Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two
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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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