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Abide with me / H. Lyte. --
Abou Ben Adhem / J. Hunt. --
Advertisement of a lost day / L. Sigourney. --
Ain't it fine today / D. Malloch. --
Always finish / Anonymous. --
America / S. Smith. --
America for me / H. van Dyke. --
American flag / J. Drake. --
America the Beautiful / K. Bates. --
Annabel Lee / E. Poe. --
Annie Laurie / Douglas of Fingland. --
Another year is dawning / F. Havergal. --
Apostrophe to the ocean / G. Gordon. --
Armada / Lord Macaulay. --
Average man / M. Sangster. --
Banks o' doon / R. Burns. --
Bannockburn / R. Burns. --
Barbara Frietchie / J. Whittier. --
Barefoot boy / J. Whittier. --
Battle hymn of the republic / J. Howe. --
Battle of Blenheim / R. Southey. --
Battle of Ivry / Lord Macaulay. --
Beautiful / W. Bixler. --
Beautiful snow / J. Watson. --
Beautiful things / E. Allerton. --
Beautiful water / G. Edwards. --
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms / T. Moore. --
Bells / E. Poe. --
Best of all / Anonymous. --
Be strong / M. Babcock. --
Bethlehem town / E. Field. --
Better, wiser, happier / E. Wilcox. --
Bigger day / G. Bishop. --
Bingen on the Rhine / C. Norton. --
Birds of Killingsworth / H. Longfellow. --
Bird with a broken wing / H. Butterworth. --
Blind men and the elephant / J. Saxe. --
Blue and the gray / F. Finch. --
Boosting the booster / Anonymous. --
Boys / O. Holmes. --
Boy we want / Anonymous. --
Bravest battle / J. Miller. --
Break, break, break / A. Tennyson. --
Bridge of sighs / T. Hood. --
Bugle song of peace / T. Clark. --
Burial of Moses / C. Alexander. --
Burial of Sir John Moore / C. Wolfe. --
Business is business / B. Braley.
Calvary and Easter / S. Coolidge. --
Casablanca / F. Hemans. --
Cataract of Lodore / R. Southey. --
Cato's soliloquy / J. Addison. --
Charge of the light bricade at Balaklava / A. Tennyson. --
Children's hour / H. Longfellow. --
A chip on his shoulder / Anonymous. --
Choir invisible / G. Eliot. --
Christmas bells / H. Longfellow. --
Christmas everywhere / P. Brooks. --
Church triumphant / J. Symonds. --
Comin' thro' the rye / Anonymous. --
Convinced by sorrow / E. Browning. --
Crossing the bar / A. Tennyson. --
A cure for fault-finding / Anonymous. --
Curfew must not ring tonight / R. Thorpe. --
Daffodils / W. Wordsworth. --
Deacon's masterpiece or the one-hoss shay / O. Holmes. --
A dead past / C. Munson. --
De good Lawd know my name / F. Stanton. --
Destruction of Sennacherib / G. Gordon. --
Death of Gaudentis / H. Annie. --
Death of the flowers / W. Bryant. --
Disappointment / Anonymous. --
Dog / Anonymous. --
Do it now / Anonymous. --
Do it now / B. Braley. --
Do it right / S. Buckner. --
Domestic science / Farm Journal. --
Don't trouble trouble / M. Pearse. --
Dreamer / T. Nunan. --
A dresscessional / C. Wells. --
Each a part of all / A. Bamberger. --
Each in his own tongue / W. Carruth. --
Elegy written in a country churchyard / T. Gray. --
Emancipation / M. Babcock. --
Eulogy of the dog / G. Vest. --
Evangeline, introduction to / H. Longfellow. --
Excelsior / H. Longfellow. --
Face to fact with reality / J. Oxenham. --
Famous toast to water / J. Gough. --
First snowball / J. Lowell. --
Flag goes by / H. Bennett. --
Folks and me / L. Crites. --
Fool's prayer / E. Sill. --
For a' that and a' that / R. Burns. --
Forget it / Anonymous. --
Four things to do / H. van Dyke. --
Garibaldi hymn / L. Mercantini. --
General Joseph Warren's address / J. Pierpont.
Get a transfer / Anonymous. --
Get into the boosting business / Anonymous. --
Gettysburg address / A. Lincoln. --
Give them flowers now / Anonymous. --
Give to the living / I. Morris. --
Glove and the lions / J. Hunt. --
God, give us men / J. Holland. --
God in the Nation's life / Anonymous. --
God knoweth best / Anonymous. --
God save the king / H. Carey. --
God, save the people / E. Elliott. --
God's goodness / C. Martin. --
God's sunshine / J. Oxenham. --
God's will for us / Anonymous. --
Gold / T. Hood. --
Gospel of labor / H. van Dyke. --
Graves of a household / F. Hemans. --
Great guest comes in / E. Markham. --
Growing old / R. Wells. --
Grumble family / Anonymous. --
Hamlet's soliloquy / W. Shakespeare. --
Hammers and anvil / J. Clifford. --
Hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world / W. Wallace. --
Hang to your grit / L. Thayer. --
Have you lost faith / Anonymous. --
Heart of the tree / H. Bunner. --
Heart's proof / J. Buckham. --
He careth / M. Farningham. --
He giveth more / A. Flint. --
He leadeth me / J. Gilmore. --
He lives long who lives well / T. Randolph. --
He shall speak peace / T. Clark. --
He shall speak peace unto the nations / L. Walters. --
Hiawatha's childhood / H. Longfellow. --
Highland Mary / R. Burns. --
Hohenlinden / T. Campbell. --
Holy Bible, book divine / J. Burton. --
Holy city / F. Weatherly. --
Home, sweet home / J. Payne. --
A home without a Bible / C. Meigs. --
Honest, wouldn't you / Anonymous. --
Horse sense / Anonymous. --
House by the side of the road / S. Foss. --
How do you do / H. Jones. --
Hustle and grin / Anonymous. --
If / R. Foresman. --
If / R. Kipling. --
If all the skies were sunshine / H. van Dyke. --
In Flanders field / J. McCrae. --
I shall not pass this way again / Anonymous.
I shall not pass this way again / E. York. --
Isle of the long ago / B. Taylor. --
Isolation of Genius / G. Gordon. --
It couldn't be done / E. Guest. --
I thank thee, Lord / Anonymous. --
It isn't the church
it's you /
Anonymous. --
Jericho's blind beggar / H. Longfellow. --
John Anderson / R. Burns. --
Just be glad / J. Riley. --
Just forget / M. Dryden. --
Just keep on / C. Abbott. --
Just the same today / Anonymous. --
Just try this / Anonymous. --
Just try to be the fellow that your mother thinks you are / W. Adkin. --
Keep a-goin / F. Stanton. --
Keep love in your life / T. Clark. --
Keep smiling / Anonymous. --
Kingdom of God / Archbishop French. --
Landing of the pilgrim fathers / F. Hemans. --
Land o' the leal / Lady Nairn. --
Last leaf / O. Holmes. --
Laugh it off / H. Elliot. --
Leaders / Anonymous. --
Let be / Anonymous. --
Let us smile / W. Nesbit. --
Life and the weaver / A. Dewar. --
Life's common things / A. Allen. --
Life's common duties / M. Savage. --
Life sculpture / G. Doane. --
Life's mirror / M. Bridges. --
Life that counts / A.W.S. --
Lifting and leaning / E. Wilcox. --
Little black sheep / P. Dunbar. --
Locksley hall / A. Tennyson. --
Lord Ullin's daughter / T. Campbell. --
A lost chord / A. Procter. --
Love of country / W. Scott. --
Love's young dream / T. Moore. --
Magna Charta. --
Manyly man / Anonymous. --
Man's littleness in presence of the stars / H. White. --
Man's mortality / S. Wastel. --
Man the enemy of man / W. Scott. --
Man with the hoe / E. Markham. --
Marco Bozzaris / F. Halleck. --
Marseillaise / R. de Lisle. --
Maud Muller / J. Whittier. --
A maxim revised / Anonymous. --
Memorial day / E. Lent. --
Memory / A. Lincoln. --
Mercy / W. Shakespeare.
A message of peace / H. Longfellow. --
Mother o' mine / R. Kipling.
Mothers and others /
A. Wells. --
Mother's love / R. Clapp. --
Mountains / L. Larcom. --
Mr. Meant-to / Anonymous. --
Music / T. Carlyle. --
My aim / G. Banks. --
My creed / H. Walter. --
My garden / T. Brown. --
My Kate / E. Browning. --
My Mother's Bible / G. Morris. --
Mystic borderland / H. Fischer. --
Nearer home / P. Cary. --
Nearer my God, to thee / S. Adams. --
Need of loving / S. Gillilan. --
A new leaf / K. Wheeler. --
Night before Christmas / C. Moore. --
Night before the battle of Waterloo / G. Gordon. --
Night has a thousand eyes / F. Bourdillon. --
Nineteenth psalm. --
Nobility / A. Cary. --
Not lost, but gone before him / Mrs. Norton. --
Oh, if they only knew / E. Mapes. --
Oh, Why should the spirit of mortal be proud / W. Knox. --
Old arm chair / E. Cook. --
Old clock on the stairs / H. Longfellow. --
Old folks at home / S. Foster. --
Old oaken bucket / S. Woodworth. --
Old oaken bucket (parody) / Anonymous. --
O little town of Bethlehem / P. Brooks. --
One step at a time / Anonymous. --
One thing / O. Meredith. --
On file / J. Bangs. --
Only way to win / Anonymous. --
Opportunity / B. Braley. --
Opportunity / J. Ingalls / Opportunity / W. Malone. --
Other fellow's job / S. Gillilan. --
Others / C. Meigs. --
Our country's emblem / Anonymous. --
Our lips and ears / Anonymous. --
Our master / J. Whittier. --
Out in the fields with God / E. Browning. --
Owl critic / J. Fields. --
Palestine / J. Whittier. --
Paul Revere's ride / H. Longfellow. --
Peace / E. Markham. --
People will talk / S. Dodge. --
Pep / G. Bostwick. --
A perfect day / C. Jacobs-Bond. --
Plant a tree / L. Larcom. --
Prayer / R. Trench. --
Price he paid / E. Wilcox. --
Primeval forest / H. Longfellow.
Prophecy / A. Tennyson. --
A psalm of life / H. Longfellow. --
Psalm 23. --
Quarrelsome trio / L.G. --
Question / Anonymous. --
Quitter / Anonymous. --
Rain song / R. Loveman. --
Raven / E. Poe. --
Recessional / R. Kipling. --
Recessional / I. Watts. --
Red, white and blue / D. Shaw. --
Reign of peace / M. Starck. --
Revelation / V. Bright. --
Right is right / F. Faber. --
Ring out the old, ring in the new / A. Tennyson. --
Robert of Lincoln / W. Bryant. --
Rocked in the cradle of the deep / E. Willard. --
Rock me to sleep / E. Allen. --
Rosary / R. Rogers. --
Rule, Britannia / J. Thomson. --
Sacred poetry / J. Wilson. --
Sand-piper / C. Thaxter. --
Sands of Dee / C. Kingsley. --
Say it now / Anonymous. --
Scatter seeds of kindness / Mrs. A. Smith. --
Search after happiness / H. More. --
Settin' on de fence / Anonymous. --
Sheridan's ride / T. Read. --
Slaves / J. Lowell. --
Smile / Anonymous. --
A smile / Anonymous. --
Solitude / H. More. --
Somebody's darling / M. LaCoste. --
Somebody's mother / M. Brine. --
Some time we'll understand / M. Cornelius. --
Some who do not go to church / Anonymous. --
A song of the camp / B. Taylor. --
Song of the shirt / T. Hood. --
Spider and the fly / M. Howitt. --
Star-spangled banner / F. Key. --
Success / B. Braley. --
Sweet hour of prayer / W. Walford. --
Tapestry weavers / A. Chester. --
Task that is givent o you / E. Markham. --
Tell him so / Anonymous. --
Ten commandments. --
Thanatopsis / W. Bryant. --
Thank God for the country / Mrs. M. Arnold. --
Thanks for everything / H. Tupper. --
Thanksgiving / J. Oxenham. --
That radio religion / W. Ludlum. --
Then laugh / B. Backus. --
There is no death / J. McCreery. --
There is no unbelief / E. Case. --
There's a wideness / F. Faber. --
They never quite leave us / M. Sangster.
They say / E. Wilcox. --
They two / Mrs. F. Breck. --
Things that endure / T. Olson. --
Thinker / B. Braley. --
Thinking / W. Wintle. --
Three fishers / C. Kingsley. --
Three wise monkeys / F. Davis. --
Thy will be done / J. Hay. --
'Tis the last rose of summer / T. Moore. --
To a mountain daisy / R. Burns. --
To a waterfowl / W. Bryant. --
Tongue / P. Strong. --
Too busy / P. Dunbar. --
Too late / H. Longfellow. --
To whom shall the world henceforth belong / J. Oxenham. --
Town of don't-you-worry / Annonymous. --
Trees / J. Kilmer. --
True aristocrat / Stewart. --
Tribute to grass / J. Ingalls. --
Tribute to the Bible / J. Ingalls. --
Trouble / D. Keppel. --
True brotherhood / E. Wilcox. --
True rest / J. Goethe. --
Trust the great artist / T. Clark. --
Truth never dies / Anonymous. --
Try smiling / Anonymous. --
Try this once / Anonymous. --
Tubal cain / C. Mackay. --
Vacation / E. Field. --
Village blacksmith / H. Longfellow. --
Voice of God / K. Barnard. --
War / J. Lawson. --
Was it you / S. Long. --
Way of the world / E. Wilcox. --
We are seven / W. Wordsworth. --
We thank thee Lord / J. Oxenham. --
What do we plant / H. Abbey. --
What God has promised / A. Flint. --
What have we done today / N. Waterman. --
What is good / J. O'Reilly. --
What makes a nation great / A. Blackburn. --
Which loved best / Anonymous. --
While the days are going by / G. Cooper. --
Winds of fate / E. Wilcox. --
Woman's love / Anonymous. --
A woman's question / E. Browning. --
Women men's shadows / B. Jonson. --
Woodman, spare that tree / G. Morris. --
World hymn / J. Lawson. --
Wreck of the Hesperus / H. Longfellow. --
Year ahead / H. Powers. --
Your flag and my flag / W. Nesbit. --
Zest of life / H. van Dyke.
