| | PAGE |
| Introduction. | [ ix] |
| Cowper. | |
| The Diverting History of John Gilpin | [ 1] |
| Burns. | |
| Tam o' Shanter | [ 11] |
| Scott. | |
| Lochinvar | [ 19] |
| Wordsworth. | |
| Michael | [ 21] |
| Lucy Gray | [ 36] |
| Campbell. | |
| Hohenlinden | [ 39] |
| Battle of the Baltic | [ 40] |
| Wolfe. | |
| The Burial of Sir John Moore | [ 43] |
| Byron. | |
| The Prisoner of Chillon | [ 45] |
| Mazeppa | [ 58] |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib | [ 86] |
| Keats. | |
| The Eve of St. Agnes | [ 88] |
| Tennyson. |
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| Dora | [103] |
| Œnone | [108] |
| Enoch Arden | [117] |
| The Revenge | [146] |
| Browning. | |
| "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" | [154] |
| Incident of the French Camp | [156] |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | [158] |
| Hervé Riel | [168] |
| Rossetti. | |
| The White Ship | [175] |
| Morris. | |
| Atalanta's Race | [187] |
| Longfellow. | |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus | [211] |
| Paul Revere's Ride | [214] |
| Whittier. | |
| Skipper Ireson's Ride | [219] |
| Barclay of Ury | [222] |
| Barbara Frietchie | [226] |
| Holmes. | |
| Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle | [230] |
| Notes | [241] |