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E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR

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

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

PREFACE POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR BOOK TWO Home The House with Nobody In It Color in the Wheat The Broken Pinion Jamie Douglas The Ensign Bearer The Real Riches The Polish Boy The Height of the Ridiculous Excelsior The Bivouac of the Dead Children The Eve of Waterloo

(The battle of Waterloo occurred June 18, 1815)

The Land Where Hate Should Die Trouble In the "Amen Corner" Duty The Last Leaf Old Flag Forever The Death of the Flowers The Heritage The Ballad of East and West Annabel Lee April Showers The Voice of Spring The Boys The Rainy Day Let Me Walk With the Men in the Road If We Understood A Laugh in Church "One, Two, Three!" Unawares The Land of Beginning Again Poor Little Joe The Ladder of St. Augustine Loss and Gain John Thompson's Daughter

(A Parody on "Lord Ullin's Daughter")

Grandfather's Clock A Cradle Hymn If All the Skies The Petrified Fern Cleon and I Washington Towser Shall Be Tied To-Night

A Parody on "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight."

Law and Liberty His Mother's Song When Father Carves the Duck Papa's Letter Who Stole the Bird's Nest? Over the Hill from the Poor-House "'Specially Jim" O'Grady's Goat The Burial of Moses

"And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."

Nobody's Child A Christmas Long Ago Nearer Home The Minuet The Vagabonds The Isle of Long Ago The Dying Newsboy Break, Break, Break Don't Kill the Birds Bill's in the Legislature The Bridge Builder Song of Marion's Men The Minstrel-Boy Our Homestead The Ballad of the Tempest Santa Filomena The Knight's Toast The Old Man Dreams Washington's Birthday April! April! Are You Here? A Laughing Chorus The Courtin' An Old Man's Dreams God's Message to Men The Sandman Ring Out, Wild Bells The Wishing Bridge The Things Divine Mothers of Men Echo Life, I Know Not What Thou Art Autumn Leaves A Message for the Year Song of the Chattahoochee

Used by special permission of the publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons.

Courting in Kentucky God's Will is Best The School-Master's Guests Mother o' Mine Encouragement The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls Aux Italiens

* A line in the opera "II Trovatore" meaning "Do not forget me."

My Prairies Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead

(From "The Princess")

September The Old Kitchen Floor Rustic Courtship The Red Jacket John Maynard Piller Fights Little Bateese Conscience and Future Judgment Dandelion The Inventor's Wife Out in the Snow Give Them the Flowers Now The Lost Occasion

(Written in memory of Daniel Webster.)

The Flower of Liberty The Lamb The Roll Call A Prayer for a Little Home I Have Drank My Last Glass Highland Mary A Night with a Wolf She Was a Phantom of Delight The Rhodora

(On Being Asked Whence Is The Flower)

There Was a Boy The Quangle Wangle's Hat The Singing Leaves Awakening Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness

(From "King Henry VIII")

The Newsboy Parting of Marmion and Douglas The Engineer's Story Small Beginnings Rain on the Roof Gunga Din Warren's Address to the American Soldiers

(Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775)

Mad River

IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS

When Papa Was a Boy Which Shall It Be? The Battle of Bunker's Hill Health and Wealth The Heartening Billy's Rose The Old Actor's Story The Boy Who Didn't Pass The Station-Master's Story Hark, Hark! the Lark

(From "Cymbeline")

Tommy's Prayer The Two Pictures The Two Kinds of People The Sin of Omission The Bible My Mother Gave Me Lincoln, the Man of the People Our Own How Salvator Won I Got to Go to School With Little Boy Blue

(Written after the death of Eugene Field.)

The Charge of Pickett's Brigade Hullo The Women of Mumbles Head The Fireman's Story Little Willie's Hearing The Service Flag Flying Jim's Last Leap

(The hero of this tale had once been a famous trapeze performer.)

Betty and the Bear The Graves of a Household The Babie A Legend of the Northland How Did You Die? The Children The King and the Child Try, Try Again Indian Names More Cruel Than War Columbus The September Gale When My Ship Comes In Solitude Sin of the Coppenter Man The Bells of Ostend You Put No Flowers on My Papa's Grave The Two Little Stockings I Have a Rendezvous with Death Let Us Be Kind The Water Mill Why the Dog's Nose Is Always Cold The African Chief He Who Has Vision

Where there is no vision the people perish.—Prov. 29:17.

The Children We Keep The Stranger on the Sill The Old Man In the Model Church The Volunteer Organist The Finding of the Lyre The High Tide (1571)

(Or "The Brides of Enderby")

September Days The New Year An "If" For Girls

(With apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling.)

Boy and Girl of Plymouth Work: A Song of Triumph Reply to "A Woman's Question"

("A Woman's Question" is given on page 129 of Book I, "Poems Teachers Ask For.")

The Romance of Nick Van Stann Armageddon Picciola The King's Ring Leaving the Homestead Bernardo Del Carpio Mizpah God Casabianca Monterey The Teacher's "If" The Good Shepherd A Sermon in Rhyme The Fortunate Isles What the Choir Sang About the New Bonnet Work Thou for Pleasure The Tin Gee Gee "Tommy" The Mystic Weaver The Mortgage on the Farm The Legend Beautiful Somebody's Darling The Pride of Battery B The Wood-Box Inasmuch No Sects in Heaven The Railroad Crossing The Sunset City Autumn

A DIRGE

Grandmother's Quilt The Two Angels The Witch's Daughter David's Lament for Absalom Christmas Day in the Workhouse Our Presidents—A Memory Rhyme Annie and Willie's Prayer Trailing Arbutus When the Light Goes Out Prayer and Potatoes The Parts of Speech A New Leaf The Boy With the Hoe Our Flag The Little Fir-Trees He Worried About It The President Lullaby Chums Jim Brady's Big Brother The Gray Swan The Circling Year INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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