Best Loved Poems of the American People (edit title/settings)

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I. Love and Friendship
Sonnet from the Portugese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Woman's Shortcomings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Woman's Last Word by Robert Browning
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt
Said the Rose by George H. Miles
Walk Slowly by Adelaide Love
To Althea from Prison by Richard Lovelace
Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
The Lake of the Dismal Swamp by Thomas Moore
Kate Kearney by Sady Morgan
If I Had Known by Mary Carolyn Davies
Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Unknown
Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ad Finem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All Paths Lead to You by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
The Abiding Love by John White Chadwick
To a Friend by Grace Stricker Dawson
Kashmiri Song by Laurence Hope
My Life Is a Bowl by May Riley Smith
A Mile with Me by Henry Van Dyke
An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley
Fellowship by Unknown
A Woman's Question by Lena Lathrop
Any Wife or Husband by Carol Haynes
To My Unborn Son by Captain Cyril Morton Thorne
Love by Roy Croft
Her Answer by John Bennett
In a Rose Garden by John Bennett
Sleep Sweet by Ellen M. Huntington Gates
Midsummer by Sydney King Russell
Billy Boy by Unknown
If You but Knew by Unknown
Need of Loving by Strickland Gillilan
If You're Ever Going to Love Me by Unknown
I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers by Unknown
Is It a Sin to Love Thee? by Unknown
We Have Lived and Loved Together by Charles Jefferys
Will You Love Me When I'm Old by Unknown
You and I by Henry Alford
He and She by Sir Edwin Arnold
Light by Francis W. Bourdillion
Reward of Service by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ossian's Serenade by Major Calder Campbell
Among the Beautiful Pictures by Alice Cary
Cleopatra Dying by Thomas Stephens Collier
Miss You by David Cory
Friendship by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
You Kissed Me by Josephine Slocum Hunt
I Want You by Arthur L. Gillom
Song by Gerald Griffin
The Unknown by E. O. Laughlin
Forget Thee? by John Moultrie
Thou Hast Wounded the Spirit That Loved Thee by Mrs. David Porter
Fidelis by Adelaide Anne Procter
Vases by Nan Terrell Reed
And Then No More by Friedrich Ruekert (Translated by James Clarence Mangon)
Song by Florence Smith
At Nightfall by Charles Hanson Towne
Creed by Mary Ashley Townsend
Quiet Waters by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
Lorena by H. D. L. Webster
Growing Old by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Want of You by Ivan Leonard Wright
Admonition by Kid Kazanova (Philip Stack)
Loyalty by Berton Braley
New Friends and Old Friends by Joseph Parry
Our Own by Margaret E. Sangster
"I Hear It Said" by Barbara Young
Sweet Peril by George Macdonald

II. Inspiration
If- by Rudyard Kipling
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley
Life by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
The Right Kind of People by Edwin Markham
Outwitted by Edwin Markham
Today by Angela Morgan
Where There's a Will There's a Way by Eliza Cook
Happiness by Priscilla Leonard
Tadoussac by Charles Bancroft
Sonnet by John Keats
The Winners by Rudyard Kipling
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
My Captain by Dorothea Day
Where Are You Going, Greatheart? by John Oxenham
The Torch by Theodosia Garrison
Red Geraniums by Martha Haskell Clark
The Rose Still Grows Beyond the Wall by A. L. Frink
Who Walks with Beauty by David Morton
I Shall Not Pass This Way Again by Unknown
A Soul's Soliloquy by Wenonah Stevens Abbott
Hyacinths to Feed Thy Soul by Moslih Eddin Saadi
The Loom of Time by Unknown
Pedra by John William Burgon
Waiting by John Burroughs
Our Heroes by Phoebe Cary
The Revel by Bartholomew Dowling
Hold Fast Your Dreams by Louise Driscoll
Immortality by Joseph Jefferson
Who Are My People? by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
There Is No Death by J. L. McCreery
Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill
It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar A. Guest
Lord, Make a Regular Man out of Me by Edgar A. Guest
A Friend's Greeting by Edgar A. Guest
Myself by Edgar A. Guest
Tell Him So by Unknown
The Manly Man by Unknown
Get a Transfer by Unknown
It Isn't the Church-It's You by Unknown
Say It Now by Unknown
The Quitter by Unknown
Always Finish by Unknown
Try Smiling by Unknown
Do It Now! by Unknown
Smile by Unknown
A Smile by Unknown
A Bag of Tools by R. L. Sharpe
It's Fine Today by Douglas Malloch
Opportunity by Walter Malone
The Land of Beginning Again by Louisa Fletcher
Be the Best of Whatever You are by Douglas Malloch
The Town of Don't-You-Worry by I. J. Bartlett
It Isn't the Town, It's You by R. W. Glover
The Town of Nogood by W. E. Penny
The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss
Crowded Ways of Life by Walter S. Gresham
The Coming American by Sam Walter Foss
Do It Now by Berton Braley
The Thinker by Berton Braley
Then Laugh by Bertha Adams Backus
A Prayer by Berton Braley
Last Lines by Emily Brontë
Co-operation by J. Mason Knox
Vitaï Lampada by Henry Newbolt
Living by Unknown
Don't Quit by Unknown
How to Be Happy by Unknown
The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I Know Something Good About You by Louis C. Shimon
Born Without a Chance by Edmund Vance Cooke
How Did You Die? by Edmund Vance Cooke
All to Myself by Wilbur Dick Nesbit
Watch Yourself Go By by Strickland Gillilan
Out Where the West Begins by Arthur Chapman
A Song from Sylvan by Louise Imogen Guiney
My Wage by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
My "Patch of Blue" by Mary Newland Carson
Drop a Pebble in the Water by James W. Foley
To the Men Who Lose by George L. Scarborough
Touching Shoulders by Unknown
Beautiful Things by Ellen P. Allerton
Give Us Men! by Josiah Gilbert Holland
Emancipation by Unknown
Life's Mirror by Mary Ainge de Vere
The Human Touch by Spencer Michael Free
Your Mission by Ellen M. H. Gates
My Neighbor's Roses by Abraham L. Gruber
God, Give Us Men! by Josiah Gilbert Holland
The Fighter by S. E. Kiser
When I Am Old by Caroline Atherton Briggs Mason
The Common Road by Silas H. Perkins
Beauty as a Shield by Elsie Robinson
The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole
The Lord God Planted a Garden by Dorothy Frances Gurney
Fate by Susan Marr Spalding
This, Too, Shall Pass Away by Lanta Wilson Smith
A Very Minor Poet Speaks by Isabel Valle
To Know All Is to Forgive All by Nixon Waterman
Optimism by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Progress by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Two Glasses by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Whatever Is-Is Best by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Will by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Worth While by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You Never Can Tell by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Cry of a Dreamer by John Boyle O'Reilly

III. Poems That Tell a Story
The Face Upon the Floor by H. Antoine D'Arcy
The Last Hymn by Marianne Farningham
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans
Abou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh Hunt
The Mistletoe Bough by Thomas Haynes Bayly
Mary, Queen of Scots by Henry Glassford Bell
Curfer Must Not Ring Tonight by Rosa Hartwick Thorpe
Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Christmas Day in the Workhouse by George R. Sims
Annie and Willie's Prayer by Sophia P. Snow
How He Saved St. Michael's by Mary A. P. Stansbury
The Doctor's Story by Will M. Carleton
Over the Hill to the Poor-House by Will M. Carleton
Ostler Joe by George R. Sims
St. Peter at the Gate by Joseph Bert Smiley
Down and Out by Clarence Leonard Hay
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even This Shall Pass Away by Theodore Tilton
Beautiful Snow by John Wittaker Watson
Two Pictures by Unknown
Streets of Baltimore by Unknown
The Siege of Belgrade by Alaric Alexander Watts
The Ship That Never Returned by Henry Clay Work
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music in Camp by John R. Thompson
The High Tide at Gettysburg by Will Henry Thompson
Yussouf by James Russell Lowell
Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle
Carcassonne by Gustave Nadaud (Translated by John R. Thompson)
The Vagabonds by John Townsent Trowbridge
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Evolution by Langdon Smith
Beth-Gêlert; or, The Grave of the Grey-Hound by William Robert Spencer
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England by Felicia D. Hemans
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Madonna by Robert W. Service
The Legend of the Organ-Builder by Julia C. R. Dorr
The Touch of the Master's Hand by Myra Brooks Welch
John Maynard by Horatio Alger, Jr.
"Guilty or Not Guilty?" by Unknown
The Man on the Flying Trapeze by Unknown
The Hell-Bound Train by Unknown
The Julie Plante by William Henry Drummond
Lord Lovel by Unknown
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman by Unknown
Derelict by Young E. Allison
The Mills of the Gods by Unknown
The Owl and the Fox by Unknown
The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell
Katie Lee and Willie Grey, attributed both to Josie R. Hunt and to J. H. Pixley
Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother by Amelia Blandford Edwards
Young Charlottie by William Lorenzo Carter
The Mornin's Mornin' by Gerald Brennan
The African Chief by William Cullen Bryant
The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
The Sailor's Grave by Eliza Cook
Lasca by Frank Desprez
The Bank Thief by J. R. Farrell
She Is More to Be Pitied Than Censured by William B. Gray
The Wedding Gift by Minna Irving
Somebody's Darling by Marie Ravenal de La-Coste
Would I Be Shrived? by John D. Swain
Back to Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley
Out There Somewhere by Henry Herbert Knibbs
The Enchanted Shirt by John Hay
The Green Eye of the Yellow God by J. Milton Hayes
A Fence or an Ambulance by Joseph Malins
Kentucky Belle by Constance Fenimore Woolson
The Ballad of Yukon Jake by Edward E. Paramore, Jr.
Abdullah Bulbul Amir; or, Ivan Petrofsky Skovar by Unknown
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey's Revenge by James Wilson
Casey-Twenty Years Later by S. P. McDonald
Grandmother's Old Armchair by Unknown
Granfather's Clock by Henry Clay Work
The Fox Went Out One Frosty Night by Unknown

IV. Faith and Reverence
Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
How the Great Guest Came by Edwin Markham
My Evening Prayer by Charles H. Gabriel
A Prayer for Every Day by Mary Carolyn Davies
A Creed by Edwin Markham
Sometime by May Riley Smith
If We Knew by May Riley Smith
Be Strong! by Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Each in His Own Tongue by William Herbert Carruth
Song of Hope by Mary Artemisia Lathbury
Mizpah by Julia A. Baker
Is It True? by Sarah Williams
The Coming of His Feet by Lyman W. Allen
A Prayer by Max Ehrmann
Building for Eternity by N. B. Sargent
The Watered Lilies by Unknown
An Ancient Prayer by Thomas H. B. Webb
The Anvil-God's Word by Unknown
The Cross Was His Own by Unknown
How Far Is It Called to the Grave? by Unknown
Larels and Immortelles by Unknown
Poor Lil' Brack Sheep by Ethel M. C. Brazelton
There Is No Death by Unknown
The Weaver by Fanny Forrester
Where, Oh Where Are The Hebrew Children? by Unknown
An Ode by Joseph Addison
The Buriel of Moses by Cecil Frances Alexander
The Hidden Line by Dr. J. Addison Alexander
What I Live For by George Linnaeus Banks
Death by Unknown
O God, the Rock of Ages by Edward H. Bickersteth
Not Understood by Thomas Bracken
Pray Without Ceasing by Ophelia Guyon Browning
The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope
The Weaver by William H. Burleigh
Hallowed Ground by Thomas Campbell
The Child on the Judgement Seat by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
The Tapestry Weaver by Anson G. Chester
No Sects in Heaven by Elizabeth H. Jocelyn Cleaveland
The Present Age by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Through the Year by Julian S. Cutler
The Preacher's Mistake by William Croswell Doane
Life Sculpture by William Croswell Doane
The Chemistry of Character by Elizabeth Dorney
The Christian's "Good-Night" by Sarah Doudney
The Water Mill by Sarah Doudney
The Church Walking with the World by Matilda C. Edwards
Now the Laborer's Task Is O'er by John Lodge Ellerton
When Wilt Thou Save the People? by Ebenezer Elliott
My Church by Unknown
At the Place of the Sea by Annie Johnson FLint
A Hundred Years from Now by Mary A. Ford
In a Hundred Years, attributed to Elizabeth Doten
Evening Contemplation by George Washington Doane
Christ and the Little Ones by Julia Gill
The Aloe Plant by Dr. Henry Harbaugh
Battle-Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
Only Waiting by Mrs. Frances Laughton Mace
How Far to Bethlehem? by Madeline Sweeny Miller
Ad Coelum by Harry Romaine
Up-Hill by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Your Church and Mine by Phillips H. Lord
The Sin of Omission by Margaret E. Sangster
Conscience by Charles William Stubbs
Roses in December by Rev. G. Anketall Studdert-Kennedy
The Kneeling Camel by Anna Temple Whitney
The Winds of Fate by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Envoy to the Toiling of Felix by Henry Van Dyke

V. Home and Mother
Home, Sweet Home by John Howard Payne
Like Mother, Like Son by Margaret Johnston Grafflin
My Mother by Jane Taylor
Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Allen
Call Me Not Back from the Echoless Shore by Unknown
Somebody's Mother by Mary Dow Brine
Home by Edgar A. Guest
The Reading Mother by Strickland Gillian
The Blue Bowl by Blanche Bane Kuder
My Mother's Garden by Alice E. Allen
A Prayer for a Little Home by Florence Bone
Motherhood by Agnes Lee
If I Only Was the Fellow by Will S. Adkin
Home Is Where There Is One to Love Us by Charles Swain
A Wonderful Mother by Pat O'Reilly
Nobody Knows but Mother by Mary Morrison

VI. Childhood and Youth
The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth
The Old Oaken Bucket (As Censored by the Board of Health) by Unknown
A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field
The Organist by George W. Stevens
Tragedy by Jull Spargur
From My Arm-Chair by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Two Temples by Hattie Vose Hall
An Order for a Picture by Alice Cary
Suppose by Phoebe Cary
Which Shall It Be? By Ethel Lynn Beers
To a Child Who Inquires by Olga Petrova
Lullaby Town by John Irving Diller
There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Boy Reciter by David Everett
The Child’s First Grief by Felicia D. Hemans
Where Shall the Baby’s Dimple Be? by Josiah G. Holland
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow
Sermon in a Stocking by Ellen A. Jewett
Day Dreams, or Ten Years Old by Margaret Johnson
How Big Was Alexander? by Rev. Elijah Jones
Where Did You Come From? by George Macdonald
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
Woodman, Spare That Tree by George Perkins Morris
My Mother’s Prayer by T. C. O’Kane
Making a Man by Nixon Waterman
We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier

VII. Patriotism and War
The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates
Breathes There the Man by Sir Walter Scott
I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger
America for Me by Henry Van Dyke
Boots by Rudyard Kipling
Independence Bell-July 4, 1776 by Unknown
The Unknown Soldier by Billy Rose
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
Reply to In Flanders Fields by John Mitchell
Another Reply to In Flanders Fields by J. A. Armstrong
America’s Answer by R. W. Lilliard
Land of the Free by Arthur Nicholas Hosking
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch
The Men Behind the Guns by John Jerome Rooney
Jeannette and Jeannot by Charles Jeffries
Jeannot’s Answer by Charles Jeffries
Bingen on the Rhine by Caroline Norton
The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O’Hara
I Fights mit Sigel! by Grant P. Robinson
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
The Fighting Race by Joseph I. C. Clarke
Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell
Canadian Boat-Song, attributed to John Galt and John Wilson (“Christopher North”)

VIII. Humor and Whimsey
Vagabond House by Don Blanding
Dried Apple Pies by Unknown
The Modern Baby by William Croswell Doane
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven by Guy Wetmore Carryl
Help Wanted by Franklin Waldheim
Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray
Plain Language from Truthful James by Francis Bret Harte
A Parody on A Psaml of Life, attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I Get Time by Thomas L. Masson
Art by Unknown
Strictly Germ-Proof by Arthur Guiterman
The Monkey’s Wedding by Unknown
Doan’t You Be What You Ain’t by Edwin Milton Royle
The Country Store by Unknown
Clare de Kitchen by Unknown
The Preacher’s Vacation by Unknown
A Frog Went A-Courting by Unknown
Animal Fair by Unknown
Captain Jinks by Unknown
Finigan’s Wake by Unknown
Hell in Texas by Unknown
How Paddy Stole the Rope by Unknown
I Had But Fifty Cents by Unknown
The Japanese Lovers by Horace Russell and William Greene
Jonah and the Whale by Unknown
Judged by the Company One Keeps by Unknown
Kafoozalum by Unknown
Methuselah by Unknown
Miss Foggerty’s Cake by Unknown
The Patter of the Shingle by Unknown
Carmen Possum by Unknown
The Optimist by Unknown
Towser Shall Be Tied Tonight by Unknown
Van Amburgh’s Menagerie by Unknown
Wanted-A Minister’s Wife by Unknown
Willie the Weeper by Unknown
The Bird’s Ball by C. W. Bardeen
A Boston Toast by John C. Bossidy
To a Louse by Robert Burns
The Three Wise Women by Mrs. E. T. Corbett
The Three Wise Couples by Mrs. E. T. Corbett
The Owl Critic by James T. Fields
To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by William Schwenck Gilbert
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
The Frost by Hannah Frances Gould
Trouble in the “Amen Corner” by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh
My Dad’s Dinner Pail by Edward Harrigan
Good Fortune by Heinrich Heine (Translated by Louis Untermeyer)
The Worried Skipper by Wallace Irwin
Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner
The Pessimist by Ben King
The Legend of the Admen by Everett W. Lord
Socrates Snooks by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Fin de Siécle by Edmund Vance Cooke
What the Choir Sang About the New Bonnet by M. T. Morrison
Riding Down from Bangor by Louis Shreve Osborne
A Modest Wit by Seeleck Osborn
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell
The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe
The Game of Life by John Godfrey Saxe
An Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Wells
Sleepin’ at the Foot o’ the Bed by Luther Patrick
A Maxim Revised by Unknown
I Kissed You by Unknown

IX. Memory and Grief
Prayer for a Very New Angel by Violet Alleyn Storey
Bachelor Hall by Eugene Field
He Is Not Dead by James Whitcomb Riley
Out of the Hitherwhere by James Whitcomb Riley
The House with Nobody in It by Joyce Kilmer
Verses Written in 1872 by Robert Louis Stevenson
My Son by James D. Hughes
No Funeral Gloom by Ellen Terry
Along the Road by Robert Browning Hamilton
Lucy by William Wordsworth
The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck
Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Memory by Abraham Lincoln
’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
The Closed Door by Theodosia Garrison
Death Is a Door by Nancy Byrd Turner
The Country Doctor by Will M. Carleton
My Trundle Bed by J. G. Baker
On the Threshold by Unknown
Twenty Years Ago by Dill Armor Smith
The Long Ago by Benjamin F. Taylor
Fare Thee Well! by Lord Byron
Lady Byron’s Reply to Lord Byron’s Fare Thee Well by Unknown
Sorrow by Sir Aubrey de Vere
Not Thou but I by Philip Bourke Marston
If I Should Die Tonight by Arabella Eugenia Smith
A Cry from the Canadian Hills by Lillian Leveridge
The Queen’s Last Ride by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

X. Nature
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
My Garden Is a Pleasant Place by Louise Driscoll
Far from the Madding Crowd by Nixon Waterman
God, the Artist by Angela Morgan
The Path That Leads to Nowhere by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
October’s Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson
The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service
A Scandal Among the Flowers by Charles S. Taylor
To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train by Frances Cornford
Did You Ever Hear an English Sparrow Sing? by Bertha Johnston
Who Loves a Garden by Louise Seymour Jones
The Rainbow by William Wordsworth
I Saw God Wash the World by William L. Stidger
Fragment by Alfred Tennyson
Daffodils by William Wordsworth

XI. Animals
To My Setter, Scout by Frank H. Seldon
The Curate Thinks You Have No Soul by St. John Lucas
Bishop Doane on His Dog by George Washington Doane
Epitaph to a Dog by Lord Byron
Rags by Edmund Vance Cooke
To a Dog by Josephine Preston Peabody
I Think I Know No Finer Things Than Dogs by Hally Carrington Brent
Bum by W. Dayton Wedgefarth
The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling
Supplication of the Black Aberdeen by Rudyard Kipling
My Dog by John Kendrick Bangs
A Malemute Dog by Pat O’Cotter
The Little Cat Angel by Leontine Stanfield
In Memoriam-Leo: A Yellow Cat by Margaret Sherwood
Leo to His Mistress by Henry Dwight Sedgewick
I Am the Cat by Lelia Usher
The Arab’s Farewell to His Horse by Caroline Norton

XII. Various Themes
The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham
The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling
The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling
A Woman’s Answer to The Vampire by Felicia Blake
Old Testament Contents by Unknown
Names and Order of the Books of the Old Testament by Unknown
Our Presidents by Unknown
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats
England’s Sovereigns in Verse by Unknown
Kings of France by Mary W. Lincoln
Let Me Grow Lovely by Karle Wilson Baker
Growing Older by R. G. Wells
What is Charm? by Louisa Carroll Thomas
Echoes by William Ernest Henley
Who Has Known Heights by Mary Brent Whiteside
The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Three Gates, from the Arabian
The Old Astronomer to His Pupil by Sarah Williams
The Sidewalks of New York by Charles B. Lawlor and James W. Blake
The Woman I Am by Glen Allen
Charity by Unknown
Life’s a Game by Unknown
Days of Brith by Unknown
The Festal Board by Unknown
The Gate at the End of Things by Unknown
The Heart of a Girl Is a Wonderful Thing by Unknown
The Level and the Square by Robert Morris
Is It Really Worth the While? by Unknown
Money and a Friend by Unknown
He Who Knows, a Persian proverb
Six Feet of Earth by Unknown
To a Skeleton by Anna Jane Vardhill
Man’s Inhumanity to Man by Robert Burns
The Indian Hunter by Eliza Cook
Retirement by William Cowper
Hy-Brasail – The Isle of the Blest by Gerald Griffin
Eat and Walk by James Norman Hall
Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick
To the Virgins by Robert Herrick
Duty by Ellen S. Hooper
Who Hath a Book by Wilbur D. Nesbit
Lines on the Back of a Confederate Note by Major Samuel Alroy Jones
What Constitutes a State? by Sir William Jones
Oh! Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud? by William Knox
Drifting Sands and a Caravan by Yolande Langworthy
The Ship by Charles Mackay
I Saw Three Ships by Unknown
Little Things by Julia A. Fletcher
Life by Nan Terrell Reed
Mother Shipton’s Prophecies by Unknown
Owed to New York by Byron Rufus Newton
City Roofs by Charles Hanson Towne
Retribution by F. von Logau (Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Quarrelling by Watts
The Men that Don’t Fit In by Robert W. Service
The Moneyless Man by Major Henry T. Stanton
The Lovely Rivers and Lakes of Maine by George B. Wallis
Life’s Scars by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Lifting and Learning by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Chip on His Shoulder by Unknown
Our Lips and Ears by Unknown
Empties Coming Back by Angelo de Ponciano
A Wise Old Owl by Edward Hersey Richards
Horse Sense by Unknown
The Year’s at the Spring by Robert Browning

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