Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two

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.