Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two

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"Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two" is a collection of poems that readers of the teacher's magazine, "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" had requested its publishers to include in the magazine. Some of the titles included are: "The African Chief", "The Ballad of East and West", "April Showers", "The Battle of Bunkers Hill" and "The Eve of Waterloo". Book Two is a sequel to the first collection following its huge popularity amongst its readership…

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Nov 21, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547415077

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Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two

EAN 8596547415077

DigiCat, 2022

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PREFACE

POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR

BOOK TWO

Home

The House with Nobody In It

Color in the Wheat

The Broken Pinion

Jamie Douglas

The Ensign Bearer

The Real Riches

The Polish Boy

The Height of the Ridiculous

Excelsior

The Bivouac of the Dead

Children

The Eve of Waterloo

The Land Where Hate Should Die

Trouble In the Amen Corner

Duty

The Last Leaf

Old Flag Forever

The Death of the Flowers

The Heritage

The Ballad of East and West

Annabel Lee

April Showers

The Voice of Spring

The Boys

The Rainy Day

Let Me Walk With the Men in the Road

If We Understood

A Laugh in Church

One, Two, Three!

Unawares

The Land of Beginning Again

Poor Little Joe

The Ladder of St. Augustine

Loss and Gain

John Thompson's Daughter

Grandfather's Clock

A Cradle Hymn

If All the Skies

The Petrified Fern

Cleon and I

Washington

Towser Shall Be Tied To-Night

Law and Liberty

His Mother's Song

When Father Carves the Duck

Papa's Letter

Who Stole the Bird's Nest?

Over the Hill from the Poor-House

'Specially Jim

O'Grady's Goat

The Burial of Moses

Nobody's Child

A Christmas Long Ago

Nearer Home

The Minuet

The Vagabonds

The Isle of Long Ago

The Dying Newsboy

Break, Break, Break

Don't Kill the Birds

Bill's in the Legislature

The Bridge Builder

Song of Marion's Men

The Minstrel-Boy

Our Homestead

The Ballad of the Tempest

Santa Filomena

The Knight's Toast

The Old Man Dreams

Washington's Birthday

April! April! Are You Here?

A Laughing Chorus

The Courtin'

An Old Man's Dreams

God's Message to Men

The Sandman

Ring Out, Wild Bells

The Wishing Bridge

The Things Divine

Mothers of Men

Echo

Life, I Know Not What Thou Art

Autumn Leaves

A Message for the Year

Song of the Chattahoochee

Courting in Kentucky

God's Will is Best

The School-Master's Guests

Mother o' Mine

Encouragement

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls

Aux Italiens

My Prairies

Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead

September

The Old Kitchen Floor

Rustic Courtship

The Red Jacket

John Maynard

Piller Fights

Little Bateese

Conscience and Future Judgment

Dandelion

The Inventor's Wife

Out in the Snow

Give Them the Flowers Now

The Lost Occasion

The Flower of Liberty

The Lamb

The Roll Call

A Prayer for a Little Home

I Have Drank My Last Glass

Highland Mary

A Night with a Wolf

She Was a Phantom of Delight

The Rhodora

There Was a Boy

The Quangle Wangle's Hat

The Singing Leaves

Awakening

Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness

The Newsboy

Parting of Marmion and Douglas

The Engineer's Story

Small Beginnings

Rain on the Roof

Gunga Din

Warren's Address to the American Soldiers

Mad River

When Papa Was a Boy

Which Shall It Be?

The Battle of Bunker's Hill

Health and Wealth

The Heartening

Billy's Rose

The Old Actor's Story

The Boy Who Didn't Pass

The Station-Master's Story

Hark, Hark! the Lark

Tommy's Prayer

The Two Pictures

The Two Kinds of People

The Sin of Omission

The Bible My Mother Gave Me

Lincoln, the Man of the People

Our Own

How Salvator Won

I Got to Go to School

With Little Boy Blue

The Charge of Pickett's Brigade

Hullo

The Women of Mumbles Head

The Fireman's Story

Little Willie's Hearing

The Service Flag

Flying Jim's Last Leap

Betty and the Bear

The Graves of a Household

The Babie

A Legend of the Northland

How Did You Die?

The Children

The King and the Child

Try, Try Again

Indian Names

More Cruel Than War

Columbus

The September Gale

When My Ship Comes In

Solitude

Sin of the Coppenter Man

The Bells of Ostend

You Put No Flowers on My Papa's Grave

The Two Little Stockings

I Have a Rendezvous with Death

Let Us Be Kind

The Water Mill

Why the Dog's Nose Is Always Cold

The African Chief

He Who Has Vision

The Children We Keep

The Stranger on the Sill

The Old Man In the Model Church

The Volunteer Organist

The Finding of the Lyre

The High Tide (1571)

September Days

The New Year

An If For Girls

Boy and Girl of Plymouth

Work: A Song of Triumph

Reply to A Woman's Question

The Romance of Nick Van Stann

Armageddon

Picciola

The King's Ring

Leaving the Homestead

Bernardo Del Carpio

Mizpah

God

Casabianca

Monterey

The Teacher's If

The Good Shepherd

A Sermon in Rhyme

The Fortunate Isles

What the Choir Sang About the New Bonnet

Work Thou for Pleasure

The Tin Gee Gee

Tommy

The Mystic Weaver

The Mortgage on the Farm

The Legend Beautiful

Somebody's Darling

The Pride of Battery B

The Wood-Box

Inasmuch

No Sects in Heaven

The Railroad Crossing

The Sunset City

Autumn

Grandmother's Quilt

The Two Angels

The Witch's Daughter

David's Lament for Absalom

Christmas Day in the Workhouse

Our Presidents—A Memory Rhyme

Annie and Willie's Prayer

Trailing Arbutus

When the Light Goes Out

Prayer and Potatoes

The Parts of Speech

A New Leaf

The Boy With the Hoe

Our Flag

The Little Fir-Trees

He Worried About It

The President

Lullaby

Chums

Jim Brady's Big Brother

The Gray Swan

The Circling Year

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

(An Index of First Lines is given on pages 209-213)

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In homely phrase, this is a sort of second helping of a dish that has pleased the taste of thousands. Our first collection of Poems Teachers Ask For was the response to a demand for such a book, and this present volume is the response to a demand for more. In Book One it was impracticable to use all of the many poems entitled to inclusion on the basis of their being desired. We are constantly in receipt of requests that certain selections be printed in NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS on the page Poems Our Readers Have Asked For. More than two hundred of these were chosen for Book One, and more than two hundred others, as much desired as those in the earlier volume, are included in Book Two.

Because of copyright restrictions, we often have been unable to present, in magazine form, verse of large popular appeal. By special arrangement, a number of such poems were included in Book One of Poems Teachers Ask For, and many more are given in the pages that follow. Acknowledgment is made below to publishers and authors for courteous permission to reprint in this volume material which they control:

THE CENTURY COMPANY—The Minuet, from Poems and Verses, by Mary Mapes Dodge.

W.B. CONKEY COMPANY—Solitude, from Poems of Passion, and How Salvator Won, from Kingdom of Love, both by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY—How Did You Die? from Impertinent Poems, and The Sin of the Coppenter Man, from I Rule the House, both by Edmund Vance Cooke.

HAMLIN GARLAND—My Prairies and Color in the Wheat.

ISABEL AMBLER GILMAN—The Sunset City.

HARPER & BROTHERS—Over the Hill from the Poor-House and The School-Master's Guests, from Farm Legends, by Will Carleton.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY—The Sandman, by Margaret Vandegrift; The Sin of Omission and Our Own, by Margaret E. Sangster; The Ballad of the Tempest, by James T. Fields; also the poems by Henry W. Longfellow, John G. Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and J.T. Trowbridge, of whose works they are the authorized publishers.

CHARLES H.L. JOHNSTON—The President.

RUDYARD KIPLING and DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY (A.P. WATT & SON, London, England)—Mother o' Mine.

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY—Hullo and The Volunteer Organist, both from Back Country Poems, by Sam Walter Foss, and He Worried About It, from Whiffs from Wild Meadows, by Sam Walter Foss.

EDWIN MARKHAM—Lincoln, the Man of the People.

REILLY & LEE CO.—Home, from A Heap o' Livin', by Edgar A. Guest.

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY—Our Flag, by Margaret E. Sangster.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS—I Have a Rendezvous with Death, by Alan Seeger; Song of the Chattahoochee, by Sidney Lanier; If All the Skies, by Henry van Dyke.

HARR WAGNER PUBLISHING COMPANY—Mothers of Men and The Fortunate Isles, by Joaquin Miller.

THE PUBLISHERS.

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POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR

BOOK TWO

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Home

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The House with Nobody In It

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Color in the Wheat

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The Broken Pinion

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Jamie Douglas

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The Ensign Bearer

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The Real Riches

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The Polish Boy

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