremiah Eames Rankin

3. Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite 4
Isaac Watts

4. Little Things 5
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

5. He Prayeth Best 5
Samuel T. Coleridge

6. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 6
Anonymous

7. Pippa 6
Robert Browning

8. The Days of the Month 7
An Old Song

9. True Royalty 7
Rudyard Kipling

10. Playing Robinson Crusoe 8
Rudyard Kipling

11. My Shadow 9
Robert Louis Stevenson

12. Little White Lily 10
George Macdonald

13. How the Leaves Came Down 12
Susan Coolidge

14. Willie Winkie 13
William Miller

15. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 15
Edward Lear

16. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 16
Eugene Field

17. The Duel 18
Eugene Field

18. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie 19
Anonymous

19. Love Between Brothers and Sisters 20
Isaac Watts

20. The Bluebell of Scotland 20
Anonymous

21. If I Had But Two Little Wings 21
Samuel T. Coleridge

22. A Farewell 21
Charles Kingsley

23. Casabianca 22
Felicia Hemans

24. The Captain's Daughter 23
James T. Fields

25. The Village Blacksmith 25
Henry W. Longfellow

26. Sweet and Low 27
Alfred Tennyson

27. The Violet 27
Jane Taylor

28. The Rainbow (a fragment) 28
William Wordsworth

29. A Visit From St. Nicholas 29
Clement Clarke Moore

30. The Star-Spangled Banner 31
Francis Scott Key

31. Father William 33
Lewis Carroll

32. The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 34
William Cowper

PART II

1. The Frost 39
Hannah Flagg Gould

2. The Owl 40
Alfred Tennyson

3. Little Billee 41
William Makepeace Thackeray

4. The Butterfly and the Bee 42
William Lisle Bowles

5. An Incident of the French Camp 43
Robert Browning

6. Robert of Lincoln 44
William Cullen Bryant

7. Old Grimes 47
Albert Gorton Greene

8. Song of Life 48
Charles Mackay

9. Fairy Song 50
John Keats

10. A Boy's Song 50
James Hogg

11. Buttercups and Daisies 51
Mary Howitt

12. The Rainbow 53
Thomas Campbell

13. Old Ironsides 53
Oliver Wendell Holmes

14. Little Orphant Annie 54
James Whitcomb Riley

15. O Captain! My Captain! 57
Walt Whitman

16. Ingratitude 58
William Shakespeare

17. The Ivy Green 59
Charles Dickens

18. The Noble Nature 60
Ben Jonson

19. The Flying Squirrel 60
Mary E. Burt

20. Warren's Address 63
John Pierpont

21. The Song in Camp 64
Bayard Taylor

22. The Bugle Song 66
Alfred Tennyson

23. The Three Bells of Glasgow 67
John G. Whittier

24. Sheridan's Ride 68
Thomas Buchanan Read

25. The Sandpiper 71
Celia Thaxter

26. Lady Clare 72
Alfred Tennyson

27. The Lord of Burleigh 75
Alfred Tennyson

28. Hiawatha's Childhood 79
Henry W. Longfellow

29. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 82
William Wordsworth

30. John Barleycorn 83
Robert Burns

31. A Life on the Ocean Wave 85
Epes Sargent

32. The Death of the Old Year 86
Alfred Tennyson

33. Abou Ben Adhem 89
Leigh Hunt

34. Farm-Yard Song 90
J.T. Trowbridge

35. To a Mouse 92
Robert Burns

36. To a Mountain Daisy 94
Robert Burns

37. Barbara Frietchie 96
John G. Whittier

PART III

1. Lochinvar 103
Sir Walter Scott

2. Lord Ullin's Daughter 105
Thomas Campbell

3. The Charge of the Light Brigade 107
Alfred Tennyson

4. The Tournament 110
Sidney Lanier

5. The Wind and the Moon 111
George Macdonald

6. Jesus the Carpenter 114
Catherine C. Liddell

7. Letty's Globe 115
Charles Tennyson Turner

8. A Dream 116
William Blake

9. Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound 117
J. G. Holland

10. The Battle of Blenheim 117
Robert Southey

11. Fidelity 120
William Wordsworth

12. The Chambered Nautilus 122
Oliver Wendell Holmes

13. Crossing the Bar 124
Alfred Tennyson

14. The Overland-Mail 125
Rudyard Kipling

15. Gathering Song of Donald Dhu 126
Sir Walter Scott

16. Marco Bozzaris 128
Fitz-greene Halleck

17. The Death of Napoleon 131
Isaac McClellan

18. How Sleep the Brave 133
William Collins

19. The Flag Goes By 133
Henry Holcomb Bennett

20. Hohenlinden 134
Thomas Campbell

21. My Old Kentucky Home 136
Stephen Collins Foster

22. Old Folks at Home 137
Stephen Collins Foster

23. The Wreck of the Hesperus 138
Henry W. Longfellow

24. Bannockburn 142
Robert Burns

PART IV

1. The Inchcape Rock 145
Robert Southey

2. The Finding of the Lyre 148
James Russell Lowell

3. A Chrysalis 149
Mary Emily Bradley

4. For a' That 151
Robert Burns

5. The New Arrival 152
George W. Cable

6. The Brook 153
Alfred Tennyson

7. The Ballad of the Clampherdown 154
Rudyard Kipling

8. The Destruction of Sennacherib 158
Lord Byron

9. I Remember, I Remember 159
Thomas Hood

10. Driving Home the Cows 160
Kate Putnam Osgood

11. Krinken 162
Eugene Field

12. Stevenson's Birthday 164
Katherine Miller

13. A Modest Wit 165
Selleck Osborne

14. The Legend of Bishop Hatto 166
Robert Southey

15. Columbus 160
Joaquin Miller

16. The Shepherd of King Admetus 171
James Russell Lowell

17. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 173
Robert Browning

18. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna 176
C. Wolfe

19. The Eve of Waterloo 177
Lord Byron

20. Ivry 179
Thomas B. Macaulay

21. The Glove and the Lions 184
Leigh Hunt

22. The Well of St. Keyne 186
Robert Southey

23. The Nautilus and the Ammonite 188
Anonymous

24. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 190
William Cowper

25. The Homes of England 192
Felicia Hemans

26. Horatius at the Bridge 193
Thomas B. Macaulay

27. The Planting of the Apple-Tree 211
William Cullen Bryant

PART V

1. June 217
James Russell Lowell

2. A Psalm of Life 218
Henry W. Longfellow

3. Barnacles 219
Sidney Lanier

4. A Happy Life 220
Sir Henry Wotton

5. Home, Sweet Home 220
John Howard Payne

6. From Casa Guidi Windows 222
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7. Woodman, Spare That Tree! 222
George Pope Morris

8. Abide With Me 223
Henry Francis Lyte

9. Lead, Kindly Light 224
John Henry Newman

10. The Last Rose of Summer 225
Thomas Moore

11. Annie Laurie 226
William Douglas

12. The Ship of State 227
Henry W. Longfellow

13. America 228
Samuel Francis Smith

14. The Landing of the Pilgrims 229
Felicia Hemans

15. The Lotos-Eaters 231
Alfred Tennyson

16. Moly 233
Edith M. Thomas

17. Cupid Drowned 234
Leigh Hunt

18. Cupid Stung 234
Thomas Moore

19. Cupid and My Campasbe 235
John Lyly

20. A Ballad for a Boy 236
Anonymous

21. The Skeleton in Armour 240
Henry W. Longfellow

22. The Revenge 246
Alfred Tennyson

23. Sir Galahad 253
Alfred Tennyson

24. A Name in the Sand 256
Hannah Flagg Gould

PART VI

1. The Voice of Spring 259
Felicia Hemans

2. The Forsaken Merman 260
Matthew Arnold

3. The Banks o' Doon 265
Robert Burns

4. The Light of Other Days 266
Thomas Moore

5. My Own Shall Come to Me 267
John Burroughs

6. Ode to a Skylark 268
Percy Bysshe Shelley

7. The Sands of Dee 271
Charles Kingsley

8. A Wish 272
Samuel Rogers

9. Lucy 272
William Wordsworth

10. Solitude 273
Alexander Pope

11. John Anderson 274
Robert Burns

12. The God of Music 275
Edith M. Thomas

13. A Musical Instrument 275
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. The Brides of Enderby 277
Jean Ingelow

15. The Lye 283
Sir Walter Raleigh

16. L'Envoi 285
Rudyard Kipling

17. Contentment 286
Edward Dyer

18. The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls 287
Thomas Moore

19. The Old Oaken Bucket 288
Samuel Woodworth

20. The Raven 289
Edgar Allan Poe

21. Arnold von Winkleried 296
James Montgomery

22. Life, I Know Not What Thou Art 299
A. L. Barbauld

23. Mercy 300
William Shakespeare

24. Polonius' Advice 301
William Shakespeare

25. A Fragment from "Julius Cæsar" 301
William Shakespeare

26. The Skylark 302
Thomas Hogg

27. The Choir Invisible 303
George Eliot

28. The World Is Too Much With Us 304
William Wordsworth

29. On His Blindness 304
John Milton

30. She Was a Phantom of Delight 305
William Wordsworth

31. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 306
Thomas Gray

32. Rabbi Ben Ezra 312
Robert Browning

33. Prospice 320
Robert Browning

34. Recessional 321
Rudyard Kipling

35. Ozymandias of Egypt 322
Percy Bysshe Shelley

36. Mortality 323
William Knox

37. On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 326
John Keats

38. Hervé Riel 326
Robert Browning

39. The Problem 333
Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. To America 335
Alfred Austin

41. The English Flag 337
Rudyard Kipling

42. The Man With the Hoe 342
Edwin Markham

43. Song of Myself 344
Walt Whitman

44. Index 350

INDEX OF AUTHORS

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

- Anonymous

- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, 6

- The Days of the Month, 7

- The Boy who Never Told a Lie, 19

- The Bluebell of Scotland, 20

- The Nautilus and the Ammonite, 188

- A Ballad for a Boy, 236

- Arnold, Matthew

- The Forsaken Merman, 260

- Austin, Alfred

- To America, 335

- Barbauld, A. L.

- Life, I Know Not What Thou Art, 299

- Bennett, Henry Holcomb

- The Flag Goes By, 133

- Blake, William

- A Dream, 116

- Bowles, William Lisle

- The Butterfly and the Bee, 42

- Bradley, Mary Emily

- A Chrysalis, 149

- Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

- Little Things, 5

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

- From Casa Guidi Windows, 222

- A Musical Instrument, 275

- Browning, Robert

- Pippa, 6

- An Incident of the French Camp, 43

- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 173

- Rabbi Ben Ezra, 312

- Prospice, 320

- Hervé Riel, 326

- Bryant, William Cullen

- Robert of Lincoln, 44

- The Planting of the Apple Tree, 211

- Burns, Robert

- John Barleycorn, 83

- To a Mouse, 92

- To a Mountain Daisy, 94

- Bannockburn, 142

- For a' That, 151

- The Banks o' Doon, 265

- John Anderson, 274

- Burroughs, John

- My Own Shall Come to Me, 267

- Burt, Mary E.

- The Flying Squirrel, 60

- Byron, Lord

- The Destruction of Sennacherib, 158

- The Eve of Waterloo, 177

- Cable, George W.

- The New Arrival, 152

- Campbell, Thomas

- The Rainbow, 53

- Lord Ullin's Daughter, 105

- Hohenlinden, 134

- Carroll, Lewis

- Father William, 33

- Coleridge, Samuel T.

- He Prayeth Best, 5

- If I Had But Two Little Wings, 21

- Collins, William

- How Sleep the Brave, 133

- Coolidge, Susan

- How the Leaves Came Down, 12

- Cowper, William

- The Nightingale and the Glow-worm, 34

- The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, 190

- Dickens, Charles

- The Ivy Green, 59

- Douglas, William

- Annie Laurie, 226

- Dyer, Edward

- Contentment, 286

- Eliot, George

- The Choir Invisible, 303

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

- The Problem, 333

- Field, Eugene

- Wynken, Blynken and Nod, 16

- The Duel, 18

- Krinken, 162

- Fields, James T.

- The Captain's Daughter, 23

- Foster, Stephen Collins

- My Old Kentucky Home, 136

- Old Folks at Home, 137

- Gould, Hannah Flagg

- The Frost, 39

- A Name in the Sand, 256

- Gray, Thomas

- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 306

- Greene, Albert Gorton

- Old Grimes, 47

- Halleck, Fitz-greene

- Marco Bozzaris, 128

- Hemans, Felicia

- Casabianca, 22

- The Homes of England, 192

- The Landing of the Pilgrims, 229

- The Voice of Spring, 259

- Hood, Thomas

- I Remember, I Remember, 159

- Hogg, James

- A Boy's Song, 50

- The Skylark, 302

- Holland, J. G.

- Heaven is Not Reached at a Single Bound, 117

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

- Old Ironsides, 53

- The Chambered Nautilus, 122

- Howitt, Mary

- Buttercups and Daisies, 51

- Hunt, Leigh

- Abou Ben Adhem, 89

- The Glove and the Lions, 184

- Cupid Drowned, 234

- Ingelow, Jean

- The Brides of Enderby, 277

- Jonson. Ben

- The Noble Nature, 60

- Keats, John

- Fairy Song, 50

- On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, 326

- Key, Francis Scott

- The Star-Spangled Banner, 31

- Kingsley, Charles

- A Farewell, 21

- The Sands of Dee, 271

- Kipling, Rudyard

- True Royalty, 7

- Playing Robinson Crusoe, 8

- The Overland Mail, 125

- The Ballad of the Clampherdown, 154

- L'Envoi, 285

- Recessional, 321

- The English Flag, 337

- Knox, William

- Mortality, 323

- Lanier, Sidney

- The Tournament, 110

- Barnacles, 219

- Lear, Edward

- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, 15

- Liddell, Catherine C.

- Jesus the Carpenter, 114

- Longfellow, Henry W.

- The Arrow and the Song, 3

- The Village Blacksmith, 25

- Hiawatha's Childhood, 79

- The Wreck of the Hesperus, 138

- A Psalm of Life, 218

- The Ship of State, 227

- The Skeleton in Armour, 240

- Lowell, James Russell

- The Finding of the Lyre, 148

- The Shepherd of King Admetus, 171

- June, 217

- Lyly, John

- Cupid and My Campasbe, 235

- Lyte, Henry Francis

- Abide With Me, 223

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

- Ivry, 179

- Horatius at the Bridge, 193

- Macdonald, George

- Little White Lily, 10

- The Wind and the Moon, 111

- Mackay, Charles

- Song of Life, 48

- Markham, Edwin

- The Man With the Hoe, 342

- McClellan, Isaac

- The Death of Napoleon, 131

- Miller, Joaquin

- Columbus, 169

- Miller, Katherine

- Stevenson's Birthday, 164

- Miller, William

- Willie Winkie, 13

- Milton, John

- On His Blindness, 304

- Montgomery, James

- Arnold von Winkleried, 296

- Moore, Clement Clarke

- A Visit from St. Nicholas, 29

- Moore, Thomas

- The Last Rose of Summer, 234

- Cupid Stung, 23d

- The Light of Other Days, 266

- The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, 287

- Morris, George Pope

- Woodman, Spare That Tree, 222

- Newman, John Henry

- Lead, Kindly Light, 224

- Osborne, Selleck

- A Modest Wit, 165

- Osgood, Kate Putnam

- Driving Home the Cows, 160

- Payne, John Howard

- Home, Sweet Home, 220

- Pierpont, John

- Warren's Address, 63

- Poe, Edgar Allan

- The Raven, 289

- Pope, Alexander

- Solitude, 273

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

- The Lye, 283

- Rankin. Jeremiah Eames

- The Babie, 4

- Read, Thomas Buchanan

- Sheridan's Ride, 68

- Riley, James Whitcomb

- Little Orphant Annie, 54

- Rogers, Samuel

- A Wish, 272

- Sargent, Epes

- A Life on the Ocean Wave, 85

- Scott, Sir Walter

- Lochinvar, 103

- The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 126

- Shakespeare, William

- Ingratitude, 58

- Mercy, 30d

- Polonius' Advice, 301

- A Fragment from Julius Cæsar, 301

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

- Ode to a Skylark, 268

- Ozymandias in the Desert, 322

- Smith, Samuel Francis

- America, 228

- Southey, Robert

- The Battle of Blenheim, 117

- The Inchcape Rock, 145

- The Legend of Bishop Hatto, 166

- The Well of St. Keyne, 186

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

- My Shadow, 9

- Taylor, Bayard

- The Song in Camp, 64

- Taylor, Jane

- The Violet, 27

- Tennyson, Alfred

- Sweet and Low, 27

- The Owl, 40

- The Bugle Song, 66

- Lady Clare, 72

- The Lord of Burleigh, 75

- The Death of the Old Year, 86

- The Charge of the Light Brigade, 107

- Crossing the Bar, 124

- The Brook, 153

- The Lotos Eaters, 231

- The Revenge, 246

- Sir Galahad, 253

- Thackeray, William Makepeace

- Little Billee, 41

- Thaxter, Celia

- The Sandpiper, 71

- Thomas, Edith

- Moly, 233

- The God of Music, 275

- Trowbridge, J. T.

- Farmyard Song, 90

- Turner, Charles Tennyson

- Letty's Globe, 115

- Watts, Isaac

- Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, 4

- Love Between Brothers and Sisters, 20

- Whitman, Walt

- O Captain! My Captain! 57

- Song of Myself, 344

- Whittier, John G.

- The Three Bells of Glasgow, 67

- Barbara Frietchie, 96

- Wolfe, C.

- The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 176

- Woodworth, Samuel

- The Old Oaken Bucket, 288

- Wordsworth, William

- The Rainbow (a fragment), 28

- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, 82

- Fidelity, 120

- Lucy, 27d

- The World is Too Much With Us, 304

- She Was a Phantom of Delight, 305

- Wotton, Sir Henry

- A Happy Life, 220

PART I.

The Budding Moment

The Arrow and the Song.

"The Arrow and the Song," by Longfellow (1807-82), is placed first in this volume out of respect to a little girl of six years who used to love to recite it to me. She knew many poems, but this was her favourite.

Henry W. Longfellow.

The Babie.

I found "The Babie" in Stedman's "Anthology." It is placed in this volume by permission of the poet, Jeremiah Eames Rankin, of Cleveland (1828-), because it captured the heart of a ten-year-old boy whose fancy was greatly moved by the two beautiful lines:

"Her face is like an angel's face,
I'm glad she has no wings."

Jeremiah Eames Rankin.

Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite.

"Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite," by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), and "Little Drops of Water," by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810-97), are poems that the world cannot outgrow. Once in the mind, they fasten. They were not born to die.

Isaac Watts.

Little Things.

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer.

He Prayeth Best.

These two stanzas, the very heart of that great poem, "The Ancient Mariner," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), sum up the lesson of this masterpiece—"Insensibility is a crime."

Samuel T. Coleridge.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

Pippa.

"Spring's at the Morn," from "Pippa Passes," by Robert Browning (1812-89), has become a very popular stanza with little folks. "All's right with the world" is a cheerful motto for the nursery and schoolroom.

Robert Browning.

The Days of the Month.

"The Days of the Month" is a useful bit of doggerel that we need all through life. It is anonymous.

Old Song.

True Royalty.

"True Royalty" and "Playing Robinson Crusoe" are pleasing stanzas from "The Just So Stories" of Rudyard Kipling (1865-).

Rudyard Kipling.

(In "The Just So Stories.")

Playing Robinson Crusoe.

Rudyard Kipling.

(In "The Just So Stories.")

My Shadow.

"My Shadow," by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), is one of the most popular short poems extant. I have taught it to a great many very young boys, and not one has ever tried to evade learning it. Older pupils like it equally well.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

Little White Lily.

This poem (George Macdonald, 1828-) finds a place in this volume because, as a child, I loved it. It completely filled my heart, and has made every member of the lily family dear to me. George Macdonald's charming book, "At the Back of the North Wind," also was my wonder and delight.

George Macdonald.

How the Leaves Came Down.

"How the Leaves Came Down," by Susan Coolidge (1845-), appeals to children because it helps to reconcile them to going to bed. "I go to bed by day" is one of the crosses of childhood.

Susan Coolidge.

Willie Winkie.

"Wee Willie Winkie," by William Miller (1810-72), is included in this volume out of respect to an eight-year-old child who chose it from among hundreds. We had one poetry hour every week, and he studied and recited it with unabated interest to the end of the year.

William Miller.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.

"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," by Edward Lear (1812-88), is placed here because I once found that a timid child was much strengthened and developed by learning it. It is a song that appeals to the imagination of children, and they like to sing it.

Edward Lear.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," by Eugene Field (1850-95), pleases children, who are all by nature sailors and adventurers.

Eugene Field.

The Duel.

"The Duel," by Eugene Field (1850-95), is almost the most popular humorous poem that has come under my notice. In making such a collection as this it is not easy to find poems at once delicate, witty, and graphic. I have taught "The Duel" hundreds of times, and children invariably love it.

Eugene Field.

The Boy Who Never Told a Lie.

"The Boy Who Never Told a Lie" (anonymous), as well as "Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street," by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), are real gems. A few years ago they were more in favour than the poorer verse that has been put forward. But they are sure to be revived.

Love Between Brothers and Sisters.

Isaac Watts.

The Bluebell of Scotland.

If I Had But Two Little Wings.

"If I Had But Two Little Wings," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), is recommended by a number of teachers and school-girls.

Samuel T. Coleridge.

A Farewell.

"A Farewell," by Charles Kingsley (1819-75), makes it seem worth while to be good.

Charles Kingsley.

Casabianca.

"Casabianca," by Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), is the portrait of a faithful heart, an example of unreasoning obedience. It is right that a child should obey even to the death the commands of a loving parent.

Felicia Hemans.

The Captain's Daughter.

"The Captain's Daughter," by James T. Fields (1816-81), carries weight with every young audience. It is pointed to an end that children love—viz., trust in a higher power.

James T. Fields.

["The 'village smithy' stood in Brattle Street, Cambridge. There came a time when the chestnut-tree that shaded it was cut down, and then the children of the place put their pence together and had a chair made for the poet from its wood."]

The Village Blacksmith.

Longfellow (1807-82) is truly the children's poet. His poems are as simple, pathetic, artistic, and philosophical as if they were intended to tell the plain everyday story of life to older people. "The Village Blacksmith" has been learned by thousands of children, and there is no criticism to be put upon it. The age of the child has nothing whatever to do with his learning it. Age does not grade children nor is poetry wholly to be so graded. "Time is the false reply."

Henry W. Longfellow.

Sweet and Low.

Alfred Tennyson.

The Violet.

"The Violet," by Jane Taylor (1783-1824), is another of those dear old-fashioned poems, pure poetry and pure violet. It is included in this volume out of respect to my own love for it when I was a child.

Jane Taylor.

The Rainbow.
(A FRAGMENT.)

"The Rainbow," by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), accords with every child's feelings. It voices the spirit of all ages that would love to imagine it "a bridge to heaven."

William Wordsworth.

A Visit From St. Nicholas.

"A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) is the most popular Christmas poem ever written. It carries Santa Claus on from year to year and the spirit of Santa Claus.

Clement Clarke Moore.

The Star-Spangled Banner.

Francis Scott Key.

Father William.

"Father William" a parody by Lewis Carroll (1833-), is even more clever than the original. Harmless fun brightens the world. It takes a real genius to create wit that carries no sting.

Lewis Carroll.

("Alice in Wonderland.")

The Nightingale and the Glow-worm.

"The Nightingale," by William Cowper (1731-1800), is a favourite with a teacher of good taste, and I include it at her request.

William Cowper.

PART II.

The Little Child

The Frost.

"Jack Frost," by Hannah Flagg Gould (1789-1865), is perhaps a hundred years old, but he is the same rollicking fellow to-day as of yore. The poem puts his merry pranks to the front and prepares the way for science to give him a true analysis.

Hannah Flagg Gould.

The Owl.

Alfred Tennyson.

Little Billee.

"Little Billee," by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63), finds a place here because it carries a good lesson good-naturedly rendered. An accomplished teacher recommends it, and I recollect two young children in Chicago who sang it frequently for years without getting tired of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray.

The Butterfly and the Bee.

"The Butterfly and the Bee," by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), is recommended by some school-girls. It carries a lesson in favour of the worker.

William Lisle Bowles.

An Incident of the French Camp.

"An Incident of the French Camp," by Robert Browning (1812-89), is included in this volume out of regard to a boy of eight years who did not care for many poems, but this one stirred his heart to its depths.

Robert Browning.

Robert of Lincoln.

"Robert of Lincoln," by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), is one of the finest bird poems ever written. It finds a place here because I have seen it used effectively as a memory gem in the Cook County Normal School (Colonel Parker's school), year after year, and because my own pupils invariably like to commit it to memory. With the child of six to the student of twenty years it stands a source of delight.

William Cullen Bryant.

Old Grimes.

"Old Grimes" is an heirloom, an antique gem. We learn it as a matter of course for its sparkle and glow.

Albert Gorton Greene.

Song of Life.

Charles Mackay.

Fairy Song.

John Keats.

A Boy's Song

"A Boy's Song," by James Hogg (1770-1835), is a sparkling poem, very attractive to children.

James Hogg.

Buttercups and Daisies.

Mary Howitt.

The Rainbow.

Thomas Campbell.

Old Ironsides.

"Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94), is learned readily. Children are untouched by the commercial spirit which is the reproach of this age. "Ingratitude is the vice of republics," and this poem puts to shame the love of money and the spirit of ingratitude that could let a national servant become a wreck.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Little Orphant Annie.

"Little Orphant Annie" certainly earns her "board and keep" when she has "washed the dishes," "swept up the crumbs," "driven the chickens from the porch," and done all the other odds and ends of work on a farm. The poet, James Whitcomb Riley (1853-), has shown how truly a little child may be overtaxed and yet preserve a brave spirit and keen imagination. Children invariably love to learn this poem.

James Whitcomb Riley.

O Captain! My Captain!

"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman (1819-92), is placed here out of compliment to a little boy aged ten who wanted to recite it once a week for a year. This song and Edwin Markham's poem on Lincoln are two of the greatest tributes ever paid to that hero.

Walt Whitman.

Ingratitude.

"Ingratitude," by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), is an incisive thrust at a refined vice. It is a part of education to learn to be grateful.

William Shakespeare.

The Ivy Green.

"The Ivy Green," by Charles Dickens (1812-70), is a hardy poem in honour of a hardy plant. There is a wonderful ivy growing at Rhudlan, in northern Wales. Its roots are so large and strong that they form a comfortable seat for many persons, and no one can remember when they were smaller. This ivy envelops a great castle in ruins. Every child in that locality loves the old ivy. It is typical of the ivy as seen all through Wales and England.

Charles Dickens.

The Noble Nature.

"The Noble Nature," by Ben Jonson (1574-1637), needs no plea. A small virtue well polished is better than none.

Ben Jonson.

The Flying Squirrel.

"The Flying Squirrel" is an honest account of a live creature that won his way into scores of hearts by his mad pranks and affectionate ways. It is enough that John Burroughs has commended the poem.

Mary E. Burt.

Warren's Address to the American Soldiers.

There is never a boy who objects to learning "Warren's Address," by John Pierpont (1785-1866). To stand by one's own rights is inherent in every true American. This poem is doubtless developed from Robert Burns's "Bannockburn." (1785-1866.)

John Pierpont.

The Song in Camp.

"The Song in Camp" is Bayard Taylor's best effort as far as young boys and girls are concerned. It is a most valuable poem. I once heard a clergyman in Chicago use it as a text for his sermon. Since then "Annie Laurie" has become the song of the Labour party. "The Song in Camp" voices a universal feeling. (1825-78.)

Bayard Taylor.

The Bugle Song

"The Bugle Song" (by Alfred Tennyson, 1809-90), says Heydrick, "has for its central theme the undying power of human love. The music is notable for sweetness and delicacy."

Alfred Tennyson.

The "Three Bells" of Glasgow.

"The Three Bells of Glasgow," by Whittier (1807-92), cannot be praised too highly for its ethical value. Children always love to learn it after hearing it read correctly and by one who understands and appreciates it. "Stand by" is the motto. My pupils teach it to me once a year and learn it themselves, too.

John G. Whittier.

Sheridan's Ride.

There never was a boy who did not like "Sheridan's Ride," by T. Buchanan Read (1822-72). The swing and gallop in it take every boy off from his feet. The children never teach this poem to me, because they love to learn it at first sight. It is easily memorised.

Thomas Buchanan Read.

The Sandpiper.

"The Sandpiper," by Celia Thaxter (1836-94), is placed here because a goodly percentage of the children who read it want to learn it.

Celia Thaxter.

Lady Clare.

Girls always love "Lady Clare" and "The Lord of Burleigh." They like to think that it is enough to be a splendid woman without title or wealth. They want to be loved, if they are loved at all, for their good hearts and graces of mind. Tennyson (1809-92) makes this point repeatedly through his poems.

Alfred Tennyson.

The Lord of Burleigh.

Alfred Tennyson.

Hiawatha's Childhood.

"Hiawatha" needs no commendation. Hundreds of thousands of children in our land know snatches of it It is a child's poem, every line of it. One summer in Boston more than 50,000 people went to take a peep at the poet's house. (1807-82.)

Henry W. Longfellow.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

"The Daffodil" is here out of compliment to a splendid school and a splendid teacher at Poughkeepsie. I found the pupils learning the poem, the teacher having placed a bunch of daffodils in a vase before them. It was a charming lesson. (1770-96.)

William Wordsworth.

John Barleycorn.

"John Barleycorn" is a favourite with boys because it pictures a successful struggle. One editor has made a temperance poem of it, mistaking its true intent. The poem is a strong expression of a plow-man's love for a hardy, food-giving grain which has sprung to life through his efforts. (1759-96.)

Robert Burns.

A Life on the Ocean Wave.

"A Life on the Ocean Wave," by Epes Sargent (1813-80), gives the swing and motion of the water of the great ocean. Children remember it almost unconsciously after hearing it read several times.

Epes Sargent.

The Death of the Old Year.

It is customary, every New Year's eve in America, to ring bells, fire guns, send up rockets, and, in many other ways, to show joy and gratitude that the old year has been so kind, and that the new year is so auspicious. The emphasis in Tennyson's poem is laid on gratitude for past benefits so easily forgotten rather than upon the possible advantages of the unknown and untried future.

Alfred Tennyson.

Abou Ben Adhem.

"Abou Ben Adhem" has won its way to the popular heart because the "Brotherhood of Man" is the motto of this age. (1784-1859.)

Leigh Hunt.

Farm-Yard Song.

"A Farm-Yard Song" was popular years ago with Burbank, the great reader. How the boys and girls loved it! The author, J. T. Trowbridge (1827-still living), "is a boy-hearted man," says John Burroughs. The poem is just as popular as it ever was.

J.T. Trowbridge.

To a Mouse,
ON TURNING UP HER NEST WITH THE PLOW, NOVEMBER, 1785

"To a Mouse" and "To a Mountain Daisy," by Robert Burns (1759-96), are the ineffable touches of tenderness that illumine the sturdy plowman. The contrast between the strong man and the delicate flower or creature at his mercy makes tenderness in man a vital point in character.

The lines "To a Mouse" seem by report to have been composed while Burns was actually plowing. One of the poet's first editors wrote: "John Blane, who had acted as gaudsman to Burns, and who lived sixty years afterward, had a distinct recollection of the turning up of the mouse. Like a thoughtless youth as he was, he ran after the creature to kill it, but was checked and recalled by his master, who he observed became thereafter thoughtful and abstracted. Burns, who treated his servants with the familiarity of fellow-labourers, soon afterward read the poem to Blane."

Robert Burns.

To a Mountain Daisy,
ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOW IN APRIL, 1786

Robert Burns.

Barbara Frietchie

"Barbara Frietchie" will be beloved of all times because she was an old woman (not necessarily an old lady) worthy of her years. Old age is honourable if it carries a head that has a halo. (1807-92.)

John G. Whittier.

PART III.

The Day's at the Morn

Lochinvar.

"Lochinvar" and "Lord Ullin's Daughter," the first by Scott (1771-1832) and the second by Campbell (1777-1844), are companions in sentiment and equally popular with boys who love to win anything desirable by heroic effort.

Sir Walter Scott.

Lord Ullin's Daughter.

Thomas Campbell.

The Charge of the Light Brigade.

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1809-92) unlike "Casabianca" shows obedience under stern necessity. Obedience is the salvation of any army. John Burroughs says: "I never hear that poem but what it thrills me through and through."

Alfred Tennyson.

The Tournament.

There are several of Sidney Lanier's (1842-81) poems that children love to learn. "Tampa Robins," "The Tournament" (Joust 1.), "Barnacles," "The Song of the Chattahoochee," and "The First Steamboat Up the Alabama" are among them. At our "poetry contests" the children have plainly demonstrated that this great poet has reached his hand down to the youngest. The time will doubtless come when it will be a part of education to be acquainted with Lanier, as it is now to be acquainted with Longfellow or Tennyson.

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III.

IV.

V.

VI.

Sidney Lanier.

The Wind and the Moon.

Little Laddie, do you remember learning "The Wind and the Moon"? You were eight or nine years old, and you shut your eyes and puffed out your cheeks when you came to the line "He blew and He blew." The saucy wind made a great racket and the calm moon never noticed it. That gave you a great deal of pleasure, didn't it? We did not care much for the noisy, conceited wind. (1824-.)

George Macdonald.

Jesus the Carpenter.

"Jesus the Carpenter"—"same trade as me"—strikes a high note in favour of honest toil. (1848-.)

Catherine C. Liddell.

Letty's Globe.

"Letty's Globe" gives us the picture of a little golden-haired girl who covers all Europe with her dainty hands and tresses while giving a kiss to England, her own dear native land. (1808-79.)

Charles Tennyson Turner.

A Dream.

William Blake.

Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound.
(A FRAGMENT.)

"We build the ladder by which we climb" is a line worthy of any poet. J. G. Holland (1819-81) has immortalised himself in this line, at least.

J. G. Holland.

The Battle of Blenheim.

Have you been to Woodstock, near Oxford, England? If so, you have seen the palace of the Duke of Marlborough, who won the battle of Blenheim. The main point of the poem is the doubtful honour in killing in our great wars. Southey, the poet, lived from 1774 to 1843.

Robert Southey.

Fidelity.

"Fidelity," by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), is placed here out of respect to a boy of eleven years who liked the poem well enough to recite it frequently. The scene is laid on Helvellyn, to me the most impressive mountain of the Lake District of England. Wordsworth is a part of this country. I once heard John Burroughs say: "I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth."

William Wordsworth.

The Chambered Nautilus.

People are more and more coming to recognise the fact that each individual soul has a right to its own stages of development. "The Chambered Nautilus" is for that reason beloved of the masses. It is one of the grandest poems ever written. "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!" This line alone would make the poem immortal. (1809-94.)

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Crossing the Bar

Tennyson's (1809-92) "Crossing the Bar" is one of the noblest death-songs ever written. I include it in this volume out of respect to a young Philadelphia publisher who recited it one stormy night before the passengers of a ship when I was crossing the Atlantic, and also because so many young people have the good taste to love it. It has been said that next to Browning's "Prospice" it is the greatest death-song ever written.

Alfred Tennyson.

The Overland-Mail.

"The Overland-Mail" is a most desirable poem for children to learn. When one boy learns it the others want to follow. It takes as a hero the man who gives common service—the one who does not lead or command, but follows the line of duty. (1865-.)

Rudyard Kipling.

Gathering Song of Donald Dhu.

Jon, do you remember when you used to spout "Pibroch of Donald Dhu"? I think you were ten years old. Sir Walter Scott's men all have a genius for standing up to their guns, and boys gather up the man's genius when reciting his verse. (1771-1832.)

Sir Walter Scott.

Marco Bozzaris.

"Marco Bozzaris," by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867), was in my old school-reader. Boys and girls liked it then and they like it now. This is another of the poems that was not born to die.

Fitz-greene Halleck.

The Death of Napoleon.

"The Death of Napoleon," by Isaac McClellan (1806-99), was yet another of the good old reader songs taught us by a teacher of good taste. We love those teachers more the older we grow.

Isaac McClellan.

How Sleep the Brave.

William Collins.

The Flag Goes By.

"The Flag Goes By" is included out of regard to a boy of eleven years who pleased me by his great appreciation of it. It teaches the lesson of reverence to our great national symbol. It is published by permission of the author, Henry Holcomb Bennett, of Ohio. (1863-.)

Henry Holcomb Bennett.

Hohenlinden.

Thomas Campbell.

My Old Kentucky Home.

Stephen Collins Foster.

Old Folks at Home.

Stephen Collins Foster.

The Wreck of the "Hesperus."

"The Wreck of the Hesperus," by Longfellow (1807-82), on "Norman's Woe," off the coast near Cape Ann, is a historic poem as well as an imaginative composition.

Henry W. Longfellow.

Bannockburn.
ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY.

You can look down on the battle-field of Bannockburn from Stirling Castle, Scotland, near which stands a magnificent statue of Robert, the Bruce. How often have I trodden over the old battle-field. The monument of William Wallace, too, looms up on the Ochil Hills, not far away. (1759-96.)

Robert Burns.

PART IV.

Lad and Lassie

The Inchcape Rock.

The man is wrecked and his ship is sunken before he ever steps on board or sees the water if his heart is hard and his estimate of human beings low. "The Inchcape Rock" is a thrust at hard-heartedness. "What is the use of life?" To bear one another's burdens, to develop a genius for pulling people through hard places—that's the use of life. It is the last resort of a mean mind to crack jokes that wreck innocent voyagers on life's sea. (1774-1843.)

Robert Southey.

The Finding of the Lyre.

Once a year my pupils teach me "The Finding of the Lyre." By the time I have learned it they know the meaning of every line and have caught the spirit of the verse. There is an ancient "lyre," or violin, made in northern Africa, in the possession of a Boston lady, and I have found the mud-turtle rattle among the Indians on the Indian reservation at Syracuse, New York. They use it as a musical instrument in their Thanksgiving dances. The poem helps to build an interest in history and mythology while it develops a child's reverence and insight. (1819-91.)

James Russell Lowell.

A Chrysalis.

"A Chrysalis" is a favourite poem with John Burroughs, and is found, too, in Stedman's collection. We all come to a point in life where we need to burst the shell and fly away into the new realm. (1835-98.)

Mary Emily Bradley.

For a' That.

Robert Burns, the plowman and poet, "dinnered wi' a lord." The story goes that he was put at the second table. That lord is dead, but Robert Burns still lives. He is immortal. It is "the survival of the fittest" "For a' That and a' That" is a poem that wipes out the superficial value put on money and other externalities. This poem is more valuable in education than good penmanship or good spelling. (1759-96.)

Robert Burns.

[1]
Coarse woolen clothes.

[2]
Impudent fellow.

[3]
Fool: blockhead.

A New Arrival.

"The New Arrival" is a valuable poem because it expresses the joy of a young father over his new baby. If girls should be educated to be good mothers, so should boys be taught that fatherhood is the highest and holiest joy and right of man. The child is educator to the man. He teaches him how to take responsibility, how to give unbiased judgments, and how to be fatherly like "Our Father who is in Heaven." (1844-.)

George W. Cable.

The Brook.

Tennyson's "The Brook" is included out of love to a dear old schoolmate in Colorado. The real brook, near Cambridge, England, is tame compared to your Colorado streams, O beloved comrade. This poem is well liked by the majority of pupils. (1809-92.)

Alfred Tennyson.

The Ballad of the "Clampherdown."

"The Ballad of the Clampherdown," by Rudyard Kipling, is included because my boys always like it. It needs a great deal of explanation, and few boys will hold out to the end in learning it. But "it pays." (1865-.)

Rudyard Kipling.

The Destruction of Sennacherib.

"The Destruction of Sennacherib," by Lord Byron, finds a place in this collection because Johnnie, a ten-year-old, and many of his friends say, "It's great." (1788-1824.)

Lord Byron.

I Remember, I Remember.

Thomas Hood.

Driving Home the Cows.

Kate Putnam Osgood.

Krinken.

"Krinken" is the dearest of poems.

"Krinken was a little child.
It was summer when he smiled!"

Eugene Field, above all other poets, paid the finest tribute to children. This poet only, could make the whole ocean warm because a child's heart was there to warm it.

Eugene Field.

Stevenson's Birthday.

Katherine Miller.

A Modest Wit.

I learned "A Modest Wit" as a reading-lesson when I was a child. It has clung to me and so I cling to it. It is just as good as it ever was. It is a sharp thrust at power that depends on externalities. Selleck Osborne. (——.)

Selleck Osborne.

The Legend of Bishop Hatto.

"The Legend of Bishop Hatto" is doubtless a myth (Robert Southey, 1774-1843). But "The Mouse-Tower on the Rhine" is an object of interest to travellers, and the story has a point

Robert Southey.

Columbus.

We are greatly indebted to Joaquin Miller for his "Sail On! Sail On!" Endurance is the watchword of the poem and the watchword of our republic. Every man to his gun! Columbus discovered America in his own mind before he realised it or proved its existence. I have often drawn a chart of Columbus's life and voyages to show what need he had of the motto "Sail On!" to accomplish his end. This is one of our greatest American poems. The writer still lives in California.

Joaquin Miller.

The Shepherd of King Admetus.

Once a year the children learn "The Shepherd of King Admetus," which is one of the finest poems ever written as showing the possible growth of real history into mythology, the tendency of mankind to deify what is fine or sublime in human action. Not every child will learn this entire poem, because it is too long. But every child will learn the best lines in it while the children are teaching it to me and when I take my turn in teaching it to them. No child fails to catch the spirit and intent of the poem and to become entirely familiar with it. (1819-91.)

James Russell Lowell.

How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.

I have an old essay written by a lad of fourteen years on "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix." I should judge from this essay that any boy at that age would like the poem, even if he had not himself been over the ground as this boy had. (1812-89.)

Robert Browning.

The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna.

"The Burial of Sir John Moore" was one of my reading-lessons when I was a child. A distinguished teacher says: "It has become a part of popular education," as has also "The Eve of Waterloo" and "The Death of Napoleon." They are all poems of great rhythmical swing, intense and graphic. (1791-1823.)

C. Wolfe.

The Eve of Waterloo.

"The Eve of Waterloo," by Lord Byron (1788-1824). Here is another old reading-book gem that will always be dear to every boy's heart if he only reads it a few times.

Lord Byron.

Ivry.
A SONG OF THE HUGUENOTS.

Laddie, aged eleven, do you remember how you studied and recited "King Henry of Navarre" every poetry hour for a year? It was a long poem, but you stuck to it to the end. We did not know the meaning of a certain word, but I found it up in Switzerland. It is the name of a little town. (1800-59.)

Thomas B. Macaulay.

The Glove and the Lions.

"The Glove and the Lions" was one of my early reading-lessons. It is an incisive thrust at the vanity of "fair" women. A woman be a "true knight" as well as a man. Leigh Hunt (1784-1859.)

Leigh Hunt.

The Well of St. Keyne.

I found the Well of St. Keyne in Cornwall, England—not the poem, but the real well. The poem is of the great body of world-lore. Southey (1774-1843).

Robert Southey.

The Nautilus and the Ammonite.

"The Nautilus and the Ammonite" finds a place here out of respect to a twelve-year-old girl who recited it at one of our poetry hours years ago. It made a profound impression on the fifty pupils assembled, I never read it without feeling that it stands test. Anonymous.

Anonymous.

The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk.

William Cowper.

The Homes of England.

I wonder if the English people appreciate "The Homes of England." It is a stately poem worthy of a Goethe or a Shakespeare. England is distinctively a country of homes, pretty, little, humble homes as well as stately palaces and castles, homes well made of stone or brick for the most part, and clad with ivy and roses. Who would not be proud to have had such a home as Ann Hathaway's humble cottage or one of the little huts in the Lake District? The homes of America are often more palatial, especially in small cities, but the use of wood in America makes them less substantial than the slate-and-brick houses of England. (1749-1835.)

Felicia Hemans.

Horatius at the Bridge.

"Horatius at the Bridge" is too long a poem for children to memorise. But I never saw a boy who did not want some stanzas of it. "Hold the bridge with me!" Boys like that motto instinctively.
T.B. Macaulay (1800-59).

Thomas B. Macaulay.

The Planting of the Apple-Tree.

"The Planting of the Apple-Tree" has become a favourite for "Arbour Day" exercises. The planting of trees as against their destruction is a vital point in our political and national welfare. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).

William Cullen Bryant.

PART V.

On and On

June.

"June" (by James Russell Lowell, 1819-91), is a fragment from "The Vision of Sir Launfal." It finds a place in this volume because it is the most perfect description of a charming day ever written.

James Russell Lowell.

A Psalm of Life.
WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST.

"A Psalm of Life," by Henry W. Longfellow (1807-82), is like a treasure laid up in heaven. It should be learned for its future value to the child, not necessarily because the child likes it. Its value will dawn on him.

Henry W. Longfellow.

Barnacles.

"Barnacles" (by Sidney Lanier, 1842-81), is a poem that I teach in connection with my lessons on natural history. We have a good specimen of a barnacle, and the children see them on the shells on the coast. The ethical point is invaluable.

Sidney Lanier.

A Happy Life.

Sir Henry Wotton.

Home, Sweet Home!

"Home, Sweet Home" (John Howard Payne, 1791-1852) is a poem that reaches into the heart. What is home? A place where we experience independence, safety, privacy, and where we can dispense hospitality. "The family is the true unit."

John Howard Payne.

From Casa Guidi Windows.

Juliet Of Nations.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Woodman, Spare That Tree!

"Woodman, Spare That Tree" (by George Pope Morris, 1802-64) is included in this collection because I have loved it all my life, and I never knew any one who could or would offer a criticism upon it. Its value lies in its recognition of childhood's pleasures.

George Pope Morris.

Abide With Me.

"Abide With Me" (Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847) appeals to our natural longing for the unchanging and to our love of security.

Henry Francis Lyte.

Lead, Kindly Light

"Lead, Kindly Light," by John Henry Newman (1801-90), was written when Cardinal Newman was in the stress and strain of perplexity and mental distress and bodily pain. The poem has been a star in the darkness to thousands. It was the favourite poem of President McKinley.

John Henry Newman.

The Last Rose of Summer.

Thomas Moore.

Annie Laurie.

"Annie Laurie" finds a place in this collection because it is the most popular song on earth. Written by William Douglas, (——).

William Douglas.

The Ship of State.

A president of a well-known college writes me that "The Ship of State" was his favourite poem when he was a boy, and did more than any other to shape his course in life. Longfellow (1807-82).

Henry W. Longfellow.

The Constitution and Laws are here personified, and addressed as "The Ship of State."

America.

"America" (Samuel Francis Smith, 1808-95) is a good poem to learn as a poem, regardless of the fact that every American who can sing it ought to know it, that he may join in the chorus when patriotic celebrations call for it. My boys love to repeat the entire poem, but I often find masses of people trying to sing it, knowing only one stanza. It is our national anthem, and a part of our education to know every word of it.

S.F. Smith.

The Landing of the Pilgrims.

"The Landing of the Pilgrims," by Felicia Hemans (1749-1835), is a poem that children want when they study the early history of America.

Felicia Hemans.

The Lotos-Eaters.

The main idea in "The Lotos-Eaters" is, are we justified in running away from unpleasant duties? Or, is insensibility justifiable?

Laddie, do you recollect learning this poem after we had read the story of "Odysseus"? "The struggle of the soul urged to action, but held back by the spirit of self-indulgence." These were the points we discussed. Alfred Tennyson (1809-92).

Alfred Tennyson.

Moly.

"Moly" (mo'ly), by Edith M. Thomas (1850-), in the best possible presentation of the value of integrity. This poem ranks with "Sir Galahad," if not above it. It is a stroke of genius, and every American ought to be proud of it. Every time my boys read "Odysseus" or the story of Ulysses with me we read or learn "Moly." The plant moly grows in the United States as well as in Europe.

Edith M. Thomas.

Cupid Drowned.

"Cupid Drowned" (1784-1859), "Cupid Stung" (1779-1852), and "Cupid and My Campasbe" (1558-1606) are three dainty poems recommended by Mrs. Margaret Mooney, of the Albany Teachers' College, in her "Foundation Studies in Literature." Children are always delighted with them.

Leigh Hunt.

Cupid Stung.

Thomas Moore.

Cupid and My Campasbe.

John Lyly.

A Ballad for a Boy.

Violo Roseboro, one of our good authors, brought to me "A Ballad for a Boy," saying: "I believe it is one of the poems that every child ought to know." It is included in this compilation out of respect to her opinion and also because the boys to whom I have read it said it was "great," The lesson in it is certainly fine. Men who are true men want to settle their own disputes by a hand-to-hand fight, but they will always help each other when a third party or the elements interfere. Humanity is greater than human interests.

The Skeleton in Armour.

"The Skeleton in Armour" (Longfellow, 1807-82) is a "boy's poem." It it pure literature and good history.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The Revenge.
A BALLAD OF THE FLEET

Tennyson's (1807-92) "The Revenge" finds a welcome here because it is a favourite with teachers of elocution and their audiences. It teaches us to hold life cheap when the nation's safety is at stake.

Alfred Tennyson.

Sir Galahad.

Sir Galahad is the most moral and upright of all the Knights of the Round Table. The strong lines of the poem (Tennyson, 1809-92) are the strong lines of human destiny—

"My strength is as the strength of ten
Because my heart is pure."

Alfred Tennyson.

A Name in the Sand.

"A Name in the Sand," by Hannah Flagg Gould (1789-1865), is a poem to correct our ready overestimate of our own importance.

Hannah Flagg Gould.

PART VI.

"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,—
The last of life, for which the first was made."

The Voice of Spring.

"The Voice of Spring," by Felicia Hemans (1749-1835), becomes attractive as years go on. The line in this poem that captivated my youthful fancy was:

"The larch has hung all his tassels forth,"

The delight with which trees hang out their new little tassels every year is one of the charms of "the pine family." John Burroughs sent us down a tiny hemlock, that grew in our window-box at school for five years, and every spring it was a new joy on account of the fine, tender tassels. Mrs. Hemans had a vivid imagination backed up by an abundant information.

Felicia Hemans.

The Forsaken Merman.

"The Forsaken Merman," by Matthew Arnold (1822-88), is a poem that I do not expect children to appreciate fully, even when they care enough for it to learn it. It is too long for most children to commit to memory, and I generally assign one stanza to one pupil and another to another pupil until it is divided up among them. The poem is a masterpiece. Doubtless the poet meant to show that the forsaken merman had a greater soul to save than the woman who sought to save her soul by deserting natural duty. Salvation does not come through the faith that builds itself at the expense of love.

Matthew Arnold.

The Banks o' Doon.

"The Banks o' Doon," by Robert Burns (1759-96). Bonnie Doon is in the southwestern part of Scotland. Robert Burns's old home it close to it. The house has low walls, a thatched roof, and only two rooms. Alloway Kirk and the two bridges so famous in Robert Burns's verse are near by. This is an enchanted land, and the Scotch people for miles around Ayr speak of the poet with sincere affection. Burns, more than any other poet, has thrown the enchantment of poetry over his own locality.

Robert Burns.

The Light of Other Days.

Thomas Moore.

My Own Shall Come to Me.

If John Burroughs (1837-) had never written any other poem than "My Own Shall Come to Me," he would have stood to all ages as one of the greatest of American poets. The poem is most characteristic of the tall, majestic, slow-going poet and naturalist. There is no greater line in Greek or English literature than

"I stand amid the eternal ways."

John Burroughs.

Ode to a Skylark.

"Ode to a Skylark," by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), is usually assigned to "grammar grades" of schools. It is included here out of respect to a boy of eleven years who was more impressed with these lines than with any other lines in any poem:

"Like a poet hidden,
In the light of thought
Singing songs unbidden
Till the world is wrought
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not."

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Sands of Dee.

I have often had the pleasure of riding across the coast from Chester, England, to Rhyl, on the north coast of Wales, where stretch "The Sands of Dee" (Charles Kingsley, 1819-75). These purple sands at low tide stretch off into the sea miles away, and are said to be full of quicksands.

Charles Kingsley.

A Wish.

"A Wish" (by Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855) and "Lucy" (by Wordsworth, 1770-1850) are two gems that can be valued only for the spirit of quiet and modesty diffused by them.

S. Rogers.

Lucy.

William Wordsworth.

Solitude.

Alexander Pope.

John Anderson

"John Anderson," by Robert Burns (1759-96). This poem is included to please several teachers.

Robert Burns.

The God of Music.

"The God of Music," by Edith M. Thomas, an Ohio poetess now living. In this sonnet the poetess has touched the power of Wordsworth or Keats and placed herself among the immortals.

Edith M. Thomas.

A Musical Instrument.

"A Musical Instrument" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). This poem is the supreme masterpiece of Mrs. Browning. The prime thought in it is the sacrifice and pain that must go to make a poet of any genius.

"The great god sighed for the cost and the pain."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The Brides of Enderby.

"The Brides of Enderby," by Jean Ingelow (1830-97). This poem is very dramatic, and the music of the refrain has done much to make it popular. But the pathos is that which endears it.

Jean Ingelow.

The Lye.

"The Lye," by Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), is one of the strongest and most appealing poems a teacher can read to her pupils when teaching early American history. The poem is full of magnificent lines, such as "Go, soul, the body's guest." The poem never lacks an attentive audience of young people when correlated with the study of North Carolina and Sir Walter Raleigh. The solitary, majestic character of Sir Walter Raleigh, his intrepidity while undergoing tortures inflicted by a cowardly king, the ring of indignation—- all these make a weapon for him stronger than the ax that beheaded him. In this poem he "has the last word."

Sir Walter Raleigh.

L'Envoi.

"L'Envoi," by Rudyard Kipling, is a favourite on account of its sweeping assertion of the individual's right to self-development.

Rudyard Kipling

Contentment

"Contentment," by Edward Dyer (1545-1607). This poem holds much to comfort and control people who are shut up to the joys of meditation—people to whom the world of activity is closed. To be independent of things material—this is the soul's pleasure.

Edward Dyer.

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls.

Thomas Moore.

The Old Oaken Bucket

"The Old Oaken Bucket," by Samuel Woodworth (1785-1848), is a poem we love because it is an elegant expression of something very dear and homely.

Samuel Woodworth.

The Raven.

"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), is placed here because so many college men speak of it at once as the great poem of their boyhood. The poem caught me when a child by its refrain and weird picturesqueness. It has never outgrown its mechanical charm.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Arnold von Winkleried.

James Montgomery.

Life, I Know Not What Thou Art.

A.L. Barbauld.

Mercy.

"Mercy," an excerpt from "The Merchant of Venice," "Polonius' Advice," from "Hamlet," and "Antony's Speech," from "Julius Cæsar" (all fragments from Shakespeare, 1564-1616), find a place in this book because a well-known New York teacher—one who is unremitting in his efforts to raise the good taste and character of his pupils—says: "A book of poetry could not be complete without these extracts."

Shakespeare ("Merchant of Venice").

Polonius' Advice.

Shakespeare ("Hamlet").

A Fragment from Mark Antony's Speech.

Shakespeare ("Julius Cæsar").

The Skylark.

Thomas Hogg.

The Choir Invisible.

"The Choir Invisible" (by George Eliot, 1819-80) is a fitting exposition in poetry of this "Shakespeare of prose."

George Eliot.

The World Is Too Much With Us.

"The World Is Too Much With Us," by Wordsworth (1770-1850), is perhaps the greatest sonnet ever written. It is true that "the eyes of the soul" are blinded by a surfeit of worldly "goods." "I went to the Lake District" (England), said John Burroughs, "to see what kind of a country could produce a Wordsworth." Of course he found simple houses, simple people, barren moors, heather-clad mountains, wild flowers, calm lakes, plain, rugged simplicity.

William Wordsworth.

On His Blindness.

"Sonnet on His Blindness" (by John Milton, 1608-74). This is the most stately and pathetic sonnet in existence. The soul enduring enforced idleness and loss of power without repining. Inactivity made to serve a higher end.

"All service ranks the same with God!
There is no first or last."

John Milton.

She Was a Phantom of Delight.

"She Was a Phantom of Delight" (by William Wordsworth, 1770-1850) is included here because it is a picture of woman as she should be, not made dainty by finery, but by fine ideals—

"And not too good
For human nature's daily food."

William Wordsworth.

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (Gray, 1716-71). I once drove from Windsor Castle through Eton, down the long hedge-bound road which passes the estate of William Penn's descendants to Stoke Pogis, the little churchyard where this poem was written. They were trimming a great yew-tree under which Gray was said to have written this poem. The scene is one of peace and quiet. The "elegy" was a favourite form of poem with the ancients, but Gray is said to have reached the climax among poets in this style of verse. The great line of the poem is:

"The path of glory leads but to the grave."

It would almost seem that poetry has for its greatest mission the lesson of a proper humility.

THE EPITAPH.

Thomas Gray.

Rabbi Ben Ezra

"Rabbi Ben Ezra" (by Robert Browning, 1812-89). Youth is for dispute and age for counsel; each year, each period of a man's life is but the necessary step to the next. Youth is an uncertain thing to bank on.

"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was made."

"Rabbi Ben Ezra" is a plea for each period in life. Aspiration is the keynote.

" ... Trust God; see all, nor be afraid!"

Robert Browning.

Prospice.

"Prospice," by Robert Browning (1812-89), is the greatest death song ever written. It is a battle-song and a pæan of victory.

"The journey is done, the summit attained,
And the strong man must go."
"I would hate that Death bandaged my eyes and forebore,
And bade me creep past."
"No! let me taste the whole of it"
"The reward of all."

This poem is included in this book because these lines are enough to reconcile any one to any fate.

Robert Browning.

Recessional.

The "Recessional" (by Rudyard Kipling, 1865-) is one of the most popular poems of this century. It is a warning to an age and a nation drunk with power, a rebuke to materialistic tendencies and boastfulness, a protest against pride.

"Reverence is the master-key of knowledge."

Rudyard Kipling.

Ozymandias of Egypt.

"Ozymandias of Egypt," by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). This sonnet is a rebuke to the insolent pride of kings and empires. It is extremely picturesque. It finds a place here because more elderly scholars of good judgment are pleased with it. I remember an old gray-haired scholar in Chicago who often recited it to his friends merely because it touched his fancy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Mortality.

"Mortality" (by William Knox, 1789-1825) is always quoted as Lincoln's favourite poem.

William Knox.

On First Looking Into Chapman's "Homer."

"On First Looking Into Chapman's 'Homer,'" by John Keats (1795-1821). The last four lines of this sonnet form the most tremendous climax in literature. The picture is as vivid as if done with a brush. Every great book, every great poem is a new world, an undiscovered country. Every learned person is a whole territory, a universe of new thought. Every one who does anything with a heart for it, every specialist every one, however simple, who is strenuous and genuine, is a "new discovery." Let us give credit to the smallest planet that is true to its own orbit.

John Keats.

Hervé Riel.

"Hervé Riel" (by Robert Browning, 1812-89) is a poem for older boys. Here is a hero who does a great deed simply as a part of his day's work. He puts no value on what he has done, because he could have done no other way.

Robert Browning.

The Problem.

"The Problem" (by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-80) is quoted from one end of the world to the other. Emerson teaches one lesson above all others, that each soul must work out for itself its latent force, its own individual expression, and that with a "sad sincerity." "The bishop of the soul" can do no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To America.

"To America," included by permission of the Poet Laureate, is a good poem and a great poem. It is a keen thrust at the common practice of teaching American children to hate the English of these days on account of the actions of a silly old king dead a hundred years. Alfred Austin deserves great credit for this poem.

Alfred Austin.

The English Flag.

It is quite true that the English flag stands for freedom the world over. Wherever it floats almost any one is safe, whether English or not.

[Above the portico the Union Jack remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when it fell the crowds rent the air with shouts, and seemed to see significance in the incident.—Daily Papers.]

Rudyard Kipling.

The Man With the Hoe.

"The Man With the Hoe" is purely an American product, and every American ought to be proud of it, for we want no such type allowed to be developed in this country as the low-browed peasant of France. This poem is a stroke of genius. The story goes that it so offended a modern plutocrat that he offered a reward of $10,000 to any one who could write an equally good poem in rebuttal. "The Man With the Hoe" has won for Edwin Markham the title of "Poet Laureate of the Labouring Classes."

WRITTEN AFTER SEEING THE PAINTING BY MILLET.

God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him.—Genesis.

Edwin Markham.

Song of Myself.

"The Song of Myself" is one of Walt Whitman's (1819-92) most characteristic poems. I love the swing and the stride of his great long lines. I love his rough-shod way of trampling down and kicking out of the way the conventionalities that spring up like poisonous mushrooms to make the world a vast labyrinth of petty "proprieties" until everything is nasty. I love the oxygen he pours on the world. I love his genius for brotherliness, his picture of the Negro with rolling eyes and the firelock in the corner. These excerpts are some of his best lines.

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

- A barking sound the shepherd hears, 120

- Abide with me! fast falls the eventide, 223

- Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase), 89

- A chieftain to the Highlands bound, 105

- Across the lonely beach, 71

- A life on the ocean wave, 85

- Alone I walked the ocean strand, 256

- A nightingale that all day long, 34

- A supercilious nabob of the East, 165

- At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, 246

- At midnight in his guarded tent, 128

- A traveller on the dusty road, 48

- A well there is in the west country, 180

- Ay, tear her tattered ensign down, 53

- Behind him lay the gray Azores, 169

- Beneath the low-hung night cloud, 67

- Bird of the wilderness, 302

- Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 58

- Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans, 342

- Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies, 110

- Buttercups and daisies, 51

- By the shores of Gitche Gumee, 79

- Come, let us plant the apple-tree, 211

- Come, dear children, let us away, 260

- "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, 231

- Cupid and my Campasbe played, 235

- Cupid once upon a bed, 234

- Down in a green and shady bed, 27

- Farewell! Farewell! But this I tell, 5

- Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat, 320

- "Give us a song!" the soldiers cried, 64

- God of our fathers, known of old, 321

- Goe, soule, the bodie's guest, 283

- Grow old along with me, 312

- Hail to thee, blithe spirit, 268

- Half a league, half a league, 107

- Happy the man whose wish and care, 273

- Hats off! 133

- Heaven is not reached at a single bound, 117

- How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, 288

- "How I should like a birthday!" said the child, 164

- How happy is he born and taught, 220

- How sleep the brave, who sing to rest, 133

- I am monarch of all I survey, 190

- I celebrate myself, and sing myself, 344

- I chatter, chatter, as I flow, 153

- I come, I come! ye have called me long, 259

- If I had but two little wings, 21

- I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, 9

- I heard last night a little child go singing, 222

- I like a church: I like a cowl, 333

- "I'll tell you how the leaves came down," 12

- I met a traveller from an antique land, 322

- In her ear he whispers gaily, 75

- In the name of the Empress of India, make way, 125

- I remember, I remember, 159

- I shot an arrow into the air, 3

- "Isn't this Joseph's son?"—ay, it is He, 114

- I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he, 173

- Is there, for honest poverty, 151

- It is not growing like a tree, 60

- It was a summer's evening, 117

- It was our war-ship Clampherdown, 154

- It was the schooner Hesperus, 138

- It was the time when lilies blow, 72

- I wandered lonely as a cloud, 82

- John Anderson, my jo, John, 274

- King Francis was a hearty king and loved a royal sport, 184

- Krinken was a little child, 162

- Lars Porsena of Clusium, 193

- Lead kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, 224

- Let dogs delight to bark and bite, 4

- Life! I know not what thou art, 299

- Little drops of water, 5

- Little orphant Annie's come to our house to stay, 54

- Little white lily, 10

- "Make way for liberty!" he cried, 296

- Maxwelton braes are bonnie, 226

- Merrily swinging on brier and weed, 44

- Methought I heard a butterfly, 42

- 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 220

- Mine be a cot beside the hill, 272

- My country 'tis of thee, 228

- My fairest child, I have no song to give you, 21

- My good blade carves the casques of men, 253

- My heart leaps up when I behold, 28

- My little Mädchen found one day, 149

- My mind to me a kingdom is, 286

- My soul is sailing through the sea, 219

- Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, 326

- Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes, 4

- No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, 145

- Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, 176

- Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are, 179

- O, a dainty plant is the ivy green, 59

- O Captain! my Captain, our fearful trip is done, 57

- Of all the woodland creatures, 60

- Oft in the stilly night, 266

- Oh where! and oh where! is your Highland laddie gone, 20

- Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West, 103

- Old Grimes is dead; that good old man, 47

- "O Mary, go and call the cattle home, 271

- O, may I join the choir invisible, 303

- Once a dream did wave a shade, 116

- Once there was a little boy, 19

- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, 289

- On Linden, when the sun was low, 134

- On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, 326

- Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass, 160

- Over the hill the farm-boy goes, 90

- O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light, 31

- O why should the spirit of mortal be proud, 323

- Pussy can sit by the fire and sing, 8

- Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 126

- Said the wind to the moon, "I will blow you out," 111

- Sail on, sail on, O Ship of State, 227

- Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled, 142

- See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, 301

- Serene I fold my hands and wait, 267

- Shed no tear! O shed no tear, 50

- She dwelt among the untrodden ways, 272

- She was a phantom of delight, 305

- Speak! speak! thou fearful guest, 240

- Stand! the ground's your own, my braves!, 63

- Sunset and evening star, 124

- Sweet and low, sweet and low, 27

- Tell me not in mournful numbers, 218

- The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, 158

- The boy stood on the burning deck, 22

- The breaking waves dashed high, 229

- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 306

- The Frost looked forth, one still, clear night, 39

- The gingham dog and the calico cat, 18

- The God of Music dwelleth out of doors, 275

- The harp that once through Tara's halls, 287

- The nautilus and the ammonite, 188

- The old mayor climb'd the belfry tower, 277

- The Owl and the Pussy Cat went to sea, 15

- The quality of mercy is not strained, 300

- There came a youth upon the earth, 171

- There came to port last Sunday night, 152

- There lay upon the ocean's shore, 148

- There was a sound of revelry by night, 177

- There was never a Queen like Balkis, 7

- There were three kings into the East, 83

- There were three sailors of Bristol City, 41

- The splendour falls on castle walls, 66

- The stately homes of England, 192

- The summer and autumn had been so wet, 166

- The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, 136

- The world is too much with us; late and soon, 304

- The year's at the spring, 6

- Thirty days hath September, 7

- This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, 122

- This was the noblest Roman of them all, 301

- 'Tis the last rose of summer, 225

- T'other day as I was twining, 234

- Traveller, pluck a stem of moly, 233

- Triumphal arch that fills the sky, 53

- 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, 29

- Twinkle, twinkle little star, 6

- Under a spreading chestnut tree, 25

- Up from the meadows rich with corn, 96

- Up from the South at break of day, 68

- Way down upon de Swanee ribber, 137

- Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, 94

- Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, 92

- Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town, 13

- We were crowded in the cabin, 23

- Whatever brawls disturb the street, 20

- What is so rare as a day in June, 217

- What is the voice I hear, 335

- What was he doing, the great god Pan, 275

- When cats run home and light is come, 40

- When earth's last picture is painted, 285

- When George the Third was reigning, a hundred years ago, 236

- When I consider how my light is spent, 304

- When Letty had scarce pass'd her third glad year, 115

- Where the pools are bright and deep, 50

- Wild was the night, yet a wilder night, 131

- Winds of the world, give answer, 337

- Woodman, spare that tree, 222

- Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night, 16

- Ye banks and braes of bonnie Doon, 265

- "You are old, Father William," the young man said, 33

- You know, we French storm'd Ratisbon, 43

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