What the Knapsack Holds
Reading edition
The Lure of the Road
A Wanderer’s Song John Masefield 3
The Singer’s Quest Odell Shepherd 3
The Toil of the Trail Hamlin Garland 4
Two Old Men Louise Driscoll 5
The Best Road of All Charles Hanson Towne 6
The Cry of the Dreamer John Boyle O’Reilly 7
Highways Leslie Nelson Jennings 8
Afoot and Light-Hearted Walt Whitman 9
The Path that Leads to Nowhere Corinne Roosevelt Robinson 9
City-Weary Edgar A. Guest 10
The Faun Richard Hovey 12
The Call of the Wild Robert W. Service 13
A City Voice Theodosia Garrison 15
Fishing Edgar A. Guest 16
Camping Song Bliss Carman 17
The Green Inn Theodosia Garrison 18
Wanderlust Isabel Ecclestine Mackay 19
Song Georgiana Goddard King 19
In City Streets Ada Smith 20
Up! Up! My Friend, and Quit Your Books William Wordsworth 21
Road Song James Stewart Montgomery 22
Walking at Night Amory Hare 23
Road Song W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez 24
A Song of the Open Road Louis J. McQuilland 25
A Maine Trail Gertrude H. McGiffert 27
The Spell of the Pool L. Burton Crane, Jr. 28
The Lake Eleanour Norton 29
The Great Outdoors Maud Russell 29
Come, Spur Away! Thomas Randolph 30
Hunting Song Richard Hovey 31
The Call Cora D. Fenton 31
The King’s Highway John Steven McGroarty 32
God Made This Day For Me Edgar A. Guest 34
The Country Faith Norman Gale 35
Green Things Growing
Afoot Charles G. D. Roberts 39
Grace for Gardens Louise Driscoll 40
My Garden Thomas E. Brown 41
April John Vance Cheney 41
A Song the Grass Sings Charles G. Blanden 42
The Young Dandelion Dinah Mulock Craik 42
Sunflowers Clinton Scollard 43
Wishing William Allingham 44
Rain Lucy Larcom 44
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 45
The Grass Walt Whitman 47
Buttercups Wilfrid C. Thorley 47
The Lilac Humbert Wolfe 48
The Hollyhocks Ray Laurance 48
The Ragged Regiment Alice Williams Brotherton 49
Marigolds Bliss Carman 49
In a Garden Theda Kenyon 50
The Dandelions Helen Gray Cone 51
Rhodora Ralph Waldo Emerson 52
Daisies Bliss Carman 53
Out in the Fields with God Elizabeth Browning 53
The Blackbird Humbert Wolfe 54
The Robin Emily Dickinson 54
Clover John B. Tabb 55
A Conversation Sara Hamilton Birchall 55
A Yellow Pansy Helen Gray Cone 56
The Answer Sara Hamilton Birchall 57
A Prayer Edwin Markham 57
The Kinship of the Trees
Tree Feelings Charlotte Perkins Gilman 61
A B C’s in Green Leonora Speyer 62
O Dreamy, Gloomy, Friendly Trees! Herbert Trench 62
God, When You Thought of a Pine Tree Unknown 63
The House of the Trees Ethelwyn Wetherald 64
Trees Bliss Carman 65
The Trees and the Master Sidney Lanier 66
The Trees Samuel Valentine Cole 67
Three Trees Christopher Morley 68
What Do We Plant? Henry Abbey 69
Trees Henry van Dyke 70
The Trees Lucy Larcom 71
Good Company Karl Wilson Baker 71
The Green Tree in the Fall Jessie B. Rittenhouse 72
The Call of the Sea
Sea-Fever John Masefield 75
A Son of the Sea Bliss Carman 75
Dreams of the Sea William H. Davies 76
Going Down in Ships Harry Kemp 77
The Waves of Breffny Eva Gore-Booth 78
Short Beach Richard Hovey 79
Sea Call Margaret Widdemer 79
Ship-Love Ethel E. Mannin 80
The Sea Nora Hopper 81
Coquette Keith Stuart 82
The Deep-Water Man James Stuart Montgomery 82
Sea Longing Harold Vinal 84
Had I the Choice Walt Whitman 84
Gray Oscar Williams 85
A Pagan Hymn John Runcie 85
As the Tide Comes In Cale Young Rice 86
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea Allan Cunningham 87
The Undersong Fiona Macleod 88
Gray Rocks and Grayer Sea Charles G. D. Roberts 89
The Sea Bryan Waller Procter 89
The Sea Road Martha Haskell Clark 91
The Sea Richard Hovey 92
The World is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth 94
Sunrise Robert Browning 94
Song of the Sea Richard Burton 95
Farewell Katherine Tynan 96
The Return Algernon Charles Swinburne 97
The Port o’ Heart’s Desire John Steven McGroarty 99
Sea-Urge Unknown 100
The Ocean Lord Byron 100
A Song of Desire Frederic Lawrence Knowles 102
A Sea Change Dorothy Peace 103
Twilight At Sea Amelia C. Welby 103
Sea-Song Martha Haskell Clark 104
Deep Down James Stuart Montgomery 104
The Winds of Heaven
Do You Fear the Wind? Hamlin Garland 109
Hark to the Shouting Wind Henry Timod 109
Who Has Seen the Wind? Christina Rossetti 110
Wind John Galsworthy 110
The Sea-Wind Arthur Ketchum 111
I Meant to Do My Work Today Richard Le Gallienne 111
That Wind is Best Caroline Atherton Mason 112
Happy Wind William H. Davies 112
Wind-Litany Margaret Widdemer 113
A Morning Theodosia Garrison 114
The Wind’s Life Harry Kemp 115
The Mystic Cale Young Rice 115
The Hill-born
The Cry of the Hillborn Bliss Carman 119
Up a Hill and a Hill Fannie Stearns Davis 120
Hills Arthur Guiterman 121
Again Among the Hills Richard Hovey 122
Hill Hunger Joseph Auslander 124
Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay 125
The Hills Theodosia Garrison 125
On a Hill Irene Rutherford McLeod 126
Traveller’s Joy
Traveller’s Joy Arthur Ketchum 131
Ellis Park Helen Hoyt 132
Afoot C. Fox-Smith 133
The Going of His Feet Harry Kemp 134
Down East and Up Along Edwin Osgood Grover 135
The Joys of the Road Bliss Carman 136
Song of the Open Sara Hamilton Birchall 139
Rebellion Stephen Chalmers 140
The Tree-Top Road May Riley Smith 142
Early Morning at Bargis Hermann Hagedorn 143
Denial Lancaster Pollard 144
“A la Belle Étoile” Sara Hamilton Birchall 144
Journey Edna St. Vincent Millay 145
The Sojourner Sara Hamilton Birchall 146
Traveller’s Rest C. Fox-Smith 147
Far From the Madding Crowd Nixon Waterman 148
Streams Clinton Scollard 149
The Call Edgar A. Guest 150
The Road that Leads to Home Ethel E. Mannin 150
Echoes from Vagabondia
Wanderthirst Gerald Gould 155
The Vagabond Edgar A. Guest 155
Gipsy Song Sara Hamilton Birchall 156
The Road to Vagabondia Dana Burnet 157
Gipsy Feet Fannie Stearns Davis 158
A Strip of Blue Lucy Larcom 160
Black Ashes Martha Haskell Clark 161
The Wander Lure Kendall Banning 162
Comrades of the Trail Mary Carolyn Davies 163
The Vagrant Pauline Slender 164
The Gipsy Wedding Sara Hamilton Birchall 165
The Vagabond at Home Ruth Wright Kauffman 165
The Gipsy Trail Rudyard Kipling 166
St. Bartholomew’s on the Hill Bliss Carman 168
Fishing Edgar A. Guest 169
A Vagabond Song Bliss Carman 171
Have You? Harry M. Dean 171
Gypsy-Heart Katherine Lee Bates 172
A More Ancient Mariner Bliss Carman 173
Vagabonds Sara Hamilton Birchall 175
The Gypsying Theodosia Garrison 175
The Mendicants Bliss Carman 176
The Beloved Vagabond W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez 177
The Secret Voices Ethel E. Mannin 178
The Changing Year
Turn O’ The Year Katherine Tynan 183
April Music Clinton Scollard 183
The Year’s Awakening Thomas Hardy 184
Spring’s Answer Edwin Osgood Grover 185
Morning Song Lancaster Pollard 186
April Weather Bliss Carman 186
The Runaway Cale Young Rice 188
Spring Market Louise Driscoll 189
Song in March Clinton Scollard 190
Flower Chorus Ralph Waldo Emerson 191
April’s Coming Lancaster Pollard 192
The Secret John Richard Moreland 193
Spring Norman Gale 193
April Weather Lizette Woodworth Reese 194
Renewal Charles Hanson Towne 195
April Theodosia Garrison 195
The Immortal Cale Young Rice 196
Spring Richard Hovey 196
Blind Harry Kemp 199
Spring Song Bliss Carman 200
The Sweet, Low Speech of the Rain Ella Higginson 203
Early Spring Alfred Tennyson 205
Spring Henry Timrod 206
April, April William Watson 208
April Rain Robert Loveman 209
April Emily Dickinson 210
April Morning George Elliston 210
May-Lure Richard Burton 211
Sunrise Robert Browning 212
The Throstle Alfred Tennyson 212
Tell All the World Harry Kemp 213
Sorrow in a Garden May Riley Smith 213
The Naturalist on a June Sunday Leonora Speyer 215
Summer Richard Burton 216
Autumn Emily Dickinson 218
Overtones William Alexander Percy 218
Carouse Charles Hanson Towne 219
A Song in Autumn Theodosia Garrison 219
An Autumn Garden Bliss Carman 220
September Sara Hamilton Birchall 223
Days Like These Ella Elizabeth Egbert 224
Indian Summer Emily Dickinson 225
The Deserted Pasture Bliss Carman 226
The Coming of Dawn Grace Atherton Dennen 227
Alms in Autumn Rose Fyleman 228
November in England Thomas Hood 228
The Hound Babette Deutsch 229
Sky-Born Music
Let Me Go Where’er I Will Ralph Waldo Emerson 233
Pippa’s Song Robert Browning 233
The Whisper of Earth Edward J. O’Brien 234
Sunrise Edgar A. Guest 234
Prayer Before Poems Ann Blackwell Payne 235
How Miracles Abound Clinton Scollard 236
Little Things Orrick Johns 236
Clouds and Sky Lancaster Pollard 237
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold William Wordsworth 238
The Marshes Sidney Lanier 238
Song John Vance Cheney 239
Out-of-Doors Ethel E. Mannin 239
The Whole Duty of Berkshire Brooks Grace Hazard Conkling 240
A Word with A Skylark Sarah Piatt 241
The Perilous Light Eva Gore-Booth 241
Folly Vivian Yeiser Laramore 243
One Blackbird Harold Monro 243
A Rune of Riches Florence Converse 244
The Picture Frederick O. Sylvester 245
“Sic Vita” William Stanley Braithwaite 245
A Blackbird Suddenly Joseph Auslander 246
Credo Vera Wheatley 247
Gospel of the Fields Arthur Upson 247
The Welcome Arthur Powell 248
Angels of the Spring Robert Stephen Hawkes 249
God’s World Edna St. Vincent Millay 249
Rain Kenneth Slade Alling 250
The Lark Lizette Woodworth Reese 250
Farewell Harry Kemp 251
The Comfort of the Stars Richard Burton 251
The Last Hour Ethel Clifford 252
Wasted Hours Medora Addison 253
God is at the Anvil Lew Sarett 253
The End of The Trail
Hesperides Harry Kemp 257
Changeless Martha Haskell Clark 257
Homesick Julia C. R. Dorr 258
If All the Skies Henry van Dyke 259
“Gratias Ago” Geoffrey Howard 260
Song of Ballyshannon Jeanne Robert Foster 261
A Song of the Road Fred G. Bowles 263
After Sunset Grace Hazard Conkling 263
The Wanderer Zoe Akins 264
The Trumpet of the Dawn Clinton Scollard 265
Shared Lucy Larcom 265
Up-Hill Christina Rossetti 266
The Epitaph Katherine Tynan 267