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| The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean | The Brothers Grimm | [9] |
| September | Helen Hunt Jackson | [12] |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | | [13] |
| Travel | Robert Louis Stevenson | [16] |
| Travelers' Wonders | Dr. John Aikin | [19] |
| Ants | | [24] |
| The Four Sunbeams | | [28] |
| Sifting Boys | | [30] |
| The Fountain | James Russell Lowell | [34] |
| Lewis Carroll | | [36] |
| What Alice Said to the Kitten | Lewis Carroll | [38] |
| The Kitten and the Falling Leaves | William Wordsworth | [43] |
| The Snow Image | Nathaniel Hawthorne | [45] |
| Little by Little | | [63] |
| The House I Live In | | [63] |
| Jefferson's Ten Rules | | [70] |
| The Pet Lamb | William Wordsworth | [71] |
| The Story of Florinda | Abby Morton Diaz | [75] |
| The Eagle | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [90] |
| Psalm XXIII | | [91] |
| Tilly's Christmas | Louisa May Alcott | [92] |
| Under the Greenwood Tree | William Shakspere | [101] |
| Our First Naval Hero | | [102] |
| Hiawatha's Sailing | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [108] |
| Shun Delay | | [114] |
| The Walrus and the Carpenter | Lewis Carroll | [119] |
| Prince Ahmed | "The Arabian Nights" | [124] |
| The Planting of the Apple Tree | William Cullen Bryant | [149] |
| Nests | John Ruskin | [153] |
| Sir Isaac Newton | Nathaniel Hawthorne | [153] |
| Lucy | William Wordsworth | [165] |
| To a Skylark | William Wordsworth | [167] |
| Tom Goes down to the Sea | Charles Kingsley | [167] |
| Psalm XXIV | | [181] |
| A Good Samaritan | George Macdonald | [183] |
| The Spartan Three Hundred | | [184] |
| The Fairy Life | William Shakspere | [191] |
| Charles Dickens | | [192] |
| Little Charley | Charles Dickens | [196] |
| Tray | Robert Browning | [207] |
| The Golden Fleece | Nathaniel Hawthorne | [209] |
| The Star-Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key | [237] |
| My Native Land | Sir Walter Scott | [241] |
| Hunting the Grizzly | Theodore Roosevelt | [242] |