Poems Teachers Ask For

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Author

Various

Title

Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"

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Produced by Charles Aldarondo and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American poetry -- Collections

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Text

eBook-No.

18909

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18909

Release Date

July 26, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR — Selected by READERS OF "NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS" — COMPRISING THE POEMS MOST FREQUENTLY REQUESTED FOR PUBLICATION IN THAT MAGAZINE ON THE PAGE "POEMS OUR READERS HAVE ASKED FOR"
2. 2.INDEX
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR
5. 5.O Captain! My Captain! — ( This poem was written in memory of Abraham Lincoln. )
6. 6.A Poet's Prophecy
7. 7.The Landing of the Pilgrims
8. 8.Bobby Shaftoe
9. 9.The Overworked Elocutionist — (Or "ROBERT REESE")
10. 10.The Kid Has Gone to the Colors
11. 11.Kentucky Belle
12. 12.An Inventor's Wife
13. 13.The Two Glasses
14. 14.Abraham Lincoln — ( Written after Lincoln's death by Tom Taylor, famous cartoonist of the London "Punch." )
15. 15.The Old Clock on the Stairs
16. 16.Christ in Flanders
17. 17.We Are Seven
18. 18.Echo
19. 19.Engineers Making Love
20. 20.Guilty or Not Guilty
21. 21.The Baby
22. 22.Song of the Sea
23. 23.Diffidence
24. 24.Curfew Must Not Ring To-night
25. 25.Kate Shelly
26. 26.There's But One Pair of Stockings to Mend To-Night
27. 27.The Young Man Waited
28. 28.Invictus
29. 29.Katie Lee and Willie Grey
30. 30.Abou Ben Adhem
31. 31.In School-Days
32. 32.Mother's Fool
33. 33.Kentucky Philosophy
34. 34.Give Us Men
35. 35.Never Trouble Trouble
36. 36.What is Good
37. 37.The Penny Ye Mean to Gie
38. 38.Leedle Yawcob Strauss
39. 39.To-day
40. 40.So Was I
41. 41.Is It Worth While?
42. 42.Life's Mirror
43. 43.The Little Black-Eyed Rebel
44. 44.A Day Well Spent
45. 45.Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
46. 46.The Miller of the Dee
47. 47.The Old Red Cradle
48. 48.The Moo Cow Moo
49. 49.All Things Bright and Beautiful
50. 50.An Order for a Picture
51. 51.Who Won the War?
52. 52.Mothers of Men
53. 53.Plain Bob and a Job
54. 54.Aunt Tabitha
55. 55.The Flag Goes By
56. 56.The Rivers of France
57. 57.Seven Times One
58. 58.Seven Times Two
59. 59.Seven Times Three — LOVE
60. 60.Seven Times Four — MATERNITY
61. 61.Autumn Woods
62. 62.The Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge
63. 63.If—
64. 64.Second Table
65. 65.The Children
66. 66.A Visit from St. Nicholas
67. 67.Your Mission
68. 68.The House by the Side of the Road
69. 69.Asleep at the Switch
70. 70.Each in His Own Tongue
71. 71.How Cyrus Laid the Cable
72. 72.Jane Jones
73. 73.The Leap of Roushan Beg
74. 74.Old Ironsides
75. 75.A Psalm of Life
76. 76.Johnny's Hist'ry Lesson
77. 77.Riding on the Rail
78. 78.The Building of the Ship — EXTRACT
79. 79.The Dead Pussy Cat
80. 80.The Owl Critic
81. 81.At School-Close
82. 82.The Wild White Rose
83. 83.L'Envoi
84. 84.Whistling in Heaven
85. 85.Sleep, Baby, Sleep
86. 86.The Lost Chord
87. 87.The Children's Hour
88. 88.Woodman, Spare That Tree!
89. 89.Little Brown Hands
90. 90.Barbara Frietchie
91. 91.I Want to Go to Morrow
92. 92.Out in the Fields
93. 93.The Bluebird's Song
94. 94.The Main Truck, or a Leap for Life
95. 95.The Arrow and the Song
96. 96.The Green Mountain Justice
97. 97.Jane Conquest
98. 98.Nathan Hale
99. 99.The Lips That Touch Liquor Must Never Touch Mine
100. 100.A Perfect Day
101. 101.Kate Ketchem
102. 102.Mandalay
103. 103.Columbus
104. 104."Sister's Best Feller"
105. 105.Where the West Begins
106. 106.The Tapestry Weavers
107. 107.When the Teacher Gets Cross
108. 108.Recessional
109. 109.The Eternal Goodness
110. 110.Driving Home the Cows
111. 111.A Song of Our Flag
112. 112.When the Minister Comes to Tea
113. 113.When the Cows Come Home
114. 114.Custer's Last Charge
115. 115.A Boy and His Stomach
116. 116.On the Shores of Tennessee
117. 117.The White-Footed Deer
118. 118.Mount Vernon's Bells
119. 119.Gradatim
120. 120.Mr. Finney's Turnip
121. 121.The Village Blacksmith
122. 122.You and You — To the American Private in the Great War
123. 123.The First Snow-fall
124. 124.The Concord Hymn — Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836 .
125. 125.Casey at the Bat
126. 126.Casey's Revenge — (Being a reply to "Casey at the Bat.")
127. 127.Rock Me to Sleep
128. 128.An Answer to "Rock Me to Sleep"
129. 129.Bay Billy — ( December 15, 1862 )
130. 130.The Legend of the Organ-Builder
131. 131.Our Folks
132. 132.The Face upon the Floor
133. 133.The Calf Path
134. 134.The Ride of Jennie M'Neal
135. 135.The Hand That Rules the World
136. 136.What I Live For
137. 137.My Love Ship
138. 138.The Man With the Hoe — (Written after seeing Millet's famous painting.)
139. 139.Poorhouse Nan
140. 140.Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud!
141. 141.How He Saved St. Michael's
142. 142.Bingen on the Rhine
143. 143.College Oil Cans
144. 144.God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop
145. 145.The Last Hymn
146. 146.A Fence or an Ambulance
147. 147.The Smack in School
148. 148.A Woman's Question
149. 149.Lasca
150. 150.Over the Hill to the Poor-House
151. 151.The American Flag
152. 152.Golden Keys
153. 153.The Four-leaf Clover
154. 154.Telling the Bees
155. 155."Not Understood"
156. 156.Somebody's Mother
157. 157.To a Waterfowl
158. 158.My Mother
159. 159.The Walrus and the Carpenter
160. 160.The Teacher's Dream
161. 161.A Legend of Bregenz
162. 162.Better Than Gold
163. 163.October's Bright Blue Weather
164. 164.Brier-Rose
165. 165.King Robert of Sicily
166. 166.The Huskers
167. 167.Darius Green and His Flying Machine
168. 168.Song of the Shirt
169. 169.Christmas Everywhere
170. 170.The Cloud
171. 171.To a Skylark
172. 172.The Brook
173. 173.June — ( From "The Vision of Sir Launfal" )
174. 174.The Planting of the Apple-Tree
175. 175.Character of the Happy Warrior
176. 176.The Charge of the Light Brigade
177. 177.Sheridan's Ride — October 19, 1864
178. 178.O Little Town of Bethlehem
179. 179.The Chambered Nautilus
180. 180.Nobility
181. 181.The Wind
182. 182.The Owl and The Pussy-Cat
183. 183.The Frost
184. 184.The Corn Song
185. 185.On His Blindness
186. 186.A Boy's Song
187. 187.November
188. 188.Little Birdie
189. 189.The Fairies
190. 190.The Wonderful World
191. 191.Be Strong
192. 192.Song: The Owl
193. 193.Opportunity
194. 194.Opportunity
195. 195.Sweet and Low — ( From "The Princess" )
196. 196.The Barefoot Boy
197. 197.Polonius' Advice to Laertes — ( From "Hamlet" )
198. 198.A Fable
199. 199.Suppose
200. 200.I Like Little Pussy
201. 201.Thanksgiving-Day
202. 202.Daffodils
203. 203.To a Butterfly
204. 204.To The Fringed Gentian
205. 205.The Song of the Camp
206. 206.She Walks in Beauty
207. 207.The Builders
208. 208.The Brown Thrush
209. 209.The Quality of Mercy — ( From, "The Merchant of Venice" )
210. 210.Don't Give Up
211. 211.Incident of the French Camp
212. 212.The Bugle Song — ( From "The Princess" )
213. 213.A Child's Thought of God
214. 214.The Blue and The Gray
215. 215.Good Night and Good Morning
216. 216.Lady Moon
217. 217.Breathes There the Man With Soul So Dead? — (From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel")
218. 218.Pippa's Song
219. 219.Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
220. 220.Crossing the Bar
221. 221.The Tree
222. 222.The Fountain
223. 223.The Leak in the Dike
224. 224.Robert of Lincoln
225. 225.Wishing
226. 226.The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
227. 227.How Many Seconds in a Minute?
228. 228.To-day
229. 229.The Wind and the Moon
230. 230.The Little Plant
231. 231.Paul Revere's Ride
232. 232.In Flanders Fields
233. 233.In Flanders Fields: An Answer
234. 234.Little Boy Blue
235. 235.Thanatopsis
236. 236.The First Settler's Story
237. 237.Seein' Things
238. 238.The Raggedy Man
239. 239.Maud Muller
240. 240.Sister and I

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