| INTRODUCTION |
| ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN |
| Rock Me to Sleep |
| MATTHEW ARNOLD |
| Dover Beach |
| WILLIAM BLAKE |
| The Tyger |
| FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON |
| The Night Has a Thousand Eyes |
| ROBERT BROWNING |
| Pippa's Song |
| Meeting at Night |
| WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |
| Thanatopsis |
| GELETT BURGESS |
| The Purple Cow |
| ROBERT BURNS |
| To a Mouse |
| Is There for Honest Poverty' |
| "GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON" |
| She Walks in beauty |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib |
| BLISS CARMAN |
| A Vagabond Song |
| LEWIS CARROLL |
| Jabberwocky |
| ARTHUR CHAPMAN |
| Out Where the West Begins |
| SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
| Kubla Khan |
| STEPHEN CRANE |
| A Man Said to the Universe' |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
| I Never Saw a Moor' |
| If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking' |
| There Is No Frigate Like a Book' |
| Because I Could Not Stop for Death' |
| JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE |
| The American Flag |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| Concord Hymn |
| EUGENE FIELD |
| Little Boy Blue |
| "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" |
| The Duel |
| SAM WALTER FOSS |
| The House by the Side of the Road |
| ROBERT FROST |
| Mending Wall |
| Fire and Ice |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
| THOMAS GRAY |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| EDGAR GUEST |
| Home |
| It Couldn't Be Done |
| SARAH JOSEPHA HALE |
| Mary's Lamb |
| FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
| Casabianca |
| The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers |
| WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY |
| Invictus |
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
| Old Ironsides |
| The Last Leaf |
| The Deacon's Masterpiece |
| THOMAS HOOD |
| The Song of the Shirt |
| The Bridge of Sighs |
| RICHARD HOVEY |
| Th Sea Gypsy |
| JULIA WARD HOWE |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| LEIGH HUNT |
| Abou Ben Adhem |
| Jenny Kiss'd Me |
| JOHN KEATS |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer |
| La Belle Dame sans Merci |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Ode to a Nightingale |
| JOYCE KILMER |
| Trees |
| RUDYARD KIPLING |
| Recessional |
| Mandalay |
| Danny D |
| If- |
| Tommy |
| Boots |
| Gunga Din |
| L'Envoi ('When Earth's last picture is painted') |
| EDWARD LEAR |
| The Owl and the Pussy-Cat |
| HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |
| The Day Is Done |
| A Psalm of Life |
| Paul Revere's Ride |
| The Village Blacksmith |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus |
| The Arrow and the Song |
| The Children's Hour |
| Excelsior |
| There Was a Little Girl |
| JOHN MCCRAE |
| In Flanders Fields |
| EDWIN MARKHAM |
| The Man with the Hoe |
| JOHN MASEFIELD |
| Sea Fever |
| Cargoes |
| HUGHES MEARNS |
| Antigonish |
| EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
| Renascence |
| Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare' |
| First Fig |
| JOAQUIN MILLER |
| Columbus |
| CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE |
| A Visit from St. Nicholas |
| GEORGE POPE MORRIS |
| "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" |
| ALFRED NOYES |
| The Highwayman |
| The Barrel-Organ |
| JOHN HOWARD PAYNE |
| "Home, Sweet Home" |
| EDGAR ALLAN POE |
| The Raven |
| Annabel Lee |
| To Helen |
| The Bells |
| ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER |
| The Lost Chord |
| JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
| The Old Swimmin'-Hole |
| An Old Sweetheart of Mine |
| Little Orphant Annie |
| When the Frost Is on the Punkin |
| CARL SANDBURG |
| Chicago |
| Fog |
| JOHN GODFREY SAXE |
| The Blind Men and the Elephant |
| ALAN SEEGER |
| I Have a Rendezvous with Death |
| ROBERT SERVICE |
| The Shooting of Dan McGrew |
| The Cremation of Sam McGee |
| PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
| To a Skylark |
| Ozymandias |
| LANGDON SMITH |
| Evolution |
| ROBERT SOUTHEY |
| The Battle of Blenheim |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
| Requiem |
| Bed in Summer |
| Happy Thought |
| JANE TAYLOR |
| The Star |
| "ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON" |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Crossing the Bar |
| "Break, Break, Break'" |
| Flower in the Crannied Wall' |
| ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER |
| Casey at the Bat |
| ROSE HARTWICK THORPE |
| Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight |
| WALT WHITMAN |
| Oh Captain! My Captain! |
| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
| JOHN GREENLEAF WHI |
| The Barefoot Boy |
| Maud Muller |
| ELLA WHEELER WILCOX |
| Solitude |
| The Winds of Fate |
| SAMUEL WOODWORTH |
| The Old Oaken Bucket |
| WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' |
| "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sep. 3, 1802" |
| The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon' |
| "It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free'" |
| Alphabetical List of Titles |
| Alphabetical List of First Lines |