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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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