One Hundred and One Poems

The Builders, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Opportunity, by Edward R. Sill Out to Old Aunt Mary's, by James Whitcomb Riley Each and All, by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rhodora: On being asked, whence is the flower, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Tennyson The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, by Francis William Bourdillon The House by the Side of the Road, by Sam Walter Foss I Have a Rendezvous with Death, by Alan Seeger In Flanders Fields, by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae Moonlight (from "The Merchant of Venice"), by William Shakespeare O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman The Chambered Nautilus, by Oliver Wendell Holmes Christmas Everywhere, by Phillips Brooks Little Boy Blue, by Eugene Field The Daffodils, by William Wordsworth June (from "The Vision of Sir Launfaul"), by James Russell Lowell Ode to the West Wind, by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Snowstorm, by Ralph Waldo Emerson To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hiawatha's Childhood, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Happy Warrior, by William Wordsworth Ann Rutledge, by Edgar Lee Masters Grass, by Carl Sandburg Not in Vain, by Emily Dickinson Sheridan's Ride, by Thomas Buchanan Read The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell Be Strong, by Maltbie Davenport Babcock Columbus, by Cincinnatus Hiner Miller Trees, by Sergeant Joyce Kilmer The Spires of Oxford (As seen from the train), by Winifred M. Letts Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling The Cloud, by Percy Bysshe Shelley How Did You Die?, by Edmund Vance Cooke Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness (from "Henry VIII"), by John Fletcher The Blessed Damozel, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti America for Me, by Henry Van Dyke Requiem, by Robert Louis Stevenson The Gods of the Copybook Headings, by Rudyard Kipling Mercy (from "The Merchant of Venice"), by William Shakespeare Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, by Vachel Lindsay The Man with the Hoe, by Edwin Markham The Duel, by Eugene Field Song of the Chattahoochee, by Sidney Lanier Ode on Intimations of Immortality, by William Wordsworth Sonnet ("The World is too much with us"), by William Wordsworth Letter to a Young Friend, by Robert Burns The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, "The One-Hoss Shay", by Oliver Wendell Holmes The Building of the Ship, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Solitude, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Knee-Deep in June, by James Whitcomb Riley Opportunity, by John James Ingalls Waiting, by John Burroughs Paul Revere's Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow That Time of Year, by William Shakespeare Plant a Tree, by Lucy Larcom Abou Ben Adhem, by James Henry Leigh Hunt The Bells, by Edgar Allan Poe Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, by Thomas Gray Cuddle Doon, by Alexander Anderson Sonnet on His Blindness, by John Milton Thanatopsis, by William Cullen Bryant The Children's Hour, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Invictus, by William Ernest Henley Sea Fever, by John Masefield Horatius, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Each in His Own Tongue, by William Herbert Carruth The Eternal Goodness, by John Greenleaf Whittier Summum Bonum, by Robert Browning If, by Rudyard Kipling The Day Is Done, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love of Country (from "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"), by Sir Walter Scott Nobility, by Alice Cary The Minuet, by Mary Mapes Dodge Childe Harold's Farewell to England, by George Gordon Byron (Sixth Lord) God Save the Flag, by Oliver Wendell Holmes The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes A Psalm of Life, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For A' That and A' That, by Robert Burns Jest 'Fore Christmas, by Eugene Field Gradatim, by Josiah Gilbert Holland The Barefoot Boy, by John Greenleaf Whittier Polonius' Advice to Laertes (from "Hamlet"), by William Shakespeare The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett "The Things That Are More Excellent", by William Watson Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep a-Goin', by Frank L. Stanton Life Sculpture, by George Washington Doane The Choir Invisible, by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Marmion and Dangle (from "Marmion"), by Sir Walter Scott Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats The Heart of the Tree, by Henry Cuyler Bunner Crossing the Bar, by Alfred Tennyson Soliloquy from "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare She Was a Phantom of Delight, by William Wordsworth The Spider and the Fly: A Fable, by Mary Howitt Maud Muller, by John Greenleaf Whittier The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore Home, by Edgar A. Guest My Kate, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lincoln, the Man of the People, by Edwin Markham On the Building of Springfield, by Vachel Lindsay Mending Wall, by Robert Frost The Fool's Prayer, by Edward R. Sill To a Waterfowl, by William Cullen Bryant I Shall Not Pass This Way Again: A Symphony, by Eva Rose York Apostrophe to the Ocean (from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"), by George Gordon Byron (Sixth Lord) Renascence, by Edna St. Vincent Millay Epilogue to Asolando, by Robert Browning L'Envoi, by Rudyard Kipling Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln The Ten Commandments Magna Carta The War Inevitable, March, 1775, by Patrick Henry The Declaration of Independence