1. The Arrow and the Song [3]
    Henry W. Longfellow
  2. The Babie [4]
    Jeremiah Eames Rankin
  3. Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite [4]
    Isaac Watts
  4. Little Things [5]
    Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
  5. He Prayeth Best [5]
    Samuel T. Coleridge
  6. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star [6]
    Anonymous
  7. Pippa [6]
    Robert Browning
  8. The Days of the Month [7]
    An Old Song
  9. True Royalty [7]
    Rudyard Kipling
  10. Playing Robinson Crusoe [8]
    Rudyard Kipling
  11. My Shadow [9]
    Robert Louis Stevenson
  12. Little White Lily [10]
    George Macdonald
  13. How the Leaves Came Down [12]
    Susan Coolidge
  14. Willie Winkie [13]
    William Miller
  15. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat [15]
    Edward Lear
  16. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod [16]
    Eugene Field
  17. The Duel [18]
    Eugene Field
  18. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie [19]
    Anonymous
  19. Love Between Brothers and Sisters [20]
    Isaac Watts
  20. The Bluebell of Scotland [20]
    Anonymous
  21. If I Had But Two Little Wings [21]
    Samuel T. Coleridge
  22. A Farewell [21]
    Charles Kingsley
  23. Casabianca [22]
    Felicia Hemans
  24. The Captain’s Daughter [23]
    James T. Fields
  25. The Village Blacksmith [25]
    Henry W. Longfellow
  26. Sweet and Low [27]
    Alfred Tennyson
  27. The Violet [27]
    Jane Taylor
  28. The Rainbow (a fragment) [28]
    William Wordsworth
  29. A Visit From St. Nicholas [29]
    Clement Clarke Moore
  30. The Star-Spangled Banner [31]
    Francis Scott Key
  31. Father William [33]
    Lewis Carroll
  32. The Nightingale and the Glow-worm [34]
    William Cowper

PART II

  1. The Frost [39]
    Hannah Flagg Gould
  2. The Owl [40]
    Alfred Tennyson
  3. Little Billee [41]
    William Makepeace Thackeray
  4. The Butterfly and the Bee [42]
    William Lisle Bowles
  5. An Incident of the French Camp [43]
    Robert Browning
  6. Robert of Lincoln [44]
    William Cullen Bryant
  7. Old Grimes [47]
    Albert Gorton Greene
  8. Song of Life [48]
    Charles Mackay
  9. Fairy Song [50]
    John Keats
  10. A Boy’s Song [50]
    James Hogg
  11. Buttercups and Daisies [51]
    Mary Howitt
  12. The Rainbow [53]
    Thomas Campbell
  13. Old Ironsides [53]
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  14. Little Orphant Annie [54]
    James Whitcomb Riley
  15. O Captain! My Captain! [57]
    Walt Whitman
  16. Ingratitude [58]
    William Shakespeare
  17. The Ivy Green [59]
    Charles Dickens
  18. The Noble Nature [60]
    Ben Jonson
  19. The Flying Squirrel [60]
    Mary E. Burt
  20. Warren’s Address [63]
    John Pierpont
  21. The Song in Camp [64]
    Bayard Taylor
  22. The Bugle Song [66]
    Alfred Tennyson
  23. The Three Bells of Glasgow [67]
    John G. Whittier
  24. Sheridan’s Ride [68]
    Thomas Buchanan Read
  25. The Sandpiper [71]
    Celia Thaxter
  26. Lady Clare [72]
    Alfred Tennyson
  27. The Lord of Burleigh [75]
    Alfred Tennyson
  28. Hiawatha’s Childhood [79]
    Henry W. Longfellow
  29. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [82]
    William Wordsworth
  30. John Barleycorn [83]
    Robert Burns
  31. A Life on the Ocean Wave [85]
    Epes Sargent
  32. The Death of the Old Year [86]
    Alfred Tennyson
  33. Abou Ben Adhem [89]
    Leigh Hunt
  34. Farm-Yard Song [90]
    J.T. Trowbridge
  35. To a Mouse [92]
    Robert Burns
  36. To a Mountain Daisy [94]
    Robert Burns
  37. Barbara Frietchie [96]
    John G. Whittier

PART III

  1. Lochinvar [103]
    Sir Walter Scott
  2. Lord Ullin’s Daughter [105]
    Thomas Campbell
  3. The Charge of the Light Brigade [107]
    Alfred Tennyson
  4. The Tournament [110]
    Sidney Lanier
  5. The Wind and the Moon [111]
    George Macdonald
  6. Jesus the Carpenter [114]
    Catherine C. Liddell
  7. Letty’s Globe [115]
    Charles Tennyson Turner
  8. A Dream [116]
    William Blake
  9. Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound [117]
    J. G. Holland
  10. The Battle of Blenheim [117]
    Robert Southey
  11. Fidelity [120]
    William Wordsworth
  12. The Chambered Nautilus [122]
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  13. Crossing the Bar [124]
    Alfred Tennyson
  14. The Overland-Mail [125]
    Rudyard Kipling
  15. Gathering Song of Donald Dhu [126]
    Sir Walter Scott
  16. Marco Bozzaris [128]
    Fitz-greene Halleck
  17. The Death of Napoleon [131]
    Isaac McClellan
  18. How Sleep the Brave [133]
    William Collins
  19. The Flag Goes By [133]
    Henry Holcomb Bennett
  20. Hohenlinden [134]
    Thomas Campbell
  21. My Old Kentucky Home [136]
    Stephen Collins Foster
  22. Old Folks at Home [137]
    Stephen Collins Foster
  23. The Wreck of the Hesperus [138]
    Henry W. Longfellow
  24. Bannockburn [142]
    Robert Burns

PART IV

  1. The Inchcape Rock [145]
    Robert Southey
  2. The Finding of the Lyre [148]
    James Russell Lowell
  3. A Chrysalis [149]
    Mary Emily Bradley
  4. For a’ That [151]
    Robert Burns
  5. The New Arrival [152]
    George W. Cable
  6. The Brook [153]
    Alfred Tennyson
  7. The Ballad of the Clampherdown [154]
    Rudyard Kipling
  8. The Destruction of Sennacherib [158]
    Lord Byron
  9. I Remember, I Remember [159]
    Thomas Hood
  10. Driving Home the Cows [160]
    Kate Putnam Osgood
  11. Krinken [162]
    Eugene Field
  12. Stevenson’s Birthday [164]
    Katherine Miller
  13. A Modest Wit [165]
    Selleck Osborne
  14. The Legend of Bishop Hatto [166]
    Robert Southey
  15. Columbus [160]
    Joaquin Miller
  16. The Shepherd of King Admetus [171]
    James Russell Lowell
  17. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix [173]
    Robert Browning
  18. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna [176]
    C. Wolfe
  19. The Eve of Waterloo [177]
    Lord Byron
  20. Ivry [179]
    Thomas B. Macaulay
  21. The Glove and the Lions [184]
    Leigh Hunt
  22. The Well of St. Keyne [186]
    Robert Southey
  23. The Nautilus and the Ammonite [188]
    Anonymous
  24. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk [190]
    William Cowper
  25. The Homes of England [192]
    Felicia Hemans
  26. Horatius at the Bridge [193]
    Thomas B. Macaulay
  27. The Planting of the Apple-Tree [211]
    William Cullen Bryant

PART V

  1. June [217]
    James Russell Lowell
  2. A Psalm of Life [218]
    Henry W. Longfellow
  3. Barnacles [219]
    Sidney Lanier
  4. A Happy Life [220]
    Sir Henry Wotton
  5. Home, Sweet Home [220]
    John Howard Payne
  6. From Casa Guidi Windows [222]
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  7. Woodman, Spare That Tree! [222]
    George Pope Morris
  8. Abide With Me [223]
    Henry Francis Lyte
  9. Lead, Kindly Light [224]
    John Henry Newman
  10. The Last Rose of Summer [225]
    Thomas Moore
  11. Annie Laurie [226]
    William Douglas
  12. The Ship of State [227]
    Henry W. Longfellow
  13. America [228]
    Samuel Francis Smith
  14. The Landing of the Pilgrims [229]
    Felicia Hemans
  15. The Lotos-Eaters [231]
    Alfred Tennyson
  16. Moly [233]
    Edith M. Thomas
  17. Cupid Drowned [234]
    Leigh Hunt
  18. Cupid Stung [234]
    Thomas Moore
  19. Cupid and My Campasbe [235]
    John Lyly
  20. A Ballad for a Boy [236]
    Anonymous
  21. The Skeleton in Armour [240]
    Henry W. Longfellow
  22. The Revenge [246]
    Alfred Tennyson
  23. Sir Galahad [253]
    Alfred Tennyson
  24. A Name in the Sand [256]
    Hannah Flagg Gould

PART VI