Includes indexes

Book I: LIFE IS REAL, LIFE IS EARNEST -- Solitude / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Gradatim / Josiah Gilbert Holland -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- Opportunity / John James Ingalls -- Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt -- It Couldn't Be Done / Edgar A. Guest -- The Builders / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Don't Give Up / Anonymous -- Better Than Gold / Abram Joseph Ryan -- My Creed / Howard Arnold Walter -- L'envoi / Rudyard Kipling -- I Shall Not Pass This Way Again / Eva Rose York -- Do It Now / Berton Braley -- It's a Gay Old World / Anonymous -- Try Smiling / Anonymous -- Evolution / Langdon Smith -- The Arrow and the Song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- "Don't Care" and "Never Mind" / John Kendrick Bangs -- Oh Promise Me / Clement Scott -- Success / Anonymous -- The House by the Side of the Road / Sam Walter Foss -- Keep a Stiff Upper Lip / Phoebe Cary -- I Never Saw a Moor / Emily Dickinson -- Pippa's Song / Robert Browning -- Reveille / A.E. Housman -- Laugh and Be Merry / John Masefield -- Press Onward / Anonymous -- Tall Oaks From Little Acorns Grow / David Everett -- "Tollable Well" / Frank L. Stanton -- Stick To It / Edgar A. Guest -- Be Strong / Maltbie Davenport Babcock -- The Life That Counts / Anonymous -- Do It Now / Anonymous -- Paddle Your Own Canoe / Sarah K. Bolton -- Where There's a Will There's a Way / Eliza Cook -- Keep A-Goin' / Frank L. Stanton -- Try, Try Again / Anonymous -- If You Have A Friend / Anonymous -- Reliance / Henry Van Dyke -- Preparedness / Edwin Markham -- Look Up! / Edward Everett Hale -- Duty / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A Rule / John Wesley -- When My Ship Comes In / Robert J. Burdett -- Somebody / Anonymous -- On His Blindness / John Milton -- A Psalm of Life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Book II: THE HUMAN SPIRIT -- "Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" / William Knox -- Death Be Not Proud / John Donne -- L'Allegro / John Milton -- Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night / Dylan Thomas -- In Memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden -- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur / Edward Fitzgerald -- Locksley Hall / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Goundhog / Richard Eberhart -- The Noblest Roman / William Shakespeare -- Musee Des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- A Poison Tree / William Blake -- Patterns / Amy Lowell -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- Auguries of Innocence / William Blake -- To a Louse, on Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet At Church / Robert Burns -- The Great Lover / Rupert Brooke -- On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer / John Keats -- A Good Name / William Shakespeare -- Choric Song of the Lotos-Eaters / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Ode on a Grecian Urn / John Keats -- Life / Anna Letitia Barbauld -- Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- I Died for Beauty / Emily Dickinson -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Song / Christina Rossetti -- To Thine Own Self Be True / William Shakespeare -- Character of the Happy Warrior / William Wordsworth -- A Hub For the Universe / Walt Whitman -- In Reading Gaol By Reading Town / Oscar Wilde -- With Rue My Heart is Laden / A.E. Housman -- Fire and Ice / Robert Frost -- Euclid Alone / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Ode to a Nightingale / John Keats -- The Road / Edwin Muir -- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow / William Shakespeare -- The Quality of Mercy is Not Strain'd / William Shakespeare -- To Be Or Not To Be / William Shakespeare -- What If a Much of a Which of a Wind / E.E. Cummings -- A Creed / Edwin Markham -- Renascence / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Riddle of the World / Alexander Pope -- Alps on Alps / Alexander Pope. Book III: A GARLAND OF LOVE POEMS -- A Red, Red Rose / Robert Burns -- Love Not Me / Anonymous -- There is a Lady Sweet and Kind / Anonymous -- believe Me, If All those Endearling Young Charms / Thomas Moore -- For Anne Gregory / William Butler Yeats -- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes / Francis William Bourdillon -- Jenny Kiss'd Me / Leigh Hunt -- To the Virgins / Robert Herrick -- She Walks in Beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- So, We'll go No More A'Roving / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Helen / Christopher Marlowe -- Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight / Christopher Marlowe -- Hark, Hark! the Lark / william Shakespeare -- Song / Thomas Carew -- If I Were King / Justin Huntly McCarthy -- Music I Heard / Conrad Aiken -- She Was a Phantom of Delight / William Wordsworth -- Song / Esther Mathews -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Constant Lover / Sir John Suckling -- Cakes and Ale / Anonymous -- Maid of Athens, Ere We Part / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Comin' Thro' the Rye / Robert Burns -- Upon Julia's Clothes / Robert Herrick -- Love Me Little, Love Me Long / Anonymous -- Spring Air / Gene Derwood -- If Thou Must Love Me / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- How Do I Love Thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Encouragements to a Lover / Sir John Suckling -- Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor / To Aurora / William Alexander, Earl of Sterline -- A Birthday / Christina Rossetti -- To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars / Richard Lovelace -- Love's Secret / William Blake -- Kashmiri Song / Laurence Hope -- What is Your Substance / William Shakespeare -- A Woman's Last Word / Robert Browning -- Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments / William Shakespeare -- Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth / William Shakespeare -- Tired With All These / William Shakespeare -- The Great Adventurer / Anonymous -- Give All to Love / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Farewell to Nancy / Robert Burns -- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love / Christopher Marlowe -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- To His coy Mistress / Andrew Marvell -- Sally in Our Alley / Henry Carey -- Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? / William Shakespeare -- Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds / William Shakespeare -- "Here Lies Juliet" / William Shakespeare -- Cynara / Ernest Dowson -- Song / John Donne -- The Girl I Left Behind Me / Anonymous. Book IV: JUST FOLKS -- When the Frost is on the Punkin / James Whitcomb Riley -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- Just Folks / Edgar A. Guest -- A Prayer For a Little Home / Anonymous -- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is the Hand That Rules the World / William Ross Wallace -- When Father Carves the Duck / E.V. Wright -- Mother O' Mine / Rudyard Kipling -- A Barefoot Boy / James Whitcomb Riley -- Sonnet to My Mother / George Barker -- The Old Oaken Bucket / Samuel Woodworth -- Somebody's Mother / Mary Dow Brine -- On His Deceased Wife / John Milton -- To a Lady On Her Passion For Old China / John Gay -- The Toys / Coventry Patmore -- Out to Old Aunt Mary's / James Whitcomb Riley. Book V: POEMS OF YOUTH AND AGE -- Young and Old / Thomas Hood -- On Growing Old / John Masefield -- My Heart Leaps Up / William Wordsworth -- Tears, Idle Tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The Light of Other Days / Thomas Moore -- The Seven Ages of Man / William Shakespeare -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now / A.E. Housman -- When I Was One-and-Twenty / A.E. Housman -- On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup / William Oldys -- A Minuet On Reaching the Age of Fifty / George Santayana -- The River of Life Thomas Champbell -- Grieve Not, Ladies / Anna Hempstead Branch -- Ode On Intimations of Immortality / William Wordsworth -- My Lost Youth / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Remembrance / William Shakespeare -- The Isle of the Long Ago / Benjamin Franklin Taylor -- Growing Old / Matthew Arnold -- The Old Familiar Faces / Charles Lamb -- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Rock Me to Sleep / Elizabeth Akers Allen -- When You Are Old / William Butler Yeats -- The Old Times Were the Best / James Whitcomb Riley -- The Ballad of Dead Ladies of Francois Villon / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- O Mistress Mine / William Shakespeare -- Good-Bye, My fancy! / Walt Whitman -- Rabbi Ben Ezra / Robert Browning -- The Human Seasons / John Keats -- The Road Not Taken / Robert Frost. Book VI: SOUND THE TRUMPETS! -- The Minstrel Boy / Thomas Moore -- The Man He Killed / Thomas Hardy -- The Charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Casabianca / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- Sheridan's Ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- All Quiet Along the Potomac / Ethel Lynn Beers -- Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- In Flanders Fields / Captain John D. McCrae -- The Spires of Oxford / Winifred M. Letts -- The Soldier / Rupert Brooke -- I Have a Rendezvous With Death / Alan Seeger -- Arms and the Boy / Wilfred Owen -- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child in London / Dylan Thomas -- Elegy on Gordon Barber / Gene Derwood -- Anthem For Doomed Youth / Wilfred Owen -- High Flight / John gillespie Magee, Jr. -- Ultima Ratio Regum / Stephen Spender -- The Dark Hills / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- One Morning the World Woke Up / Oscar Williams -- Greater Love / Wilfred Owen -- Fife Tune / John Manifold. Book VII: THE MASK OF COMEDY -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The Purple Cow / Gelett Burgess -- Peanuts / Anonymous -- The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- This Is the Key / Anonymous -- The Kilkenny Cats / Anonymous -- To Be or Not to Be / Anonymous -- The Jumblies / Edward Lear -- The Sea-Gull / Ogden Nash -- What Are Folks Made Of? / Anonymous -- The Pessimist / Ben King -- The Modern Hiawatha / Anonymous -- World War / Anonymous -- Trouble / David Keppel -- The Turtle / Ogden Nash -- Investor's Soliloquy / Kenneth Ward -- The Old Oaken Bucket / Anonymous -- How Doth the Little Crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- Money / Richard Armour -- Reflections on Ice-Breaking / Ogden Nash -- Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man / Ogden Nash -- All's Well That Ends Well / Anonymous -- A Friend / Marguerite Power, Countess of Blessington -- Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog / Oliver Goldsmith -- The Wise Old Owl / Edward H. Richards -- A Baker's Duzzen Uv Wize Sawz / Edward Rowland Sill -- Misfortunes Never Come Singly / Harry Graham -- Tenderheartedness / Harry Graham -- Who Does Not Love Wine, Women and Song / J.H. Voss -- Fight / Anonymous -- The Hardship of Accounting / Robert Frost -- From Greenland to Iceland / Anonymous -- Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl / Edgar Smith -- A Promise Made / Anonymous -- Brave Old World / Elisabeth Lambert -- Burlesque / Samuel Johnson -- Atomic Courtesy / Ethel Jacobson -- Doctor Fell / Thomas Brown -- Woman's Will / John G. Saxe -- The Dying Airman / Anonymous -- Evidence Read at the Trial of the Knave of Hearts / Lewis Carroll -- The Little Man Who Wasn't There / Hughes Mearns -- Genius / R.J.P. Hewison -- Mr. Jones / Harry Graham -- Faith-Healer / Anonymous -- On Monsieur Coue / Charles Inge -- Bang Street / Livingston Welch -- It Isn't the Cough / Anonymous -- Aunt Eliza / Harry Graham -- The Crimes of Lizzie Borden / Anonymous -- Infant Innocence / A.E. Housman -- Relativity / Anonymous -- To An Acquaintance / Anonymous -- The Rain / Anonymous -- A Shot at Random / D.B. Wyndham Lewis -- Lives of Great Men / Anonymous -- First Fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Decrepit Old Gasman / Anonymous -- Man is a Fool / Anonymous -- Just For the Ride / Anonymous -- What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured / Anonymous -- Epigram / Matthew Prior -- Not Just For the Ride / Anonymous -- The Height of the Ridiculous / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- My Face / Anthony Euwer -- It Pays / Arnold Bennett -- An Old Man From Peru / Anonymous -- Baseball's Sad Lexicon / Franklin P. Adams. Book VIII: THE WORLD OF NATURE -- Letter to the City Clerk / Frederick A. Wright -- To the Cuckoo / William Wordsworth -- Animals / Walt Whitman -- To a Mouse / Robert Burns -- To the Skylark / William Wordsworth -- A Sonnet on a Monkey / Marjory Fleming, Age 8 -- To a Skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Nursery Rhyme For the Tender-Hearted / Christopher Morley -- To a Waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant -- A Narrow Fellow in the Grass / Emily Dickinson -- Milk For the Cat / Harold Monro -- The Tiger / William Blake -- How to Tell the Wild Animals / Carolyn Wells -- The Praying Mantis Visits a Penthouse / Oscar Williams -- The Song of the Mischievous Dog / Dylan Thomas, Age 11. Book IX: MOTHER NATURE, FATHER TIME -- What is So Rare As a Day in June / James Russell Lowell -- Little Things / Julia A. Fletcher Carney -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Blow, Bugle, Blow / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The Last Rose of Summer / Thomas Moore -- The Old Swimmin'-Hole / James Whitcomb Riley -- The West Wind / John Masefield -- Woodman, Spare That Tree / George P. Morris -- Flower in the Crannied Wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Home-Thoughts From Abroad / Robert Browning -- Green Things Growing / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- Solitude / Alexander Pope -- Leisure / W.H. Davies -- Song of the Open Road / Walt Whitman -- Blow, Thou Winter Wind / William Shakespeare -- Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening / Robert Frost -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- Daffodils / William Wordsworth -- The Brook's Song / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Fear No More / William Shakespeare -- Like As the Waves / William Shakespeare -- When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand / William Shakespeare -- When I Do Count the Clock / William Shakespeare -- Full Many a Glorious Morning / William Shakespeare -- Out Where the West Begins / Arthur Chapman -- Under the Greenwood Tree / William Shakespeare -- A Thing of Beauty / John Keats. Book X: THE EVERYDAY SCENE -- Over the Hill to the Poor-House / Will Carleton -- The World Is Too Much With Us / William Wordsworth -- For A' That And A' That / Robert Burns -- The Golf Links / Sarah N. Cleghorn -- The Man With the Hoe / Edwin Markham -- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth -- Thirty Bob a Week / John Davidson -- A Man of Words / Anonymous -- Factory Windows Are Always Broken / Vachel Lindsay -- Man's Inhumanity To Man / Robert Burns -- The Village Blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Mending Wall / Robert Frost -- The Bells / Edgar Allan Poe. Book XI: MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- The Star-Spangled Banner -- Francis Scott Key -- Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- Burial of Sir John Moore / Charles Wolfe -- Breathes There the Man With Soul So Dead / Sir Walter Scott -- The American Flag / Joseph Rodman Drake -- Anne Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters -- A Song For Our Flag / Margaret E. Sangster -- The New Colossus Inscription on the Statue of Liberty / Emma Lazarus -- I Hear America Singing / Walt Whitman -- Dixie / Daniel Decatur Emmett -- Hail Columbia / Joseph Hopkinson -- America For Me / Henry Van Dyke -- America / Samuel Francis Smith -- America the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates -- The Flag Goes By / Henry Holcomb Bennett -- O Ship of State / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- God Save the Flag / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The Wearing of the Green / Anonymous -- Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- Your Flag and My Flag / Wilbur D. Nesbit -- Columbus / Joaquin Miller. Book XII: STORY POEMS AND BALLADS -- The Congo / Vachel Lindsay -- Mr. Flood's Party / Edwin arlington Robinson -- The Ballad of the Oysterman / Oliver Wendell Homes -- Jim Bludso / John Hay -- The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" / W.S. Gilbert -- Charlemagne / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Raven / Edgar Allen Poe -- Barbara Allen / Anonymous -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The Cowboy's Lament / Anonymous -- Fair Helen / Anonymous -- The Lady of Shalott / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Ben Bolt / Thomas Dunn English -- The Highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- The Destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- The Leak in the Dike / Phoebe Cary -- Grandfather's Clock / Henry Clay Work -- Casey at the Bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The Battle of Waterloo / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- The Spell of the Yukon / Robert W. Service -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Gunga Din -- Rudyard Kipling -- My Last Duchess / Robert Browning -- The Deacon's Masterpiece or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay" Oliver Wendell Holmes -- How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The Shooting of Dan McGrew / Robert W. Service -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The Wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Horatius at the Bridge / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The Face on the Floor / Hugh D'Arcy -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service -- Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous -- Captain Jinks / Anonymous -- Fare Thee Well / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- The Listeners / Walter De La Mare -- John Henry / Anonymous -- La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats -- The Deserted Village / Oliver Goldsmith -- The Spider and the Fly / Mary Howitt. Book XIII: OLD SONGS AND NEW -- My Heart's in the Highlands / Robert Burns -- To Celia / Ben Jonson -- Auld Lang Syne / Robert Burns -- Annie Laurie / William Douglas -- Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair / Stephen Foster -- Green Grow the Rashes / Robert Burns -- Silver Threads Among the Gold / Eben E. Rexford -- Old Folks at Home / Stephen Foster -- Flow Gently, Sweet Afton / Robert Burns -- Oh, My Darling Clementine / Anonymous -- Little Brown Jug / Anonymous -- O! Susanna / Stephen Foster -- Who is Silvia / William Shakespeare -- My Old Kentucky Home / Stephen Foster -- With a Little Bit of Luck / Alan Jay Lerner -- Yankee Doodle / Anonymous -- Down in the Valley / Anonymous -- Derelict / Young E. Allison -- A Lost Chord / Adelaide Proctor -- Ko-Ko's Song / W.S. Gilbert -- Turkey in the Straw / Anonymous -- I've Been Workin' on the Railroad / Anonymous -- Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight? / Anonymous -- Old Black Joe / Stephen Foster -- My Maryland / James Ryder Randall -- Abide With Me / Henry F. Lyte -- Man, Man, Man / Anonymous -- Carry Me Back to Old Virginny / James Bland -- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie / Anonymous -- Red River Valley / Anonymous -- Slide, Kelly, Slide / J.W. Kelly -- Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam / Anonymous -- John Brown's Body / Anonymous -- The Man on the Flying Trapeze / Anonymous -- There is a Tavern in the Town / Anonymous -- The Blue-Tail Fly / Anonymous -- On Top of old Smoky / Anonymous. Book XIV: THE FAITH WITHIN US -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Morning Hymn / Thomas Ken -- The Darkling Thrush / Thomas Hardy -- Nearer Home / Phoebe Cary -- Perfection / Francis Carlin -- Remembrance / Emily Bronte -- On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America / George Berkeley -- No Coward Soul is Mine / Emily Bronte -- The Captain's Daughter / James T. Fields -- Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Invictus / Wiliam Ernest Henley -- Light Shining Out of Darkness / William Cowper -- Pied Beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray -- The Last Supper / Oscar Williams -- Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep / Anonymous -- God's Grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" / Emma Hart Willard -- Batter My Heart / John Donne -- The Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Battle-Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- The Hound of Heaven / Francis Thompson -- The Pillar of the Cloud / John Henry Cardinal Newman -- Good-Bye / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Recessional / Rudyard Kipling -- Rock of Ages / August M. Toplady -- Crossing the Bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- The Chambered Nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Not Only Around Our Infancy / James Russell Lowell -- Nearer, My God, To Thee / Sarah Flower Adams -- Onward, Christian Soldiers / Sabine Baring-Gould. Book XV: THE CHILDREN'S HOUR -- The children's Hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Where Did You Come From? / George MacDonald -- The Swing / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Keep the Glad Flag Flying / Anonymous -- The Lamplighter / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Eugene Field -- The Day is Done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Sugar-Plum Tree / Eugene Field -- In the Gloaming / Meta Orred -- Little Boy Blue / Eugene Field -- The Land of Counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Star / Jane Taylor -- Willie Winkie / William Miller -- There Was a Little Girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Little Orphant Annie / James Whitcomb Riley -- Good and Bad Children / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Owl and the Pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Fable / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Duel / Eugene Field -- The Moo-Cow-Moo / Edmund Vance Cooke -- A Butcher's Dozen of Children's Rhymes / Anonymous -- The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky / Vachel Lindsay -- The Walrus and the Carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- I Wish I Were / Anonymous -- "I Had a Little Husband" / Anonymous -- Sweete's Li'l' Feller / Frank L. Stanton -- Up the Airy Mountain / William Allingham -- Mary's Lamb / Sarah Josepha Hale -- Jack and Jill / Anonymous -- A Garland From Mother Goose / Mother Goose -- Warning to Children / Robert Graves. Book XVI: CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR -- Peace on Earth / Edmund H. Sears -- Jingle Bells / J. Pierpont -- A Visit From St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- Jest 'Fore Christmas / Eugene Field -- O Come All Ye Faithful / Anonymous -- Christmas Bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Silent Night / Joseph Mohr -- God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen / Anonymous -- A Christmas Carol / G.K. Chesterton -- Christmas Everywhere / Phillips Brooks -- O Little Town of Bethlehem / Phillips Brooks -- The Twelve Days of Christmas / Anonymous -- The End of the Play / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Ring Out, Wild Bells / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Index of Authors -- Index of first lines -- Index of titles.

A collection of more than 500 poems for the entire family, including "nature poems, ancient ballads, story poems, love poems, inspirational verse, children's verse, occasional poems, patriotic poems, Christmas and New Year's verse, humorous poems"--Jacket.