| [FIRST GRADE.] |
| [The Baby ] | George Macdonald | [7] |
| [The Little Plant ] | Anon. | [8] |
| [Sleep, Baby, Sleep ] | E. Prentiss | [9] |
| [One, Two, Three ] | Margaret Johnson | [9] |
| [Three Little Bugs in a Basket ] | Alice Cary | [10] |
| [Whenever a Little Child is Born ] | Agnes L. Carter | [11] |
| [Sweet and Low ] | Alfred Tennyson | [12] |
| [The Ferry for Shadowtown ] | Anon. | [13] |
| [My Shadow ] | R. L. Stevenson | [14] |
| [Quite Like a Stocking ] | Anon. | [15] |
| [The Owl and the Pussy-Cat ] | Edward Lear | [16] |
| [Forget-me-not ] | Anon. | [17] |
| [Who Stole the Bird’s Nest? ] | Anon. | [18] |
| [Two Little Hands ] | Anon. | [20] |
| [The Dandelion ] | Anon. | [21] |
| [A Million Little Diamonds ] | M. Butts | [21] |
| [Daisy Nurses ] | Anon. | [22] |
| [At Little Virgil’s Window ] | Edwin Markham | [23] |
| [Dandelions ] | Anon. | [23] |
| [Memory Gems ] | Selected | [24] |
| [SECOND GRADE.] |
| [Seven Times One ] | Jean Ingelow | [25] |
| [Christmas Eve ] | Anon. | [26] |
| [Morning Song ] | Alfred Tennyson | [27] |
| [Suppose, My Little Lady ] | Phœbe Cary | [28] |
| [The Day’s Eye ] | Anon. | [29] |
| [The Night Wind ] | Eugene Field | [30] |
| [The Blue-bird’s Song ] | Anon. | [31] |
| [Suppose ] | Anon. | [32] |
| [Autumn Leaves ] | Anon. | [33] |
| [If I Were a Sunbeam ] | Lucy Larcom | [34] |
| [Meadow Talk ] | Caroline Leslie | [35] |
| [The Old Love ] | Charles Kingsley | [36] |
| [Bed in Summer ] | R. L. Stevenson | [36] |
| [Three Companions ] | Dinah M. Craik | [37] |
| [The Wind ] | R. L. Stevenson | [38] |
| [The Minuet ] | Mary Mapes Dodge | [39] |
| [Wynken, Blynken and Nod ] | Eugene Field | [40] |
| [Pretty Is That Pretty Does ] | Alice Cary | [42] |
| [Lullaby ] | J. G. Holland | [43] |
| [THIRD GRADE.] |
| [Discontent ] | Sarah O. Jewett | [45] |
| [Our Flag ] | Anon. | [46] |
| [Song from “Pippa Passes” ] | Robert Browning | [47] |
| [Little Brown Hands ] | M. H. Krout | [48] |
| [Winter and Summer ] | Anon. | [49] |
| [The Brook ] | Alfred Tennyson | [50] |
| [The Wonderful World ] | W. B. Rands | [52] |
| [Don’t Give Up ] | Phœbe Cary | [53] |
| [We Are Seven ] | Wordsworth | [54] |
| [The Land of Counterpane ] | R. L. Stevenson | [57] |
| [The Brown Thrush ] | Lucy Larcom | [58] |
| [The Silver Boat ] | Anon. | [59] |
| [The Dandelion ] | Anon. | [60] |
| [Afternoon in February ] | Longfellow | [61] |
| [Nikolina ] | Celia Thaxter | [62] |
| [Lost ] | Celia Thaxter | [63] |
| [Robin or I? ] | Sarah E. Sprague | [65] |
| [FOURTH GRADE.] |
| [Psalm XXIII ] | Bible | [67] |
| [The Mountain and the Squirrel ] | Ralph W. Emerson | [68] |
| [Abou Ben Adhem ] | Leigh Hunt | [69] |
| [Bugle Song ] | Alfred Tennyson | [70] |
| [Little Boy Blue ] | Eugene Field | [71] |
| [Pittypat and Tippytoe ] | Eugene Field | [72] |
| [Red Riding Hood ] | Whittier | [75] |
| [The Sandpiper and I ] | Celia Thaxter | [77] |
| [In School Days ] | Whittier | [78] |
| [Take Care ] | Alice Cary | [80] |
| [A Life Lesson ] | James W. Riley | [82] |
| [FIFTH GRADE.] |
| [The Village Blacksmith ] | Longfellow | [83] |
| [Love of Country ] | Scott | [85] |
| [The Daffodils ] | Wordsworth | [86] |
| [A Child’s Thought of God ] | Mrs. Browning | [87] |
| [From My Arm-chair ] | Longfellow | [88] |
| [A Song of Easter ] | Celia Thaxter | [90] |
| [The Joy of the Hills ] | Edwin Markham | [92] |
| [In Blossom Time ] | Ina Coolbrith | [93] |
| [The Stars and the Flowers ] | Longfellow | [95] |
| [Meadow Larks ] | Ina Coolbrith | [98] |
| [The Arrow and the Song ] | Longfellow | [99] |
| [The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz ] | Longfellow | [100] |
| [SIXTH GRADE.] |
| [Break, Break, Break ] | Alfred Tennyson | [103] |
| [Columbus—Westward ] | Joaquin Miller | [104] |
| [The Day is Done ] | Longfellow | [106] |
| [The Landing of the Pilgrims ] | Mrs. Hemans | [108] |
| [He Prayeth Best ] | Coleridge | [109] |
| [Each and All ] | Emerson | [110] |
| [Paul Revere’s Ride ] | Longfellow | [112] |
| [Battle Hymn of the Republic ] | Julia Ward Howe | [116] |
| [The Barefoot Boy ] | Whittier | [118] |
| [Lincoln, the Great Commoner ] | Edwin Markham | [120] |
| [Opportunity ] | Edward R. Sill | [122] |
| [A Song ] | James W. Riley | [123] |
| [To a Friend ] | Halleck | [124] |
| [SEVENTH GRADE.] |
| [Psalm CXXI ] | Bible | [125] |
| [Rain in Summer ] | Longfellow | [126] |
| [A Psalm of Life ] | Longfellow | [130] |
| [Hymn on the Fight at Concord ] | R. W. Emerson | [131] |
| [To a Water-fowl ] | William C. Bryant | [132] |
| [The Heritage ] | James R. Lowell | [134] |
| [Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard] | Thomas Gray | [136] |
| [Gradatim ] | J. G. Holland | [143] |
| [God Save the Flag ] | O. W. Holmes | [145] |
| [Life ] | Edward R. Sill | [146] |
| [EIGHTH GRADE.] |
| [Hymn to the Night ] | Longfellow | [147] |
| [The Builders ] | Longfellow | [148] |
| [Polonius’ Advice to Laertes ] | Shakespeare | [150] |
| [Thanatopsis ] | W. C. Bryant | [151] |
| [The American Flag ] | Jos. R. Drake | [155] |
| [Speech at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg] | Abraham Lincoln | [157] |
| [To a Skylark ] | Shelley | [159] |
| [The Launching of the Ship ] | Longfellow | [164] |
| [Recessional ] | Rudyard Kipling | [166] |
| [The Ladder of St. Augustine ] | Longfellow | [168] |
| [The Chambered Nautilus ] | O. W. Holmes | [170] |
| [To the Young People of Oakland, Cal.] | William McKinley | [172] |
| [BRIEF MEMORY GEMS AND PROVERBS.] |
| [First and Second Grades] | [173] |
| [Third and Fourth Grades] | [176] |
| [Fifth and Sixth Grades] | [180] |
| [Seventh and Eighth Grades] | [184] |
| [Poor Richard’s Sayings] | [187] |