POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR

Selected by READERS OF "NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS"

COMPRISING THE POEMS MOST FREQUENTLY REQUESTED FOR PUBLICATION IN THAT MAGAZINE ON THE PAGE "POEMS OUR READERS HAVE ASKED FOR"

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INDEX

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@18909@[email protected]#The_Building_of_the_Ship" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Building of the Ship, The Longfellow 63 Burial of Sir John Moore, The Wolfe 190   Calf Path, The Foss 110 Casey at the Bat Thayer 100 Casey's Revenge Wilson 101 Chambered Nautilus, The Holmes 169 Character of the Happy Warrior Wordsworth 165 Charge of the Light Brigade, The Tennyson 166 Children's Hour, The Longfellow 70 Children, The Dickinson 53 Child's Thought of God, A E.B. Browning 183 Christ in Flanders 18 Christmas Everywhere Brooks 158 Cloud, The Shelley 159 College Oil Cans McGuire 122 Columbus Joaquin Miller 83 Concord Hymn, The Emerson 99 Corn Song, The Whittier 171 Crossing the Bar Tennyson 186 Curfew Must Not Ring To-night Thorpe 24 Custer's Last Charge Whittaker 91   Daffodils Wordsworth 179 Darius Green and His Flying Machine Trowbridge 153 Day Well Spent, A 38 Dead Pussy Cat, The Short 64 Diffidence 23 Don't Give Up P. Cary 182 Driving Home the Cows Osgood 88 Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge 49  

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@18909@[email protected]#Each_in_His_Own_Tongue" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Each in His Own Tongue Carruth 58 Echo Saxe 20 Engineers Making Love Burdette 21 Eternal Goodness, The Whittier 87   Fable, A Emerson 177 Face Upon the Floor, The D'Arcy 108 Fairies, The Allingham 173 Fence or an Ambulance, A Malins 127 First Settler's Story, The Carleton 197 First Snow-fall, The Lowell 99 Flag Goes By, The Bennett 45 Fountain, The Lowell 186 Four-leaf Clover, The Higginson 134 Frost, The Gould 171   Give Us Men Holland 33 God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Southey 124 Golden Keys 134 Good Night and Good Morning Houghton 184 Gradatim Holland 96 Green Mountain Justice, The Reeves 74 Guilty or Not Guilty 22   Hand That Rules the World, The Wallace 113 House by the Side of the Road, The Foss 56 How Cyrus Laid the Cable Saxe 58 How He Saved St. Michael's Stansbury 119 Huskers, The Whittier 152   If— Kipling 51 I Like Little Pussy J. Taylor 178 Incident of the French Camp R. Browning 182

In Flanders Fields McCrae 195 In Flanders Fields: An Answer Galbreath 195 In School-Days Whittier 31 Inventor's Wife, An Ewing 13 Invictus Henley 29 Is It Worth While? Joachim Miller 36 I Want to Go to Morrow 72   Jane Conquest Milne 76 Jane Jones King 59 Johnny's Hist'ry Lesson Waterman 62 June Lowell 163   Kate Ketchem P. Cary 81 Kate Shelly Hall 25 Katie Lee and Willie Grey 30 Kentucky Belle Woolson 10 Kentucky Philosophy Robertson 32 Kid Has Gone to the Colors, The Herschell 9 King Robert of Sicily Longfellow 147   Lady Moon Houghton 185 Landing of the Pilgrims, The Hemans 8 Lasca Desprez 129 Last Hymn, The Faringham 126 Leak in the Dike, The P. Cary 187 Leap for Life, A Morris 74 Leap of Roushan Beg, The Longfellow 60 Leedle Yawcob Strauss Adams 35 Legend of Bregenz, A Procter 141 Legend of the Organ-Builder, The Dorr 106 L'Envoi Kipling 67

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@18909@[email protected]#Lifes_Mirror" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Life's Mirror Bridges 37 Lips That Touch Liquor, The Young 79 Little Birdie Tennyson 173 Little Black-Eyed Rebel, The Carleton 37 Little Boy Blue Field 195 Little Brown Hands Krout 71 Little Plant, The Brown 192 Lost Chord, The Procter 69 Love of Country ("Breathes There the Man") Scott 185   Main Truck, The Morris 74> Mandalay Kipling 82 Man With the Hoe, The Markham 115 Maud Muller Whittier 205 Miller of the Dee, The Mackay 39 Moo Cow Moo, The Cooke 40 Mother's Fool 31 Mothers of Men Joaquin Miller 43 Mount Vernon's Bells Slade 95 Mr. Finney's Turnip 96 My Love Ship Wilcox 114 My Mother 138   Nathan Hale Finch 78 Never Trouble Trouble Windsor 33 Nobility A. Cary 169 "Not Understood" 136 November A. Cary 173   O Captain! My Captain Whitman 7 October's Bright Blue Weather Jackson 144 Old Clock on the Stairs, The Longfellow 17 Old

Ironsides Holmes 61 Old Red Cradle, The Grannies 39 O Little Town of Bethlehem Brooks 168 On His Blindness Milton 172 On the Shores of Tennessee Beers 93 Opportunity Ingalls 175 Opportunity Malone 175 Order for a Picture, An A. Cary 41 Our Folks Beers 107 Out in the Fields E.B. Browning 73 Over the Hill to the Poorhouse Carleton 131 Overworked Elocutionist, The 9 Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The Lear 170 Owl Critic, The Fields 64   Paul Revere's Ride Longfellow 193 Penny Ye Mean to Gie, The 34 Perfect Day, A Bond 80 Pippa's Song R. Browning 185 Plain Bob and a Job Foley 44 Planting of the Apple-Tree Bryant 164 Poet's Prophecy, A Tennyson 7 Polonius' Advice to Laertes Shakespeare 177 Poorhouse Nan Blinn 116 Psalm of Life, A Longfellow 61   Quality of Mercy, The Shakespeare 181   Raggedy Man, The Riley 203 Recessional, The Kipling 86 Ride of Jennie M'Neal, The Carleton 111 Riding on the Rail Saxe 62

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Rivers of France, The 46 Robert of Lincoln Bryant 189 Robert Reese (The Overworked Elocutionist)      9 Rock Me to Sleep Allen 102   Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Clough 39 Second Table Waterman 52 Seein' Things Field 203 Seven Times One Ingelow 46 Seven Times Two Ingelow 47 Seven Times Three Ingelow 47 Seven Times Four Ingelow 48 Sheridan's Ride Read 167 She Walks in Beauty Byron 180 Sister and I 207 Sister's Best Feller Lincoln 84 Sleep, Baby, Sleep Elizabeth Prentiss 69 Smack in School, The Palmer 128 Somebody's Mother Brine 136 Song of Our Flag, A Nesbit 89 Song of the Camp, The B. Taylor 180 Song of the Sea Cornwall 23 Song of the Shirt Hood 157 Song: The Owl Tennyson 174 So Was I Smiley 36 Suppose P. Cary 178 Sweet and Low Tennyson 175   Tapestry Weavers, The Chester 85 Teacher's Dream, The Venable 140 Telling the Bees Whittier 135 Thanatopsis Bryant 196

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@18909@[email protected]#Thanksgiving-Day" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Thanksgiving-Day Child 178 There's But One Pair of Stockings 27 To a Butterfly Wordsworth 179 To a Skylark Shelley 160 To a Waterfowl Bryant 137 To-day Carlyle 191 To-day Waterman 35 To the Fringed Gentian Bryant 179 Tree, The Bjornson 186 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star J. Taylor 185 Two Glasses, The Wilcox 15   Village Blacksmith, The Longfellow 97 Visit from St. Nicholas, A Moore 54   Walrus and the Carpenter, The Carroll 138 We Are Seven Wordsworth 19 What I Live For Banks 114 What is Good O'Reilly 34 When the Cows Come Home Mitchell 90 When the Minister Comes to Tea Lincoln 89 When the Teacher Gets Cross 86 Where the West Begins Chapman 85 Whistling in Heaven 67 White-Footed Deer, The Bryant 94 Who Won the War? Pulsifer 43 Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud! Knox 118 Wild White Rose, The Willis 66 Wind and the Moon, The Macdonald 191 Wind, The Rossetti 170 Wishing Allingham 190

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@18909@[email protected]#A_Womans_Question" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Woman's Question, A Lathrop 129 Wonderful World, The Rands 174 Woodman, Spare That Tree Morris 70   You and You Wharton 97 Young Man Waited, The Cooke 28 Your Mission Gates 55

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PREFACE

Seldom does a book of poems appear that is definitely a response to demand and a reflection of readers' preferences. Of this collection that can properly be claimed. For a decade Normal instructor-primary plans has carried monthly a page entitled "Poems Our Readers Have Asked For." The interest in this page has been, and is, phenomenal. Occasionally space considerations or copyright restrictions have prevented compliance with requests, but so far as practicable poems asked for have been printed. Because it has become impossible to furnish many of the earlier issues of the magazine, the publishers decided to select the poems most often requested and, carefully revising these for possible errors, to include them in the present collection. In some cases the desired poems are old favorite dramatic recitations, but many of them are poems that are required or recommended for memorizing in state courses of study. This latter feature will of itself make the book extremely valuable to teachers throughout the country. We are glad to offer here certain poems, often requested, but too long for insertion on our magazine Poetry Page. We are pleased also to be able to include a number of popular copyright poems. Special permission to use these has been granted through arrangement with the authorized publishers, whose courtesy is acknowledged below in detail:

The Bobbs-Merrill Company—The Raggedy Man, from "The Biographical Edition of the Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley," copyright 1918.

Charles Scribner's Sons—Seein' Things and Little Boy Blue, by Eugene Field; Gradatim and Give Us Men, from "The Poetical Works of J.G. Holland"; and You and You, by Edith Wharton, copyright 1919.

Harper and Brothers—Over the Hill to the Poor-House, The Ride of Jennie M'Neal, The Little Black-Eyed Rebel, and The First Settler's Story, by Will Carleton.

The Dodge Publishing Company—The Moo Cow Moo and The Young Man Waited, by Edmund Vance Cooke.

Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company—The House by the Side of the Road and The Calf Path, by Sam Walter Foss.

Little, Brown and Company—October's Bright Blue Weather, by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Houghton Mifflin Company—Poems by John G. Whittier, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, James T. Fields, and Lucy Larcom.

THE PUBLISHERS.

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