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| [To-day] | Thomas Carlyle | 1 |
| [Fortune and the Beggar] | Ivan Kirloff | 2 |
| [The Lark and the Rook] | Unknown | 4 |
| [The Pickwick Club on the Ice] | Charles Dickens | 6 |
| [Tubal Cain] | Charles Mackay | 11 |
| [Professor Frog's Lecture] | M. A. L. Lane | 14 |
| [A Song for April] | Charles G. D. Roberts | 25 |
| [How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune] | P. J. Stahl | 26 |
| [The Battle of Blenheim] | Robert Southey | 31 |
| [The Ride for Life] | "Ralph Connor" | 34 |
| [Iagoo, the Boaster] | Henry W. Longfellow | 39 |
| [The Story of a Fire] | Jacob A. Riis | 40 |
| [The Quest] | Eudora S. Bumstead | 43 |
| [The Jackal and the Partridge] | Flora Annie Steel | 44 |
| [Hide and Seek] | Henry Van Dyke | 50 |
| [The Burning of the "Goliath"] | Dean Stanley | 52 |
| [Hearts of Oak] | David Garrick | 55 |
| [A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea] | Allan Cunningham | 56 |
| [The Talents] | Bible | 57 |
| [A Farewell] | Charles Kingsley | 59 |
| [An Apple Orchard in the Spring] | William Martin | 60 |
| [The Bluejay] | "Mark Twain" | 61 |
| [A Canadian Camping Song] | Sir James David Edgar | 65 |
| [The Argonauts] | John Waugh | 66 |
| [The Minstrel-Boy] | Thomas Moore | 71 |
| [Mary Elizabeth] | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward | 72 |
| [The Frost] | Hannah Flagg Gould | 83 |
| [Corn-fields] | Mary Howitt | 84 |
| [South-West Wind, Esq.] | John Ruskin | 86 |
| [The Meeting of the Waters] | Thomas Moore | 97 |
| [Love] | Bible | 98 |
| [The Robin's Song] | Unknown | 99 |
| [Work or Play] | "Mark Twain" | 100 |
| [Burial of Sir John Moore] | Charles Wolfe | 106 |
| [The Whistle] | Benjamin Franklin | 108 |
| [A Canadian Boat Song] | Thomas Moore | 109 |
| [The Little Hero of Haarlem] | Sharpe's London Magazine | 110 |
| [Father William] | "Lewis Carroll" | 115 |
| [David and Goliath] | Bible | 117 |
| [Charge of the Light Brigade] | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 123 |
| [Maggie Tulliver] | George Eliot | 125 |
| [The Corn Song] | John G. Whittier | 134 |
| [Sports in Norman England] | William Fitzstephen | 136 |
| [A Song of Canada] | Robert Reid | 140 |
| [A Mad Tea Party] | "Lewis Carroll" | 142 |
| [The Slave's Dream] | Henry W. Longfellow | 149 |
| [The Chase] | Charles Dudley Warner | 152 |
| [The Inchcape Rock] | Robert Southey | 158 |
| [A Rough Ride] | Richard D. Blackmore | 161 |
| [The Arab and His Steed] | The Honourable Mrs. Norton | 169 |
| [The Poet's Song] | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 173 |
| [Adventure with a Whale] | Frank T. Bullen | 174 |
| [The Maple] | H. F. Darnell | 179 |
| [Damon and Pythias] | Charlotte M. Yonge | 181 |
| [The Wreck of the Orpheus] | C. A. L. | 184 |
| [The Tide River] | Charles Kingsley | 185 |
| [Wisdom the Supreme Prize] | Bible | 187 |
| [The Orchard] | Jean Blewett | 188 |
| [Inspired by the Snow] | Samuel T. Wood | 189 |
| [The Squirrel] | William Cowper | 192 |
| [Soldier, Rest] | Sir Walter Scott | 192 |
| [Fishing] | Thomas Hughes | 193 |
| [The Fountain] | James Russell Lowell | 199 |
| [Break, Break, Break] | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 201 |
| [The Bed of Procrustes] | Charles Kingsley | 202 |
| ["Bob White"] | George Cooper | 208 |
| [Radisson and the Indians] | Beckles Willson | 209 |
| [The Brook] | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 212 |
| ["Do Seek Their Meat From God"] | Charles G. D. Roberts | 215 |
| [A Song of the Sea] | "Barry Cornwall" | 222 |
| [Little Daffydowndilly] | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 223 |
| [The Sandpiper] | Celia Thaxter | 234 |
| [From "The Sermon on the Mount"] | Bible | 236 |
| [The Legend of Saint Christopher] | Helen Hunt Jackson | 237 |
| [William Tell and His Son] | Chamber's "Tracts" | 241 |
| [A Midsummer Song] | Richard Watson Gilder | 244 |
| [The Relief of Lucknow] | "Letter from an officer's wife" | 246 |
| [The Song in Camp] | Bayard Taylor | 250 |
| [Afterglow] | William Wilfred Campbell | 252 |
| [King Richard and Saladin] | Sir Walter Scott | 253 |
| [England's Dead] | Felicia Hemans | 258 |
| [Hohenlinden] | Thomas Campbell | 260 |
| [The Dream of the Oak Tree] | Hans Christian Andersen | 262 |
| [A Prayer] | Robert Louis Stevenson | 266 |
| [The Death of the Flowers] | William Cullen Bryant | 267 |
| ['Tis the Last Rose of Summer] | Thomas Moore | 269 |
| [A Roman's Honour] | Charlotte M. Yonge | 270 |
| [The Fighting Téméraire] | Henry Newbolt | 273 |
| [Don Quixote's Fight with the Windmills] | Miguel de Cervantes | 275 |
| [The Romance of the Swan's Nest] | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 281 |
| [Moonlight Sonata] | Unknown | 285 |
| [The Red-Winged Blackbird] | Ethelwyn Wetherald | 290 |
| [To the Cuckoo] | John Logan | 291 |
| [The Story of a Stone] | D. B. | 293 |
| [The Snow-Storm] | John G. Whittier | 298 |
| [The Heroine of Verchères] | Francis Parkman | 301 |
| [Jacques Cartier] | Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee | 307 |
| [Ants and Their Slaves] | Jules Michelet | 310 |
| [Lead, Kindly Light] | John Henry Newman | 315 |
| [The Jolly Sandboys] | Charles Dickens | 316 |
| [The Gladness of Nature] | William Cullen Bryant | 324 |
| [Old English Life] | William F. Collier | 325 |
| [Puck's Song] | Rudyard Kipling | 330 |
| [The Battle of Queenston Heights] | Unknown | 332 |
| [The Bugle Song] | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 337 |
| [Charity] | Bible | 338 |
| [A Christmas Carol] | James Russell Lowell | 339 |
| [The Barren Lands] | E. B. Osborn | 341 |
| [A Spring Morning] | William Wordsworth | 345 |
| [Crossing the Bar] | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 346 |