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

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664184511

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Poems Teachers Ask For

Selected by readers of Normal Instructor-Primary Plans

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4057664184511

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PREFACE

O Captain! My Captain!

A Poet's Prophecy

The Landing of the Pilgrims

Bobby Shaftoe

The Overworked Elocutionist

The Kid Has Gone to the Colors

Kentucky Belle

An Inventor's Wife

The Two Glasses

Abraham Lincoln

The Old Clock on the Stairs

Christ in Flanders

We Are Seven

Echo

Engineers Making Love

Guilty or Not Guilty

The Baby

Song of the Sea

Diffidence

Curfew Must Not Ring To-night

Kate Shelly

There's But One Pair of Stockings to Mend To-Night

The Young Man Waited

Invictus

Katie Lee and Willie Grey

Abou Ben Adhem

In School-Days

Mother's Fool

Kentucky Philosophy

Give Us Men

Never Trouble Trouble

What is Good

The Penny Ye Mean to Gie

Leedle Yawcob Strauss

To-day

So Was I

Is It Worth While?

Life's Mirror

The Little Black-Eyed Rebel

A Day Well Spent

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

The Miller of the Dee

The Old Red Cradle

The Moo Cow Moo

All Things Bright and Beautiful

An Order for a Picture

Who Won the War?

Mothers of Men

Plain Bob and a Job

Aunt Tabitha

The Flag Goes By

The Rivers of France

Seven Times One

Seven Times Two

Seven Times Three

Seven Times Four

Autumn Woods

The Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge

If—

Second Table

The Children

A Visit from St. Nicholas

Your Mission

The House by the Side of the Road

Asleep at the Switch

Each in His Own Tongue

How Cyrus Laid the Cable

Jane Jones

The Leap of Roushan Beg

Old Ironsides

A Psalm of Life

Johnny's Hist'ry Lesson

Riding on the Rail

The Building of the Ship

The Dead Pussy Cat

The Owl Critic

At School-Close

The Wild White Rose

L'Envoi

Whistling in Heaven

Sleep, Baby, Sleep

The Lost Chord

The Children's Hour

Woodman, Spare That Tree!

Little Brown Hands

Barbara Frietchie

I Want to Go to Morrow

Out in the Fields

The Bluebird's Song

The Main Truck, or a Leap for Life

The Arrow and the Song

The Green Mountain Justice

Jane Conquest

Nathan Hale

The Lips That Touch Liquor Must Never Touch Mine

A Perfect Day

Kate Ketchem

Mandalay

Columbus

Sister's Best Feller

Where the West Begins

The Tapestry Weavers

When the Teacher Gets Cross

Recessional

The Eternal Goodness

Driving Home the Cows

A Song of Our Flag

When the Minister Comes to Tea

When the Cows Come Home

Custer's Last Charge

A Boy and His Stomach

On the Shores of Tennessee

The White-Footed Deer

Mount Vernon's Bells

Gradatim

Mr. Finney's Turnip

The Village Blacksmith

You and You

The First Snow-fall

The Concord Hymn

Casey at the Bat

Casey's Revenge

Rock Me to Sleep

An Answer to Rock Me to Sleep

Bay Billy

The Legend of the Organ-Builder

Our Folks

The Face upon the Floor

The Calf Path

The Ride of Jennie M'Neal

The Hand That Rules the World

What I Live For

My Love Ship

The Man With the Hoe

Poorhouse Nan

Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud!

How He Saved St. Michael's

Bingen on the Rhine

College Oil Cans

God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop

The Last Hymn

A Fence or an Ambulance

The Smack in School

A Woman's Question

Lasca

Over the Hill to the Poor-House

The American Flag

Golden Keys

The Four-leaf Clover

Telling the Bees

Not Understood

Somebody's Mother

To a Waterfowl

My Mother

The Walrus and the Carpenter

The Teacher's Dream

A Legend of Bregenz

Better Than Gold

October's Bright Blue Weather

Brier-Rose

King Robert of Sicily

The Huskers

Darius Green and His Flying Machine

Song of the Shirt

Christmas Everywhere

The Cloud

To a Skylark

The Brook

June

The Planting of the Apple-Tree

Character of the Happy Warrior

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Sheridan's Ride

O Little Town of Bethlehem

The Chambered Nautilus

Nobility

The Wind

The Owl and The Pussy-Cat

The Frost

The Corn Song

On His Blindness

A Boy's Song

November

Little Birdie

The Fairies

The Wonderful World

Be Strong

Song: The Owl

Opportunity

Opportunity

Sweet and Low

The Barefoot Boy

Polonius' Advice to Laertes

A Fable

Suppose

I Like Little Pussy

Thanksgiving-Day

Daffodils

To a Butterfly

To The Fringed Gentian

The Song of the Camp

She Walks in Beauty

The Builders

The Brown Thrush

The Quality of Mercy

Don't Give Up

Incident of the French Camp

The Bugle Song

A Child's Thought of God

The Blue and The Gray

Good Night and Good Morning

Lady Moon

Breathes There the Man With Soul So Dead?

Pippa's Song

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Crossing the Bar

The Tree

The Fountain

The Leak in the Dike

Robert of Lincoln

Wishing

The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna

How Many Seconds in a Minute?

To-day

The Wind and the Moon

The Little Plant

Paul Revere's Ride

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields: An Answer

Little Boy Blue

Thanatopsis

The First Settler's Story

Seein' Things

The Raggedy Man

Maud Muller

Sister and I

PREFACE

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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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POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR

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O Captain! My Captain!

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

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A Poet's Prophecy

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The Landing of the Pilgrims

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Bobby Shaftoe

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The Overworked Elocutionist

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(Or ROBERT REESE)

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The Kid Has Gone to the Colors

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Kentucky Belle

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An Inventor's Wife

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