Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two

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Various

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Charles Aldarondo and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American poetry -- Collections

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19469

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Release Date

October 4, 2006

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR
2. 2.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"
3. 3.INDEX OF TITLES — ( An Index of First Lines is given on pages 209-213)
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.BOOK TWO
6. 6.Home
7. 7.The House with Nobody In It
8. 8.Color in the Wheat
9. 9.The Broken Pinion
10. 10.Jamie Douglas
11. 11.The Ensign Bearer
12. 12.The Real Riches
13. 13.The Polish Boy
14. 14.The Height of the Ridiculous
15. 15.Excelsior
16. 16.The Bivouac of the Dead
17. 17.Children
18. 18.The Eve of Waterloo — (The battle of Waterloo occurred June 18, 1815)
19. 19.The Land Where Hate Should Die
20. 20.Trouble In the "Amen Corner"
21. 21.Duty
22. 22.The Last Leaf
23. 23.Old Flag Forever
24. 24.The Death of the Flowers
25. 25.The Heritage
26. 26.The Ballad of East and West
27. 27.Annabel Lee
28. 28.April Showers
29. 29.The Voice of Spring
30. 30.The Boys
31. 31.The Rainy Day
32. 32.Let Me Walk With the Men in the Road
33. 33.If We Understood
34. 34.A Laugh in Church
35. 35."One, Two, Three!"
36. 36.Unawares
37. 37.The Land of Beginning Again
38. 38.Poor Little Joe
39. 39.The Ladder of St. Augustine
40. 40.Loss and Gain
41. 41.John Thompson's Daughter — (A Parody on "Lord Ullin's Daughter")
42. 42.Grandfather's Clock
43. 43.A Cradle Hymn
44. 44.If All the Skies
45. 45.The Petrified Fern
46. 46.Cleon and I
47. 47.Washington
48. 48.Towser Shall Be Tied To-Night — A Parody on "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight."
49. 49.Law and Liberty
50. 50.His Mother's Song
51. 51.When Father Carves the Duck
52. 52.Papa's Letter
53. 53.Who Stole the Bird's Nest?
54. 54.Over the Hill from the Poor-House
55. 55."'Specially Jim"
56. 56.O'Grady's Goat
57. 57.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."
58. 58.Nobody's Child
59. 59.A Christmas Long Ago
60. 60.Nearer Home
61. 61.The Minuet
62. 62.The Vagabonds
63. 63.The Isle of Long Ago
64. 64.The Dying Newsboy
65. 65.Break, Break, Break
66. 66.Don't Kill the Birds
67. 67.Bill's in the Legislature
68. 68.The Bridge Builder
69. 69.Song of Marion's Men
70. 70.The Minstrel-Boy
71. 71.Our Homestead
72. 72.The Ballad of the Tempest
73. 73.Santa Filomena
74. 74.The Knight's Toast
75. 75.The Old Man Dreams
76. 76.Washington's Birthday
77. 77.April! April! Are You Here?
78. 78.A Laughing Chorus
79. 79.The Courtin'
80. 80.An Old Man's Dreams
81. 81.God's Message to Men
82. 82.The Sandman
83. 83.Ring Out, Wild Bells
84. 84.The Wishing Bridge
85. 85.The Things Divine
86. 86.Mothers of Men
87. 87.Echo
88. 88.Life, I Know Not What Thou Art
89. 89.Autumn Leaves
90. 90.A Message for the Year
91. 91.Song of the Chattahoochee — Used by special permission of the publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons.
92. 92.Courting in Kentucky
93. 93.God's Will is Best
94. 94.The School-Master's Guests
95. 95.Mother o' Mine
96. 96.Encouragement
97. 97.The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
98. 98.Aux Italiens — * A line in the opera "II Trovatore" meaning "Do not forget me."
99. 99.My Prairies
100. 100.Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead — ( From "The Princess" )
101. 101.September
102. 102.The Old Kitchen Floor
103. 103.Rustic Courtship
104. 104.The Red Jacket
105. 105.John Maynard
106. 106.Piller Fights
107. 107.Little Bateese
108. 108.Conscience and Future Judgment
109. 109.Dandelion
110. 110.The Inventor's Wife
111. 111.Out in the Snow
112. 112.Give Them the Flowers Now
113. 113.The Lost Occasion — (Written in memory of Daniel Webster.)
114. 114.The Flower of Liberty
115. 115.The Lamb
116. 116.The Roll Call
117. 117.A Prayer for a Little Home
118. 118.I Have Drank My Last Glass
119. 119.Highland Mary
120. 120.A Night with a Wolf
121. 121.She Was a Phantom of Delight
122. 122.The Rhodora — ( On Being Asked Whence Is The Flower )
123. 123.There Was a Boy
124. 124.The Quangle Wangle's Hat
125. 125.The Singing Leaves
126. 126.Awakening
127. 127.Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness — (From "King Henry VIII")
128. 128.The Newsboy
129. 129.Parting of Marmion and Douglas
130. 130.The Engineer's Story
131. 131.Small Beginnings
132. 132.Rain on the Roof
133. 133.Gunga Din
134. 134.Warren's Address to the American Soldiers — ( Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775 )
135. 135.Mad River — IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
136. 136.When Papa Was a Boy
137. 137.Which Shall It Be?
138. 138.The Battle of Bunker's Hill
139. 139.Health and Wealth
140. 140.The Heartening
141. 141.Billy's Rose
142. 142.The Old Actor's Story
143. 143.The Boy Who Didn't Pass
144. 144.The Station-Master's Story
145. 145.Hark, Hark! the Lark — (From "Cymbeline")
146. 146.Tommy's Prayer
147. 147.The Two Pictures
148. 148.The Two Kinds of People
149. 149.The Sin of Omission
150. 150.The Bible My Mother Gave Me
151. 151.Lincoln, the Man of the People
152. 152.Our Own
153. 153.How Salvator Won
154. 154.I Got to Go to School
155. 155.With Little Boy Blue — ( Written after the death of Eugene Field. )
156. 156.The Charge of Pickett's Brigade
157. 157.Hullo
158. 158.The Women of Mumbles Head
159. 159.The Fireman's Story
160. 160.Little Willie's Hearing
161. 161.The Service Flag
162. 162.Flying Jim's Last Leap — ( The hero of this tale had once been a famous trapeze performer. )
163. 163.Betty and the Bear
164. 164.The Graves of a Household
165. 165.The Babie
166. 166.A Legend of the Northland
167. 167.How Did You Die?
168. 168.The Children
169. 169.The King and the Child
170. 170.Try, Try Again
171. 171.Indian Names
172. 172.More Cruel Than War
173. 173.Columbus
174. 174.The September Gale
175. 175.When My Ship Comes In
176. 176.Solitude
177. 177.Sin of the Coppenter Man
178. 178.The Bells of Ostend
179. 179.You Put No Flowers on My Papa's Grave
180. 180.The Two Little Stockings
181. 181.I Have a Rendezvous with Death
182. 182.Let Us Be Kind
183. 183.The Water Mill
184. 184.Why the Dog's Nose Is Always Cold
185. 185.The African Chief
186. 186.He Who Has Vision — Where there is no vision the people perish.—Prov. 29:17.
187. 187.The Children We Keep
188. 188.The Stranger on the Sill
189. 189.The Old Man In the Model Church
190. 190.The Volunteer Organist
191. 191.The Finding of the Lyre
192. 192.The High Tide (1571) — ( Or "The Brides of Enderby" )
193. 193.September Days
194. 194.The New Year
195. 195.An "If" For Girls — ( With apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling .)
196. 196.Boy and Girl of Plymouth
197. 197.Work: A Song of Triumph
198. 198.Reply to "A Woman's Question" — ( "A Woman's Question" is given on page 129 of Book I, "Poems Teachers Ask For .")
199. 199.The Romance of Nick Van Stann
200. 200.Armageddon
201. 201.Picciola
202. 202.The King's Ring
203. 203.Leaving the Homestead
204. 204.Bernardo Del Carpio
205. 205.Mizpah
206. 206.God
207. 207.Casabianca
208. 208.Monterey
209. 209.The Teacher's "If"
210. 210.The Good Shepherd
211. 211.A Sermon in Rhyme
212. 212.The Fortunate Isles
213. 213.What the Choir Sang About the New Bonnet
214. 214.Work Thou for Pleasure
215. 215.The Tin Gee Gee
216. 216."Tommy"
217. 217.The Mystic Weaver
218. 218.The Mortgage on the Farm
219. 219.The Legend Beautiful
220. 220.Somebody's Darling
221. 221.The Pride of Battery B
222. 222.The Wood-Box
223. 223.Inasmuch
224. 224.No Sects in Heaven
225. 225.The Railroad Crossing
226. 226.The Sunset City
227. 227.Autumn — A DIRGE
228. 228.Grandmother's Quilt
229. 229.The Two Angels
230. 230.The Witch's Daughter
231. 231.David's Lament for Absalom
232. 232.Christmas Day in the Workhouse
233. 233.Our Presidents—A Memory Rhyme
234. 234.Annie and Willie's Prayer
235. 235.Trailing Arbutus
236. 236.When the Light Goes Out
237. 237.Prayer and Potatoes
238. 238.The Parts of Speech
239. 239.A New Leaf
240. 240.The Boy With the Hoe
241. 241.Our Flag
242. 242.The Little Fir-Trees
243. 243.He Worried About It
244. 244.The President
245. 245.Lullaby
246. 246.Chums
247. 247.Jim Brady's Big Brother
248. 248.The Gray Swan
249. 249.The Circling Year
250. 250.INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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