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New York Macmillan Co., 1942.
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New York Macmillan Co., 1942.
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Table of Contents
Way of the world, the / Ella Wheeler Wilcox (p. 1)
These are the times that try men's souls / Thomas Paine (p. 1)
Tree of liberty, the / Bertrand Barere (p. 2)
'Tis the last rose of summer / Thomas Moore (p. 3)
Antony's oration over Caesar's body / William Shakespeare (p. 3)
Blind men and the elephant, the / John G. Saxe (p. 8)
Lincoln's farewell to the citizens of Springfield, Illinois / Abraham Lincoln (p. 10)
Creation, the / Old Testament-Genesis (p. 10)
Lead, kindly light / John Henry Newman (p. 12)
Sorrows of Werther / William Make- Peace Thackeray (p. 13)
No truer word / Walter Savage Landor (p. 13)
On reading and writing / Francis Bacon (p. 14)
Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte (p. 14)
Where there's a will there's a way / Eliza Cook (p. 16)
Arabian proverb / Anonymous (p. 17)
Truth, the invincible / William Cullen Bryant (p. 17)
When the hounds of spring / Algernon Charles Swinburne (p. 18)
Wreck of the Hesperus, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 19)
Ten commandments, the / Old Testament- Exodus (p. 22)
I'll take you home again, Kathleen / Thomas P. Westendorf (p. 23)
Little brown jug / Anonymous (p. 24)
Balcony scene. The / William Shakespeare (p. 25)
Time, you old gipsy man / Ralph Hodgson (p. 30)
Socrates, on his condemnation to Death / Socrates (p. 31)
God, give us men! / Josiah Gilbert Holland (p. 34)
Lincoln reviews a book / Abraham Lincoln (p. 34)
Lord gave, the / Old Testament- Job (p. 35)
Preamble to the constitution / Anonymous (p. 35)
Barbara Allen / Anonymous (p. 35)
Beautiful snow, the / John Whittaker Watson (p. 36)
Fox and the grapes, the / Aesop (p. 38)
An honest man / Alexander Pope (p. 38)
Day is done, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 39)
Lucy / William Wordsworth (p. 40)
Blow, thou winter wind / William Shakespeare (p. 40)
Abou Ben Adhem / James Henry Leigh Hunt (p.41)
As the twig is bent / Alexander Pope (p. 41)
Godly and the ungodly, the / Old Testament- Psalm 1 (p. 42)
Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray (p. 42)
Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe (p. 46)
Hippocratic oath / Hippocrates (p. 46)
Crooked footpath, the / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 47)
Vanzetti to Judge Thayer / Bartolomeo Vanzetti (p. 48)
Conquered banner, the / Abram Joseph Ryan (p. 49)
O my luv's like a red, red rose / Robert Burns (p. 50).
Faithless Nelly Gray / Thomas Hood (p. 51)
Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning (p. 53)
Hark, hark! the lark / William Shakespeare (p. 54)
Concord hymn, the / Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 54)
From Greenland's icy mountains / Bishop Reginald Heber (p. 55)
Heavens declare the glory of God, the / Old Testament- Psalm 19 (p. 56)
Farewell address / George Washington (p. 56)
Life's mirror / Madeline S. Bridges (p. 63)
Sail on, 0 ship of state! / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 64)
No more booze / Anonymous (p. 64)
Visit from St. Nicholas, a / Clement C. Moore (p. 65)
Glove and the lions, the / James Henry Leigh Hunt (p. 66)
Lament for Imogen / William Shakespeare (p. 67)
Intreat me not to leave thee / Old Testament- Ruth 1:16-17 (p. 68)
Death of Socrates, the / Plato (p. 68)
America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates (p.71)
Lord is my shepherd, the / Old Testament- Psalms 23 (p. 72)
Bivouac of the dead, the / Theodore O'Hara (p. 73)
Little Annie Rooney / Michael Nolan (p. 74)
Bannockburn / Robert Burns (p. 76)
Little learning is a dangerous thing, a / Alexander Pope (p. 76)
There was a little girl / Anonymous (p. 77)
Home-thoughts, from abroad / Robert Browning (p. 78)
Farewell to the old guard / Napoleon Bonaparte (p. 78)
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills / Old Testament-Psalms 121 (p. 79)
Character of a happy life, the / Sir Henry Wotton (p. 79)
Walrus and the carpenter, the / Lewis Carroll (p. 80)
Mountains in labor, the / Aesop (p. 83)
Three fishers, the / Charles Kingsley (p. 83)
Song for a little house / Christopher Morley (p. 84)
Song of the Chattahoochee / Sidney Lanier (p. 84)
Flag goes by, the / Henry Holcomb Bennett (p. 86)
Sands of Dee, the / Charles Kingsley (p. 87)
Retribution / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 87)
Coronation day sermon / Cardinal Mercier (p. 88)
De Profundis / Old Testament-Psalm 130 (p. 93)
Who is Sylvia? / William Shakespeare (p. 93)
Stand to your glasses / Anonymous (p. 94)
Man and his goose, the / Aesop (p. 95)
Wise old owl, a / Edward Hersey Richards (p. 96)
After visiting the tomb of Napoleon / Robert G. Ingersoll (p. 96)
Invictus / William Ernest Henley (p. 97)
Gunga Din / Rudyard Kipling (p. 97)
Fourth estate, the / Thomas Carlyle (p. 99)
Mary White / William Allen White (p. 100).
Recessional / Isaac Watts (p. 103)
Try, try again / Anonymous (p. 104)
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom / Old Testament- proverbs 3:11-18 (p. 105)
Lord Ullin's daughter / Thomas Campbell (p. 105)
Jenny kiss'd me / James Henry Leigh Hunt (p. 107)
Somebody's mother / Mary Dow Brine (p. 107)
Character of the happy warrior / William Wordsworth (p. 109)
Is there for honest poverty? / Robert Burns (p. 111)
O! Susanna / Stephen Foster (p. 112)
God bless us everyone / Charles Dickens (p. 113)
Violet, the / Jane Taylor (p. 116)
Where did you get that hat? / Joseph J. Sullivan (p. 117)
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever / John Keats (p. 118)
After Dunkirk / Winston- Churchill (p. 119)
House by the side of the road, the / Sam Walter Foss (p. 119)
Young and old / Charles Kingsley (p. 120)
Tempest, the / James T. Fields (p. 121)
Spartacus to the gladiators at Capua / E. Kellogg (p. 122)
I had but fifty cents / Anonymous (p. 123)
Remember now thy creator / Old Testament- Ecclesiastes 12 (p. 125)
How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (p. 126)
Song of Marion's men / William Cullen Bryant (p. 126)
Glorious whitewasher, the / Mark Twain (p. 128)
Goodbye! / Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 132)
For lo, the winter is past / Old Testament- Song of Solomon 2:10-13 (p. 133)
Mourning bride, the / William Congreve (p. 133)
Eternal goodness, the / John Greenleaf Whittier (p. 134)
Portia's plea for mercy / William Shakespeare (p. 134)
Flying trapeze, the / George Lebourne (p. 135)
When lovely woman stoops to folly / Oliver Goldsmith (p. 136)
I cannot sing the old songs / Anonymous (p. 137)
Star-spangled banner, the / Francis Scott Key (p. 138)
Sermon to the birds, St. Francis of Assisi (p. 139)
Nearer home / Phoebe Cary (p. 139)
Star, the / Jane Taylor (p. 140)
Throw him down Mccloskey / John W. Kelly (p. 141)
Mourning bride, the / William Congreve (p. 141)
On the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / George Berkeley (p. 142)
Belshazzar's feast/ Old Testament-Daniel 5 (p. 142)
Psalm of life, a / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 145)
George Washington and the cherry tree / Mason Locke ("Parson") Weems (p. 146)
Light of other days, the / Thomas Moore (p. 147)
Heraclitus / William (Johnson) Cory (p. 148)
London, 1802 / William Wordsworth (p. 148)
'Ostler Joe / George R. Sims (p. 148).
Elegy on the death of a mad dog, an / Oliver Goldsmith (p. 152)
Fourteen points, the / Woodrow Wilson (p. 153)
What is good? / John Boyle O'Reilly (p. 156)
Even such is time / Sir Walter Raleigh (p. 156)
Pericles' funeral oration / Pericles (p. 157)
Fool's prayer, the / Edward Rowland Sill (p. 160)
Fool's prayer, the / Edward Rowland Sill (p. 160)
Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous (p. 161)
Marco Bozzaris, Fits-Greene Hallack (p. 163)
Seven ages of man, William Shakespeare (p. 166)
What one may and may not call a woman / Anonymous (p. 167)
I remember, I remember / Thomas hood (p. 167)
Emmy / Arthur Symons (p. 168)
Rule Britannia! / James Thomson (p. 169)
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares / Old Testament-Micah 4:1-5 (p. 170)
Kathleen Mavourneen / Louisa Macartney Crawford (p. 170)
Lincoln's second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln (p. 171)
Arrow and the song, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 172)
News item / Dorothy Parker (p. 173)
Minstrel boy, the / Thomas Moore (p. 173)
Man proposes / Thomas Akempis (p. 173)
O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? / William Knox (p. 174)
American standard, the / Booker T. Washington (p. 175)
How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning (p. 177)
Chartless / Emily Dickinson (p. 179)
Days gone by, the / James Whitcomb Riley (p. 179)
Worth while / Ella Wheeler Wilcox (p. 180)
Reason / Anonymous (p. 180)
Eve of St. Agnes, the / John Keats (p. 181)
Old brown schoolhouse, the / Anonymous (p. 192)
Father William / Lewis Carroll (p. 193)
Girl I left behind me, the / Anonymous (p. 194)
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald (p. 195)
Against censorship / John Milton (p. 199)
Paul revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 199).
Suicide's grave, the / W.S. Gilbert (p. 203)
Opportunity / John James Ingalls (p. 204)
"Believe me, if all those endearing young charms" / Thomas Moore (p. 204)
Sermon on the mount, the, new testament- Matthew 5-7 (p. 205)
Warren's address at bunker hill / John Pierpont (p. 211)
To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace (p. 212)
If I were a voice / Charles Mackay (p. 213)
Home, sweet home / John Howard Payne (p. 214)
Prospero ends the revels / William Shakespeare (p. 215)
Village blacksmith, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 215)
Bridge of sighs, the / Thomas Hood (p. 217)
Rich man and the kingdom of heaven, the / New Testament- Matthew 19:13-30 (p. 218)
Woodman, spare that tree / George P. Morris (p. 219)
Thirteen sisters, the / Stephen Vincent Benet (p. 220)
Still the wonder grew / Oliver Goldsmith (p. 221)
How sleep the brave / William Collins (p. 222)
Don Juan, from / Lord Byron (p. 222)
Richard Cory / Edward Arlington Robinson (p. 222)
Massa's in de cold, cold ground / Stephen Foster (p. 223)
Sheridan's ride / Thomas Buchanan Read (p. 224)
Heights, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 225)
Wonderful tar-baby story, the / Joel Chandler Harris (p. 226)
How Mr. rabbit was too sharp for Mr. fox / Joel Chandler Harris (p. 227)
How doth the little busy bee / Isaac Watts (p. 229)
When other lips and other hearts / Alfred Bunn (p. 229)
Picture that is turned toward the wall, the / Charles Graham (p. 230)
Burial of Sir John Moore / Charles Wolfe (p. 231)
Things that are Caesar's, the / New Testament- Matthew (p. 232)
Maud Muller / John Greenleaf Whittier (p. 232)
Columbian oration, the / Chauncey Mitchell Depew (p. 236)
Hiawatha's childhood / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 237)
Hope / Alexander Pope (p. 239)
Shepherd's boy, the, / Aesop (p. 239)
Lost / Anonymous (p. 239)
Spell of the Yukon / Robert W. Service (p. 240)
One Hoss Shay, (The deacon's masterpiece), the / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 242)
Kissin' / Anonymous (p. 245)
Declaration of independence, the / Thomas Jefferson (p. 245).
Rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (p. 250)
Farewell, a / Charles Kingsley (p. 268)
Douglas tender and true / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (p. 269)
Ode, arthur w. e. o'shaughnessy (p. 269)
Independence forever / Daniel Webster (p. 270)
Dog and the shadow, the / Aesop (p. 273)
Lady of Shalott, the / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 273)
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer (p. 278)
Vitay Lampada / Sir Henry Newbolt (p. 279)
Last leaf, the / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 280)
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae / Ernest Dowson (p. 281)
Over the hills and far away / William Ernest Henley (p. 282)
Time I've lost in wooing, the / Thomas Moore (p. 283)
Down went Mcginty / Joseph Flynn (p. 284)
Lady, or the tiger, the / Frank Stockton (p. 286)
Cargoes / John Masefield (p. 291)
Dying Christian to his soul, the / Alexander Pope (p. 292)
Wise and foolish virgins, the / New Testament- Matthew 25:1-13 (p. 293)
Landing of the pilgrim fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans (p. 293)
Voice of God, the / Louis I. Newman (p. 294)
Ozymandias of Egypt / Percy Bysshe Shelley (p. 295)
Macbeth learns of his wife's death / William Shakespeare (p. 295)
Old oaken bucket, the / Samuel Woodworth (p. 295)
Waiting / John Burroughs (p. 296)
What we may live without / Owen Meredith (p. 297)
Woman I love, the / Edward VIII (p. 297)
Silver / Walter De La Mare (p. 299)
Casablanca / Felicia Dorothea Hemans (p. 299).
Evangeline- the prelude and the church scene / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 301)
When the son of man shall come in his glory / New Testament- Matthew 25:31-46 (p. 304)
In time of "the breaking of nations" / Thomas Hardy (p. 305)
Letter to congress from valley forge, a / George Washington (p. 305)
Man / William Shakespeare (p. 308)
If I should die tonight / Arabella Eugenia Smith (p. 308)
Lord Randal / Anonymous (p. 309)
Raven, the / Edgar Allan Poe (p. 310)
Marine's hymn, the / Anonymous (p. 313)
Pippa's song / Robert Browning (p. 314)
When you and I were young, Maggie / George W. Johnson (p. 314)
Siege of Belgrade, the / Alaric Alexander Watt (p. 315)
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman (p. 316)
Easter morning / New Testament-Matthew (p. 317)
Man he killed, the / Thomas Hardy (p. 317)
Breathes there the man with soul so dead / Sir Walter Scott (p. 318)
Wearin' 0' the green, the / Anonymous (p. 319)
Requiescat / Oscar Wilde (p. 319)
Dissertation upon roast pig, a / Charles Lamb (p. 320)
Hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world, the / William Ross Wallace (p. 326)
In memoriam- excerpt / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 327)
Hamlet contemplates suicide / William Shakespeare (p. 328)
Song / Sir William Watson (p. 329)
Eulogy at his brother's grave / Robert G. Ingersoll (p. 330)
Leak in the dike, the / Phoebe Casy (p. 331)
Nantucket limerick and what followed, that / Anonymous (p. 335)
Hohenlinden / Thomas Campbell (p. 336)
Echoes / William Ernest Henley (p. 337)
Bugle calls, words for army / Anonymous (p. 388)
She is more to be pitied than censured / William B. Cray (p. 339)
Which shall it be? / Ethel L. Beers (p. 340)
If I were king / Justin Huntly Mc Carthy (p. 342)
Hare and the tortoise, the / Aesop (p. 342)
Cloud, the / Percy Bysshe Shelley (p. 343)
Good Samaritan, the / New Testament- Luke 10:25-37 (p. 345)
To an insect / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 346)
Farewell to Nancy / Robert Burns (p. 347)
Ode on intimations of immortality / William Wordsworth (p. 347).
Words of a great admiral / Lord Nelson (p. 350)
My garden / Thomas Edward Brown (p. 351)
Contentment / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 351)
Somebody's darling / Marie Ravenal De Lacoste (p. 353)
Of love of silence and of solitude / Thomas A Kempis (p. 354)
Caisson song, the / Edmund L. Gruber (p. 357)
Over the hill to the poor-house / Will M. Carleton (p. 358)
Labor / Abraham Lincoln (p. 360)
Lost sheep, the / New Testament- Luke (p. 360)
Prayer / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 361)
Why I went to the woods / Henry David Thoreau (p. 361)
Casey Jones / Anonymous (p. 368)
Vision of Sir Launfal, the-excerpts / James Russell Lowell (p. 369)
Curfew must not ring tonight / Rosa Hartwick Thorpe (p. 371)
Jeanie with the light brown hair / Stephen Foster (p. 374)
Love me little, love me long / Anonymous (p. 375)
On a bad singer / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (p. 375)
Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous (p. 376)
First snowfall, the / James Russell Lowell (p. 378)
Prodigal son, the / New Testament- Luke 15:11-32 (p. 380)
Polonius' advice to his son / William Shakespeare (p. 381)
Abdul A-Bul-Bul A-Mir / Anonymous (p. 382)
Grandfather's clock / Henry Clay Work (p. 384)
When Johnny comes marching home / Patrick S. Gilmore (p. 385)
Christmas day in the workhouse / George R. Sims (p. 386)
Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 389)
Battle of Waterloo, the / Lord Byron (p. 390)
Listeners, the / Walter De La Mare (p. 394)
Death of Jesus, the / New Testament-Luke 23:1-46 (p. 395)
Rock of ages / August M. Toplady (p. 397)
Rock me to sleep / Elizabeth Akers Allen (p. 398)
Ye mariners of England / Thomas Campbell (p. 399).
Evolution / Langdom Smith (p. 401)
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant (p. 404)
Jefferson's inaugural address- excerpts / Thomas Jefferson (p. 405)
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier (p. 407)
Greatest battle that ever was fought, the / Joaquin Miller (p. 409)
Death of the flowers, the / William Cullen Bryant (p. 410)
Lost chord, a / Adelaide Anne Procter (p. 411)
Strictly germ-proof / Arthur Guiterman (p. 412)
When a man builds better mousetraps / Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 412)
Solitary reaper, the / William Wordsworth (p. 412)
When father carves the duck / E.V. Wright (p. 413)
Beautiful hands / Ellen M.H. Gates (p. 414)
There is a tavern in the town / Anonymous (p. 415)
Chambered nautilus, the / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 416)
Face on the floor, the / Hugh D'Arcy (p. 417)
Appointment in Samarra / Somerset Maugham (p. 419)
Upon Westminster bridge / William Wordsworth (p. 420)
Rocked in the cradle of the deep / Emma Willard (p. 420)
Speech at harpers ferry / John Brown (p. 421)
Old ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 422)
England, my England / William Ernest Henley (p. 423)
This was their finest hour / Winston Churchill (p. 424)
Annie Laurie / William Douglas (p 425)
Daisy bell / Harry Dacre (p. 426)
On first looking into Chapman's homer / John Keats (p. 427)
My last walk with the schoolmistress / Oliver Wendell Holmes (p. 427)
Horatius at the bridge / Thomas Babington Macaulay (p. 430)
Captain Jinks / Anonymous (p. 446)
On his blindness / John Milton (p. 447)
Birches / Robert Frost (p. 447)
How to tell bad news / Anonymous (p. 449).
Comin' thro' the rye / Robert Burns (p. 450)
Epitaph placed on his daughter's tomb / Mark Twain (p. 450)
Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 451)
Salute to our flag / Anonymous (p. 451)
On conciliation with America / Edmund Burke (p. 451)
Pure heart, the / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 454)
Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant (p. 455)
Gifts / James Thompson (p. 457)
Love's not time's fool / William Shakespeare (p. 457)
Just for today / Samuel Wilberforce (p. 458)
In the beginning was the word / New Testament- John 1:1-17 (p. 459)
Epigram / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (p. 459)
World is too much with us, the / William Wordsworth (p. 460)
Old superstitions / Anonymous (p. 460)
Moth and the flame, the / George Taggert (p. 461)
Barefoot boy, the / John Greenleaf Whittier (p. 462)
Where is my wandering boy to night? / Anonymous (p. 465)
Mermaid, the / Anonymous (p. 465)
Wife of usher's well / Anonymous (p. 466)
I shall not pass again this way / Anonymous (p. 468)
Crow and the pitcher, the / Aesop (p. 468)
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 469)
Bredon Hill / A.E. Housman (p. 471)
D.L. & W.'s phoebe snow jingles / Anonymous (p. 472)
Inscription on general post office, New York, N.Y. / Herodotus (p. 473)
Ben Bolt / Thomas Dunn English (p. 473)
When, in disgrace- / William Shakespeare (p. 474)
Charge of the light brigade, the / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 475)
Source of news / Anonymous (p. 476)
Skeleton in armor, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 477)
We are seven / William Wordsworth (p. 481)
American flag, the / Joseph Rod-man Drake (p. 483)
I've been workin' on the railroad / Anonymous (p. 485)
Lasca / Frank Desprez (p. 485)
Silver threads among the gold / Eben E. Rexford (p. 488)
Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott (p. 489)
Henry V at Harfleur / William Shakespeare (p. 490)
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln (p. 491)
America / Samuel Francis Smith (p. 492)
In school days / John Greenleaf Whittier (p. 493)
Seein' things / Eugene Field (p. 494)
Drake's drum / Sir Henry New Bolt (p. 495)
Great lover, the / Rupert Brooke (p. 496)
Before sleeping / Anonymous (p. 498)
Old familiar faces, the / Charles Lamb (p. 498)
Battle of Blenheim, the / Robert Southey (p. 499).
Shooting of Dan Mcgrew, the / Robert W. Service (p. 501)
Prophecy / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 504)
Where ignorance is bliss / Thomas Gray (p. 505)
Cares of majesty, the / William Shakespeare (p. 505)
Land of counterpane, the / Robert Louis Stevenson (p. 506)
My mother / Jane Taylor (p. 506)
Abide with me / Henry F. Lyte (p. 508)
Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier / Anonymous (p. 509)
Dixie / Daniel Becatur Emmett (p. 509)
Take back your gold / Louis W. Paitzakow (p. 510)
Bingen on the rhine / Caroline E. Norton (p. 511)
Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe (p. 512)
Seven times one / Jean Ingelow (p. 513)
Onward, Christian Soldiers / Sabine Baring-Gould (p. 514)
She walks in beauty like the night / Lord Byron (p. 515)
Yankee doodle / Anonymous (p. 516)
Maid of Athens, ere we part / Lord Byron (p. 518)
Polly Wolly Doodle / Anonymous (p. 519)
Long, long ago / Thomas Bayly (p. 520)
Inscription to Spartans at Thermopylae / Anonymous (p. 520)
In the good old summer time Ren Shields (p. 521)
Face, the / Anthony Euwer (p. 521)
Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 522)
Tall oaks from little acorns grow / David Everett (p. 522)
Evil designs / William Shakespeare (p. 523)
Lion and the mouse, the / Aesop (p. 524)
Chicago / Carl Sandburg (p. 525)
Blue and the gray, the / Francis Miles Finch (p. 526)
Ring out, wild bells / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 527)
Paul on the road to Damascus / New Testament- Acts 9:3-6 (p. 528)
Miniver Cheevy / Edward Arlington Robinson (p. 529)
Down in Lehigh Valley / Anonymous (p. 530)
Boy scout oath, the / Anonymous (p. 531)
On his seventy-fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor (p. 531)
Famous toast, a / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (p. 532)
Antony and Cleopatra / William Homes Lytle (p. 532)
Epitaph / Anonymous (p. 533)
When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman (p. 534)
Mr. valiant-for-truth crosses the River / John Bunyan (p. 534)
Bugle song / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 535)
Old folks at home / Stephen Foster (p. 535)
To Helen / Edgar Alan Poe (p. 536)
Message to Garcia, a / Elbert Hubbard (p. 537)
Now I lay me down to take my sleep / Anonymous (p. 540)
Mark Twain discusses Satan / Mark Twain (p. 540)
Ode to a nightingale / John Keats (p. 541)
My old Kentucky home / Stephen Foster (p. 543)
Jabbcrwocky / Lewis Carroll (p. 544)
My mother was a lady, or if Jack were only here / Edward B. Marks (p. 545)
Harp that once thro' tara's hall, the / Thomas Moore (p. 545)
Go down, Moses / Anonymous (p. 546)
Lamb, the / William Blake (p. 547)
Baby / George Macdonald (p. 547)
Man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, the / Fred Gilbert (p. 548)
Say not the struggle nought availeth / Arthur Hugh Dough (p. 549)
General Joffre to his soldiers / Joseph Joffre (p. 549).
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan / Franklin D. Roosevelt (p. 550)
Columbus / Joaquin Miller (p. 551)
Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 552)
Throw out the lifeline / Edward Smith Ufford (p. 553)
Unfortunate coincidence / Dorothy Parker (p. 553)
Little things / Julia Carney (p. 553)
Mandalay / Rudyard Kipling (p. 554)
Kashmiri song / Laurence hope (p. 555)
Reveille / A.E. Housman (p. 556)
Sea fever, john masefield (p. 557)
Heaven will protect the working girl / Edgar Smith (p. 557)
Congo, the / Vachel Lindsay (p. 558)
Hound of heaven, the excerpt / Francis Thompson (p. 561)
Home / Edgar A. Guest (p. 561)
Blood, sweat and tears / Winston Churchill (p. 562)
Out where the west begins / Arthur Chapman (p. 564)
Man with the hoe, the / Edwin Markham (p. 565)
Arkansas traveler, the / Anonymous (p. 566)
Sally in our alley / Henry Carey (p. 568)
Destruction of Sennacherib, the / Lord Byron (p. 569)
Wolf in sheep's clothing, the / Aesop (p. 570)
Bury me not on the lone prairie / Anonymous (p. 571)
Love's nobility / Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 571)
Ninety and nine, the / I.D. Sankey (p. 572)
For whom the bell tolls / John Donne (p. 572)
Duty / Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 573)
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe (p. 573)
History of the U.S., the / Winifred Sackville Stoner (p. 574)
Eulogy of the dog / George G. Vest (p. 576)
Cremation of Sam Mcgee / Robert W. Service (p. 577)
To a louse / Robert Burns (p. 580)
Finnigin to Flannigan / Strickland Gillilan (p. 581)
Trees / Joyce Kilmer (p. 583)
Duties of man, the / New Testament-Romans (p. 583)
Lake isle of Innisfree, the / William Butler Yeats (p. 584)
Dead, the / Rupert Brooke (p. 585)
Jingle bells / J. Pierpont (p. 585)
Band played on, the / John F. Palmer (p. 586)
Come into the garden, Maud / Alfred Lord Tennyson (p. 587)
O captain! my captain! Walt Whitman (p. 589)
Jest 'fore Christmas / Eugene Field (p. 590)
Nearer, my God, to thee / Sarah Flower Adams (p. 591)
Robert E. Lee's farewell to his army / Robert E. Lee (p. 592)
T.R. on war veterans / Theodore Roosevelt (p. 592)
There is pleasure in the pathless woods / Lord Byron (p. 593)
Bowery, the / Charles H. Hoyt (p. 593)
Recessional / Rudyard Kipling (p. 594)
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Walt Whitman (p. 595).
Rosary, the / Robert Cameron Rogers (p. 602)
Little boy blue / Eugene Field (p. 603)
Bigotry explained / Daniel O'Connell (p. 603)
In flanders field / John Mccrae (p. 604)
West wind / John Masefield (p. 604)
O little town of Bethlehem / Phillips Brooks (p. 605)
There is no death / John Lackey Mccreary (p. 606)
Cleopatra and her barge / William Shakespeare (p. 607)
Weather wisdom / Anonymous (p. 608)
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, git along, little doggies / John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax (p. 609)
What folks are made of / Anonymous (p. 610)
Duel, the / Eugene Field (p. 610)
Our lips and ears / Anonymous (p. 611)
Bells, the / Edgar Allan Poe (p. 612)
Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley (p. 615)
Bridge, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 615)
Oh, my darling Clementine / Anonymous (p. 617)
Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby / Abraham Lincoln (p. 618)
Evolution / John Bannister Tabb (p. 619)
My shadow / Robeit Louis Stevenson (p. 619)
Love's old sweet song / G. Clifton Bingham (p. 620)
Father, dear father, come home with me now / Henry Clay Work (p. 620)
Auld Lang Syne / Robert Burns (p. 621)
At Bunker Hill / Daniel Webster (p. 622)
Dog in the manger, the / Aesop (p. 629)
Just a wearyin' for you / Frank L. Stanton (p. 629)
Abraham Lincoln walks at mid night / Vachel Lindsay (p. 630)
Sugar-plum tree, the / Eugene Field (p. 631)
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 632)
My Maryland / J.R. Randall (p. 632)
This England / William Shakespeare (p. 634)
Nobody's child / Phila H. Case (p. 635)
After the ball / Charles K. Harris (p. 636)
When the frost is on the punkin / James Whitcomb Riley (p. 637)
Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 638)
Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick (p. 639)
Perfect day, a / Carrie Jacobs-Bond (p. 639)
Happiness / Anonymous (p. 639)
Spires of Oxford, the / Winifred M. Letts (p. 640)
St. Paul on charity / New Testament- I Corinthians (p. 640)
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats (p. 641)
Tiger, the / William Blake (p. 643)
Othello's defense / William Shakespeare (p. 643)
English plea for peace with the American colonies, an / William Pitt (p. 645)
Sweet and low / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 645)
Soldier the / Rupert Brooke (p. 646)
Helping the handicapped / Emily Dickinson (p. 646)
Home defined / Robert Frost (p. 646)
Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson (p. 647)
Good and bad children / Robert Louis Stevenson (p. 647)
Trouble / David Keppel (p. 648)
Sweet Afton / Robert Burns (p. 648)
Barrel-organ, the / Alfred Noyes (p. 649).
Perfect woman / William Wordsworth (p. 653)
Benjamin Franklin/ A.R.J. Turgot (p. 653)
Four things / Henry Van Dyke (p. 654)
Night has a thousand eyes, the / F.W. Bourdillon (p. 654)
Children's hour, the / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (654)
Song to Celia / Ben Jonson (p. 655)
If- / Rudyard Kipling (p. 656)
Light shining out of darkness / William Cowper (p. 657)
First in war- first in peace / Henry Lee (p. 658)
Dutch lullaby, a / Eugene Field (p. 659)
In the gloaming / Meta Orred (p. 660)
Song of the shirt, the / Thomas Hood (p. 661)
Child's prayer, a / John Bannister Tabb (p. 663)
Mercutio's queen mab speech / William Shakespeare (p. 663)
Ox and the frog, the / Aesop (p. 664)
Letter to Lord Chesterfield, a / Samuel Johnson (p. 665)
I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger (p. 666)
Swing, the / Robert Louis Stevenson (p. 667)
My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth (p. 667)
Last judgment, the / New Testament- Revelation 20:11-15; 21:1-7 (p. 667)
Ulalume / Edgar Allan Poe (p. 669)
Kid's last fight, the / Anonymous (p. 671)
On taking a wife / Thomas Moore (p. 674)
Oh promise me / Clement Scott (p. 675)
Brook's song, the / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (p. 675)
Lamplighter, the / Robert Louis Stevenson (p. 677)
My lost youth / Henry Wadsworth Fellow (p. 677)
Cardinal Wolsey's farewell / William Shakespeare (p. 680)
Silent night, Joseph Mohr (p. 680)
Goodbye! / G.J. Whyte-Melville (p. 681)
Carry me back to old virginny / James Bland (p. 682)
Kilkenny cats, the / Anonymous (p. 682)
Stealing / James Russell Lowell (p. 682)
Give me liberty, or give me death! / Patrick Henry (p. 683)
To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace (p. 685)
Little orphan Annie / James Whitcomb Riley (p. 686)
Jesus, lover of my soul / Charles Wesley (p. 687)
Success / Edgar A. Guest (p. 688)
Daffodils / William Wordsworth (p. 689)
Ballad of reading Gaol, the / Oscar Wilde (p. 689)
End of the play, the / William Makepeace Thackeray (p. 708).
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Woods, R. L. (1942). A treasury of the familiar . Macmillan Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Woods, Ralph Louis, 1904-1989. 1942. A Treasury of the Familiar. Macmillan Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Woods, Ralph Louis, 1904-1989. A Treasury of the Familiar Macmillan Co, 1942.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Woods, Ralph Louis. A Treasury of the Familiar Macmillan Co., 1942.
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