Junior High School Literature, Book 1
PART I
STORIES AND POEMS OF NATURE
ANIMALS
THE BUFFALO _Francis Parkman_ 1
OLD EPHRAIM, THE GRIZZLY BEAR _Theodore Roosevelt_ 15
MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER _Rudyard Kipling_ 27
THE ELEPHANTS THAT STRUCK _Samuel White Baker_ 35
BIRDS
ROBERT OF LINCOLN _William Cullen Bryant_ 39
THE MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT _Henry van Dyke_ 43
THE BELFRY PIGEON _Nathaniel Parker Willis_ 45
THE SANDPIPER _Celia Thaxter_ 47
THE THROSTLE _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 49
TO THE CUCKOO _William Wordsworth_ 50
THE BIRDS’ ORCHESTRA _Celia Thaxter_ 52
FLOWERS AND TREES
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN _William Cullen Bryant_ 53
VIOLET! SWEET VIOLET! _James Russell Lowell_ 54
TO THE DANDELION _James Russell Lowell_ 56
THE DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 59
THE TRAILING ARBUTUS _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 60
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY _Robert Burns_ 61
SWEET PEAS _John Keats_ 63
CHORUS OF FLOWERS _Leigh Hunt_ 64
TREES _Joyce Kilmer_ 68
WINTER
THE GREAT BLIZZARD _Hamlin Garland_ 69
THE FROST _Hannah F. Gould_ 75
THE FROST SPIRIT _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 76
THE SNOW STORM _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 78
SNOWFLAKES _Henry W. Longfellow_ 80
MIDWINTER _John T. Trowbridge_ 82
BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND _William Shakespeare_ 84
WHEN ICICLES HANG BY THE WALL _William Shakespeare_ 85