The following poems are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin Co., the authorized publishers:
T. B. Aldrich, "A Turkish Legend," "Before the Rain," "Maple Leaves," and "Tiger Lilies"; Christopher P. Cranch, "The Bobolinks"; Alice Cary, "The Gray Swan"; Margaret Deland, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night"; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Forbearance," "The Humble-Bee," "Duty," "The Rhodora," "Concord Hymn," "The Snow Storm," and Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord; James T. Fields, "Song of the Turtle and the Flamingo"; Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus"; John Hay, "The Enchanted Shirt"; Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Bret Harte, "The Reveille" and "A Greyport Legend"; T. W. Higginson, "The Snowing of the Pines"; H. W. Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Psalm of Life," "Home Song," "The Three Kings," and "The Harvest Moon"; James Russell Lowell, "Washington," extracts from "The Vision of Sir Launfal," "The Fatherland," "To the Dandelion," "The Singing Leaves," and "Stanzas on Freedom"; Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"; Edna Dean Proctor, "Columbia's Emblem"; T. W. Parsons, "Dirge for One Who Fell in Battle"; E. C. Stedman, "The Flight of the Birds" and "Going A-Nutting"; E. R. Sill, "Opportunity"; W. W. Story, "The English Language"; Celia Thaxter, "The Sandpiper" and "Nikolina"; J. T. Trowbridge, "Evening at the Farm" and "Midwinter"; Bayard Taylor, "A Night With a Wolf" and "The Song of the Camp"; J. G. Whittier, "The Corn Song," "The Barefoot Boy," "Barbara Frietchie," extracts from "Snow-Bound," "Song of the Negro Boatman," and "The Pipes at Lucknow"; W. D. Howells, "In August"; J. G. Saxe, "Solomon and the Bees."
CONTENTS
A CHANTED CALENDAR Page
Daybreak. By Percy Bysshe Shelley [1]
Morning. By John Keats [1]
A Morning Song. By William Shakespeare [2]
Evening in Paradise. By John Milton [2]
Evening Song. By John Fletcher [3]
Night. By Robert Southey [4]
A Fine Day. By Michael Drayton [5]
The Seasons. By Edmund Spenser [5]
The Eternal Spring. By John Milton [5]
March. By William Cullen Bryant [6]
Spring. By Thomas Carew [7]
Song to April. By William Watson [7]
April in England. By Robert Browning [8]
April and May. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [9]
May. By Edmund Spenser [9]
Song on May Morning. By John Milton [10]
Summer. By Edmund Spenser [10]
June Weather. By James Russell Lowell [11]
July. By Susan Hartley Swett [13]
August. By Edmund Spenser [14]
In August. By William Dean Howells [14]
Autumn. By Edmund Spenser [15]
Sweet September. By George Arnold [15]
Autumn's Processional. By Dinah M. Mulock [16]
October's Bright Blue Weather. By H. H. [16]
Maple Leaves. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich [17]
Down to Sleep. By H. H. [18]
Winter. By Edmund Spenser [19]
When Icicles Hang by the Wall. By William Shakespeare [19]
A Winter Morning. By James Russell Lowell [20]
The Snow Storm. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [21]
Old Winter. By Thomas Noel [22]
Midwinter. By John Townsend Trowbridge [23]
Dirge for the Year. By Percy Bysshe Shelley [25]
THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL
The World Beautiful. By John Milton [27]
The Harvest Moon. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [27]
The Cloud. By Percy Bysshe Shelley [28]
Before the Rain. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich [31]
Rain in Summer. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [32]
Invocation to Rain in Summer. By William C. Bennett [34]
The Latter Rain. By Jones Very [35]
The Wind. By Robert Louis Stevenson [35]
Ode to the Northeast Wind. By Charles Kingsley [36]
The Windy Night. By Thomas Buchanan Read [39]
The Brook. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [40]
The Brook in Winter. By James Russell Lowell [42]
Clear and Cool. By Charles Kingsley [44]
Minnows. By John Keats [45]
Snow-Bound (Extracts). By John G. Whittier [46]
Highland Cattle. By Dinah M. Mulock [50]
A Scene in Paradise. By John Milton [52]
The Tiger. By William Blake [53]
The Spacious Firmament on High. By Joseph Addison [54]
GREEN THINGS GROWING
Green Things Growing. By Dinah M. Mulock [57]
The Sigh of Silence. By John Keats [58]
Under the Greenwood Tree. By William Shakespeare [59]
The Planting of the Apple Tree. By William Cullen Bryant [59]
The Apple Orchard in the Spring. By William Martin [63]
Mine Host of "The Golden Apple." By Thomas Westwood [64]
The Tree. By Jones Very [65]
A Young Fir-Wood. By Dante G. Rossetti [65]
The Snowing of the Pines. By Thomas W. Higginson [66]
The Procession of the Flowers. By Sydney Dobell [67]
Sweet Peas. By John Keats [68]
A Snowdrop. By Harriet Prescott Spofford [69]
Almond Blossom. By Sir Edwin Arnold [69]
Wild Rose. By William Allingham [70]
Tiger-Lilies. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich [71]
To the Fringed Gentian. By William Cullen Bryant [72]
To a Mountain Daisy. By Robert Burns [73]
Bind-Weed. By Susan Coolidge [74]
The Rhodora. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [76]
A Song of Clover. By "Saxe Holm" [76]
To the Dandelion (Extract). By James Russell Lowell [77]
To Daffodils. By Robert Herrick [78]
The Daffodils. By William Wordsworth [79]
The White Anemone. By Owen Meredith [80]
The Grass. By Emily Dickinson [81]
The Corn-Song. By John G. Whittier [82]
Columbia's Emblem. By Edna Dean Proctor [84]
Scythe Song. By Andrew Lang [86]
Time to Go. By Susan Coolidge [86]
The Death of the Flowers. By William Cullen Bryant [88]
Autumn's Mirth. By Samuel Minturn Peck [90]
ON THE WING
Sing On, Blithe Bird. By William Motherwell [93]
To a Skylark. By Percy Bysshe Shelley [94]
Sir Lark and King Sun: A Parable. By George Macdonald [99]
The Skylark. By Frederick Tennyson [101]
The Skylark. By James Hogg [102]
The Bobolinks. By Christopher P. Cranch [103]
To a Waterfowl. By William Cullen Bryant [105]
Goldfinches. By John Keats [107]
The Sandpiper. By Celia Thaxter [107]
The Eagle. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [109]
Child's Talk in April. By Christina G. Rossetti [109]
The Flight of the Birds. By Edmund Clarence Stedman [111]
The Shepherd's Home. By William Shenstone [112]
To a Cricket. By William C. Bennett [113]
On the Grasshopper and Cricket. By John Keats [114]
The Tax-Gatherer. By John B. Tabb [114]
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket. By Leigh Hunt [115]
The Bee. By Emily Dickinson [116]
The Humble-Bee. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [116]
All Things Wait Upon Thee. By Christina G. Rossetti [119]
Providence. By Reginald Heber [119]
THE INGLENOOK
A New Household. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [121]
Two Heavens. By Leigh Hunt [121]
A Song of Love. By "Lewis Carroll" [122]
Mother's Song. Unknown [123]
The Bonniest Bairn in a' the Warl'. By Robert Ford [125]
Cuddle Doon. By Alexander Anderson [126]
I am Lonely. By George Eliot [128]
Brother and Sister. By George Eliot [129]
Home. By William Ernest Henley [131]
Love Will Find Out the Way. Unknown [133]
The Sailor's Wife. By William J. Mickle [134]
Evening at the Farm. By John Townsend Trowbridge [136]
Home Song. By Henry W. Longfellow [138]
Étude Réaliste. By Algernon C. Swinburne [139]
We Are Seven. By William Wordsworth [141]
FAIRY SONGS AND SONGS OF FANCY
Puck and the Fairy. By William Shakespeare [145]
Lullaby for Titania. By William Shakespeare [146]
Oberon and Titania to the Fairy Train. By William Shakespeare [147]
Ariel's Songs. By William Shakespeare [147]
Orpheus with His Lute. By William Shakespeare [149]
The Arming of Pigwiggen. By Michael Drayton [149]
Hesperus' Song. By Ben Jonson [151]
L'Allegro (Extracts). By John Milton [152]
Sabrina Fair. By John Milton [157]
Alexander's Feast. By John Dryden [158]
Kubla Khan. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge [160]
The Magic Car Moved On. By Percy Bysshe Shelley [162]
Arethusa. By Percy Bysshe Shelley [165]
The Culprit Fay (Extracts). By Joseph Rodman Drake [168]
A Myth. By Charles Kingsley [173]
The Fairy Folk. By William Allingham [174]
The Merman. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [177]
The Mermaid. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [178]
Bugle Song. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [181]
The Raven. By Edgar Allan Poe [182]
The Bells. By Edgar Allan Poe [189]
SPORTS AND PASTIMES
Blowing Bubbles. By William Allingham [195]
Bicycling Song. By Henry C. Beeching [196]
Going A Maying. By Robert Herrick [197]
Jog On, Jog On. By William Shakespeare [200]
A Vagabond Song. By Bliss Carman [201]
Swimming. By Algernon C. Swinburne [201]
Swimming. By Lord Byron [202]
The Angler's Reveille. By Henry van Dyke [203]
The Angler's Invitation. By Thomas Tod Stoddart [207]
Skating. By William Wordsworth [207]
Reading. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning [209]
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer. By John Keats [210]
Music's Silver Sound. By William Shakespeare [210]
The Power of Music. By William Shakespeare [211]
Descend, Ye Nine! By Alexander Pope [212]
Old Song. By Edward Fitzgerald [213]
The Barefoot Boy. By John G. Whittier [214]
Leolin and Edith. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [218]
Going A-Nutting. By Edmund Clarence Stedman [219]
Whittling. By John Pierpont [220]
Hunting Song. By Sir Walter Scott [222]
The Hunter's Song. By Barry Cornwall [223]
The Blood Horse. By Barry Cornwall [225]
The Northern Seas. By William Howitt [226]
The Needle. By Samuel Woodwork [228]
A GARDEN OF GIRLS
A Portrait. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning [231]
Little Bell. By Thomas Westwood [234]
A Child of Twelve. By Percy Bysshe Shelley [237]
Chloe. By Robert Burns [238]
O, Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet. By Robert Burns [239]
Who Is Silvia? By William Shakespeare [240]
To Mistress Margaret Hussey. By John Skelton [240]
Ruth. By Thomas Hood [242]
My Peggy. By Allan Ramsay [243]
Annie Laurie. By William Douglas [243]
Lucy. By William Wordsworth [245]
Jessie. By Bret Harte [246]
Olivia. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [247]
Nikolina. By Celia Thaxter [248]
The Solitary Reaper. By William Wordsworth [249]
Helena and Hermia. By William Shakespeare [250]
Phyllis. By William Drummond [251]
So Sweet is She. By Ben Jonson [251]
I Love My Jean. By Robert Burns [252]
My Nannie's Awa'. By Robert Burns [253]
THE WORLD OF WATERS
To the Ocean. By Lord Byron [255]
A Life on the Ocean Wave. By Epes Sargent [257]
The Sea. By Barry Cornwall [258]
A Sea-Song. By Allan Cunningham [259]
A Visit from the Sea. By Robert Louis Stevenson [261]
Drifting. By Thomas Buchanan Read [262]
Tacking Ship Off Shore. By Walter Mitchell [265]
Windlass Song. By William Allingham [268]
The Coral Grove. By James Gates Percival [269]
The Shell. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [270]
Bermudas. By Andrew Marvell [272]
Where Lies the Land? By Arthur Hugh Clough [273]
FOR HOME AND COUNTRY
The First, Best Country. By Oliver Goldsmith [275]
My Native Land. By Sir Walter Scott [276]
Loyalty. By Allan Cunningham [276]
My Heart's in the Highlands. By Robert Burns [277]
The Minstrel Boy. By Thomas Moore [278]
The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls. By Thomas Moore [279]
Fife and Drum. By John Dryden [280]
The Cavalier's Song. By William Motherwell [280]
The Old Scottish Cavalier. By Wm. Edmondstoune Aytoun [281]
The Song of the Camp. By Bayard Taylor [284]
Border Ballad. By Sir Walter Scott [286]
Gathering Song of Donuil Dhu. By Sir Walter Scott [287]
The Reveille. By Bret Harte [288]
Ye Mariners of England. By Thomas Campbell [290]
The Knight's Tomb. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge [292]
How Sleep the Brave! By William Collins [292]
Dirge. By Thomas William Parsons [293]
The Burial of Sir John Moore. By Charles Wolfe [295]
Soldier, Rest! By Sir Walter Scott [296]
Recessional. By Rudyard Kipling [297]
The Fatherland. By James Russell Lowell [298]
NEW WORLD AND OLD GLORY
Dear Land of All My Love. By Sidney Lanier [301]
Columbus. By Joaquin Miller [301]
Pocahontas. By William Makepeace Thackeray [303]
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. By Felicia Hemans [305]
The Twenty-second of December. By William Cullen Bryant [306]
Washington. By James Russell Lowell [307]
Warren's Address. By John Pierpont [308]
Carmen Bellicosum. By Guy Humphreys McMaster [309]
The American Flag. By Joseph Rodman Drake [311]
Old Ironsides. By Oliver Wendell Holmes [312]
Indians. By Charles Sprague [313]
Crossing the Plains. By Joaquin Miller [314]
Concord Hymn. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [315]
Ode. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [316]
Stanzas on Freedom. By James Russell Lowell [317]
Abraham Lincoln. By Richard Henry Stoddard [318]
Lincoln, the Great Commoner. By Edwin Markham [319]
Abraham Lincoln. By Henry Howard Brownell [321]
O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman [323]
The Flag Goes By. By Henry Holcomb Bennett [324]
The Black Regiment. By George Henry Boker [326]
Night Quarters. By Henry Howard Brownell [329]
Battle-Hymn of the Republic. By Julia Ward Howe [331]
Sheridan's Ride. By Thomas Buchanan Read [332]
Song of the Negro Boatman. By John G. Whittier [335]
Barbara Frietchie. By John G. Whittier [337]
Two Veterans. By Walt Whitman [340]
Stand by the Flag! By John Nichols Wilder [342]
At Gibraltar. By George Edward Woodberry [343]
Faith and Freedom. By William Wordsworth [345]
Our Mother Tongue. By Lord Houghton [345]
The English Language (Extracts). By William Wetmore Story [346]
To America. By Alfred Austin [347]
The Name of Old Glory. By James Whitcomb Riley [349]
IN MERRY MOOD
On a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes. By Thomas Gray [353]
The Priest and the Mulberry Tree. By Thomas Love Peacock [355]
The Council of Horses. By John Gay [356]
The Diverting History of John Gilpin. By William Cowper [359]
To a Child of Quality. By Matthew Prior [369]
Charade. By Winthrop M. Praed [370]
A Riddle. By Hannah More [371]
A Riddle. By Jonathan Swift [372]
A Riddle. By Catherine M. Fanshawe [373]
Feigned Courage. By Charles and Mary Lamb [374]
Baucis and Philemon. By Jonathan Swift [375]
The Lion and the Cub. By John Gay [378]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. By Oliver Goldsmith [379]
The Walrus and the Carpenter. By "Lewis Carroll" [381]
Song of the Turtle and Flamingo. By James T. Fields [385]
Captain Reece. By William S. Gilbert [387]
The Cataract of Lodore. By Robert Southey [391]
The Enchanted Shirt. By John Hay [395]
Made in the Hot Weather. By William Ernest Henley [398]
The Housekeeper. By Charles Lamb [400]
The Monkey. By Mary Howitt [401]
November. By Thomas Hood [402]
Captain Sword. By Leigh Hunt [403]
STORY POEMS: ROMANCE AND REALITY
The Singing Leaves. By James Russell Lowell [407]
Seven Times Two. By Jean Ingelow [411]
The Long White Seam. By Jean Ingelow [413]
Hannah Binding Shoes. By Lucy Larcom [414]
Lord Ullin's Daughter. By Thomas Campbell [416]
The King of Denmark's Ride. By Caroline E. Norton [418]
The Shepherd to His Love. By Christopher Marlowe [420]
Ballad. By Charles Kingsley [422]
Romance of the Swan's Nest. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning [423]
Lochinvar. By Sir Walter Scott [427]
Jock of Hazeldean. By Sir Walter Scott [430]
The Lady of Shalott. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [431]
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire. By Jean Ingelow [438]
The Forsaken Merman. By Matthew Arnold [444]
The Sands of Dee. By Charles Kingsley [450]
The "Gray Swan." By Alice Gary [452]
The Wreck of the Hesperus. By Henry W. Longfellow [454]
A Greyport Legend. By Bret Harte [458]
The Glove and the Lions. By Leigh Hunt [460]
How's My Boy? By Sydney Dobell [462]
The Child-Musician. By Austin Dobson [463]
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. By Robert Browning [464]
The Inchcape Rock. By Robert Southey [468]
A Night with a Wolf. By Bayard Taylor [471]
The Dove of Dacca. By Rudyard Kipling [472]
The Abbot of Inisfalen. By William Allingham [474]
The Cavalier's Escape. By George Walter Thornbury [479]
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Robert Browning [480]
Hervé Riel. By Robert Browning [493]
Vision of Belshazzar. By Lord Byron [500]
Solomon and the Bees. By John G. Saxe [502]
The Burial of Moses. By Cecil Frances Alexander [504]
WHEN BANNERS ARE WAVING
When Banners Are Waving. Unknown [509]
Battle of the Baltic. By Thomas Campbell [511]
The Pipes at Lucknow. By John Greenleaf Whittier [514]
The Battle of Agincourt. By Michael Drayton [517]
The Battle of Blenheim. By Robert Southey [522]
The Armada. By Lord Macaulay [524]
Ivry. By Lord Macaulay [530]
On the Loss of the Royal George. By William Cowper [535]
The Charge of the Light Brigade. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson [537]
Bannockburn. By Robert Burns [539]
The Night Before Waterloo. By Lord Byron [540]
Hohenlinden. By Thomas Campbell [542]
Incident of the French Camp. By Robert Browning [544]
Marco Bozzaris. By Fitz-Greene Halleck [545]
The Destruction of Sennacherib. By Lord Byron [548]
TALES OF THE OLDEN TIME
Sir Patrick Spens. Old Ballad [551]
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. Old Ballad [555]
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Old Ballad [558]
Lord Beichan and Susie Pye. Old Ballad [563]
The Gay Gos-hawk. Old Ballad [569]
Earl Mar's Daughter. Old Ballad [576]
Chevy-Chace. Old Ballad [582]
Hynde Horn. Old Ballad [593]
Glenlogie. Old Ballad [597]
LIFE LESSONS
Life. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [601]
In a Child's Album. By William Wordsworth [602]
To-Day. By Thomas Carlyle [602]
The Noble Nature. By Ben Jonson [603]
Forbearance. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [603]
The Chambered Nautilus. By Oliver Wendell Holmes [604]
Duty. By Ralph Waldo Emerson [605]
On His Blindness. By John Milton [606]
Sir Launfal and the Leper. By James Russell Lowell [606]
Opportunity. By Edward Rowland Sill [608]
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel. By Leigh Hunt [609]
Be True. By Horatio Bonar [610]
The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation. By John Bunyan [610]
A Turkish Legend. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich [611]
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By Thomas Gray [612]
Polonius to Laertes. By William Shakespeare [618]
The Olive-Tree. By S. Baring-Gould [619]
Coronation. By H. H. [620]
December. By John Keats [622]
The End of the Play. By William Makepeace Thackeray [623]
A Farewell. By Charles Kingsley [625]
A Boy's Prayer. By Henry C. Beeching [626]
Chartless. By Emily Dickinson [626]
Peace. By Henry Vaughan [627]
Consider. By Christina G. Rossetti [628]
The Elixir. By George Herbert [629]
One by One. By Adelaide A. Procter [629]
The Commonwealth of the Bees. By William Shakespeare [631]
The Pilgrim. By John Bunyan [632]
Be Useful. By George Herbert [633]
THE GLAD EVANGEL
A Christmas Carol. By Josiah Gilbert Holland [635]
The Angels. By William Drummond [636]
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night. By Margaret Deland [637]
The Star Song. By Robert Herrick [638]
Hymn for Christmas. By Felicia Hemans [639]
New Prince, New Pomp. By Robert Southwell [640]
The Three Kings. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [641]
The Three Kings. By Eugene Field [644]
A Christmas Hymn. By Alfred Dommett [646]
O Little Town of Bethlehem. By Phillips Brooks [648]
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night. By Nahum Tate [649]
Christmas Carol. Old English [650]
Old Christmas. By Mary Howitt [652]
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen. By Dinah Maria Mulock [653]
Minstrels and Maids. By William Morris [654]
An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour. By Robert Herrick [656]
Old Christmas Returned. Old English [657]
Ceremonies for Christmas. By Robert Herrick [658]
Christmas in England. By Sir Walter Scott [659]
The Gracious Time. By William Shakespeare [661]
Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning. By Reginald Heber [661]