CONTENTS

A CHANTED CALENDAR

Daybreak. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Morning. By John Keats

A Morning Song. By William Shakespeare

Evening in Paradise. By John Milton

Evening Song. By John Fletcher

Night. By Robert Southey

A Fine Day. By Michael Drayton

The Seasons. By Edmund Spenser

The Eternal Spring. By John Milton

March. By William Cullen Bryant

Spring. By Thomas Carew

Song to April. By William Watson

April in England. By Robert Browning

April and May. By Ralph Waldo Emerson

May. By Edmund Spenser

Song on May Morning. By John Milton

Summer. By Edmund Spenser

June Weather. By James Russell Lowell

July. By Susan Hartley Swett

August. By Edmund Spenser

In August. By William Dean Howells

A CHANTED CALENDAR-Continued

Autumn. By Edmund Spenser

Sweet September. By George Arnold

Autumn's Processional. By Dinah M. Mulock

October's Bright Blue Weather. By H. H.

Maple Leaves. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Midwinter. By John Townsend Trowbridge
Dirge for the Year. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL

The World Beautiful. By John Milton

The Harvest Moon. By Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

The Cloud. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Before the Rain. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Rain in Summer. By Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellow

Invocation to Rain in Summer. By William C.

Bennett

The Latter Rain. By Jones Very

The Wind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL-Continued

Ode to the Northeast Wind. By Charles Kings-

ley

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The Windy Night. By Thomas Buchanan Read 39

The Brook. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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The Brook in Winter.

By James Russell Lowell

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Clear and Cool. By Charles Kingsley

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Minnows. By John Keats

Snow-Bound (Extracts). By John G. Whittier

Highland Cattle. By Dinah M. Mulock

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Green Things Growing. By Dinah M. Mulock

The Sigh of Silence. By John Keats

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Under the Greenwood Tree. By William Shake-

speare

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The Planting of the Apple Tree. By William

Cullen Bryant

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The Apple Orchard in the Spring. By William

Martin

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Mine Host of "The Golden Apple." By Thom-

as Westwood

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The Tree. By Jones Very

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A Young Fir-Wood. By Dante G. Rossetti

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GREEN THINGS GROWING-Continued

The Snowing of the Pines. By Thomas W. Hig-

ginson

The Procession of the Flowers. By Sydney Do-

bell

Sweet Peas. By John Keats

A Snowdrop. By Harriet Prescott Spofford

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Almond Blossom. By Sir Edwin Arnold

Wild Rose. By William Allingham

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Tiger-Lilies. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To the Fringed Gentian. By William Cullen

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Bryant

To a Mountain Daisy.

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By Robert Burns

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Bind-Weed. By Susan Coolidge

The Rhodora. By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A Song of Clover.

By "Saxe Holm "

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To the Dandelion (Extract). By James Russell

The Corn-Song. By John G. Whittier

Columbia's Emblem. By Edna Dean Proctor
Scythe Song. By Andrew Lang

The Death of the Flowers. By William Cullen
Bryant

Autumn's Mirth. By Samuel Minturn Peck

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ON THE WING

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Sing On, Blithe Bird. By William Motherwell

To a Skylark. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Sir Lark and King Sun: A Parable. By George

Macdonald

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To a Waterfowl. By William Cullen Bryant

Goldfinches. By John Keats

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The Sandpiper. By Celia Thaxter

The Eagle. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Child's Talk in April.

By Christina G. Rossetti 109

The Flight of the Birds. By Edmund Clarence

Stedman

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The Shepherd's Home. By William Shenstone 112

To a Cricket. By William C. Bennett

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On the Grasshopper and Cricket. By John Keats 114

The Tax-Gatherer. By John B. Tabb

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To the Grasshopper and the Cricket. By Leigh

Hunt

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