Chapter I: Book TWO

Selected by Readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Containing More Than Two Hundred Poems Requested for Publication in That Magazine on the Page "Poems Our Readers Have Asked For"

INDEX OF TITLES

African Chief, The _Bryant_ 145 Annabel Lee _Poe_ 25 Annie and Willie's Prayer _Snow_ 196 April! April! Are You Here? _Goodale_ 59 April Showers _Wilkins_ 26 Armageddon _E. Arnold_ 157 Autumn _Hood_ 186 Autumn Leaves _Wray_ 65 Aux Italiens _Lytton_ 72 Awakening _Sangster_ 93

Babie, The _Miller_ 131 Ballad of East and West, The _Kipling_ 23 Ballad of the Tempest, The _Fields_ 56 Battle of Bunker's Hill, The _Cozzens_ 102 Bells of Ostend, The _Bowles_ 140 Bernardo Del Carpio _Hemans_ 160 Betty and the Bear 130 Bible My Mother Gave Me, The 117 Bill's in the Legislature 53 Billy's Rose _Sims_ 104 Bivouac of the Dead, The _O'Hara_ 15 Boy and Girl of Plymouth _Smith_ 154 Boys, The _O.W. Holmes_ 27 Boy Who Didn't Pass, The 108 Boy with the Hoe, The _Weaver_ 202 Break, Break, Break _Tennyson_ 52 "Brides of Enderby, The." See "High Tide, The" 150 Bridge Builder, The 54 Broken Pinion, The _Butterworth_ 9 Burial of Moses, The _Alexander_ 45

Casabianca _Hemans_ 164 Charge of Pickett's Brigade, The 122 Children _Longfellow_ 16 Children, The _Dickinson_ 133 Children We Keep, The _Wilson_ 146 Christmas Day in the Workhouse _Sims_ 193 Christmas Long Ago, A 47 Chums _Foley_ 206 Circling Year, The _Graham_ 208 Cleon and I _Mackay_ 37 Color in the Wheat _Garland_ 8 Columbus _Smith_ 137 Conscience and Future Judgment 81 Courting in Kentucky 67 Courtin', The _Lowell_ 59 Cradle Hymn _Watts_ 35

Dandelion _Garabrant_ 82 David's Lament for Absalom _Willis_ 191 Death of the Flowers, The _Bryant_ 21 Don't Kill the Birds _Colesworthy_ 53 Duty _Browning_ 20 Dying Newsboy, The _Thornton_ 52

Echo _Saxe_ 65 Encouragement _Dunbar_ 71 Engineer's Story, The _Hall_ 96 Ensign Bearer, The 11 Eve of Waterloo, The _Byron_ 17 Excelsior _Longfellow_ 15

Finding of the Lyre, The _Lowell_ 150 Fireman's Story, The 125 Flower of Liberty, The _O.W. Holmes_ 85 Flying Jim's Last Leap _Banks_ 128 Fortunate Isles, The _Miller_ 168

Give Them the Flowers Now _Hodges_ 84 God _Derzhavin_ 162 God's Message to Men _Emerson_ 62 God's Will Is Best _Mason_ 67 Good Shepherd, The _Howe_ 166 Grandfather's Clock _Work_ 35 Grandmother's Quilt 186 Graves of a Household, The _Hemans_ 130 Gray Swan, The _A. Cary_ 207 Gunga Din _Kipling_ 98

Hark, Hark! the Lark _Shakespeare_ 111 Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, The _Moore_ 71 Health and Wealth 103 Heartening, The _Webb_ 103 Height of the Ridiculous, The _O.W. Holmes_ 14 Heritage, The _Lowell_ 22 He Who Has Vision _McKenzie_ 146 He Worried About It _Foss_ 203 Highland Mary _Burns_ 88 High Tide, The _Ingelow_ 150 His Mother's Song 39 Home _Guest_ 7 Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead _Tennyson_ 74 House with Nobody in It, The _Kilmer_ 8 How Did You Die? _Cooke_ 132 How Salvator Won _Wilcox_ 120 Hullo _Foss_ 123

If All the Skies _Van Dyke_ 36 "If" for Girls, An _Otis_ 153 If We Understood 29 I Got to Go to School _Waterman_ 121 I Have a Rendezvous with Death _Seeger_ 142 I Have Drank My Last Glass 87 Inasmuch _Ford_ 178 Indian Names _Sigourney_ 135 Inventor's Wife, The _Corbett_ 82 Isle of Long Ago, The _B.F. Taylor_ 51

Jamie Douglas 9 Jim Brady's Big Brother _Foley_ 206 John Maynard _Alger_ 78 John Thompson's Daughter _P. Cary_ 34

King and the Child, The _Hall_ 134 King's Ring, The _Tilton_ 159 Knight's Toast, The _W. Scott_ 57

Ladder of St. Augustine, The _Longfellow_ 33 Lamb, The _Blake_ 86 Land of Beginning Again, The _Tarkington_ 32 Land Where Hate Should Die, The _McCarthy_ 18 Last Leaf, The _O.W. Holmes_ 20 Laugh in Church, A 29 Laughing Chorus, A 59 Law and Liberty _Cutler_ 39 Leaving the Homestead 159 Legend Beautiful, The _Longfellow_ 174 Legend of the Northland, A _P. Cary_ 131 Let Me Walk with the Men in the Road _Gresham_ 28 Let Us Be Kind _Childress_ 143 Life, I Know Not What Thou Art _Barbauld_ 65 Lincoln, the Man of the People _Markham_ 118 Little Bateese _Drummond_ 80 Little Fir-Trees, The _Stein_ 203 Little Willie's Hearing 127 Loss and Gain _Longfellow_ 34 Lost Occasion, The _Whittier_ 84 Lullaby _Foley_ 205

Mad River _Longfellow_ 100 Message for the Year, A _Hardy_ 66 Minstrel-Boy, The _Moore_ 55 Minuet, The _Dodge_ 48 Mizpah 162 Monterey _Hoffman_ 165 More Cruel Than War _Hawkins_ 136 Mortgage on the Farm, The 173 Mother o' Mine _Kipling_ 70 Mothers of Men _Miller_ 64 My Prairies _Garland_ 74 Mystic Weaver, The 171

Nearer Home _P. Cary_ 48 New Leaf, A _Rice_ 202 Newsboy, The _Corbett_ 94 New Year, The _Craik_ 153 Night with a Wolf, A _Bayard Taylor_ 89 Nobody's Child _Case_ 46 No Sects in Heaven _Cleaveland_ 180

O'Grady's Goat _Hays_ 44 Old Actor's Story, The _Sims_ 106 Old Flag Forever _Stanton_ 21 Old Kitchen Floor, The 75 Old Man Dreams, The _O.W. Holmes_ 58 Old Man in the Model Church, The _Yates_ 148 Old Man's Dreams, An _Sherman_ 61 "One, Two, Three!" _Bunner_ 30 Our Flag _Sangster_ 202 Our Homestead _P. Cary_ 55 Our Own _Sangster_ 119 Our Presidents _Gilman_ 195 Out in the Snow _Moulton_ 83 Over the Hill from the Poor-House _Carleton_ 42

Papa's Letter 40 Parting of Marmion and Douglas _W. Scott_ 95 Parts of Speech, The 201 Petrified Fern, The _Branch_ 36 Picciola _Newell_ 158 Piller Fights _Ellsworth_ 80 Polish Boy, The _Stephens_ 12 Poor Little Joe _Proudfit_ 32 Prayer and Potatoes _Pettee_ 200 Prayer for a Little Home, A 87 President, The _Johnston_ 204 Pride of Battery B _Gassaway_ 176

Quangle Wangle's Hat, The _Lear_ 91

Railroad Crossing, The _Strong_ 182 Rain on the Roof _Kinney_ 97 Rainy Day, The _Longfellow_ 28 Real Riches, The _Saxe_ 12 Red Jacket, The _Baker_ 77 Reply to "A Woman's Question" _Pelham_ 155 Rhodora, The _Emerson_ 90 Ring Out, Wild Bells _Tennyson_ 63 Roll Call, The _Shepherd_ 86 Romance of Nick Van Stann _Saxe_ 156 Rustic Courtship 76

Sandman, The _Vandegrift_ 62 Santa Filomena _Longfellow_ 56 School-Master's Guest, The _Carleton_ 68 September _G. Arnold_ 75 September Days _Smith_ 153 September Gale, The _O.W. Holmes_ 137 Sermon in Rhyme, A 167 Service Flag, The _Herschell_ 127 She Was a Phantom of Delight _Wordsworth_ 89 Singing Leaves, The _Lowell_ 92 Sin of Omission, The _Sangster_ 116 Sin of the Coppenter Man _Cooke_ 139 Small Beginnings _Mackay_ 97 Solitude _Wilcox_ 139 Somebody's Darling _La Coste_ 175 Song of Marion's Men _Bryant_ 54 Song of the Chattahoochee _Lanier_ 66 "'Specially Jim" 44 Station-Master's Story, The _Sims_ 109 Stranger on the Sill, The _Read_ 147 Sunset City, The _Gilman_ 183

Teacher's "If", The _Gale_ 165 There Was a Boy _Wordsworth_ 90 Things Divine, The _Burt_ 64 Tin Gee Gee, The _Cape_ 169 "Tommy" _Kipling_ 170 Tommy's Prayer _Nicholls_ 112 Towser Shall Be Tied To-night 37 Trailing Arbutus _Whittier_ 199 Trouble in the Amen Corner _Harbaugh_ 18 Try, Try Again 135 Two Angels, The _Longfellow_ 187 Two Kinds of People, The _Wilcox_ 116 Two Little Stockings, The _Hunt_ 141 Two Pictures, The 114

Unawares _Lent_ 30

Vagabonds, The _Trowbridge_ 49 Voice of Spring, The _Hemans_ 26 Volunteer Organist, The _Foss_ 149

Warren's Address to the American Soldiers _Pierpont_ 99 Washington _Bryant_ 37 Washington's' Birthday _Butterworth_ 58 Water Mill, The _Doudney_ 143 What the Choir Sang About the New Bonnet _Morrison_ 168 When Father Carves the Duck _Wright_ 40 When My Ship Comes In _Burdette_ 138 When Papa Was a Boy _Brininstool_ 100 When the Light Goes Out _Chester_ 199 Which Shall It Be? _Beers_ 101 Who Stole the Bird's Nest? _Child_ 41 Why the Dog's Nose Is Always Cold 144 Wishing Bridge, The _Whittier_ 63 Witch's Daughter, The _Whittier_ 188 With Little Boy Blue _Kennedy_ 122 Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness _Shakespeare_ 94 Women of Mumbles Head, The _C. Scott_ 123 Wood-Box, The _Lincoln_ 177 Work: A Song of Triumph _Morgan_ 154 Work Thou for Pleasure _Cox_ 169

You Put No Flowers on My Papa's Grave _C.E.L. Holmes_ 140

(An Index of First Lines is given on pages 209-213)