Finally, the book is not one to be read and then cast aside. It is to be kept as a constant companion and an unfailing recourse in weariness or gloom. Human companions are not always in the mood to cheer us, and may talk upon themes we dislike. But this book will converse or be silent, it is never out of sorts or discouraged, and so far from being wed to some single topic, it will speak to us at any time on any subject we desire.
To many authors and publishers acknowledgment is due for generous permission to use copyright material.
CONTENTS
Abou Ben Adhem……………………….. Leigh Hunt
Answer, The………………………….. Grantland Rice
Appreciation…………………………. William Judson Kibby
Arrow and the Song, The……………….. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Awareness……………………………. Miriam Teichner
Bars of Fate, The…………………….. Ellen M.H. Gates
Battle Cry…………………………… John G. Neihardt
Belly and the Members, The…………….. William Shakespeare
Be the Best of Whatever You Are………… Douglas Malloch
Borrowed Feathers…………………….. Joseph Morris
Borrowing Trouble…………………….. Robert Burns
Brave Life…………………………… Grantland Rice
Call of the Unbeaten, The……………… Grantland Rice
Can't……………………………….. Edgar A. Guest
Can You Sing a Song?………………….. Joseph Morris
Cares……………………………….. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Celestial Surgeon, The………………… Robert Louis Stevenson
Challenge……………………………. Jean Nette
Chambered Nautilus, The……………….. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Character of a Happy Life……………… Sir Henry Wotton
Clear the Way………………………… Charles Mackay
Cleon and I………………………….. Charles Mackay
Columbus…………………………….. Joaquin Miller
Conqueror, The……………………….. Berton Braley
Co-operation…………………………. J. Mason Knox
Courage……………………………… _Florence Earle Coates
Cowards……………………………… William Shakespeare
Creed, A…………………………….. Edwin Markham
Daffodils, The……………………….. William Wordsworth
Days of Cheer………………………… James W. Foley
December 31………………………….. S.E. Kiser
De Sunflower Ain't de Daisy……………. Anonymous
Disappointed, The…………………….. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Duty………………………………… Ralph Waldo Emerson
Duty………………………………… Edwin Markham
Envoi……………………………….. John G. Neihardt
Essentials…………………………… St. Clair Adams
Fable……………………………….. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fairy Song…………………………… John Keats
Faith……………………………….. S.E. Kiser
Faith……………………………….. Edward Rowland Sill
Fighter, The…………………………. S.E. Kiser
Fighting Failure, The…………………. Everard Jack Appleton
Firm of Grin and Barrett, The………….. Sam Walter Foss
Four Things………………………….. Henry Van Dyke
Friends of Mine………………………. James W. Foley
Game, The……………………………. Grantland Rice
Gifts of God, The…………………….. George Herbert
Gift, The……………………………. Robert Burns
Gladness…………………………….. Anna Hempstead Branch
Glad Song, The……………………….. Joseph Morris
God…………………………………. Gamaliel Bradford
Good Deeds…………………………… William Shakespeare
Good Intentions………………………. St. Clair Adams
Good Name, A…………………………. William Shakespeare
Gradatim…………………………….. G. Holland
Gray Days……………………………. Griffith Alexander
Greatness of the Soul, The…………….. Alfred Tennyson
Grief……………………………….. Angela Morgan
Grumpy Guy, The………………………. Griffith Alexander