Chapter 1

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

African Chief, The _Bryant_ 145 Annabel Lee _Poe_ 25 Annie and Willie's Prayer _Snow_ 196 April! April! Are You Here? _Goodale_ 59 April Showers _Wilkins_ 26 Armageddon _E. Arnold_ 157 Autumn _Hood_ 186 Autumn Leaves _Wray_ 65 Aux Italiens _Lytton_ 72 Awakening _Sangster_ 93

Babie, The _Miller_ 131 Ballad of East and West, The _Kipling_ 23 Ballad of the Tempest, The _Fields_ 56 Battle of Bunker's Hill, The _Cozzens_ 102 Bells of Ostend, The _Bowles_ 140 Bernardo Del Carpio _Hemans_ 160 Betty and the Bear 130 Bible My Mother Gave Me, The 117 Bill's in the Legislature 53 Billy's Rose _Sims_ 104 Bivouac of the Dead, The _O'Hara_ 15 Boy and Girl of Plymouth _Smith_ 154 Boys, The _O.W. Holmes_ 27 Boy Who Didn't Pass, The 108 Boy with the Hoe, The _Weaver_ 202 Break, Break, Break _Tennyson_ 52 "Brides of Enderby, The." See "High Tide, The" 150 Bridge Builder, The 54 Broken Pinion, The _Butterworth_ 9 Burial of Moses, The _Alexander_ 45

Casabianca _Hemans_ 164 Charge of Pickett's Brigade, The 122 Children _Longfellow_ 16 Children, The _Dickinson_ 133 Children We Keep, The _Wilson_ 146 Christmas Day in the Workhouse _Sims_ 193 Christmas Long Ago, A 47 Chums _Foley_ 206 Circling Year, The _Graham_ 208 Cleon and I _Mackay_ 37 Color in the Wheat _Garland_ 8 Columbus _Smith_ 137 Conscience and Future Judgment 81 Courting in Kentucky 67 Courtin', The _Lowell_ 59 Cradle Hymn _Watts_ 35

Dandelion _Garabrant_ 82 David's Lament for Absalom _Willis_ 191 Death of the Flowers, The _Bryant_ 21 Don't Kill the Birds _Colesworthy_ 53 Duty _Browning_ 20 Dying Newsboy, The _Thornton_ 52

Echo _Saxe_ 65 Encouragement _Dunbar_ 71 Engineer's Story, The _Hall_ 96 Ensign Bearer, The 11 Eve of Waterloo, The _Byron_ 17 Excelsior _Longfellow_ 15

Finding of the Lyre, The _Lowell_ 150 Fireman's Story, The 125 Flower of Liberty, The _O.W. Holmes_ 85 Flying Jim's Last Leap _Banks_ 128 Fortunate Isles, The _Miller_ 168

Give Them the Flowers Now _Hodges_ 84 God _Derzhavin_ 162 God's Message to Men _Emerson_ 62 God's Will Is Best _Mason_ 67 Good Shepherd, The _Howe_ 166 Grandfather's Clock _Work_ 35 Grandmother's Quilt 186 Graves of a Household, The _Hemans_ 130 Gray Swan, The _A. Cary_ 207 Gunga Din _Kipling_ 98

Hark, Hark! the Lark _Shakespeare_ 111 Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, The _Moore_ 71 Health and Wealth 103 Heartening, The _Webb_ 103 Height of the Ridiculous, The _O.W. Holmes_ 14 Heritage, The _Lowell_ 22 He Who Has Vision _McKenzie_ 146 He Worried About It _Foss_ 203 Highland Mary _Burns_ 88 High Tide, The _Ingelow_ 150 His Mother's Song 39 Home _Guest_ 7 Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead _Tennyson_ 74 House with Nobody in It, The _Kilmer_ 8 How Did You Die? _Cooke_ 132 How Salvator Won _Wilcox_ 120 Hullo _Foss_ 123

If All the Skies _Van Dyke_ 36 "If" for Girls, An _Otis_ 153 If We Understood 29 I Got to Go to School _Waterman_ 121 I Have a Rendezvous with Death _Seeger_ 142 I Have Drank My Last Glass 87 Inasmuch _Ford_ 178 Indian Names _Sigourney_ 135 Inventor's Wife, The _Corbett_ 82 Isle of Long Ago, The _B.F. Taylor_ 51

Jamie Douglas 9 Jim Brady's Big Brother _Foley_ 206 John Maynard _Alger_ 78 John Thompson's Daughter _P. Cary_ 34

King and the Child, The _Hall_ 134 King's Ring, The _Tilton_ 159 Knight's Toast, The _W. Scott_ 57

Ladder of St. Augustine, The _Longfellow_ 33 Lamb, The _Blake_ 86 Land of Beginning Again, The _Tarkington_ 32 Land Where Hate Should Die, The _McCarthy_ 18 Last Leaf, The _O.W. Holmes_ 20 Laugh in Church, A 29 Laughing Chorus, A 59 Law and Liberty _Cutler_ 39 Leaving the Homestead 159 Legend Beautiful, The _Longfellow_ 174 Legend of the Northland, A _P. Cary_ 131 Let Me Walk with the Men in the Road _Gresham_ 28 Let Us Be Kind _Childress_ 143 Life, I Know Not What Thou Art _Barbauld_ 65 Lincoln, the Man of the People _Markham_ 118 Little Bateese _Drummond_ 80 Little Fir-Trees, The _Stein_ 203 Little Willie's Hearing 127 Loss and Gain _Longfellow_ 34 Lost Occasion, The _Whittier_ 84 Lullaby _Foley_ 205

Mad River _Longfellow_ 100 Message for the Year, A _Hardy_ 66 Minstrel-Boy, The _Moore_ 55 Minuet, The _Dodge_ 48 Mizpah 162 Monterey _Hoffman_ 165 More Cruel Than War _Hawkins_ 136 Mortgage on the Farm, The 173 Mother o' Mine _Kipling_ 70 Mothers of Men _Miller_ 64 My Prairies _Garland_ 74 Mystic Weaver, The 171

Nearer Home _P. Cary_ 48 New Leaf, A _Rice_ 202 Newsboy, The _Corbett_ 94 New Year, The _Craik_ 153 Night with a Wolf, A _Bayard Taylor_ 89 Nobody's Child _Case_ 46 No Sects in Heaven _Cleaveland_ 180

O'Grady's Goat _Hays_ 44 Old Actor's Story, The _Sims_ 106 Old Flag Forever _Stanton_ 21 Old Kitchen Floor, The 75 Old Man Dreams, The _O.W. Holmes_ 58 Old Man in the Model Church, The _Yates_ 148 Old Man's Dreams, An _Sherman_ 61 "One, Two, Three!" _Bunner_ 30 Our Flag _Sangster_ 202 Our Homestead _P. Cary_ 55 Our Own _Sangster_ 119 Our Presidents _Gilman_ 195 Out in the Snow _Moulton_ 83 Over the Hill from the Poor-House _Carleton_ 42

Papa's Letter 40 Parting of Marmion and Douglas _W. Scott_ 95 Parts of Speech, The 201 Petrified Fern, The _Branch_ 36 Picciola _Newell_ 158 Piller Fights _Ellsworth_ 80 Polish Boy, The _Stephens_ 12 Poor Little Joe _Proudfit_ 32 Prayer and Potatoes _Pettee_ 200 Prayer for a Little Home, A 87 President, The _Johnston_ 204 Pride of Battery B _Gassaway_ 176

Quangle Wangle's Hat, The _Lear_ 91

Railroad Crossing, The _Strong_ 182 Rain on the Roof _Kinney_ 97 Rainy Day, The _Longfellow_ 28 Real Riches, The _Saxe_ 12 Red Jacket, The _Baker_ 77 Reply to "A Woman's Question" _Pelham_ 155 Rhodora, The _Emerson_ 90 Ring Out, Wild Bells _Tennyson_ 63 Roll Call, The _Shepherd_ 86 Romance of Nick Van Stann _Saxe_ 156 Rustic Courtship 76

Sandman, The _Vandegrift_ 62 Santa Filomena _Longfellow_ 56 School-Master's Guest, The _Carleton_ 68 September _G. Arnold_ 75 September Days _Smith_ 153 September Gale, The _O.W. Holmes_ 137 Sermon in Rhyme, A 167 Service Flag, The _Herschell_ 127 She Was a Phantom of Delight _Wordsworth_ 89 Singing Leaves, The _Lowell_ 92 Sin of Omission, The _Sangster_ 116 Sin of the Coppenter Man _Cooke_ 139 Small Beginnings _Mackay_ 97 Solitude _Wilcox_ 139 Somebody's Darling _La Coste_ 175 Song of Marion's Men _Bryant_ 54 Song of the Chattahoochee _Lanier_ 66 "'Specially Jim" 44 Station-Master's Story, The _Sims_ 109 Stranger on the Sill, The _Read_ 147 Sunset City, The _Gilman_ 183

Teacher's "If", The _Gale_ 165 There Was a Boy _Wordsworth_ 90 Things Divine, The _Burt_ 64 Tin Gee Gee, The _Cape_ 169 "Tommy" _Kipling_ 170 Tommy's Prayer _Nicholls_ 112 Towser Shall Be Tied To-night 37 Trailing Arbutus _Whittier_ 199 Trouble in the Amen Corner _Harbaugh_ 18 Try, Try Again 135 Two Angels, The _Longfellow_ 187 Two Kinds of People, The _Wilcox_ 116 Two Little Stockings, The _Hunt_ 141 Two Pictures, The 114

Unawares _Lent_ 30

Vagabonds, The _Trowbridge_ 49 Voice of Spring, The _Hemans_ 26 Volunteer Organist, The _Foss_ 149

Warren's Address to the American Soldiers _Pierpont_ 99 Washington _Bryant_ 37 Washington's' Birthday _Butterworth_ 58 Water Mill, The _Doudney_ 143 What the Choir Sang About the New Bonnet _Morrison_ 168 When Father Carves the Duck _Wright_ 40 When My Ship Comes In _Burdette_ 138 When Papa Was a Boy _Brininstool_ 100 When the Light Goes Out _Chester_ 199 Which Shall It Be? _Beers_ 101 Who Stole the Bird's Nest? _Child_ 41 Why the Dog's Nose Is Always Cold 144 Wishing Bridge, The _Whittier_ 63 Witch's Daughter, The _Whittier_ 188 With Little Boy Blue _Kennedy_ 122 Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness _Shakespeare_ 94 Women of Mumbles Head, The _C. Scott_ 123 Wood-Box, The _Lincoln_ 177 Work: A Song of Triumph _Morgan_ 154 Work Thou for Pleasure _Cox_ 169

You Put No Flowers on My Papa's Grave _C.E.L. Holmes_ 140

(An Index of First Lines is given on pages 209-213)

PREFACE

In homely phrase, this is a sort of "second helping" of a dish that has pleased the taste of thousands. Our first collection of _Poems Teachers Ask For_ was the response to a demand for such a book, and this present volume is the response to a demand for "more." In Book One it was impracticable to use all of the many poems entitled to inclusion on the basis of their being desired. We are constantly in receipt of requests that certain selections be printed in NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS on the page "Poems Our Readers Have Asked For." More than two hundred of these were chosen for Book One, and more than two hundred others, as much desired as those in the earlier volume, are included in Book Two.

Because of copyright restrictions, we often have been unable to present, in magazine form, verse of large popular appeal. By special arrangement, a number of such poems were included in Book One of _Poems Teachers Ask For_, and many more are given in the pages that follow. Acknowledgment is made below to publishers and authors for courteous permission to reprint in this volume material which they control:

THE CENTURY COMPANY--_The Minuet_, from "Poems and Verses," by Mary Mapes Dodge.

W.B. CONKEY COMPANY--_Solitude_, from "Poems of Passion," and _How Salvator Won_, from "Kingdom of Love," both by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.--_Encouragement_, by Paul Laurence Dunbar, copyright by Dodd, Mead & Company; _Work_, by Angela Morgan, from "The Hour Has Struck," copyright 1914 by Angela Morgan.

DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY--_How Did You Die?_ from "Impertinent Poems," and _The Sin of the Coppenter Man_, from "I Rule the House," both by Edmund Vance Cooke.

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY--_The House with Nobody in It_, from "Trees and Other Poems," by Joyce Kilmer, copyright 1914 by George H. Doran Company, publishers.

HAMLIN GARLAND--_My Prairies and Color in the Wheat_.

ISABEL AMBLER GILMAN--_The Sunset City_.

HARPER & BROTHERS--_Over the Hill from the Poor-House_ and _The School-Master's Guests_, from "Farm Legends," by Will Carleton.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY--_The Sandman_, by Margaret Vandegrift; _The Sin of Omission_ and _Our Own_, by Margaret E. Sangster; _The Ballad of the Tempest_, by James T. Fields; also the poems by Henry W. Longfellow, John G. Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and J.T. Trowbridge, of whose works they are the authorized publishers.

CHARLES H.L. JOHNSTON--_The President_.

RUDYARD KIPLING and DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY (A.P. WATT & SON, London, England)--_Mother o' Mine_.

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY--_Hullo_ and _The Volunteer Organist_, both from "Back Country Poems," by Sam Walter Foss, and _He Worried About It_, from "Whiffs from Wild Meadows," by Sam Walter Foss.

EDWIN MARKHAM--_Lincoln, the Man of the People_.

REILLY & LEE CO.--_Home_, from "A Heap o' Livin'," by Edgar A. Guest.

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY--_Our Flag_, by Margaret E. Sangster.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS--_I Have a Rendezvous with Death_, by Alan Seeger; _Song of the Chattahoochee_, by Sidney Lanier; _If All the Skies_, by Henry van Dyke.

HARR WAGNER PUBLISHING COMPANY--_Mothers of Men_ and _The Fortunate Isles_, by Joaquin Miller.

THE PUBLISHERS.

POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR