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The Land of Song, Book 2. For lower grammar grades

Book 2 — Index of Authors.

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Addison, Joseph.

When all thy Mercies, O my God177

Anonymous.

O Mother Dear, Jerusalem205

The Children in the Wood71

The Wives of Brixham86

Arnold.

The Death of Nelson164

Barbauld, Anna Letitia.

Life's "Good-Morning"201

Blake, William.

Night101

Browning, Robert.

An Incident of the French Camp147

"How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"229

The Boy and the Angel118

The Pied Piper of Hamelin46

Bryant, William Cullen.

March42

Song of Marion's Men99

The Evening Wind123

The Hurricane175

The Love of God31

The Planting of the Apple Tree32

To a Waterfowl202

Upon the Mountain's Distant Head16

Burns, Robert.

Ca' the Yowes81

For A' That, and A' That69

Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots28

O wad some Power37

The Banks o' Doon217

The Selkirk Grace31

To a Mouse153

Byron, Lord (George Noel Gordon).

A Selection from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage155

Companionship with Nature, A Selection227

Moonrise, A Selection201

Oh! weep for Those17

The Destruction of Sennacherib18

The Gladiator, A Selection228

Campbell, Thomas.

Exile of Erin215

Hallowed Ground145

Hohenlinden21

Lord Ullin's Daughter211

Soldier and Sailor137

Song of the Greeks170

The Battle of the Baltic103

The Soldier's Dream26

Ye Mariners of England163

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants125

Collins, William.

How Sleep the Brave104

Cornwall, Barry. (See Procter.)

Cowley, Abraham.

The Grasshopper192

Cowper, William.

Epitaph on a Hare112

On a Spaniel called "Beau" killing a Young Bird78

The Cricket193

The Royal George91

Cunningham, Allan.

At Sea60

Drayton, Michael.

A Fine Day35

Elliott, Ebenezer.

When Wilt Thou save the People94

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Concord Hymn161

Fletcher, John.

Evening150

Gay, John.

The Council of Horses114

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang.

Rest191

Gray, Thomas.

On a Favorite Cat, drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes197

Heber, Reginald.

Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning157

By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill30

Holy, Holy, Holy19

Hemans, Felicia.

The Graves of a Household121

The Pilgrim Fathers84

Herbert, George.

The Elixir117

Virtue208

Herrick, Robert.

To Daffodils14

Hoffman, Charles Fenno.

Monterey162

Hogg, James.

The Skylark39

Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

A Rhymed Lesson, Selections82

Union and Liberty97

Hood, Thomas.

Ruth116

Howitt, Mary.

The Northern Seas61

Hunt, Leigh.

On the Grasshopper and Cricket111

Ingelow, Jean.

Winstanley180

Jonson, Ben.

The Noble Nature179

Keats, John.

On the Grasshopper and Cricket110

Sweet Peas, A Selection80

Keble, John.

Evening206

Morning149

Kingsley, Charles.

Ode to the North-East Wind167

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

Sandalphon231

The Beleaguered City133

Lowell, James Russell.

The Heritage208

Mickle, William J.

The Sailor's Wife135

Milton, John.

Hymn of the Nativity, A Selection234

Moore, Thomas.

Sound the Loud Timbrel125

Nash, Thomas.

Spring38

Newton, John.

Quiet, Lord, my Froward Heart149

Percival, James G.

The Coral Grove63

Percy, Thomas.

King John and the Abbot of Canterbury126

Procter, Adelaide.

The Storm190

Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall).

A Song of the Sea58

Belshazzar221

Stars101

The Fisherman211

Quarles, Francis.

Good-Night207

Read, Thomas Buchanan.

Sheridan's Ride172

The Summer Shower36

Rossetti, Christina G.

A Green Cornfield41

St. Bernard.

Jerusalem, the Golden204

Scott, Sir Walter.

Alice Brand64

Coronach200

Jock of Hazeldean213

Pibroch of Donald Dhu24

Rebecca's Hymn20

Song From "The Lady of the Lake"216

Sears, Edmund H.

Calm on the Listening Ear of Night93

Shakespeare, William.

Daffodils, A Selection15

England, A Selection170

Ingratitude, A Selection57

Song: "Orpheus with his lute made trees"151

The Honey-bee, A Selection15

Shenstone, William.

The Shepherd's Home77

Southey, Robert.

Llewellyn and his Dog105

The Battle of Blenheim141

The Inchcape Rock43

Tennyson, Alfred.

A Farewell152

Home they brought her Warrior dead27

Lady Clare218

The Charge of the Light Brigade89

The New Year237

The Revenge, A Selection143

Thy Voice is heard through Rolling Drums148

Trench, Richard C.

The Dewdrop207

The Kingdom of God178

Whittier, John Greenleaf.

The Pipes at Lucknow224

Wolfe, Charles.

The Burial of Sir John Moore22

Wordsworth, William.

A Wren's Nest194

Fidelity108

My heart leaps up when I behold37

The Daffodils13

The Solitary Reaper199

To the Cuckoo40

To the Small Celandine131

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