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PREFACE
THE BUILDERS - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
OPPORTUNITY - Edward R. Sill (1841-1887)
OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY’S - James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
EACH AND ALL - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
THE RHODORA - On Being Asked Whence Is the Flower Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES - Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD - Sam Walter Foss (1858-911)
I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH - Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
IN FLANDERS FIELDS - John McCrae (1872-918)
MOONLIGHT - From “The Merchant of Venice” William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
OH CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! - Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE - Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
LITTLE BOY BLUE - Eugene Field (1850-1895)
THE DAFFODILS - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
JUNE - From “The Vision of Sir Launfal” James Russel Lowell (1819-1891)
ODE TO THE WEST WIND - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
THE SNOWSTORM - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
TO A SKYLARK - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
HIAWATHA’S CHILDHOOD - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
THE HAPPY WARRIOR - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
ANN RUTLEDGE - Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
NOT IN VAIN - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
SHERIDAN’S RIDE - Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
THE PRESENT CRISIS - James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
BE STRONG - Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858-1901)
COLUMBUS - Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (1841-1913)
TREES - Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
THE SPIRES OF OXFORD - (As seen from the train) Winifred M. Letts (dates unknown)
RECESSIONAL - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
THE CLOUD - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
HOW DID YOU DIE? - Edmund Vance Cooke (1866-1932)
WOLSEY’S FAREWELL TO - HIS GREATNESS John Fletcher (1579-1625)
THE BLESSED DAMOZEL - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
AMERICA FOR ME - Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
SONG OF THE SHIRT
MERCY - From “The Merchant of Venice”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT - In Springfield, Illinois
THE MAN WITH THE HOE - Written after seeing Millet’s world-famous painting of a ...
THE DUEL - Eugene Field (1850-1895)
SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE - Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY - From Recollections of Early Childhood
SONNET - “The World Is Too Much With Us”
LETTER TO A YOUNG FRIEND - Robert Burns (1759-1796)
THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE - or “The One-Hoss Shay”
THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
SOLITUDE - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919)
KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE - James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
OPPORTUNITY - John James Ingalls (1833-1900)
WAITING - John Borroughs (1837-1921)
PAUL REVERE’S RIDE - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
THAT TIME OF YEAR - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
PLANT A TREE - Lucy Larcom (1826-1893)
ABOU BEN ADHEM - James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
THE BELLS - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD - Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
CUDDLE DOON - Alexander Anderson (1845-1909)
SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS - John Milton (1608-1674)
THANATOPSIS - William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
INVICTUS - William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
SEA FEVER - John Masefield (1878-1967)
HORATIUS - Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE - William Herbert Carruth (1859-1924)
THE ETERNAL GOODNESS - John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
IF - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
SUMMUM BONUM - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
THE DAY IS DONE - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
LOVE OF COUNTRY - From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel”
NOBILITY - Alice Cary (1820-1871)
THE MINUET - Mary Mapes Dodge (1838-1905)
CHILDE HAROLD’S FAREWELL TO ENGLAND - George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
GOD SAVE THE FLAG - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
THE RAVEN - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
THE HIGHWAYMAN - Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
A PSALM OF LIFE - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
FOR A’THAT AND A’THAT - Robert Burns (1759-1796)
JEST ’FORE CHRISTMAS - Eugene Field (1850-1895)
GRADATIM - Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
THE BAREFOOT BOY - John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
POLONIUS’ ADVICE TO LAERTES - From “Hamlet”
THE FLAG GOES BY - Henry Holcomb Bennett (1863-1924)
“THE THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXCELLENT” - William Watson (1858-1935)
CONCORD HYMN - Sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1886
KEEP A-GOIN’ - Frank L. Stanton (1857-1927)
LIFE SCULPTURE - George Washington Doane (1799-1859)
THE CHOIR INVISIBLE - George Eliot (1819-1880)
MARMION AND DOUGLAS - From “Marmion”
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN - John Keats (1795-1821)
THE HEART OF THE TREE - Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
CROSSING THE BAR - Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
SOLILOQUY FROM “HAMLET” - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY - A Fable
MAUD MULLER - John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
HOME - Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959)
MY KATE - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE - Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
MENDING WALL - Robert Frost (1875-1963)
THE FOOL’S PRAYER - Edward R. Sill (1841-1887)
TO A WATERFOWL - William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN - A Symphony
APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN - From “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
RENASCENCE - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
EPILOGUE TO ASOLANDO - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
L’ENVOI - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
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