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Table of Contents
Time / Anonymous
October's bright blue weather / Helen Hunt Jackson
Bill Nye accepts appointment as Postmaster of Laramie, Wyoming / Office of Daily boomerang, Laramie City, WY, August 9, 1882
For everything give thanks / Helena Isabella Tupper
Is Epimenides a liar?
Love's old sweet song / G. Clifton Bingham
Protection from protectors / Henry David Thoreau
Politics defined / Oscar Ameringer
On Prince Frederick / Anonymous
The toys / Coventry Patmore
Prayer of an unknown Confederate soldier
Rest / John Sullivan Dwight
The mountains in labor (from Aesop's fables)
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
The value of silence (Calvin Coolidge)
The life of man on Earth / Anonymous
The death of Jesus (from the Holy Bible, Luke 23:1-46)
"Do what thy manhood bids thee do" / Richard Burton
What folks are made of / Anonymous
The duel / Eugene Field
Our lips and ears / Anonymous
Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay
Elegy written in a country church-yard / Thomas Gray
Parkinson's law, or this rising pyramid / C. Northcote Parkinson
Whichever way the wind doth blow / Caroline A. Mason
The emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas
The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth
Old superstitutions / Anonymous
Free trade in ideas / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
The shooting of Dan McGrew / Robert W. Service
O my luve's like a red, red rose / Robert Burns
Fatigue / Hilaire Belloc
Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom
Mystery engenders religion / Albert Einstein
Now thank we all our God / Martin Rinkart, translated by Catherine Winkworth
How doth the little busy bee / Isaac Watts
Cindy / Anonymous
Epitaph / Anonymous
Love's nobility / Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child's grace / Robert Herrick
Jesus and the woman at the well (from the Holy Bible, John 4:5-26)
Music and poetry / Charles Darwin
From Alumnus football / Grantland Rice
We are seven / William Wordsworth
Robert E. Lee / Benjamin Harvey Hill
"O, woman!" (from Marmion) / Sir Walter Scott
Victory in defeat / Edwin Markham
To the fringed gentian / William Cullen Bryant
Preamble to the constitution
Worth while / Ellen Wheeler Wilcox
The dying Christian to his soul / Alexander Pope
Trouble / David Keppel
The tiger / William Blake
Dream and reality / Henry David Thoreau
The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth
In the garden / C. Austin Miles
I sought my soul / Anonymous
Lincoln to Colonel Ellsworth's parents, Washington, D.C., May 25, 1861
Great things / Thomas Hardy
Columbus / Joaquim Miller
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald
Lincoln's second Inaugural Address
The arrow and the song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A baker's dozen uv wize sawz / Edward Rowland Sill
Autres betes, autres moeurs / Ogden Nash
The charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The pelican / Anonymous
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey's revenge (being a reply to the famous baseball classic, "Casey at the bat") / James Wilson
A morning prayer / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sermon on the Mount (from the Holy Bible, Matthew 5-7)
"It is a beauteous evening" / William Wordsworth
Casey Jones / Anonymous
Remember / Christina Georgina Rossetti
The lost sheep (from the Holy Bible, St. Luke 15:4-7)
The soldier / Rupert Brooke
Helping the handicapped / Emily Dickinson
A meditation upon a broomstick / Jonathan Swift
Antony's oration over Caesar's body / William Shakespeare
From Don Juan / Lord Byron
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The bridge of sighs / Thomas Hood
Man (from Hamlet) / William Shakespeare
On his seventy-fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor
Home, sweet home / John Howard Payne
Lochinvar (from Marmion) / Sir Walter Scott
Invictus / William Ernest Henley
A letter to Lord Chesterfield / S. Johnson
Rock of ages / August M. Toplady
Prayer for a new angel / Violet Alleyn Storey
When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman
Coda / Dorothy Parker
The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton
The land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson
"Believe me, if all those endearing young charms" / Thomas Moore
From The vision of Sir Launfal / James Russell Lowell
From Part 2nd, chapter viii
New friends and old friends / Joseph Parry
The prodigal son (from the Holy Bible, St. Luke 15:11-32)
Cargoes / John Masefield
No truer word / Walter Savage Landor
Cato's soliloquy / Joseph Addison
Quotes from Harry Truman
Silent night / Joseph Mohr
On the death of Joseph Rodman Drake
A honest man (from Essay on man) / Alexander Pope
The pleasure of painting / William Hazlitt
Hope ( from Essay on man) / Alexander Pope
Good-bye / Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sail on, o ship of state!" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Home-thoughts from abroad / Robert Browning
Life's mirror / Madeline S. Bridges (that is, Mary Ainge De Vere)
The death of Socrates( from Plato's Phaedo) / Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Exchange of letters between Lincoln and McClellan
O! Susanna / Stephen Foster
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (from the Holy Bible, Proverbs 3:11-18)
The violet / Janet Taylor
There was a little girl / Anonymous (but sometimes attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
America the beautiful / Katherine Lee Bates
The way of the world / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Arabian proverb
I'll take you home again, Kathleen / Thomas P. Westerdorf
The bargain / Sir Philip Sidney
'Tis the last rose of Summer / Thomas Moore
God, give us men! / Josiah Gilbert Holland
Lincoln reviews a book
"Where ignorance is bliss
" (from On a distant prospect of Eton College) / Thomas Gray
Abou Ben Adhem / James Henry Leigh Hunt
"As the twig is bent" (from Pope's Moral essays)
Intreat me not to leave thee (from the Holy Bible, Ruth 1:16-17)
The marines' hymn / Anonymous
Pippa's song (from Pippa passes) / Robert Browning
Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A last will / Charles Lounsbery
The tree of liberty / Bertrand Barere
Boy defined / Anonymous
For, lo, the Winter is past (from the Holy Bible, Song of Solomon 2:10-13)
I have seen a curious child / William Wordsworth
Mr. Dooley on the Supreme Court / Finley Peter Dunne
The pessimist / Ben King
Jesus and the children (from the Holy Bible, Mark 10:13-16)
Duty / Robert Louis Stevenson
The song of the ungirt runners / Charles Hamilton Sorley
The wit of Sydney Smith
Dominus illuminatio mea / R.D. Blackmore
These are the times that try mens' souls (from The American crisis) / Thomas Paine
Solitude / Henry David Thoreau
My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth
The pure heart (from Tennyson's Sir Galahad)
America / Samuel Francis Smith
Onward, Christian soldiers / Sabine Baring-Gould
Time, you old gypsy man / Ralph Hodgson
According to Josh Billings:
A wise old owl / Edward Hersey Richards
Shakespeare / Ben Jonson
Little things / Julia Carney
She walks in beauty / Lord Byron
As thro' the land at Eve / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The purple cow / Gelett Burgess
A man to the universe / Stephen Crane
I shall not pass again this way / Anonymous
Calvary / Edwin Arlington Robinson
A prayer / Max Ehrmann
For evening / Sabine Baring-Gould
The wit of John F. Kennedy
God our refuge / Richard Chenevix Trench
Youth's immortality / William Hazlitt
The mourning bride / William Congreve
The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moron / Anonymous
Lost / Anonymous
A lost chord / Adelaide Anne Proctor
Ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood / William Wordsworth
Renouncement / Alice Meynell
Abraham Lincoln announces his first try for public office
With every rising of the sun / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Mr. Dooley on old age / Finley Peter Dunne
One word is too often profaned / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Polonius' advice to his son (from Hamlet) / William Shakespeare
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
Requiescat / Oscar Wilde
Tall oaks from little acorns grow / David Everett
What is good? / John Boyle O'Reilly
The Blue and the Gray / Francis Miles Finch
In the good old summer time / Ren Shields
Evening song / Sidney Lanier
On a clergyman's horse biting him / Anonymous
A bag of tools / R.L. Sharpe
The noblest occupation / Montaigne, translated by William Hazlitt
Along the road / Robert Browning Hamilton
We are made for co-operation / Marcus Aurelius (translated by Charles Long)
Thou easer of all woes / John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
Tears, idle tears (from The princess) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In time of "the breaking of nations" / Thomas Hardy
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
On a bad singer / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Home / Edgar A. Guest
Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Retribution / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oh promise me / Clement Scott
To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe
The suicide's grave / Sir W.S. Gilbert
Silver threads among the gold / Eben E. Rexford
Easter morning (from the Holy Bible, Matthew 28:1-10)
The man he killed / Thomas Hardy
Rain song / Robert Loveman
Waiting / John Burroughs
Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh
The dead / Rupert Brooke
The greatest battle that was ever fought / Joaquim Miller
The candid physician / John C. Lettsom
The creed of our political faith (from First Inaugural Address, 1801) / Thomas Jefferson
Elegy in a country churchyard / G.K. Chesterton
The mad gardener's song / Lewis Carroll
Wise sayings of Benjamin Franklin
God is now / Henry David Thoreau
Determination / Anonymous
The gate of the year / M. Louise Haskins
My mind to me a kingdom is / Sir Edward Dyer
No longer mourn for me when I am dead (from the Sonnets) / Shakespeare
The twleve months / Gregory Gander
Free speech (from Schenck vs. U.S., 1919) / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hymn to the night / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The "kitty" / Anonymous
"Be of good cheer: I have overcome the world" (from the Holy Bible, John 16:19-33)
Prophetic words by Woodrow Wilson (from the Address to Congress asking for a Declaration of War Against Germany, April 2, 1917)
The cry of a dreamer / John Boyle O'Reilly
Inward peace (from Moby Dick) / Herman Melville
In men whom men condemn as ill / Joaquin Miller
Miss you / David Cory
Marriage / Louis K. Anspacher
On growing old / John Masefield
A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore
The conquered banner / Abram Joseph Ryan
From Abraham Lincoln's "house divided" speech, Springfield, IL, June 17, 1858)
The curse (to a sister of an enemy of the author's who disapproved of "the playboy") / J.M. Synge
Gunga Din / Rudyard Kipling
Just tell them that you saw me / Paul Dresser
The lost leader / Robert Browning
Democracy / Abraham Lincoln
The noblest Roman (from Julius Caesar) / William Shakespeare
The sad tale of Mr. Mears / Anonymous
Renewing friendship / Samuel Johnson
The children's hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ozymandias of Egypt / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tender-heartedness / Harry Graham
"I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson
Outwitted / Edwin Markham
Peter's tears / Thomas Hood
A peaceful life, a long life / Balthasar Gracian
Music I heard / Conrad Aiken
A Dutch lullaby / Eugene Field
Song to Celia / Ben Jonson
Gifts / James Thompson
If
/ Rudyard Kipling
A welcome / Thomas O. Davis
Taoism / Lao Tzu (translated by Lionel Giles)
Lives of great men / Anonymous
Polly Wolly Doodle / Anonymous
Take back your gold / Louis W. Paitzakow
Resolution / Abraham Lincoln
The picture that is turned toward the wall / Charles Graham
O thou who art our author and our end / Sir John Beaumont
The divine office of the kitchen / Cecily Hallack
Mohammed and the mountain / Francis Bacon
Encountering God / Walt Whitman
Abridgement of freedom / James Madison
Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What you are seeking is here / Horace
The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham
Kashmiri song / Laurence Hope
Out where the West begins / Arthur Chapman
Epigram / Sir William Watson
The raven / Edgar Allan Poe
Inscription on General Post Office, New York, NY (from Herodotus)
White House blessing / John Adams
The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"My yoke is easy" (from the Holy Bible, Matthew 11:28-30)
The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sea fever / John Masefield
Light shining out of darkness / William Cowper
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae / Ernest Dowson
Duty / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Landing of the Pilgrim fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hermans
The lamb / William Blake
Love on another (from the Holy Bible, John 13:33-35)
The cloud / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not by bread alone / James Terry White
"The crime of being a young man" / William Pitt
Silver / Walter de la Mare
Casabianca / Felicia Dorothea Hermans
Try, try again / Anonymous
The ballad of reading gaol / Oscar Wilde
Kiss me again / Henry Blossom
Benjamin Disraeli's estimate of William E. Gladstone
Memory / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
My old Kentuckey home / Stephen Foster
St. Paul on charity (from the Holy Bible, I Corinthians 13)
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
Love's not time's fool / William Shakespeare
Money / Richard Armour
The Mad Hatter's tea-party (from Alice's adventures in Wonderland) / Lewis Carroll
Liberty / John Milton
Prayer / Hartley Coleridge
The gift of a lovely thought / Anonymous
Follow the gleam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
New England Spring / Mark Twain
Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant
Chicago / Carl Sandburg
Brutus explains why he murdered Caesar (from Julius Caesar) / William Shakespeare
De profundis (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 130)
Bredon Hill / A.E. Housman
In the beginning was the Word (from the Holy Bible, John 1:1-17)
Epigram / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman
Mr. Valiant-for-Truth crosses the river (from Pilgrim's progress)
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
When the son of man shall come in all His glory (from the Holy Bible, Matthew 25:31-46)
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Baseball's sad lexicon / Franklin P. Adams
The Star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key
As brothers live together (from The song of Hiawatha) / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hope / Oliver Goldsmith
Daniel Webster in reply to Hayne (United States Senate, January 26, 1830)
Arithmetic
Jenny kiss'd me / James Henry Leigh Hunt
Daybreak / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Burial of Sir John Moore / Charles Wolfe
Abide with me / Henry F. Lyte
The one-hoss shay (the deacon's masterpiece) / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Perfect woman / William Wordsworth
Benjamin Franklin (Turgot's inscription on Houdon's bust)
Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson
Good and bad children / Robert Louis Stevenson
Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick
A perfect day / Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Happiness (from Dryden's Imitation of Horace)
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
The wit of Adlai Stevenson
The listeners / Walter de la Mare
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant
The sugar-plum tree / Eugene Field
Evolution / John Bannister Tabb
My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson
Hanukkah hymn / Anonymous
Quandary / Mrs. Edward Craster
O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman
Prayer / John Greenleaf Whittier
Two views of the same ship / Midrash
Nature / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The mountains are a lonely folk / Hamlin Garland
Daisy Bell / Harry Dacre
My wild Irish rose / Chauncey Olcott
Socrates' prayer (from Plato's Phaedrus) / Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Self-dependence / Matthew Arnold
Needless worry / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace before meals : Jewish; Protestant; Roman Catholic; Eastern Orthodox
How to guess your age / Corey Ford
On Lady Poltagrue, a public peril / Hilaire Belloc
The Queen introduces Alice to a fact of modern life / Lewis Carroll
Ode on solitude / Alexander Pope
Go, lovely rose! / Edmund Waller
Theodore Roosevelt stands at Armageddon (before the Republican National Convention, Chicago, 1912)
One hour of life / Sir Walter Scott
Prayer for serenity / Reinhold Niebuhr
A bird in a gilded cage / Arthur J. Lamb
Jesus eats with sinners (from the Holy bible, Mark 2:15-17)
A famous toast (from School for scandal) / Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Armed forces slogan
World War II
The king's ring / Theodore Tilton
Prayer at night (from The book of common prayer)
One world / Johann Amos Comenius
Who walks with beauty / David Morton
The surrender of General Robert E. Lee / General U.S. Grant
An old woman of the roads / Padrac Colum
Ideals / Carl Schurz
Light in darkness / Talmud
Limerick / Anonymous
A book / Emily Dickinson
Stupidity Street / Ralph Hodgson
The fateful choice (from an address to the United Nations, June 14, 1946) / Bernard M. Baruch
Enjoy the good (from the Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes 5:18-20)
Unite as one people / Abraham Lincoln
Old age / Edmund Waller
Greater love hath no man (from the Holy Bible, John 15:13-16)
Tewkesbury Road / John Masefield
The baby (from the Sanskrit of Kalidasa) / Sir William Jones
The golden rule
Proposal / Anonymous
School days / Will D. Cobb
A good name (from Othello) / Shakespeare
Friends / George W. Childs
An epitaph upon husband and wife who died and were buried together / Richard Crashaw
Loch Lomand / Lady John Scott
Mary's a grand old name / George M. Cohan
Cassius poisons Brutus' mind (from Julisu Caesar) / William Shakespeare
The good shepherd (from the Holy Bible, John 10:7-18)
Let dogs delight to bark and bite / Isaac Watts
Sound the clarion / Sir Walter Scott
A brief sermon / Anonymous
Address to the ocean (from Childe Harold's pilgrimage) / Lord Byron
"I'm nobody, who are you?" / Emily Dickinson
When love rules on earth / Martin Buber
Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lincoln's farewell to the citizens of Springfield, Illinois, on his departure for Washington
Whatever is-is best / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The fox and the grapes (from Aesop's fables)
The uses of adversity (from As you like it) / William Shakespeare
Hark! The herald angels sing / Charles Wesley
Oath taken by naturalized citizens of the United States
Sail, don't drift / Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.
In memoriam Margaritae Sorori / William Ernest Henley
The happiest heart / John Vance Cheney
Old Susan / Walter de la Mare
Out in the fields / Anonymous
Love concealed (from Twelfth night) / William Shakespeare
We never speak as we pass by / Anonymous
Still the wonder grew / Oliver Goldsmith
An old story / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song / Christina Georgina Rossetti
Robinson Crusoe discovers Friday's footprint (from Robinson Crusoe) / Daniel Defoe
Battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe
Song / William Watson
What must God think? / Abraham Lincoln
Your mission / Ellen M.H. Gates
Breathes there the man with soul so dead (from The lay of the last minstrel) / Sir Walter Scott
The Kilkenny cats / Anonymous
Stealing / James Russell Lowell
Methuselah / Anonymous
"The right is more precious than peace" (from a message to Congress, April 2, 1917, asking for Declaration of War against Germany) / Woodrow Wilson
There is pleasure in the pathless woods (from Childe Harold) / Lord Byron
On consistency (from the essay, Self-Reliance) / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity / John James Ingalls
The banks o'Doon / Robert Burns
A mind diseased (from Macbeth) / William Shakespeare
On fleas / Jonathan Swift; Augustus De Morgan
The sea gypsy / Richard Hovey
Lincoln challenges Robert Allen, New Salem, June 21, 1836
You never can tell / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
God governs in the affairs of men / Benjamin Franklin
Inscription on the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
High flight (written by a 19-year-old American volunteer with the Royal Canadian Air Force, who was killed in training December 11, 1941) / John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
The celestial surgeon / Robert Louis Stevenson
The death of cowards (from Julius Caesar) / William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson answers a challenge
Song / James Thomson
My choice / Robert G. Ingersoll
To Boston ( toast, Midwinter Dinner, Holy Cross Alumni, 1910) / John Collins Bossidy
To New Haven (toast, dinner of the Yale Alumni Association, Waterbury, Conn., 1915) / Frederick Scheetz Jones
To New Haven and Boston (toast, Brown University) / Walter Foster Angell
The Americans and the Russians / Alexis de Tocqueville
The blind men and the elephant / John G. Saxe
Death of the aged / Robert G. Ingersoll
Little Annie Rooney / Michael Nolan
The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lucy / William Wordsworth
Lizzie Bordon / Anonymous
Fancy (from The merchant of Venice) / William Shakespeare
Requiescat / Matthew Arnold
The seven wonders of the ancient world / Anonymous
Go to the the ant, thou sluggard (from the Holy Bible, Proverbs 6:6-11)
With rue my heart is laden / A.E. Housman
Broken friendship / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blue girls / John Crowe Ransom
A man's home / William Pitt
The secret isolated joy of the thinker / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
God is our refuge and strength (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 46:1-6, 10-11)
Oh my darling Clementine / Anonymous
Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby, November 21, 1864
Pilgrimage / Sir Walter Raleigh
The walloping window-blind / Charles E. Carryl
All times are his seasons / John Donne
The Arab to his favorite steed / Caroline Norton
Now the laborer's task is o'er / John Ellerton
Books / Richard de Bury
My financial career / Stephen Leacock
A prophetic utterance (from a letter to President Roosevelt, written on April 12, 1945, the day the president died) / Leo Szilard
The common people (from the preface to Leaves of grass) / Walt Whitman
Strange meeting / Wilfred Owens
One year / William Drummond of Hawthorden
O world, thou choosest not the better part! / George Santayana
It couldn't be done / Edgar A. Guest
Reason / Anonymous
Broadcast on his ninetieth birthday / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Repartee / Anonymous
The ocean of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Admiration and awe / Immanuel Kant
A prayer / Frank Dempster Sherman
From Is life worth living? / Alfred Austin
On taking a wife / Thomas Moore
That energy equals mass times the speed of light squared / Albert Einstein
The power of spirit (from the Chandogya Upanishad)
Old lesson / Anonymous
Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats
Remember now thy creator (from the Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes 12)
The sea / Bryan Waller Proctor (Barry Cornwall)
Science's lesson / Thomas Huxley
Prospero ends the revels (from The tempest) / William Shakespeare
The woman taken in adultery (from the Holy Bible, John 8:2-11)
Duty / Ellen S. Hooper
St. Teresa's bookmark / Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A reasonable affliction / Matthew Prior
The Vicar of Bray
Epitaph (churchyard; Linton, England, 1825)
Make big plans / Daniel Burnham
A man of words / Anonymous
The child's world / William Brighty Rands
The monarch / William Cowper
Prophecy (from Locksley Hall) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The terror of the infinite / Blaise Pascal
Five reasons for drinking / Dean Henry Aldrich
The larger hope / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Macbeth learns of his wife's death / William Shakespeare
To an anxious friend (Emporia Gazette, July 27, 1922) / William Allen White
The shepherdess / Alice Meynell
Of death / Francis Bacon
Grammar in a nutshell / Anonymous
Money / Attributed to Judge Kelly of Chicage
A prayer found in Chester Cathedral / Anonymous
Even such is time / Sir Walter Raleigh
London, 1802 / William Wordsworth
Heraclitus / William (Johnson) Cory
Callicles' exhortation (from Gorgias) / Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett
Inscription on the cross (from the Holy Bible, John 19:19-22)
Zest for life / William Allen White
Today / Mary F. Butts
John Hay, President Lincoln's secretary, records in his diary the occasion of the Gettysburg Address, November 1863
In Flanders fields / Captain John D. McCrae
The West wind / John Masefield
That Nantucket limerick, and what followed / Princeton tiger; Chicago tribune; New York press
Now I lay me down to take my sleep (from the New England primer 1777 ed.)
Mark Twain discusses Satan
Upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth
Baby / George Macdonald
Mandalay / Rudyard Kipling
Appointment in Samarra (from Sheppy) / Somerset Maugham
Reveille / A.E. Housman
Finnegan to Flannigan / Strickland Gillilan
The things that are Caesar's (from the Holy Bible, Matthew 22:15-22)
Robert E. Lee's farewell to his army, Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865)
Teddy Roosevelt on war veterans, Springfield, Ill., 1903
I can stand any society / Mark Twain
The bowery / Charles H. Hoyt
This was their finest hour (from the speech of June 18, 1940) / Winston Churchill
The woodpecker / Coleman Cox
The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
Cleopatra and her barge (from Antony and Cleopatra) / William Shakespeare
Say not the struggle nought availeth / Arthur Hugh Clough
The sultan's harem / Anonymous
So we saunter toward the Holy Land / Henry David Thoreau
Courage / Sydney Smith
Trees / Joyce Kilmer
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door (from Divina commedia) / Translated by Longfellow
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Whole duty of children / Robert Louis Stevenson
Nearer, my God, to thee / Sarah Flower Adams
We have lived and loved together / Charles Jefferys
The soul selects / Emily Dickinson
Power from God (from the Holy Bible, Isaiah 40:28-31)
To one who has been long in city pent / John Keats
Father forgets / William Livingston Larned
The words of the preacher (from the Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:2-11)
Song of the open road / Ogden Nash
Explanation / Josh Billings
Faith of our fathers / Frederick W. Faber
Martha / Walter de la Mare
The laughter of a child / Robert G. Ingersoll
O to be up and doing / Robert Louis Stevenson
Crabbed age and youth / Anonymous, usually attributed to William Shakespeare
All men should work / Abraham Lincoln
Chaucer / Artemus Ward
Up-hill // Christina Georgina Rossetti
Eventide / Caroline Atherton Briggs Mason
From Paradise lost / John Milton
"To the victor belongs the spoils" (defending Van Buren's appointment as Minister to England, 1832) / U.S. Senator William L. Marcy, of New York
Epitaph placed on his daughter's tomb / Mark Twain, adapted from Robert Richardson)
The first Christmas (from the Holy Bible, Luke 2:1-19)
What I live for ? / George Linnaeus Banks
Mia Carlotta / T.A. Daly
Jesus answers the Pharisees (from the Holy Bible, John 8:12-32
Come, let us kiss and part / Michael Drayton
A little song of life / Lizette Woodworth Reese
Old folks at home / Stephen Foster
Justice Holmes upholds freedom of speech (dissenting opinion, Abrams vs. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 1919)
At day's end / Anonymous
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!" (from The merchant of Venice) / William Shakespeare
As I'd nothing else to do / Herbert Fry
Do you hear the wind? / Hamlin Garland
Gather ye roses / Robert Louis Stevenson
Think on these things (from the Holy Bible, Phillippians 4:8)
The chariot / Emily Dickinson
Mark Antony's lament (from Julius Caesar) / William Shakespeare
Family prayer (from Book of common prayer)
The lover's resolution / George Wither
Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
Little Willie / Anonymous
Benjamin Franklin's method of "doing a great deal of good with a little money"
The company one keeps / Aimor R. Dickson
The house by the side of the road / Sam Walter Foss
The bridge builder / (Miss) Will Allen Dromgoole
Prospectus of the famous Lacon, Illinois cat-and-rat ranch (hoax carried by every newspaper in the United States, in 1875) / Anonymous
O come all ye faithful (adeste fideles) / Anonymous
Love is a sickness / Samuel Daniel
Live joyfully (from the Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes, 9:7-11)
Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Aspiration / Henry David Thoreau
The wreck of the "Julie Plante" (a legend of Lac St. Pierre) / William Henry Drummond
To night / Joseph Blanco White
Departure / Coventry Patmore
John Randolph's opinion of Henry Clay
Upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife / Sir Henry Wotten
The peace of Christ (from the Holy Bible, John 14:1-27
A creed / Edwin Markham
Diogenes to Alexander the Great
Danny Deever / Rudyard Kipling
A famous but spurious description of Jesus Christ
Samuel Johnson's comment on poverty
When you are old / William Butler Yeats
The Iron Curtain (from the address at Fulton, Mo., March 5, 1946) / Winston Churchill
"No coward soul is mine" / Emily Bronte
"There is no God", the wicked saith / Arthur Hugh Clough
Juliet's yearning (from Romeo and Juliet) / William Shakespeare
Hamlet's instructions to the players (from Hamlet) / William Shakespeare
Come where my love lies dreaming / Stephen C. Foster
The tricks of imagination (from a Midsummer-night's dream) / William Shakespeare
The highwayman / Alfred Noyes
"Full many a glorious morning have I seen" (sonnet xxxiii) / William Shakespeare
A newspaper hoax that fooled the nation / Robert E. Quillen in the Fountain Inn, S.C., Tribune
Tears / Lizette Woodworth Reese
Differences / Paul Laurence Dunbar
To Autumn / John Keats
Huck Finn's old man condemns the government / Mark Twain
The great commandment (from the Holy Bible, Matthew 22:34-40)
My life closed twice / Emily Dickinson
A balot / Benjamin R. Tucker
Four things / Henry Van Dyke
Self-estimate / Sir Isaac Newton
"The proper study of man" (from An essay on man) / Alexander Pope
Ill fares the land / Oliver Goldsmith
Bright star, would I were as steadfast as thou art! / John Keats
Taxes / Benjamin Franklin
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
From The American crisis / Thomas Paine
Willy Loman, saleman (from The death of a salesman) / Arthur Miller
From Rabbi Ben Ezra / Robert Browning
Russia / Winston S. Churchill
Come, sleep (from Astrophel and Stella) / Sir Philip Sidney
Lincoln's letter to Edward Everett, written the day after the Gettysburg Address
On politicians (from Gulliver's travels) / Jonathan Swift
Why books are written (preface to The rise and fall of the mustache) / Robert J. Burdette
Salutation of the dawn (from the Sanskrit, sometimes atttributed to Kalidasa)
Oh, the wild joy of living / Robert Browning
The thinking reed / Blaise Pascal
On hearing a lady praise a certain Reverend Doctor's eyes / George Outram
From To a Highland girl / William Wordsworth
The ass and the lap-dog / Aesop, translated by Thomas James
When Earth's last picture is painted / Rudyard Kipling
Othello's farewell (from Othello) / William Shakespeare
"If thou must love me, let it be for nought" / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How the money rolls in / Anonymous
The government of all / Chief Justice John Marshall
From On friendship / William Cowper
Higland Mary / Robert Burns
Sonnet on Chillon / Lord Byron
Of gardens / Francis Bacon
Fret not thyself because of evil doers (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 37:1-4, 7)
Burial of the dead (from the Book of common prayer)
A birthday / Christina Georgina Rossetti
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A wan'ring minstrel / W.S. Gilbert
What one may and may not call a woman / Anonymous
Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention, supports The Constitution, September 17, 1787
The twelve days of Christmas / Anonymous
Portia's plea for mercy (from The merchant of Venice) / William Shakespeare
One solitary life / Anonymous
Old Grimes / Albert Gorton Greene
Jingle bells / J. Pierpont
If I should die tonight / Ben King
"Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night" / Samuel Daniel
The Sphinx / Alexander W. Kinglake
Inscription on the Statute of Liberty, the new Colossus
Prayer in the morning (from the Book of common prayer)
Old Black Joe / Stephen C. Foster
Song / Hartley Coleridge
The inner gleam / Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The times that tried men's souls are over" (from Thoughts on peace) / Thomas Paine
Let me live but from year to year / Henry Van Dyke
This is my letter to the world / Emily Dickinson
The death of Captain Waskow / Ernie Pyle
The sweetest story ever told / R.M. Stults
Abraham Lincoln on doing right
George Washington and the cherry tree (from The life of George Washington) / Mason Locke ("Parson") Weems
Rhyming riddle
Don't copy cat / Mark Twain
Health counsel / Sir John Harrington
Two sides of war / Grantland Rice
Clothes / Henry David Thoreau
Commonplace / Susan Coolidge
One day at a time / Ralph Waldo
Morning hymn / Thomas Ken
Mike O'Day / Anonymous
Kissin' (a Scottish saying)
The Declaration of Independence
Evensong / Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayer for a little house / Florence Bone
Eulogy of the dog / George G. Vest
The road not taken / Robert Frost
English air-raid shelter prayer / Anonymous
Sweet Adeline / Richard H. Gerard
The beginning of the Nuclear Age (a letter to President Roosevelt) / Albert Einstein
God / John Banister Tabb
The spirit of liberty / Judge Learned Hand
A letter from Fra Giovanni to the Contessina
False witnesses / Henry Ward Beecher
Good and bad / Attributed to Edward Wallis Hoch
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman
Love the beautiful / Moses Mendelsohn
Your friend / Anonymous
Death be not proud / John Donne
Abraham Lincoln meditates on the will of God
The hero and the saint / Felix Adler
The married lover / Coventry Patmore
"With whom is no variableness, neither shadow or turning / Arthur Hugh Clough
"Lo, the poor Indian!" (from An essay on man) / Alexander Pope
Shelley / Francis Thompson
Epitaph (churchyard, Leek, Derbyshire, England, on the grave of Thomas Osborne, died 1749)
The star / Jane Taylor
Choose life (from the Holy Bible, Deuteronomy 30:15-19)
Plutarch relates how Antony fell under the spell of Cleopatra / Translated by John Dryden
The happiest man / Seneca
The true teacher / James A. Garfield
The garden year / Sara Coleridge
The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly
The fatal wedding / W.H. Windom
Let me live out my years / John G. Neihardt
Of love of silence and of solitude / Thomas A. Kempis
Why so pale and wan, fond lover? / Sir John Suckling
Mr. Dooley on New Year's resolutions / Finley Peter Dunne
Wolsey's regrets (from King Henry VIII) / William Shakespeare
So nigh is grandeur / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brookside / Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
To F.C. / Mortimer Collins
Fare thee well / Lord Byron
The spider and the fly / Mary Howitt
Pericles' funeral oration
Maud Muller / John Greenleaf Whittier
Count that day lost / George Eliot
"I am the bread of life" (from the Holy Bible, John 6:35-40)
Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor
From Augeries of innocence / William Blake
Lead kindly light / John Henry Newman
Three gates / Beth Day
Horse sense / Anonymous
The Lord is my light and my salvation (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 27:1, 4, 14)
The bivouac of the dead / Theodore O'Hara
A little learning is dangerous thing / Alexander Pope
The flying trapeze / George Lebourne
When lovely woman stoops to folly / Oliver Goldsmith
Abraham Lincoln's letter to Johnston, his step-brother
From In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
An elegy on the death of a mad dog / Oliver Goldsmith
Prayer (from Idylls of the king) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Why I went to the woods (from Walden) / Henry David Thoreau
"Here lies Juliet" (from Romeo and Juliet) / William Shakespeare
Tray's epitaph / Peter Pindar (John Wolcott)
Barter / Sara Teasdale
The first lord's song / W.S. Gilbert
Thomas Jefferson upholds the value of newspapers
The snow-storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Away in a manger / Martin Luther
Effective prayer (from the Holy Bible, Luke 11:9-13)
Seven ages of man (from As you like it) / William Shakespeare
The fourth estate / Thomas Carlyle
The glorious whitewasher (from The adventures of Tom Sawyer) / Mark Twain
John Wesley's rule
Richard II's dejection (from King Richard II) / William Shakespeare
Trust thyself / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep (from Macbeth) / William Shakespeare
From The ballad of East and West / Rudyard Kipling
Samuel Johnson's view on happy marriages
Self-knowledge / Translated by W.F. Trotter
I-thou / Martin Buber
Young and old / Charles Kingsley
The Lord is my shepherd (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 23)
The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden
A hymn
O God of Earth and altar / G.K. Chesterton
Lincoln's letter to Major Ramsey
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? (from Sonnets) / William Shakespeare
George Washington (an inscription at Mount Vernon, Virginia)
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
Criticism / Samuel Johnson
William Faulkner's resignation as Postmaster
Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Macauley's one line book review of Atterbury's "A defense of the letters of Phalaris"
My own epitaph / John Gay
Gradatim / Josiah Gilbert Holland
Little lost pup / Arthur Guiterman
Judgement / Anonymous
Words from the first men on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin A. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, who remained in the command spaceship Columbia
Cheerfulness / Anonymous
To the virgins to make much of time / Robert Herrick
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace / St. Francis of Assisi
The better path (from the Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:1-5)
The modern Hiawatha / Anonymous
Rumors / Reginald Arkell
Who love the rain / Frances Wells Shaw
The house beautiful / Anonymous
Courage / Mark Twain
In all these turning lights I find no clue / Maxwell Anderson
Friendship is love without his wings / Lord Byron
Except the Lord build the house (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 127)
The light of other days / Thomas Moore
Truth, the invincible / William Cullen Bryant
A town's tribute to its friend / William Allen White
God and the soldier (found on an old sentry-box at Gibraltar)
On the Countess of Pembroke / William Browne
An American / Daniel Webster
What can I do? / Horace Traubel
Against oblivion (from Adonis) / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To be misunderstood / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acres of diamonds / Russell H. Conwell
Lincoln on swapping horses
He hears with gladdened heart the thunder / Robert Louis Stevenson
Inscription on the Christ of the Andes (erected on the Chile-Argentina border)
Old English prayer / Anonymous
Jean / Robert Burns
The night has a thousand eyes / F.W. Bourdillon
I will lift up mine eyes to the hills (from the Holy bible, Psalm 121)
Never the spirit was born / Bhagavad Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
Little buttercup / W.S. Gilbert
The blades of grass / Stephen Crane
Spartacus to the gladiators at Capua / E. Kellogg
The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service
Three little maids from school / Sir William S. Gilbert
Friendship / Mark Twain
Ah, fading joy / John Dryden
It pays to advertise / Anonymous
Parents / Francis Bacon
To know all is to forgive all / Nixon Waterman
Inscription to Spartans dead at Thermopylae
"Piping down the valleys wild" / William Blake
If this be treason (in the Virginia Convention, 1765) / Patrick Henry
Robert E. Lee's resignation from the U.S. Army, Arlington, Va., April 20, 1861 (letter to General Winfield Scott)
Lawyer Lincoln answers an inquiry concerning the financial standing of a fellow townsman
Macbeth's words before murdering / William Shakespeare
Waltz me around agin, Willie / Will D. Cobb
College age / Finley Peter Dunne
The Bill of Rights (adopted as the first ten amendments to the Constitution)
Joy, shipmate, joy! / Walt Whitman
All for love / Lord Byron
The balcony scene (from Romeo and Juliet) / William Shakespeare
I have a goodly heritage (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 16:5-9)
From Sleep and poetry / John Keats
Seneca Chief Red jacket to Christian missionaries, 1805
Unity of mankind (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 133)
Wedding signs / Anonymous
I think continually of those who were truly great / Stephen Spender
The last temptation / T.S. Eliot
Tolerance / Jeremy Taylor
A thing of beauty is a joy forever (from Endymion) / John Keats
Wisdom from William Penn
The game of life / Thomas H. Huxley
Epitaph on the politician / Hilaire Belloc
Rules for the road / Edwin Markham
On his books / Hilaire Belloc
Faith / Anonymous
He was from Missouri / Willard Duncan Vandiver
Diogenes to the people of Synope, his native city
Lines written on the antiquity of microbes / Strickland Gillilan
Marie Antoinette (from Reflections on the Revolution in France) / Edmund Burke
Mr. Dooley's triumphal arch / Finley Peter Dunne
In defense of youth's excesses / Robert Louis Stevenson
For a dead lady / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The fool's prayer / Edward Rowland Sill
Obstacles / Boethius, translated by W.V. Cooper
Day defined / Lewis Carroll
For my brother (Sgt. John Paul Merton, R.C.A.F. reported missing in action, 1943) / Thomas Merton
Rienzi to the Romans / Mary R. Mitford
Optimist and pessimist / McLandburgh Wilson
Enjoy the good (from the Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes 5:18-20)
There was a roaring in the wind all night / William Wordsworth
Brotherhood (from the Holy Bible, First John 2:9-11; 4:20-21)
Ulalume / Edgar Allan Poe
The kid's last fight / Anonymous
Pride, the never-failing vice of fools / Alexander Pope
Man will prevail (from Nobel Prize speech, January 1951) / William Faulkner
Wise wasting of days / Thomas Dekker
People will talk / Anonymous
My own mind is my church (from The age of reason) / Thomas Paine
The stern parent / Harry Graham
The things I prize / Henry Van Dyke
Epitaph of Sarah Sexton
Hiawatha's wooing / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The hare and the tortoise (from Aesop's fables)
"Let us move forward...into the storm and through the storm" / Winston S. Churchill
When the hounds of Spring / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Pharisee and the Publican (from the Holy Bible, Luke 18:9-14)
Will you love me in December as you do in May? / James J. Walker
Now is the day / Phillips Brooks
A lesson / Sa'di, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
Spring / John Milton
The fox and the rooster / Aesop
Perseverance / Anonymous
The dog in the manger (from Aesop's fables)
Just a wearyin' for you / Frank L. Stanton
Destiny / John Oliver Hobbes
A fateful message and an announcement that shook the world, August 6, 1945
Harry S. Truman announces the first atomic bomb, August 6, 1945
President Truman to Congress, January 7, 1953
Sing while you drive / Anonymous
The Georgia funeral / Henry W. Grady
On the road to Emmaus (from the Holy Bible, Luke 24:13-36)
When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats
Lesson of the bumblebee / Anonymous
From the Charter of the United Nations, June 1945
The yarn of the Nancy Bell / W.S. Gilbert
What is an American? (from Letters of an American farmer, 1782) / Michel Guillaume Jean de Creveccoeur
The voice of God / Louis I. Newman
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / Walt Whitman
Standing alone on a hill / Thomas Hardy
The treasurer's report / Robert Benchly
The old stoic / Emily Bronte
Obituary (Frank Munsey, publisher) / William Allen White
The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough
Advertise! / Mark Twain
On an old sun dial
The stars / Ralph Waldo Emerson
War (from Alexander's feast) / John Dryden
Peace / Victor Hugo
Benjamin Franklin's letter of introduction for one leaving Europe for the United States
Habeas corpus (resolution of The House of Lords, 1679)
Home on the range / Anonymous
From The everlasting mercy / John Masefield
My last duchess / Robert Browning
The death of little Nell / Charles Dickens
When lovely woman / Phoebe Cary
Echoes (to W.A.) / William Ernest Henley
Epitaph / Anonymous
Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foreign ruler / Walter Savage Landor
Is there a Santa Claus? (editorial in the New York sun, September 21,1897) / Francis P. Church
Ask and have / Samuel Lover
God with us / Anonymous
America is great because__ / Attributed to Tocqueville, but not found in his works
Meet me in St. Louis / Andrew B. Sterling
The drop of honey (from Thousand and one nights) / translated by Richard Burton
The man who talked prose (from The Bourgeois gentleman, 1670) / Moliere
Stand to your glasses / Anonymous
The man and his goose (from Aesop's fables)
The death of the flowers / William Cullen Bryant
She is more to be pitied than censured / William B. Gray
The bridge / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A terrible infant / Frederick Locker-Lampson
Letter from George Washington when he accepted command (letter to Mrs. Marsha Washington, June 1775)
The minstrel boy / Thomas Moore
Man proposes (from Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ)
Cardinal Wolsey's farewell (from King Henry VIII) / William Shakespeare
Mary White / William Allen White
Benjamin Franklin's religious beliefs
The barefoot boy / John Greenleaf Whittier
The two matches / Robert Louis Stevenson
Going to the dogs / Anonymous
The birth of a nation (from a letter to his wife, July 3, 1776) / John Adams
To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace
Dream-pedlary / Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Thirty words / Wilfred Funk; The National Association of Teachers of Speech
Boswell describes his first meeting with Samuel Jackson
To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace
Just words / Lewis Carroll
The horrors of Spring
Cause and effect / Anonymous
For this is wisdom / Laurence Hope
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind (inscription on a stainless steel plaque attached to the landing vehicle left on the moon)
Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a lady sweet and kind" / Anonymous
Life's uncertainty (from the Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes 11)
The power to tax / Chief Justice John Marshall
The candid friend / George Canning
Gratitude / Charles Kingley
Two carefree days / Robert J. Burdette
A health / Edward Coote Pinkney
Love triumphant / Frederic Lawrence Knowles
A glass of beer / James Stephens
War is hell / General William Tecumseh Sherman
The educated man / Socrates
Take my life and let it be / Frances R. Havergal
How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll
Jesus Christ / Ralph Waldo Emerson
My last walk with the schoolmistress (from The autocrat of the breakfast table) / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Vanzetti to Judge Thayer
Sancho Panza praises sleep / Miguel De Cervantes, translated by P.A. Matteus
Where lies the land? / Arthur Hugh Clough
Weather wisdom / Anonymous
The glove and the lions / James Henry Leigh Hunt
Spoonerisms (Rev. W.A. Spooner)
If I were king / Justin Huntly McCarthy
Solomon judges between two women disputing over a child (from the Holy Bible, I Kings 3:16-27)
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
The face (Woodrow Wilson's favorite limerick) / Anthony Euwer
The optimist / Anonymous
Where there's a will there's a way / Eliza Cook
What we may live without (from Lucile, pt. i, canto ii) / Owen Meredith
The ladies / Rudyard Kipling
How sleep the brave / William Collins
Nikita Khrushchev's boast (November 1956)
Our common nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Hippocratic Oath
Democracy / Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes / Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
The wit of Winston Churchill
The multiplication of books / Samuel Johnson
Earth is enough / Edwin Markham
The boys and the frog / Aesop
Thanksgiving proclamation, state of Connecticut / His Excellency Wilbur L. Cross, Governor
Away with funeral msuic / Robert Louis Stevenson
"O Lord, how excellent is Thy name" (from the Holy Bible, Psalm 8)
Realism and duty / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The satisfied tiger / Cosmo Monkhouse
"Now is the high-tide of the year" (from the Prelude to part first, The vision of Sir Launfal) / James Russel Lowell
Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh, architect / Abel Evans
History repeats (from A tale of two cities) / Charles Dickens
Cicero against Catiline
John Keat's farewell letter to Fanny Brawne
Demosthenes's farewell / Translated by Rufus Choate
Music, when soft voices die / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sydney Smith's story of Mrs. Partington
God's work / Charlotte Cushman
Louis Pasteur proclaims the existence of the infinite
The sound of the sea / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
La belle dame sans merci / John Keats
One wept whose only child was dead / Alice Meynell
The death of Cleopatra (from Antony and Cleopatra) / William Shakespeare
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" (Sonnet xxx) / William Shakespeare
"O eloquent, just and mighty death!" (from The history of the world) / Sir Walter Raleigh
Lincoln repartee
Ruth / Thomas Hood
The place of peace / Edwin Markham
Give me liberty or give me death / Patrick Henry
Source of news / Anonymous
Warren's address at Bunker Hill / John Pierpont
Logan's speech
They are not long / Ernest Dowson
The sin of omission / Margaret E. Sangster
The sidewalks of New York / Charles B. Lawlor
Living / Anonymous
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
Lindburgh flies alone (editorial in the New York sun, 1927) / Harold MacDonald Anderson
Hallucination / Lewis Carroll
The Ten Commandments (from the Holy Bible, Exodus 20:1-17)
The widow's mite (from the Holy Bible, Luke 21:1-4)
Quo vadis, Domine? / Henry K. Sienkiewicz, translated by J. Curtin
The eternal goodness / John Greenleaf Whittier
Thomas Bailey Aldrich writes a letter to Professor Edward S. Morse
Francis Bacon to Sir Edward Coke
Before sedan / Austin Dobson
The time I've lost in wooing / Thomas Moore
Epitaph on Charles II / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
On his blindness / John Milton
"A wet sheet and a flowing sea" / Alice Cunningham
The tempest / James T. Fields
On the banks of the Wabash, far away / Paul Dresser
Concerning the U.S.A. (from a letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857) / Thomas Babington Macaulay
Ode to duty / William Wordsworth
Oblivion (from Urn burial) / Sir Thomas Browne
George Washington / Thomas Jefferson
The face of Abraham Lincoln (from Specimen days) / Walt Whitman
To Thomas Moore / Lord Byron
The tide rises, the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bill Nye's observations on space
Conclusion of The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The gold rush / Mark Twain
The table and the chair / Edward Lear
An elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize / Oliver Goldsmith
Emperor Hadrian's dying address to his soul
A little while / Emily Bronte
Samuel Johnson's tribute to David Garrick
Horace Greeley to Thomas Devyr, who attacked him in 1860 for advocating Lincoln's election
My familiar / John Godfrey Saxe
It's the syme the whole world over / Anonymous
Hamlet broods over the death of his father (from Hamlet) / William Shakespeare
Against censureship / John Milton
Forbearance / Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world's great age begins anew" / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little Boy Blue / Eugene Field
The United States (from the preface of the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass)...the greatest poem / Walt Whitman
President Kennedy to the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1962
Rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A farewell / Charles Kingsley
An Irish wish / Anonymous
Envoy / Robert Louis Stevenson
Acknowledgments / Ralph Louis Woods
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"Memorable and beloved selections chosen for their continuing appeal to old and new readers from the three famous books, A treasury of the familiar (1942), A second treasury of the familiar (1950), and A third treasury of the familiar (1970)."
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