Self-Dependence………………………. Matthew Arnold
Serenity…………………………….. Lord Byron
Sit Down, Sad Soul……………………. Bryan Waller Procter
Sleep and the Monarch…………………. William Shakespeare
Slogan………………………………. Jane M'Lean
Smiles………………………………. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Smiling Paradox, A……………………. John Kendrick Bangs
Solitude…………………………….. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Song of Endeavor……………………… James W. Foley
Song of Life, A………………………. Angela Morgan
Song of Thanksgiving, A……………….. Angela Morgan
Song of To-morrow, A………………….. Frank L. Stanton
Stability……………………………. William Shakespeare
Stand Forth!…………………………. Angela Morgan
Start Where You Stand…………………. Bert on Braley
Steadfast……………………………. Everard Jack Appleton
Stone Rejected, The…………………… Edwin Markham
Struggle, The………………………… Miriam Teichner
Submission…………………………… Miriam Teichner
Success……………………………… Berton Braley
Swellitis……………………………. Joseph Morris
Syndicated Smile, The…………………. St. Clair Adams

There Will Always Be Something to Do……. Edgar A. Guest
Thick Is the Darkness…………………. William Ernest Henley
Things That Haven't Been Done Before, The.. Edgar A. Guest
This World…………………………… Frank L. Stanton
Times Go by Turns…………………….. Robert Southwell
Tit for Tat………………………….. St. Clair Adams
To Althea from Prison…………………. Richard Lovelace
Toast to Merriment, A…………………. James W. Foley
To a Young Man……………………….. Edgar A. Guest
To-day………………………………. Thomas Carlyle
To-day………………………………. Douglas Malloch
To Melancholy………………………… John Kendrick Bangs
To the Men Who Lose…………………… Anonymous
To Those Who Fail…………………….. Joaquin Miller
To Youth After Pain…………………… Margaret Widdemer
Trainers, The………………………… Grantland Rice
Two at a Fireside…………………….. Edwin Markham
Two Raindrops………………………… Joseph Morris

Ultimate Act…………………………. Henry Bryan Binns
Ulysses……………………………… Alfred Tennyson
Unafraid…………………………….. Everard Jack Appleton
Undismayed…………………………… James W. Foley
Unmusical Soloist, The………………… Joseph Morris
Unsubdued……………………………. S.E. Kiser

Victory……………………………… Miriam Teichner
Victory in Defeat…………………….. Edwin Markham

Wanted—a Man………………………… St. Clair Adams
Welcome Man, The……………………… Walt Mason
What Dark Days Do…………………….. Everard Jack Appleton
When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted……. Rudyard Kipling
When Nature Wants a Man……………….. Angela Morgan
Will………………………………… Alfred Tennyson
Will………………………………… Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wisdom of Folly, The………………….. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
Wishing……………………………… Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Woman Who Understands, The…………….. Everard Jack Appleton
Word, The……………………………. John Kendrick Bangs
Work………………………………… Angela Morgan
Work………………………………… Henry Van Dyke
World Is Against Me, The………………. Edgar A. Guest
Worth While………………………….. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You May Count That Day………………… George Eliot
Your Mission…………………………. Ellen M.H. Gates

IT CAN BE DONE

BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE

We all dream of great deeds and high positions, away from the pettiness and humdrum of ordinary life. Yet success is not occupying a lofty place or doing conspicuous work; it is being the best that is in you. Rattling around in too big a job is much worse than filling a small one to overflowing. Dream, aspire by all means; but do not ruin the life you must lead by dreaming pipe-dreams of the one you would like to lead. Make the most of what you have and are. Perhaps your trivial, immediate task is your one sure way of proving your mettle. Do the thing near at hand, and great things will come to your hand to be done.

  If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
    Be a scrub in the valley—but be
  The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
    Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

  If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
    And some highway some happier make;
  If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass—
    But the liveliest bass in the lake!

  We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
    There's something for all of us here.
  There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
    And the task we must do is the near.

  If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
    If you can't be the sun be a star;
  It isn't by size that you win or you fail—
    Be the best of whatever you are!

Douglas Malloch.

THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

This poem has as its keynote friendship and sympathy for other people. It is a paradox of life that by hoarding love and happiness we lose them, and that only by giving them away can we keep them for ourselves. The more we share, the more we possess. We of course find in other people weaknesses and sins, but our best means of curing these are through a wise and sympathetic understanding.

  Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
    Where the race of men go by—
  The men who are good and the men who are bad,
    As good and as bad as I.
  I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
    Or hurl the cynic's ban;—
  Let me live in a house by the side of the road
    And be a friend to man.

  I see from my house by the side of the road,
    By the side of the highway of life,
  The men who press with the ardor of hope,
    The men who are faint with the strife.
  But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears—
    Both parts of an infinite plan;—
  Let me live in my house by the side of the road
    And be a friend to man.

  I know there are brook-gladdened meadows ahead