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Sonnet from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman's shortcomings / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman's last word / Robert Browning
She walks in beauty / Lord Byron
Jenny kissed me / Leigh Hunt
Said the rose / George H. Miles
Walk slowly / Adelaide Love
To Althea from prison / Richard Lovelace
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms / Thomas Moore
The lake of the dismal swamp / Thomas Moore
Kate Kearney / Sady Morgan
If I had known / Mary Carolyn Davies
Love me little, love me long / Unknown
Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ad finem / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All paths lead to you / Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
The abiding love / John White Chadwick
To a friend / Grace Stricker Dawson
Kashmiri song / Laurence Hope
My life is a bowl / May Riley Smith
A mile with me / Henry Van Dyke
An old sweetheart of mine / James Whitcomb Riley
Fellowship / Unknown
A woman's question / Lena Lathrop
Any wife or husband / Carol Haynes
To my unborn son / Captain Cyril Morton Thorne
Love / Roy Croft
Her answer / John Bennet
In a rose garden / John Bennet
Sleep sweet / Ellen M. Huntington Gates
Midsummer / Sydney King Russell
Billy boy / Unknown
If you but knew / Unknown
Need of loving / Strickland Gillian
If you're ever going to love me / Unkown
I'll remember you, love, in my prayers / Unknown
Is it a sin to love thee? / Unknown.
We have lived and loved together / Charles Jefferys
Will you love me when I'm old? / Unknown
You and I / Henry Alford
He and she / Sir Edwin Arnold
Light / Francis W. Bourdillon
Reward of service / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ossian's serenade / Major Calder Campbell
Among the beautiful pictures / Alice Cary
Cleopatra dying / Thomas Stephens Collier
Miss you / David Cory
Friendship / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae / Ernest Dowson
You kissed me / Josephine Slocum Hunt
I want you / Arthur L. Gillom
Song / Gerald Griffin
The unknown / E. O. Laughlin
Forget thee? / John Moultrie
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee / Mrs. David Porter
Fidelis / Adelaide Anne Procter
Vases / Nan Terrell Reed
And then no more / Friedrich Rueckert
Song / Florence Smith
At nightfall / Charles Hanson Towne
Creed / Mary Ashley Townsend
Quiet waters / Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
Lorena / H. D. L. Webster
Growing old / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I love you / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The want of you / Ivan Leonard Wright
Admonition / Kid Kazanova
Loyalty / Berton Braley
New friends and old friends / Joseph Parry
Our own / Margaret E. Sangster
I hear it said / Barbara Young
Sweet peril / George Macdonald
If / Rudyard Kipling.
A farewell / Charles Kingsley
Life / Charles Kingsley
The right kind of people / Anna Letitia Barbauld
Outwitted / Edwin Markham
Today / Edwin Markham
Where there's a will there's a way / Eliza Cook
Happiness / Priscilla Leonard
Tadoussac / Charles Bancroft
Sonnet / John Keats
The winners / Rudyard Kipling
Invictus / William Ernest Henley
My captain / Dorothea Day
Where are you going, greatheart? / John Oxenham
The torch / Theodosia Garrison
Red geraniums / Martha Haskell Clark
The rose still grows beyond the wall / A. L. Frank
Who walks with beauty / David Morton
I shall not pass this way again
A soul's soliloquy / Wenonah Stevens Abbott
Hyacinths to feed thy soul / Moslih Eddin Saadi
The loom of time
Pedra / John William Burgon
Waiting / John Burroughs
Our heroes / Phoebe Cary
The revel / Bartholomew Dowling
Hold fast your dreams / Louise Driscoll
Immortality / Joseph Jefferson
Who are my people? / Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
There is no death / J. L. McCreery
Opportunity / Edward Rowland Sill
It couldn't be done / Edgar A. Guest
Lord, make a regular man out of me / Edgar A. Guest
A friend's greeting / Edgar A. Guest
Myself / Edgar A. Guest
Tell him so
The manly man
Get a transfer
It isn't the church - it's you
Say it now
The quitter
Always finish
Try smiling
Do it now!
Smile
A smile
A bag of tools / R. L. Sharpe
It's fine today / Douglas Malloch
Opportunity / Walter Malone
The land of beginning again / Louisa Fletcher
The town of don't-you-worry / I. J. Bartlett
It isn't the town, it's you / R. W. Glover
The town of nogood / W. E. Penny
The house by the side of the road / Sam Walter Foss
Crowded ways of life / Walter S. Gresham
The coming American / Sam Walter Foss
Do it now / Berton Braley
The thinker / Berton Braley
Then laugh / Bertha Adams Backus
A prayer / Berton Braley
Last lines / Emily Bronte
Co-operation / J. Mason Knox
Vitai lampada / Henry Newboldt
The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I know something good about you / Louis C. Shimon
Born without a chance / Edmund Vance Cooke
How did you die? / Edmund Vance Cooke
All to myself / Wilbur Dick Nesbit
Watch yourself go by / Strickland Gillilan
Out where the west begins / Arthur Chapman
A song from Sylvan / Louise Imogen Guiney
My wage / Jessie B. Rittenhouse
My patch of blue / Mary Newland Carson
Drop a pebble in the water / James W. Foley
To the men who lose / George L. Scarborough
Beautiful things / Ellen P. Allerton
Give us men! / Josiah Gilbert Holland
Life's mirror / Mary Ainge de Vere
The human touch / Spencer Michael Free.
Your mission / Ellen M. H. Gates
My neighbor's roses / Abraham L. Gruber
God, give us men! / Josiah Gilbert Holland
The fighter / S. E. Kiser
When I am old / Caroline Atherton Briggs Mason
The common road / Silas H. Perkins
Beauty as a sheild / Elsie Robinson
The bridge builder / Will Allen Dromgoole
The lord god planted a garden / Dorothy Frances Gurney
Fate / Susan Marr Spalding
This, too, shall pass away / Lanta Wilson Smith
A very minor poet speaks / Isabel Valle
To know all is to forgive all / Nixon Waterman
Optimism / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Progress / Ella Wheller Wilcox
- The two glasses / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Whatever is-is best / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Will / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Worth while / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You never can tell / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The cry of a dreamer / John Boyle O'Reilly
The face upon the floor / H. Antoine D'arcy
The last hymn / Marianne Farningham
Casabianca / Felicia Hemans
Abou Ben Adhem / James Henry Leigh Hunt
The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly
Mary, queen of scots / Henry Glassford Bell
Curfew must not ring tonight / Rosa Hartwick Thorpe
Aux Italiens / Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Christmas day in the workhouse / George R. Sims
Annie and Willie's prayer / Sophia P. Snow
How he saved St. Michael's / Mary A. P. Stansbury
The doctor's story / Will M. Carleton
Over the hill to the poor-house / Will M. Carleton
Ostler Joe / George R. Sims
St. Peter at the gate / Joseph Bert Smiley
Down and out / Clarence Leonard Hay
The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even this shall pass away / Theodore Tilton
Beautiful snow / James W. Watson
Two pictures
Streets of Baltimore
The siege of Belgrade / Alaric Alexander Watts
The ship that never returned / Henry Clay Work
Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music in camp / John R. Thompson
The high tide at Gettysburg / Will Henry Thompson
Yussouf / James Russell Lowell
Antony and Cleopatra / William Haines Lytle
Carcassonne / Gustave Nadaud
The vagabonds / John Townsend Trowbridge
The Raven / Edgar Allen Poe
Evolution / Langdon Smith
Beth-gelert; or, the grave of the greyhound / William Robert Spencer
The landing of the pilgrim fathers in New England / Felicia D. Hemans
Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Madonna / Robert W. Service
The legend of the organ-builder / Julia C. R. Dorr
The touch of the master's hand / Myra Brooks Welch
John Maynard / Horatio Alger, Jr.
Guilty or not guilty
The man on the flying trapeze
The hell-bound train
The Julie Plante / William Henry Drummond.
Lord lovel
The loving ballad of Lord Bateman
Derelict / Young E. Allison
The mills of the gods
The owl and the fox
The first snowfall / James Russell Lowell
Katie Lee and Willie Grey / Josie R. Hunt
Give me three grains of corn, mother / Amelia Blandford Edwards
Young Charlotte / William Lorenzo Carter
The mornin's mornin' / Gerald Brennan
The african chief / William Cullen Bryant
The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron
La belle dame sans merci / John Keats
The sailor's grave / Eliza Cook
Lasca / Frank Desprez
The bank thief / J.R. Farrell
She is more to be pitied than censured / William B. Gray
The wedding gift / Minna Irving
Somebody's darling / Marie Ravenal de LaCoste
Would I be shrived? / John D. Swain
Back to Griggsby's station / James Whitcomb Riley
Out there somewhere / Henry Herbert Knibbs
The enchanted shirt / John Hay
The green eye of the yellow god / J. Milton Hayes
A fence or an ambulance / Joseph Malins
Kentucky belle / Constance Fenimore Woolson
The ballad of Yukon Jake / Edward E. Paramore, Jr.
Abdullah Bulbul Amir; or, Ivan Petrofsky Skovar
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey's revenge / James Wilson
Casey-twenty years later / S. P. McDonald
Grandmother's old armchair
Grandfather's clock / Henry Clay Work
The fox went out one frosty night
Recessional / Rudyard Kipling
How the great guest came / Edwin Markham
My evening prayer / Charles H. Gabriel
A prayer for every day / Mary Carolyn Davies
A creed / Edwin Markham
Sometime / May Riley Smith
If we knew / May Riley Smith
Be strong! / Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Each in his own tongue / William Herbert Carruth
Song of hope / William Herbert Carruth
Mizpah / Julia A. Baker
Is it true? / Sarah Williams
The coming of his feet / Lyman W. Allen
A prayer / Max Ehrmann
Building for eternity / N. B. Sargent
The watered lilies
An ancient prayer / Thomas H. B. Webb
The anvil-god's word
The cross was his own
How far is it called to the grave?
Laurels and immortelles
Poor lil' brack sheep / Ethel M. C. Brazelton
There is no death
The weaver / Fanny Forrester
Where, oh where are the hebrew children?
An ode / Joseph Addison
The burial of moses / Cecil Frances Alexander
The hidden line / Dr. J. Addison Alexander
What I live for / George Linnaeus Banks.
Death
O God, the rock of ages / Edward H. Bickersteth
Not understood / Thomas Bracken
Pray without ceasing / Ophelia Guyon Browning
The universal prayer / Alexander Pope
The weaver / William H. Burleigh
Hallowed ground / Thomas Campbell
The child on the judgment seat / Elizabeth Rundle Charles
The tapestry weaver / Anson G. Chester
No sects in heaven / Elizabeth H. Jocelyn Cleaveland
The present age / Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Through the year / Julian S. Cutler
The preacher's mistake / William Croswell Doane
Life sculpture / William Croswell Doane
The chemistry of character / Elizabeth Dorney
The christian's "good-night" / Sarah Doudney
The water mill / Sarah Doudney
The church walking with the world / Matilda C. Edwards
Now the laborer's task is o'er / John Lodge Ellerton
When wilt thou save the people? / Ebenezer Elliot
My church
At the place of the sea / Annie Johnson Flint
A hundred years from now / Mary A. Ford
In a hundred years / Elizabeth Doten
Evening contemplation / George Washington Doane
Christ and the little ones / Julia Gill
The aloe plant / Dr. Henry Harbaugh
Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
Only waiting / Mrs. Frances Laughton Mace
How far to Bethlehem? / Madeleine Sweeny Miller
Ad coelum / Harry Romaine
Up-hill / Christina Georgina Rosetti
Your church and mine / Phillips H. Lord
The sin of omission / Margaret E. Sangster
The handwriting on the wall / Knowles Shaw
Conscience / Charles William Stubbs
Roses in december / Rev. G. Anketall Studdert-Kennedy
The kneeling camel / Anna Temple Whitney
The winds of fate / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Envoy to the toiling of Felix / Henry Van Dyke
Home, sweet home / John Howard Payne
Like mother, like son / Margaret Johnston Grafflin
My mother / Jane Taylor
Rock me to sleep / Elizabeth Akers Allen
Call me not back from the echoless shore
Somebody's mother / Mary Dow Brine
Home / Edgar A. Guest
The reading mother / Strickland Gillilan
The blue bowl / Blanche Bane Kuder
My mother's garden / Alice E. Allen
A prayer for a little home / Florence Bone
Motherhood / Agnes Lee
If I only was the fellow / Will S. Adkin
Home is where there is one to love us / Charles Swain
A wonderful mother / Pat O' Reilly
Nobody knows but mother / Mary Morrison.
The old oaken bucket / Samuel Woodworth
A dutch lullaby / Eugene Field
The organist / George W. Stevens
Tragedy / Jill Spargur
From my arm-chair / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Two temples / Hattie Vose Hall
An order for a picture / Alice Cary
Suppose / Phoebe Cary
Which shall it be? / Ethel Lynn Beers
To a child who inquires / Olga Petrova
Lullaby town / John Irving Diller
There was a little girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The boy reciter / David Everett
The child's first grief / Felicia D. Hemans
Where shall the baby's dimple be? / Josiah G. Holland
I remember, I remember / Thomas Hood
Seven times one / Jean Ingelow
Sermon in a stocking / Ellen A. Jewett
Day dreams, or ten years old / Margaret Johnson
How big was Alexander? / Rev. Elijah Jones
Where did you come from? / George Macdonald
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
Woodman, spare that tree / George Perkins Morris
My mother's prayer / T. C. O'Kane
Making a man / Nixon Waterman
We are seven / William Wordsworth
In school-days / John Greenleaf Whittier
The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key
America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates
Breathes there the man / Sir Walter Scott
I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger
America for me / Henry van Dyke
Boots / Rudyard Kipling
Independence bell - July 4, 1776
The unkown soldier / Billy Rose
In flanders field / John McCrae
Reply to in flanders field / John Mitchell
Another reply to in flanders field / J. A. Armstrong
America's answer / R. W. Lilliard
Land of the free / Arthur Nicholas Hosking
Old ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
The blue and the gray / Francis Miles Finch
The men behind the guns / John Jerome Rooney
Jeanette and Jeannot / Charles Jeffries
Jeannot's answer / Charles Jeffries
Bingen on the Rhines / Caroline Norton
The bivouac of the dead / Theodore O'Hara
I fights mit sigel! / Grant P. Robinson
The charge of the light brigade / Alfred Tennyson
The fighting race / Joseph I. C. Clarke
Ye mariners of England / Thomas Campbell
Canadian boat-song / John Galt.
Vagabond house / Don Blanding
Dried apple pies
The modern baby / William Croswell Doane
The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven / Guy Wetmore Carryl
Help wanted / Franklin Waldheim
Sorrows of werther / William Makepeace Thackeray
Plain language from truthful james / Francis Bret Harte
A parody on a psalm of life / Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I get time / Thomas L. Mason
Art
Strictly germ-proof / Arthur Guiterman
The monkey's wedding
Don't you be what you ain't / Edwin Milton Royle
The country store
Clare de kitchen
The preacher's vacation
A frog went a-courting
Animal fair
Captain Jinks
Finigan's wake
How paddy stole the rope
I had but fifty cents
The japanese lovers / Horace Russell and William Greene
Jonah and the whale
Judged by the company one keeps
Kafoozalum
Methuselah
Miss Foggerty's cake
The patter of the shingle
Carmen possum
The optimist
Towser shall be tied tonight
Van Amburgh's menagerie
Wanted- a minister's wife
Willie the weeper
The bird's ball / C. W. Bardeen
A Boston toast / John C. Bossidy
T a louse / Robert Burns
The three wise women / Mrs. E. T. Corbett
The three wise couples / Mrs. E. T. Corbett
The owl critic / James T. Fields
To my nose / Alfred A. Forrester
The yarn of the nancy bell / William Schwenck Gilbert
Elegy on the death of a mad dog / Oliver Goldsmith
The frost / Hannah Frances Gould
Trouble in the "amen corner" / Thomas Chalmers Halbaugh
My dad's dinner pail / Edward Harrigan
Good fortune / Heinrich Heine
The worried skipper / Wallace Irwin
Signs of rain / Dr. Edward Jenner
The pessimist / Ben King
The legend of the Admen / Everett W. Lord
Socrates snooks / Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Fin de siecle / Edmund Vance Cooke
What the choir sang about the new bonnet / M. T. Morrison
Riding down from Bangor / Louis Shreve Osborne
A modest wit / Seeleck Osborn
The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll
De fust banjo / Irwin Russell
The blind men and the elephant / John Godfrey Saxe
The game of life / John Godfrey Saxe
An overworked elocutionist / Carolyn Wells
Sleepin' at the foot o' the bed / Luther Patrick
A maxim revised
I kissed you.
Prayer for a very new angel / Violet Alleyn Storey
Bachelor hall / Eugene Field
He is not dead / James Whitcomb Riley
Out of the hitherwhere / James Whitcomb Riley
The house with nobody in it / Joyce Kilmer
Verses written in 1872 / Robert Louis Stevenson
My son / James D. Hughes
No funeral gloom / Ellen Terry
Along the road / Robert Browning Hamilton
Lucy / William Wordsworth
The old familiar faces / Charles Lamb
Joseph Rodman Drake / Fitz-Greene Halleck
Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Memory / Abraham Lincoln
Tis the last rose of summer / Thomas Moore
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allen Poe
The closed door / Theodosia Garrison
Death is a door / Nancy Byrd Turner
The country doctor / Will M. Carleton
My trundle bed / J. G. Baker
On the threshold
Twenty years ago / Dill Armor Smith
The long ago / Benjamin F. Taylor
Fare thee well! / Lord Byron
Lady Byron's reply to Lord Byron's fare thee well
Sorrow / Sir Aubrey de Vere
Not thou but I / Philip Bourke Marston
If I should die tonight / Arabella Eugenia Smith
A cry from the Canadian hills / Lillian Leveridge
The queen's last ride / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Trees / Joyce Kilmer
My garden is a pleasant place / Louise Driscoll
Far from the madding crowd / Nixon Waterman
God, the artist / Angela Morgan
The path that leads to nowhere / Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
October's bright blue weather / Helen Hunt Jackson
The spell of the yukon / Robert W. Service
A scandal among the flowers / Charles S. Taylor
To a fat lady seen from the train / Fances Cornford
Did you ever hear an English sparrow sing? / Bertha Johston
Who loves a garden / Louise Seymour Jones
The rainbow / William Wordsworth
I saw God wash the world / William L. Stidger
Fragment / Alfred Tennyson
Daffodils / William Wordsworth
To my setter, Scout / Frank H. Seldon
The curate thinks you have no soul / St. John Lucas
Bishop Doane on his dog / George Washington Doane
Epitaph to a dog / Lord Byron
Rags / Edmund Vance Cooke
To a dog / Josephine Preston Peabody
I think I know no finer things than dogs / Hally Carrington Brent
Bum / W. Dayton Wedgefarth
The power of the dog / Rudyard Kipling
Supplication of the black aberdeen / Rudyard Kipling
My dog / John Kendrick Bangs
A malemute dog / Pat O'Cotter
The little cat angel / Leontine Stanfield
In memoriam-Leo: a yellow cat / Margaret Sherwood
Leo to his mistress / Henry Dwight Sedgwick
I am the cat / Leila Usher
The Arab's farewell to his horse / Caroline Norton.
The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham
The female of the species / Rudyard Kipling
The vampire / Rudyard Kipling
A woman's answer to the vampire / Felicia Blake
Old testament contents
Names and order of the books of the old testament
Our presidents
Dover beach / Matthew Arnold
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
England's sovereigns in verse
Kings of France / Mary W. Lincoln
Let me grow lovely / Karle Wilson Baker
Growing older / R. G. Wells
What is charm? / Louisa Caroll Thomas
Echoes / William Ernest Henley
Who has known heights / Mary Brent Whiteside
THe garden of Proserpine / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Three gates
The old astronomer to his pupil / Sarah Williams
The sidewalks of New York / Charles B. Lawlor and James W. Blake
The woman I am / Glen Allen
Charity
Life's a game
Days of birth
The festal board
The gate at the end of things
The heart of a girl is a wonderful thing
The level and the square / Robert Morris
Is it really worth the while?
Money and a friend
He who knows
Six feet of earth
To a skeleton / Anna Jane Vardhill
Man's inhumanity to man / Robert Burns
The Indian hunter / Eliza Cook
Retirement / William Cowper
Hy-Brawail- the isle of the blest / Gerald Griffin
Eat and walk / James Norman Hall
Whenas in silks my Julia goes / Robert Herrick
To the virgins / Robert Herrick
Duty / Ellen S. Hooper
Who hath a book / Wilbur D. Nesbit
Lines on the back of a confederate note / Major Samuel Alroy Jonas
What constitutes a state? / Sir William Jones
Oh! Why should the spirit of a mortal be proud? / William Knox
Drifting sands and a caravan / Yolande Langworthy
The ship / Charles Mackay
I saw three ships
Little things / Julia A. Fletcher
Life / Nan Terrell Reed
Mother Shipton's prophecies
Owed to New York / Byron Rufus Newton
City roofs / Charles Hanson Towne
Retribution / F. von Logau
Quarrelling / Watts
The men that don't fit in / Robert W. Service
The moneyless man / Major Henry T. Stanton
The lovely rivers and lakes of maine / George B. Wallis
Life's scars / Ella Wheller Wilcox
Lifting and leaning / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A chip on his shoulder
Our lips and ears
Empties coming back / Angelo de Ponciano
A wise old owl / Edward Hersey Richards
Horse sense
The year's at the spring / Robert Browning.
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