The Best Loved Poems of the American PeopleHazel Felleman Garden City publishing Company, 1936 - 670 pages These are the best loved poems of the American people -- poems that have delighted generations and entertained millions, whether recited in classrooms or enjoyed quietly at home by the fire. Included in the over 575 perennial works are all-time favorites. |
Contents
Sonnet from the Portuguese | 3 |
Believe Me if All Those Endearing | 10 |
All Paths Lead to | 16 |
To a Friend | 17 |
John Bennett | 27 |
We Have Lived and Loved Together | 34 |
You Kissed | 44 |
And Then No More | 50 |
When Wilt Thou Save the People? Ebenezer Elliott | 349 |
The Aloe Plant Dr Henry Harbaugh | 355 |
UpHill Christina Georgina Ros | 359 |
Envoy to the Toiling of Felix Henry Van Dyke | 365 |
My Mother Jane Taylor | 371 |
My Mothers Garden Alice E Allen | 377 |
The Old Oaken Bucket Samuel Woodworth | 385 |
Tragedy Jill Spargur | 390 |
Love | 56 |
Priscilla Leonard | 71 |
Hold Fast Your Dreams Louise Driscoll | 84 |
Try Smiling Unknown | 97 |
Its Fine Today Douglas Malloch | 99 |
The House by the Side of the Road Sam Walter Foss | 105 |
Last Lines Emily Brontë | 111 |
Born Without a Chance Edmund Vance Cooke | 118 |
My Patch of Blue Mary Newland Carson | 124 |
The Human Touch Spencer Michael Free | 130 |
Beauty as a Shield Elsie Robinson | 136 |
Whatever IsIs Best Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 143 |
The Face upon the Floor H Antoine DArcy | 149 |
Mary Queen of Scots Henry Glassford Bell | 155 |
Christmas Day in the Workhouse George R Sims | 163 |
How He Saved St Michaels Mary A P Stansbury | 169 |
Ostler Joe George R Sims | 176 |
Down and Out Clarence Leonard Hay | 182 |
Even This Shall Pass Away Theodore Tilton | 188 |
The Ship That Never Returned Henry Clay Work | 194 |
The High Tide at Gettysburg Will Henry Thompson | 200 |
The Vagabonds John Townsend Trow | 206 |
Evolution Langdon Smith | 214 |
The Legend of the OrganBuilder Julia C R Dorr | 220 |
Guilty or Not Guilty? Unknown | 226 |
Lord Lovel Unknown | 232 |
The Mills of the Gods Unknown | 238 |
The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell | 244 |
The Mornins Mornin Gerald Brennan | 250 |
The Sailors Grave Eliza Cook | 256 |
Somebodys Darling Marie Ravenal de | 263 |
The Enchanted Shirt John Hay | 269 |
Kentucky Belle Constance Fenimore | 277 |
Caseys Revenge James Wilson | 284 |
Grandfathers Clock Henry Clay Work | 289 |
Recessional Rudyard Kipling | 295 |
Be Strong Maltbie Davenport | 302 |
The Watered Lilies Unknown | 308 |
There Is No Death Unknown | 314 |
The Hidden Line Dr J Addison Alex | 320 |
Death Unknown | 323 |
Hallowed Ground Thomas Campbell | 331 |
No Sects in Heaven Elizabeth H Jocelyn | 337 |
The Water Mill Sarah Doudney | 343 |
Which Shall It Be? Ethel Lynn Beers | 396 |
Remember I Remember Thomas Hood | 402 |
You Come From? George Macdonald | 409 |
We Are Seven William Wordsworth | 416 |
America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates | 422 |
The Unknown Soldier Billy Rose | 428 |
Americas Answer R W Lilliard | 431 |
Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Norton | 438 |
Ye Mariners of England Thomas Campbell | 444 |
Dried Apple Pies Unknown | 455 |
A Parody on A Psalm of Life Attributed to Oliver | 461 |
The Preachers Vacation Unknown | 468 |
How Paddy Stole the Rope Unknown | 474 |
Judged by the Company One Keeps Unknown | 480 |
The Optimist Unknown | 486 |
The Birds Ball C W Bardeen | 492 |
To My Nose Alfred A Forrester | 498 |
My Dads Dinner Pail Edward Harrigan | 505 |
The Worried Skipper Wallace Irwin | 506 |
38 | 508 |
Fin de Siècle Edmund Vance Cooke | 512 |
De Fust Banjo Irwin Russell | 520 |
Sleepin at the Foot o the Bed Luther Patrick | 526 |
Bachelor Hall Eugene Field | 532 |
Lucy William Wordsworth | 538 |
The Closed Door Theodosia Garrison | 544 |
Fare Thee Well Lord Byron | 550 |
A Cry from the Canadian Hills Lillian Leveridge | 556 |
Far from the Madding Crowd Nixon Waterman | 563 |
To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train Frances Cornford | 569 |
To My Setter Scout Frank H Seldon | 577 |
The Curate Thinks You Have No Soul St John Lucas | 578 |
Bum W Dayton Wedgefarth | 584 |
Am the Cat Leila Usher | 591 |
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling | 598 |
Dover Beach Matthew Arnold | 604 |
Echoes William Ernest Henley | 610 |
Lifes a Game Unknown | 616 |
Money and a Friend Unknown | 623 |
Duty Ellen S Hooper | 629 |
Saw Three Ships Unknown | 635 |
Horse Sense Unknown | 648 |
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