Raleigh, sir Walter
   The Lye, 283
 Rankin.  Jeremiah Eames
   The Babie, 4
 read, Thomas Buchanan
   Sheridan’s Ride, 68
 Riley, James Whitcomb
   Little Orphant Annie, 54
 Rogers, Samuel
   A Wish, 272

 Sargent, Epes
   A Life on the Ocean Wave, 85
 Scott, sir Walter
   Lochinvar, 103
   The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 126
 Shakespeare, William
   Ingratitude, 58
   Mercy, 300
   Polonius’ Advice, 301
   A Fragment from Julius Caesar, 301
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe
   Ode to a Skylark, 268
   Ozymandias in the Desert, 322
 smith, Samuel Francis
   America, 228
 Southey, Robert
   The Battle of Blenheim, 117
   The Inchcape Rock, 145
   The Legend of Bishop Hatto, 166
   The Well of St. Keyne, 186
 Stevenson, Robert Louis
   My Shadow, 9

 Taylor, Bayard
   The Song in Camp, 64
 Taylor, Jane
   The Violet, 27
 Tennyson, Alfred
   Sweet and Low, 27
   The Owl, 40
   The Bugle Song, 66
   Lady Clare, 72
   The Lord of Burleigh, 75
   The Death of the Old Year, 86
   The Charge of the Light Brigade, 107
   Crossing the Bar, 124
   The Brook, 153
   The Lotos Eaters, 231
   The Revenge, 246
   Sir Galahad, 253
 Thackeray, William Makepeace
   Little Billee, 41
 Thaxter, Celia
   The Sandpiper, 71
 Thomas, Edith
   Moly, 233
   The God of Music, 275
 Trowbridge, J.T. 
   Farmyard Song, 90
 Turner, Charles Tennyson
   Letty’s Globe, 115

 Watts, Isaac
   Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, 4
   Love Between Brothers and Sisters, 20
 Whitman, Walt
   O Captain!  My Captain! 57
   Song of Myself, 344
 Whittier, John G.
   The Three Bells of Glasgow, 67
   Barbara Frietchie, 96
 Wolfe, C.
   The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 176
 Woodworth, Samuel
   The Old Oaken Bucket, 288
 Wordsworth, William
   The Rainbow (a fragment), 28
   I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, 82
   Fidelity, 120
   Lucy, 272
   The World is Too Much With Us, 304
   She Was a Phantom of Delight, 305
 Wotton, sir Henry
   A Happy Life, 220

PART I.

 The Budding Moment

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 Poems That Every Child Should Know

 The arrow and the song.

“The Arrow and the Song,” by Longfellow (1807-82), is placed first in this volume out of respect to a little girl of six years who used to love to recite it to me.  She knew many poems, but this was her favourite.

    I shot an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
    Could not follow it in its flight.

    I breathed a song into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For who has sight so keen and strong
    That it can follow the flight of song?