Poems Teachers Ask For - Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems Teachers Ask For, by Various

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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"

INDEX

Abou Ben Adhem Abraham Lincoln All Things Bright and Beautiful American Flag, The Answer to "Rock Me to Sleep" Arrow and the Song, The Asleep at the Switch At School-Close

Hunt T. Taylor Alexander Drake

Longfellow Hoey Whittier

30 16 41 133 103 74 56 65

Aunt Tabitha Autumn Woods Baby, The Barbara Frietchie Barefoot Boy, The Bay Billy Be Strong Better Than Gold Bingen on the Rhine Blue and the Gray, The Bluebird's Song, The Bobby Shaftoe Boy and His Stomach, A Boy's Song, A "Breathes There the Man" Brier-Rose Brook, The Brown Thrush, The Bugle Song, The Builders, The Building of the Ship, The Burial of Sir John Moore, The Calf Path, The Casey at the Bat Casey's Revenge Chambered Nautilus, The Character of the Happy Warrior Charge of the Light Brigade, The Children's Hour, The Children, The Child's Thought of God, A Christ in Flanders Christmas Everywhere Cloud, The College Oil Cans Columbus Concord Hymn, The Corn Song, The Crossing the Bar Curfew Must Not Ring To-night Custer's Last Charge Daffodils Darius Green and His Flying Machine

Bryant

Macdonald Whittier Whittier Gassaway Babcock Smart Norton Finch E.H. Miller

Hogg Scott Boyesen Tennyson Larcom Tennyson Longfellow Longfellow Wolfe

Foss Thayer Wilson Holmes Wordsworth Tennyson Longfellow Dickinson E.B. Browning

Brooks Shelley McGuire Joaquin Miller Emerson Whittier Tennyson Thorpe Whittaker

Wordsworth Trowbridge

45 48

22 71 176 104 174 143 121 183 73 8 93 172 185 144 162 181 183 181 63 190

110 100 101 169 165 166 70 53 183 18 158 159 122 83 99 171 186 24 91

179 153

Day Well Spent, A Dead Pussy Cat, The Diffidence Don't Give Up Driving Home the Cows Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge Each in His Own Tongue Echo Engineers Making Love Eternal Goodness, The Fable, A Face Upon the Floor, The Fairies, The Fence or an Ambulance, A First Settler's Story, The First Snow-fall, The Flag Goes By, The Fountain, The Four-leaf Clover, The Frost, The Give Us Men God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop Golden Keys Good Night and Good Morning Gradatim Green Mountain Justice, The Guilty or Not Guilty Hand That Rules the World, The House by the Side of the Road, The How Cyrus Laid the Cable How He Saved St. Michael's Huskers, The If— I Like Little Pussy Incident of the French Camp In Flanders Fields In Flanders Fields: An Answer In School-Days Inventor's Wife, An Invictus Is It Worth While?

Short

P. Cary Osgood

Carruth Saxe Burdette Whittier

Emerson D'Arcy Allingham Malins Carleton Lowell Bennett Lowell Higginson Gould

Holland Southey

Houghton Holland Reeves

Wallace Foss Saxe Stansbury Whittier

Kipling J. Taylor R. Browning McCrae Galbreath Whittier Ewing Henley Joachim Miller

38 64 23 182 88 49

58 20 21 87

177 108 173 127 197 99 45 186 134 171

33 124 134 184 96 74 22

113 56 58 119 152

51 178 182 195 195 31 13 29 36

I Want to Go to Morrow Jane Conquest Jane Jones Johnny's Hist'ry Lesson June Kate Ketchem Kate Shelly Katie Lee and Willie Grey Kentucky Belle Kentucky Philosophy Kid Has Gone to the Colors, The King Robert of Sicily Lady Moon Landing of the Pilgrims, The Lasca Last Hymn, The Leak in the Dike, The Leap for Life, A Leap of Roushan Beg, The Leedle Yawcob Strauss Legend of Bregenz, A Legend of the Organ-Builder, The L'Envoi Life's Mirror Lips That Touch Liquor, The Little Birdie Little Black-Eyed Rebel, The Little Boy Blue Little Brown Hands Little Plant, The Lost Chord, The Love of Country ("Breathes There the Man") Main Truck, The Mandalay Man With the Hoe, The Maud Muller Miller of the Dee, The Moo Cow Moo, The Mother's Fool Mothers of Men Mount Vernon's Bells Mr. Finney's Turnip

Milne King Waterman Lowell

P. Cary Hall

Woolson Robertson Herschell Longfellow

Houghton Hemans Desprez Faringham P. Cary Morris Longfellow Adams Procter Dorr Kipling Bridges Young Tennyson Carleton Field Krout Brown Procter Scott

Morris Kipling Markham Whittier Mackay Cooke

Joaquin Miller Slade

72

76 59 62 163

81 25 30 10 32 9 147

185 8 129 126 187 74 60 35 141 106 67 37 79 173 37 195 71 192 69 185

74> 82 115 205 39 40 31 43 95 96

My Love Ship My Mother Nathan Hale Never Trouble Trouble Nobility "Not Understood" November O Captain! My Captain October's Bright Blue Weather Old Clock on the Stairs, The Old Ironsides Old Red Cradle, The O Little Town of Bethlehem On His Blindness On the Shores of Tennessee Opportunity Opportunity Order for a Picture, An Our Folks Out in the Fields Over the Hill to the Poorhouse Overworked Elocutionist, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The Owl Critic, The Paul Revere's Ride Penny Ye Mean to Gie, The Perfect Day, A Pippa's Song Plain Bob and a Job Planting of the Apple-Tree Poet's Prophecy, A Polonius' Advice to Laertes Poorhouse Nan Psalm of Life, A Quality of Mercy, The Raggedy Man, The Recessional, The Ride of Jennie M'Neal, The Riding on the Rail Rivers of France, The Robert of Lincoln

Wilcox

Finch Windsor A. Cary

A. Cary

Whitman Jackson Longfellow Holmes Grannies Brooks Milton Beers Ingalls Malone A. Cary Beers E.B. Browning Carleton

Lear Fields

Longfellow

Bond R. Browning Foley Bryant Tennyson Shakespeare Blinn Longfellow

Shakespeare

Riley Kipling Carleton Saxe

Bryant

114 138

78 33 169 136 173

7 144 17 61 39 168 172 93 175 175 41 107 73 131 9 170 64

193 34 80 185 44 164 7 177 116 61

181

203 86 111 62 46 189

Robert Reese (The Overworked Elocutionist) Allen Clough Waterman Field Ingelow Ingelow Ingelow Ingelow Read Byron Lincoln

Rock Me to Sleep Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Second Table Seein' Things Seven Times One Seven Times Two Seven Times Three Seven Times Four Sheridan's Ride She Walks in Beauty Sister and I Sister's Best Feller Sleep, Baby, Sleep Smack in School, The Somebody's Mother Song of Our Flag, A Song of the Camp, The Song of the Sea Song of the Shirt Song: The Owl So Was I Suppose Sweet and Low Tapestry Weavers, The Teacher's Dream, The Telling the Bees Thanatopsis Thanksgiving-Day There's But One Pair of Stockings To a Butterfly To a Skylark To a Waterfowl To-day To-day To the Fringed Gentian Tree, The Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Two Glasses, The Village Blacksmith, The Visit from St. Nicholas, A Walrus and the Carpenter, The

9 102 39 52 203 46 47 47 48 167 180 207 84 Elizabeth Prentiss69 128 136 89 180 23 157 174 36 178 175 85 140 135 196 178 27 179 160 137 191 35 179 186 185 15 97 54 138

Palmer Brine Nesbit B. Taylor Cornwall Hood Tennyson Smiley P. Cary Tennyson Chester Venable Whittier Bryant Child Wordsworth Shelley Bryant Carlyle Waterman Bryant Bjornson J. Taylor Wilcox Longfellow Moore Carroll

We Are Seven What I Live For What is Good When the Cows Come Home When the Minister Comes to Tea When the Teacher Gets Cross Where the West Begins Whistling in Heaven White-Footed Deer, The Who Won the War? Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud! Wild White Rose, The Wind and the Moon, The Wind, The Wishing Woman's Question, A Wonderful World, The Woodman, Spare That Tree You and You Young Man Waited, The Your Mission

PREFACE

Wordsworth Banks O'Reilly Mitchell Lincoln

Chapman

Bryant Pulsifer Knox Willis Macdonald Rossetti Allingham Lathrop Rands Morris

Wharton Cooke Gates

19 114 34 90 89 86 85 67 94 43 118 66 191 170 190 129 174 70

97 28 55

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 N O RMALINSTRUCTO R - PRIMARYPLANS  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 b ecome 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 extreme ly valuable to teachers throughout the country. We are glad to offer here c ertain poems, often requested, but too long for insertion on our magazi ne Poetry Page. We are pleased also to be able to include a number of popu lar copyright poems. Special permission to use these has been granted through arrangement with the authorized publishers, whose courtesy is acknowledged below in detail:

T HE  B O BBS -M ERRILL  C O MPANY —The Raggedy Man, from "The Biographical Edition of the Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley," copyright 1918.

C HARLES S CRIBNER ' S S O NS —Seein' ThingsandLittle Boy Blue, by Eugene Field; Gradatim andGive Us Men, from "The Poetical Works of J.G. Holland"; and You and You, by Edith Wharton, copyright 1919.

H ARPERAND  B RO THERS —Over the Hill to the Poor-House,The Ride of Jennie M'Neal,The Little Black-Eyed Rebel, andThe First Settler's Story, by Will Carleton.

T HE  D O DG E  P UBLISHING  C O MPANY —The Moo Cow Moo andThe Young Man Waited, by Edmund Vance Cooke.

L O THRO P , L EEAND S HEPARD C O MPANY —The House by the Side of the Road and The Calf Path, by Sam Walter Foss.

L ITTLE , B RO WNAND  C O MPANY Jackson.

—October's Bright Blue Weather, by Helen Hunt

H O UG HTO N  M IFFLIN  C O MPANY —Poems by John G. Whittier, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, James T. Fields, and Lucy Larcom.

THE PUBLISHERS.

POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR

O Captain! My Captain!

(This poem was written in memory of Abraham Lincoln.)

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But, O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen, cold and dead. O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead. MyCaptain does not answer, his lips arepale and still;

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse or will; The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult, O shores! and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen, cold and dead. Walt Whitman.

A Poet's Prophecy

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunderstorm; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. Tennyson, "Locksley Hall," 1842.

The Landing of the Pilgrims

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came,— Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come,

In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storms they sang; And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared— This was their welcome home! There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band: Why had they come to wither there Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?— They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground,— The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found— Freedom to worship God! Felicia Hemans.

Bobby Shaftoe

"Marie, will you marry me? For you know how I love thee! Tell me, darling, will you be The wife of Bobby Shaftoe?" "Bobby, pray don't ask me more, For you've asked me twice before; Let us be good friends, no more, No more, Bobby Shaftoe."

"If you will not marry me, I will go away to sea; And you ne'er again shall be A friend of Bobby Shaftoe." "Oh, you will not go away For you've said so twice to-day. Stop! He's gone! Dear Bobby, stay! Dearest Bobby Shaftoe! "Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, Silver buckles on his knee, But he'll come back and marry me, Pretty Bobby Shaftoe. "He will soon come back to me, And how happy I shall be, He'll come back and marry me, Dearest Bobby Shaftoe." "Bobby Shaftoe's lost at sea, He cannot come back to thee. And you ne'er again will see Your dear Bobby Shaftoe. "Oh, we sadly mourn for thee, And regret we ne'er shall see Our friend Bobby, true and free, Dearest Bobby Shaftoe." "Bobby Shaftoe's lost at sea. And can ne'er come back to me, But I'll ever faithful be, True to Bobby Shaftoe." "Darling, I've come home from sea, I've come back to marry thee, For I know you're true to me, True to Bobby Shaftoe." "Yes, I always cared for thee, And now you've come back to me, And we will always happy be, Dearest Bobby Shaftoe." "Bobby Shaftoe's come from sea, And we will united be, Heart and hand in unity, Mr. and Mrs. Shaftoe."