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| The Sacrifice of Abraham. N. P. Willis | 3 |
| The Angel and the Shepherds. (From Ben Hur). Lew Wallace | 5 |
| The Dead Student. Will M. Carleton | 6 |
| Henry W. Grady. James Whitcomb Riley | 7 |
| The Fratricide. John Greenleaf Whittier | 8 |
| Back from the War. T. De Witt Talmage | 10 |
| The Luck of Edenhall. H. W. Longfellow | 10 |
| That Waltz of Von Weber. Nora Perry | 11 |
| Water and Rum. John B. Gough | 12 |
| The Boy who helps his Mother | 13 |
| Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette | 14 |
| Miriam’s Song. Thomas Moore | 14 |
| Toussaint L’Ouverture. Wendell Phillips | 15 |
| The Engineer’s Story. Eugene J. Hall | 16 |
| The Influence of Woman. Webster | 16 |
| His Mother’s Songs | 17 |
| Mother’s Doughnuts. Charles F. Adams | 18 |
| Useless Philosophers | 18 |
| The Grave. H. W. Longfellow | 19 |
| I wouldn’t—Would you? Anonymous | 19 |
| Despair. Dow, Jr. | 20 |
| The Wife’s Appeal | 21 |
| Praying for Shoes. Paul Hamilton Hayne | 21 |
| The New South. H. W. Grady | 23 |
| Lincoln. James R. Lowell | 24 |
| The Lady of the Rock. Thomas Dunn English | 25 |
| A Ballad of East and West. Yussuf | 27 |
| The Light from over the Range | 28 |
| Charlie Wong. H. Antoine D’Arcy | 30 |
| The Indian’s Tale. John Greenleaf Whittier | 31 |
| Cities. Anonymous | 32 |
| The Leper. N. P. Willis | 33 |
| The Death of the Count Armaniac. A. Mary F. Robinson | 36 |
| One Thing at a Time | 36 |
| Song of the Mountaineers. T. Buchanan Read | 37 |
| The Battle Hymn. Theodore Körner | 38 |
| A Beautiful Death. Eli Perkins | 38 |
| Annie’s Ticket | 39 |
| Bad Prayers. Bronson Alcott | 39 |
| Mattie Stephenson. Anonymous | 40 |
| The Two Pictures | 40 |
| Where God’s Hand is Seen. Captain Jack Crawford | 42 |
| The Sway of the Senses | 43 |
| Burial of the Minnisink. H. W. Longfellow | 44 |
| Mary O’Connor, the Volunteer’s Wife. Mary A. Denison | 45 |
| The Preservation of the Union. Daniel Webster | 45 |
| Our Women Heroes. Kate Brownlee Sherwood | 46 |
| The Prayers of all Living Creatures | 46 |
| Wisdom Dearly Purchased. Edmund Burke | 47 |
| Keep Pegging Away | 48 |
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| The Seeking. J. T. Trowbridge | 3 |
| The Ballad of the King’s Jest. Yussuf | 4 |
| Two Offerings. Henry W. Longfellow | 6 |
| A History. T. De Witt-Talmagen | 7 |
| The Senator’s Grandmother. Patience Stapleton | 8 |
| The March of the Years. Marianne Farningham | 10 |
| The Song of the Sirens. F. Marion Crawford | 11 |
| Agriculture. D. S. Dickinson | 12 |
| Wealth Untold. Charles Mackay, LL.D. | 13 |
| Irish Hearts and Irish Hands. Mary E. Blake | 13 |
| Fame, Wealth, Life, Death. Walter W. Skeat | 14 |
| Down in the Valley. M. Quad | 15 |
| The Home Fireside. Mary Rowles | 16 |
| Some Things Forever | 17 |
| Stratford Fountain. Oliver Wendell Holmes | 17 |
| Sympathy. Chriss Wilson | 19 |
| The World is what we make it. S. Moore | 19 |
| A Woman’s Story | 19 |
| Life’s Game of Ball | 21 |
| The most gifted of Mortals | 22 |
| To a Lady for a Picture of Pansies. T. W. Parsons | 23 |
| Just Away. J. W. Riley | 23 |
| The Lost Kiss. J. W. Riley | 24 |
| The Wonderful Country. John Boyle O’Reilly | 24 |
| The Power of Love. J. W. Donovan | 25 |
| Lost at Sea. C. S. Williams | 25 |
| Lost in the Clouds. Mary E. Bryan | 26 |
| The Dome of the Republic. Anonymous | 28 |
| Margaret. Henry William Herbert | 28 |
| Wasted. Rev. J. F. Norton | 29 |
| Gentleman Jim. Daniel O’Connell | 30 |
| Civilization of Africa. Edward Everett | 31 |
| A Story of Fredericksburg. Herbert W. Collingwood | 31 |
| Grandfather’s Rose. Mary A. Denison | 32 |
| The Mirage. H. T. B. | 33 |
| Christianity Essential to Liberty. Kossuth | 33 |
| Two Sinners. Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 34 |
| The Shunammite. N. P. Willis | 35 |
| The Demon of the Fire. Edgar A. Poe | 37 |
| The Successful Farmer | 38 |
| Who carries on the Business. Alfred J. Hough | 38 |
| Happy the Man of Steadfast Faith. Solomon Solis-Cohen | 39 |
| The Sailor Boy’s Sister. Francis Lucas | 39 |
| Human Love | 40 |
| My Picture Gallery. Adelaide Anne Proctor | 40 |
| A Pack of Cards. Janet Cossar | 41 |
| A Lame Boy’s Query. Alexander L. Kinkead | 42 |
| Kate. B. F. Sawyer | 43 |
| The Ould Canteen | 43 |
| The Cell of the Missionary. W. L. Bowles | 44 |
| Uncle Jake. Kris Kyle | 45 |
| The Tyneside Widow. Algernon Charles Swinburne | 46 |
| The Convict’s Mother. Katherine S. Mason | 47 |
| Of His Pitiable Transformation. Robert Louis Stevenson | 47 |
| Ostler Joe. Geo. R. Sims | 48 |
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