Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Guilielmus Rex, 264
Anonymous
Anima Christi (Soul of Christ), 128
Edward, Edward, 370
Get Up and Bar the Door, 392
I'm Glad, 22
Jesu Dulcis Memoria, 127
Merry Sunshine, 25
Once I Saw a Little Bird, 21
Sweet the Memory ofJesus, 127
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Hymn, 125
Babcock, Maltbie Davenport
Be Strong!, 122
Barrett, AlfredJ.
Loss of Faith, 309
Belloc, Hilaire
Matilda, 246
The Vulture, 224
Benet, Rosemary Carr
Pocahontas, 86
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Benjamin Franklin, 89
Captain Kidd, 83
Christopher Columbus, 84
George Washington, 87
The Ballad ofWilliam Sycamore, 90
Benet, William Rose
The Falconer of God, 301
Bennett, Henry Holcomb
The Flag Goes By, 59
Betjeman, Sir John
Christmas, 315
Bourdillon, Francis William
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, 118
Brooks, Phillips
ChristInas Everywhere, 76
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
HoW Do I Love Thee? , 425
Browning, Robert
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 112
Prospice (Look Ahead!), 309
Bryant, William Cullen
To a Waterfowl, 396
Burgess, Gelett
The Purple Cow, 251
Cinq Ans Après, 251
Byron, George Gordon
The Destruction of Sennacherib, 105, 322
Carew, Thomas
A Song, 332
Carroll, Lewis
Jabberwocky, 123,254
Carryl, Charles Edward
Robinson Crusoe's Story, 239
Carryl, Guy Wetmore
The Embarrasing Episode of Little Miss Muffet, 252
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven, 249
Chesterton, G. K.
A Christmas Carol, 47
Lepanto, 323
Colum, Padraic
An Old Woman of the Roads, 119, 294
Daly, S.J., James J.
In Coventry, 223
Dana, Richard Henry
The Soul, 181
David (King)
Psalm 23, 49
Psalm 100, 50
de la Mare, Walter
Some One, 40
Dickinson, Emily
I Never Saw a Moor, 258
Donne, John
Batter My Heart, 400
Repentance, 399
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Conscience and Remorse, 201
The Dilettante, 200
Eastman, Max
At the Aquarium, 395
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Concord Hymn, 93
The Snow-Storm, 299
Farjeon, Harry and Eleanor
Our Brother Is Born, 50
Field, Eugene
Little Boy Blue, 314
The Duel, 45
Fields, James Thomas
The Owl Critic, 391
Fisher, Aileen
Bird Talk, 22
Freneau, Philip
The Wild Honeysuckle, 296
Frost, Robert
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 48
Fyleman, Rose
Singing Time, 21
Grahame, Kenneth
The Song of Mr. Toad, 46
Gray, Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 402
Guiney, Louise Imogen
The Kings, 307
Guitterman, Arthur
Strictly Germ-Proof, 248
Why Tigers Can't Climb, 228
Harte, Bret
Dickens in Camp, 194
Henley, William Ernest
Invictus,438
Herbert, George
Love (III), 337
The Pulley, 338
Herrick, Robert
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 335
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
OId lronsides, 68
The Chambered Nautilus, 298
The Height of the Ridiculous, 225
Hopkins, S.J., Gerard Manley
God's Grandeur, 436
Spring,437
Houseman, A. E.
When I Was in Love, 232
When I Was One and Twenty, 271
Howitt, Mary
The Spider and the Fly, 107
Jaques, Florence Page
There Once Was a Puffin, 26
Johnson, Lionel
Cadgwith, 440
Jonson, Ben
To Celia, 334
To the Memory ofMy Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, 375
Keats, John
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 420
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, 170, 419
Kelly, Blanche Mary
The Housewife's Prayer, 303
Key, Francis Scott
The Star-Spangled Banner, 103
Kilmer, Joyce
Prayer of a Soldier in France, 262
Rouge Bouquet, 304
Leamy, Edmund
The Ticket Agent, 234
Lear, Edward
The Owl and the Pussy-cat, 43
Lindsay, Vachel
The Little Turtle, 23
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
A Psalm of Life, 184
Christmas Bells, 63
Hiawatha's Childhood, 69
Hymn to the Night, 258
Paul Revere's Ride, 94
The Arrow and the Song, 185
The Builders, 121, 186
The Children's Hour, 60
The Day Is Done, 317
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, 65
The Village Blacksmith, 62
Two Sonnets from the Divina Commedia, 390
Lovelace, Richard To Althea, from Prison, 398
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, 394
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Horatius, 159
Magee, Jr., John Gillespie
High Flight, 263
Markham, Edwin
How the Great Guest Came, 311
Preparedness, 266
Marlowe, Christopher
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, 330
Masefield, John
Sea Fever, 75
Melville, Herman
The Maldive Shark, 195
Meynell, Alice
A General Communion, 336
The Young Neophyte, 424
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Portrait by a Neighbor, 233
Travel, 294
Miller, Joaquin
Columbus, 73
Milne, A. A.
At the Zoo, 42
Furry Bear, 41
The Christening, 40
Milton, John
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,408
Morley, Christopher
Animal Crackers, 23
Morris, George Pope
Woodman, Spare That Tree!, 182
Newman, John Henry
Lead, Kindly Light, 439
O'Reilly ,John Boyle
The Ride of Collins Graves, 109
Poe, Edgar Allen
The Bells, 78, 340
Raleigh, Sir Walter
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, 331
Read, Thomas Buchanan
Sheridan's Ride, 100
Riley, James Whitcomb
A Parting Guest, 296
When the Frost Is on the Punkin, 199
Ryan, Abram J .
A Child's Wish, 106
Sandburg, Carl
Fog, 201
Saxe, John Godfrey
How Cyrus Laid the Cable, 226
My Familiar, 230
The Head and the Heart, 293
Their Neighbor's Fault, 255
Scott, Sir Walter
Lochinvar, 179
Service, Robert W.
The Cremation of Sam McGee, 241
Shakespeare, William
From Hamlet (Act I, iii, 55-81), 148
From Henry V (Act IV, i, 230-84), 151
From Henry V (Act IV, iii, 17-67), 149
From Julius Caesar 146
From Macbeth (Act V, v, 19-27), 153
From The Merchant of Venice (Act IV, i, 183-204), 153
From The Merchant of Venice (Act V, i, 4-88), 154
From The Tempest, 145
Sonnet XVIII< 156, 380
Sonnet XIX, 156, 381
Sonnet XXIX, 386
Sonnet XXX, 157, 385
Sonnet XXXVI, 157, 382
Sonnet LV, 387
Sonnet LXXIII, 388
Sonnet CXVI, 158, 384
Sonnet CXXXVIII, 158, 383
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Ode to the West Wind, 415
Ozymandias, 418
Sidney, Philip
Sonnet 41, 389
Sill, Edward Rowland
Opportunity, 114, 272
The Fool's Prayer, 76, 269
The Things That Will Not Die, 197
Southey, Robert
Father William, 117
Southwell, S.J., Robert
The Burning Babe, 374
Spenser, Edmund
Sonnet LXI from Amoretti, 379
Stevenson, Robert Louis
At the Seaside, 19
Bed in Summer, 28
Foreign Lands, 30
Happy Thought, 20
My Shadow, 32
Rain, 20
Requiem, 83, 339
Singing, 20
The Cow, 39
The Hayloft, 35
The Lamplighter, 38
The Land of Counterpane, 31
The Land of Story-Books, 36
The Moon, 34
The Swing, 37
The Wind, 33
Time to Rise, 21
Where Go the Boats?, 29
Whole Duty ofChildren, 19
Windy Nights, 28
Stoddard, Richard Henry
There Are Gains for All Our Losses, 196
Suckling, Sir John
Why So Pale and Wan? , 401
Tabb, Father John Banister
Fame, 261
Father Damien, 261
The Light of Bethlehem, 124
Taylor, Jane
The Violet, 120
Teasdale, Sara
Barter, 260
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Break, Break, Break, 423
Spring, 81
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 115
The Eagle, 124
The Lady of Shalott, 172
From The Princess, 171
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Casey at the Bat, 65
Thompson, Francis
The Hound of Heaven, 428
The Kingdom of God, 426
Thoreau, Henry David
Winter Memories, 193
Van Dyke, Henry
America for Me, 74
Walsh, Thomas
The Feast of Padre Chala, 235
Wells, Carolyn
How to Tell the Wild Animals, 257
Whitman, Walt
O Captain! My Captain!, 99,265
Whittier, John Greenleaf
In School-Days, 191
The Barefoot Boy, 187
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Solitude,104
Wordsworth, William
Daffodils, 267
The Tables Turned, 319
The Virgin, 321
Yeats, William Butler
The Lake Isle of Innisfree, 118, 306
Guilielmus Rex, 264
Anonymous
Anima Christi (Soul of Christ), 128
Edward, Edward, 370
Get Up and Bar the Door, 392
I'm Glad, 22
Jesu Dulcis Memoria, 127
Merry Sunshine, 25
Once I Saw a Little Bird, 21
Sweet the Memory ofJesus, 127
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Hymn, 125
Babcock, Maltbie Davenport
Be Strong!, 122
Barrett, AlfredJ.
Loss of Faith, 309
Belloc, Hilaire
Matilda, 246
The Vulture, 224
Benet, Rosemary Carr
Pocahontas, 86
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Benjamin Franklin, 89
Captain Kidd, 83
Christopher Columbus, 84
George Washington, 87
The Ballad ofWilliam Sycamore, 90
Benet, William Rose
The Falconer of God, 301
Bennett, Henry Holcomb
The Flag Goes By, 59
Betjeman, Sir John
Christmas, 315
Bourdillon, Francis William
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, 118
Brooks, Phillips
ChristInas Everywhere, 76
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
HoW Do I Love Thee? , 425
Browning, Robert
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 112
Prospice (Look Ahead!), 309
Bryant, William Cullen
To a Waterfowl, 396
Burgess, Gelett
The Purple Cow, 251
Cinq Ans Après, 251
Byron, George Gordon
The Destruction of Sennacherib, 105, 322
Carew, Thomas
A Song, 332
Carroll, Lewis
Jabberwocky, 123,254
Carryl, Charles Edward
Robinson Crusoe's Story, 239
Carryl, Guy Wetmore
The Embarrasing Episode of Little Miss Muffet, 252
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven, 249
Chesterton, G. K.
A Christmas Carol, 47
Lepanto, 323
Colum, Padraic
An Old Woman of the Roads, 119, 294
Daly, S.J., James J.
In Coventry, 223
Dana, Richard Henry
The Soul, 181
David (King)
Psalm 23, 49
Psalm 100, 50
de la Mare, Walter
Some One, 40
Dickinson, Emily
I Never Saw a Moor, 258
Donne, John
Batter My Heart, 400
Repentance, 399
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Conscience and Remorse, 201
The Dilettante, 200
Eastman, Max
At the Aquarium, 395
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Concord Hymn, 93
The Snow-Storm, 299
Farjeon, Harry and Eleanor
Our Brother Is Born, 50
Field, Eugene
Little Boy Blue, 314
The Duel, 45
Fields, James Thomas
The Owl Critic, 391
Fisher, Aileen
Bird Talk, 22
Freneau, Philip
The Wild Honeysuckle, 296
Frost, Robert
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 48
Fyleman, Rose
Singing Time, 21
Grahame, Kenneth
The Song of Mr. Toad, 46
Gray, Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 402
Guiney, Louise Imogen
The Kings, 307
Guitterman, Arthur
Strictly Germ-Proof, 248
Why Tigers Can't Climb, 228
Harte, Bret
Dickens in Camp, 194
Henley, William Ernest
Invictus,438
Herbert, George
Love (III), 337
The Pulley, 338
Herrick, Robert
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 335
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
OId lronsides, 68
The Chambered Nautilus, 298
The Height of the Ridiculous, 225
Hopkins, S.J., Gerard Manley
God's Grandeur, 436
Spring,437
Houseman, A. E.
When I Was in Love, 232
When I Was One and Twenty, 271
Howitt, Mary
The Spider and the Fly, 107
Jaques, Florence Page
There Once Was a Puffin, 26
Johnson, Lionel
Cadgwith, 440
Jonson, Ben
To Celia, 334
To the Memory ofMy Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, 375
Keats, John
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 420
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, 170, 419
Kelly, Blanche Mary
The Housewife's Prayer, 303
Key, Francis Scott
The Star-Spangled Banner, 103
Kilmer, Joyce
Prayer of a Soldier in France, 262
Rouge Bouquet, 304
Leamy, Edmund
The Ticket Agent, 234
Lear, Edward
The Owl and the Pussy-cat, 43
Lindsay, Vachel
The Little Turtle, 23
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
A Psalm of Life, 184
Christmas Bells, 63
Hiawatha's Childhood, 69
Hymn to the Night, 258
Paul Revere's Ride, 94
The Arrow and the Song, 185
The Builders, 121, 186
The Children's Hour, 60
The Day Is Done, 317
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, 65
The Village Blacksmith, 62
Two Sonnets from the Divina Commedia, 390
Lovelace, Richard To Althea, from Prison, 398
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, 394
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Horatius, 159
Magee, Jr., John Gillespie
High Flight, 263
Markham, Edwin
How the Great Guest Came, 311
Preparedness, 266
Marlowe, Christopher
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, 330
Masefield, John
Sea Fever, 75
Melville, Herman
The Maldive Shark, 195
Meynell, Alice
A General Communion, 336
The Young Neophyte, 424
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Portrait by a Neighbor, 233
Travel, 294
Miller, Joaquin
Columbus, 73
Milne, A. A.
At the Zoo, 42
Furry Bear, 41
The Christening, 40
Milton, John
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,408
Morley, Christopher
Animal Crackers, 23
Morris, George Pope
Woodman, Spare That Tree!, 182
Newman, John Henry
Lead, Kindly Light, 439
O'Reilly ,John Boyle
The Ride of Collins Graves, 109
Poe, Edgar Allen
The Bells, 78, 340
Raleigh, Sir Walter
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, 331
Read, Thomas Buchanan
Sheridan's Ride, 100
Riley, James Whitcomb
A Parting Guest, 296
When the Frost Is on the Punkin, 199
Ryan, Abram J .
A Child's Wish, 106
Sandburg, Carl
Fog, 201
Saxe, John Godfrey
How Cyrus Laid the Cable, 226
My Familiar, 230
The Head and the Heart, 293
Their Neighbor's Fault, 255
Scott, Sir Walter
Lochinvar, 179
Service, Robert W.
The Cremation of Sam McGee, 241
Shakespeare, William
From Hamlet (Act I, iii, 55-81), 148
From Henry V (Act IV, i, 230-84), 151
From Henry V (Act IV, iii, 17-67), 149
From Julius Caesar 146
From Macbeth (Act V, v, 19-27), 153
From The Merchant of Venice (Act IV, i, 183-204), 153
From The Merchant of Venice (Act V, i, 4-88), 154
From The Tempest, 145
Sonnet XVIII< 156, 380
Sonnet XIX, 156, 381
Sonnet XXIX, 386
Sonnet XXX, 157, 385
Sonnet XXXVI, 157, 382
Sonnet LV, 387
Sonnet LXXIII, 388
Sonnet CXVI, 158, 384
Sonnet CXXXVIII, 158, 383
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Ode to the West Wind, 415
Ozymandias, 418
Sidney, Philip
Sonnet 41, 389
Sill, Edward Rowland
Opportunity, 114, 272
The Fool's Prayer, 76, 269
The Things That Will Not Die, 197
Southey, Robert
Father William, 117
Southwell, S.J., Robert
The Burning Babe, 374
Spenser, Edmund
Sonnet LXI from Amoretti, 379
Stevenson, Robert Louis
At the Seaside, 19
Bed in Summer, 28
Foreign Lands, 30
Happy Thought, 20
My Shadow, 32
Rain, 20
Requiem, 83, 339
Singing, 20
The Cow, 39
The Hayloft, 35
The Lamplighter, 38
The Land of Counterpane, 31
The Land of Story-Books, 36
The Moon, 34
The Swing, 37
The Wind, 33
Time to Rise, 21
Where Go the Boats?, 29
Whole Duty ofChildren, 19
Windy Nights, 28
Stoddard, Richard Henry
There Are Gains for All Our Losses, 196
Suckling, Sir John
Why So Pale and Wan? , 401
Tabb, Father John Banister
Fame, 261
Father Damien, 261
The Light of Bethlehem, 124
Taylor, Jane
The Violet, 120
Teasdale, Sara
Barter, 260
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Break, Break, Break, 423
Spring, 81
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 115
The Eagle, 124
The Lady of Shalott, 172
From The Princess, 171
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Casey at the Bat, 65
Thompson, Francis
The Hound of Heaven, 428
The Kingdom of God, 426
Thoreau, Henry David
Winter Memories, 193
Van Dyke, Henry
America for Me, 74
Walsh, Thomas
The Feast of Padre Chala, 235
Wells, Carolyn
How to Tell the Wild Animals, 257
Whitman, Walt
O Captain! My Captain!, 99,265
Whittier, John Greenleaf
In School-Days, 191
The Barefoot Boy, 187
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Solitude,104
Wordsworth, William
Daffodils, 267
The Tables Turned, 319
The Virgin, 321
Yeats, William Butler
The Lake Isle of Innisfree, 118, 306
Excerpted from The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist
1999, Ignatius Press, Used with permission from the Publisher