Poems You Ought to Know

CONTENTS

Addison, Joseph
The Spacious Firmament on High	58
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
An Untimely Thought	73
Nocturne	210
Allen, Elizabeth Akers
Rock Me to Sleep	30
Arnold, Matthew
Requiescat	90
Self Dependence	156
Song of Callicles	214
Barbauld, Mrs. A. L.
Life	161
Beatty, Pakenham
To Thine Own Self Be True	37
Begbie, Harold
Grounds of the “Terrible”	164
Blake, William
The Lamb	153
The Tiger	176
Boker, George H.
Dirge for a Soldier	53
Bourdillon, Francis William
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes	115
BrontË, Emily
Remembrance	42
Brown, Brownlee
Thalassa	140
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
The Cry of the Children	106
Browning, Robert
Misconceptions	184
The Year’s at the Spring	135
Bryant, William Cullen
Thanatopsis	112
To a Waterfowl	225
Bunyan, John
The Shepherd Boy’s Song	100
Burns, Robert
Banks o’ Doon	76
Highland Mary	152
John Anderson My Jo	185
Scots Wha Hae	182
Byron, Lord
Destruction of the Sennacherib	32
Maid of Athens	186
She Walks in Beauty	57
The Isles of Greece	232
Campion, Thomas
Cherry Ripe	36
Carey, Henry
Sally in Our Alley	68
Carlyle, Thomas
To-Day	179
Cary, Phoebe
Nearer Home	174
Chatterton, Thomas
Faith	144
Chaucer, Geoffrey
An Emperor’s Daughter Stands Alone	60
Clarke, Macdonald
In the Graveyard	166
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Kubla Khan	190
Cunningham, Allan
A Sea Song	134
David
Psalm XXIV	155
Psalm XLVIII	231
Psalm XLVI	44
Psalm XIX	74
Psalm LXXXIV	111
Psalm CXXI	119
Dickinson, Emily
The Grass	217
Dobson, Austin
A Lovers’ Quarrel	188
The Paradox of Time	208
The Pompadour’s Fan	75
In Quaque	188
Durivage, Francis A.
All	160
Eliot, George
Two Lovers	48
Finch, Francis Miles
Nathan Hale	212
Foss, Sam Walter
He’d Had No Show	93
Garnett, Richard
The Ballad of the Boat	172
Gillington, Mary C.
Intra Muros	21
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Mignon’s Song	110
Harte, Francis Bret
Flynn of Virginia	204
The Society upon the Stanislaus	210
Hawker, Robert Stephen
The Song of the Western Men	129
Hay, John
Jim Bludso	64
Little Breeches	202
Henley, W. E.
Invictus	131
Herbert, George
Virtue	34
Herrick, Robert
Counsel to Virgins	138
Delight in Disorder	62
Holland, Josiah Gilbert
Babyhood	40
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The Chambered Nautilus	87
The Last Leaf	84
Hood, Thomas
Her Moral from Miss Kilmanseg	95
Past and Present	123
Song of the Shirt	85
The Death-Bed	33
Hunt, Leigh
Abou Ben Adhem	107
Ingalls, John James
Opportunity	109
Jackson, Henry R.
My Wife and Child	220
jonson, Ben
To Celia	187
Keats, John
Ode on a Grecian Urn	97
Key, Francis Scott
The Star-Spangled Banner	120
Kingsley, Charles
The Three Fishers	230
Knox, William
O Why Should the Spirit of Mortal	228
Lamb, Charles
The Old Familiar Faces	18
Lanier, Sidney
Evening Song	54
Lever, Charles
The Widow Malone	218
Logan, John
To the Cuckoo	94
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Arsenal at Springfield	158
Serenade (“The Spanish Student”)	96
The Bridge	76
The Day Is Done	200
Lovelace, Richard
To Althea from Prison	98
To Lucasta on Going to the Wars	35
Lowe, John
Mary’s Dream	124
Lowell, James Russell
Jonathan to John	222
June	194
The Heritage	116
To the Dandelion	170
Lytle, William H.
Antony and Cleopatra	226
Mackay, Charles
A Deed and a Word	47
Mahony, Francis
The Bells of Shandon	196
McCreery, J. L.
There Is No Death	25
McPhelim, E. J.
Elia	70
Meynell, Alice
The Shepherdess	130
Milton, John
Song on a May Morning	163
Moore, Thomas
Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms	101
Oft in the Stilly Night	63
The Harp that Once	195
Though Lost to Sight	20
’Tis the Last Rose of Summer	132
Mulock, Dinah Maria
Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True	149
Neale, John M.
Jerusalem the Golden	183
Newman, John Henry
Lead Kindly Light	72
O’Connor, Joseph
The Fount of Castaly	142
Parsons, Thomas W.
On a Bust of Dante	126
Poe, Edgar A.
Annabel Lee	178
Pope, Alexander
Ode on Solitude	103
Read, Thomas Buchanan
Drifting	50
Realf, Richard
A Holy Nation	23
Ronsard, Pierre
The Rose	143
Rossetti, Christina
Uphill	148
Ryan, Abram
Song of the Mystic	81
Scott, Sir Walter
Bonny Dundee	167
Border Ballad	169
Breathes there the Man	104
Where Shall the Lover Rest	216
Shakespeare, William
One Touch of Nature	89
Portia’s Speech on Mercy	207
Ruthless Time	46
Song from “Cymbeline”	71
Time Hath, My Lord	46
To Be or Not to Be	224
Macbeth’s Soliloquy	200
When in Disgrace with Fortune	19
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Music when Soft Voices Die	133
An Indian Serenade	141
Sidney, Sir Philip
A Ditty	118
Sill, Edward Rowland
The Fool’s Prayer	28
Spalding, Susan Marr
Fate	22
Stevenson, Robert Louis
A Requiem	90
Suckling, Sir John
Ballad upon a Wedding	192
Why So Pale and Wan	139
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
A Match	137
Taylor, Bayard
Bedouin Song	67
The Song of the Camp	146
Tennyson, Lord
Break, Break, Break	24
Bugle Song	108
Crossing the Bar	193
Moral from “The Day Dream”	66
From “In Memoriam”	121
Tears, Idle Tears	151
Thackeray, William Makepeace
At the Church Gate	92
The Garret	198
Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor
For All These	45
Villon, FranÇois
Ballad—Dead Ladies	128
Waller, Edmund
Go, Lovely Rose	82
On a Girdle	199
White, Joseph Blanco
Night	79
Whitman, Walt
O Captain, My Captain	38
Warble for Lilac Time	206
Whittier, John G.
Indian Summer	181
The Waiting	136
Willard, Emma
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep	105
Wither, George
The Shepherd’s Resolution	80
Woodworth, Samuel
The Old Oaken Bucket	86
Wordsworth, William
The Daffodils	162
The World Is Too Much with Us	102
To Sleep	17

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