Poems We All Love

by Montrose L. Barnet

87 chapters1h 52mEnglish1911

About this book

This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but will resonate with all poetry lovers, and convey sentiments of hope and inspiration. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Chapters (86)

1Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt

103

2"There are loyal hearts..."

3Press On by Park Benjamin

4Daffodils by William Wordsworth

5Serenity by Lord Byron

6Onward by Arthur Cleveland Coxe

7To Live by William Cullen Bryant

8Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson

9"Wouldst shape a noble kife?" by Goethe and "Though to-day may mot fulfill" by P. Gerhardt

10At the End of all Desire by Swinburne

104

11Judge Not by Adelaide A. Proctor

12Be Strong? by Maltbie Davenport Babcock

13"Who looks to heaven..." by Henry Van Dyke

14Where Ignorance Is Bliss by Thomas Gray

15The Brave at Home by Thomas Buchanan Read

136

16Love of Country by Sir Walter Scott

17Fair Ines by Thomas Hood

112

18"Be though the rainbow..." by Byron and "Action" by Shakespeare

19"Westward the star of empire..."

20On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America

128

21The Arrow and the Song by Longfellow

22"The summer vanishes..."

23Courage by Thomas F. Porter and "All is of God" by John G. Whittier

165

24Loss of the Royal George by W. Cowper

25Character by Emerson

26O, Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman

138

27Forbearance by Emerson

28L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling

105

29"If you and I..."

30Pippa's Song by Robert Browning

31Song by Aubrey de Vere

112

32"The Common Problem..." by Browning

33At Nightfall by Charles Harrison Towne

34"Ah, be not false" by Richard Watson Gilder

35"Let us love so well" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and My Creed by Alice Creed

131

36Victory by Ellsworth Kaye and A Prayer by Amora Fitch

37A Psalm of Life by H. W. Longfellow

126

38"High thoughts and noble in all lands" by Richard Burton

39"So I will trudge with heart elate" by Alice Cary

40Service by Whittier

107

41"Whichever way the wind doth blow" by Caroline A. Mason

42Faith by Tennyson

43The World Over by Lowell

44It's Raining Violets by Robert Loveman

45Action by Omar Khayyam

46"Westward the star of empire takes its way" by George Bishop Berkeley

47Clear the Way by Charles Mackay

108

48"If you have gracious words to say"

49How Sleep the Brave by William Collins

50Warren's Address by John Pierpont

102

51Worth by Alexander Pope

52The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

169

53"If I can stop one heart from breaking" by Emily Dickinson

54"He taught us" by John Ruskin and The Task of Happiness by Robert Louis Stevenson

55Three Kinds of Courage by Roy Farrell Greene

56Friendship by Emerson

57"O! joyous Day! O! Smile of God" by Thomas Augustin Daly

58Friends by James Montgomery

59"We just shake hands at meeting" by Gerald Massey

60The Rosary of my Years by Father Ryan

138

61Mercy by Shakespeare

62Haste Not, Rest Not by Goethe

105

63Freedom by James Russell Lowell

64Character of a Happy Life by Sir N. Wotton

111

65The Splendor Falls by Alfred Tennyson

113

66Lead Kindly Light by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

101

67The Rosary

68The Spring of Love by Stopford A. Brooks

69Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell

133

70Opportunity by John James Ingalls

71"The star of the unconquered will" by H. W. Longfellow

72Service by John Milton

73When the Birds go North Again by Ella Higginson

74Balancing by Wilbur D. Nesbit and "Believe not each accusing tongue" by Sheridan

75The Inevitable by Sarah Knowles Bolton

76Sympathy by Sir Thomas N. Talfourd

77Come Good or Evil by William Makepeace Thackeray and "Then let us smile"

78Resolve by Charlotte Perkins Stetson

79The Sluggard by Isaac Watts

121

80Crossing the Bar by Tennyson

81Young and Old by Charles Kingsley

82"Yes, they whose feet..." by Edwin Markham

83When in Disgrace by Shakespeare and "But in the mud . . ." by Ralph Waldo Emerson

84Mizpah by Julia A. Baker

128

85Twenty Years Ago by A. J. Gault

186

86"'Tis not the weight of jewel or plate..."

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