Vagabonds, The _Trowbridge_ 49 Voice of Spring, The _Hemans_ 26 Volunteer Organist, The _Foss_ 149
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers _Pierpont_ 99 Washington _Bryant_ 37 Washington's' Birthday _Butterworth_ 58 Water Mill, The _Doudney_ 143 What the Choir Sang About the New Bonnet _Morrison_ 168 When Father Carves the Duck _Wright_ 40 When My Ship Comes In _Burdette_ 138 When Papa Was a Boy _Brininstool_ 100 When the Light Goes Out _Chester_ 199 Which Shall It Be? _Beers_ 101 Who Stole the Bird's Nest? _Child_ 41 Why the Dog's Nose Is Always Cold 144 Wishing Bridge, The _Whittier_ 63 Witch's Daughter, The _Whittier_ 188 With Little Boy Blue _Kennedy_ 122 Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness _Shakespeare_ 94 Women of Mumbles Head, The _C. Scott_ 123 Wood-Box, The _Lincoln_ 177 Work: A Song of Triumph _Morgan_ 154 Work Thou for Pleasure _Cox_ 169
You Put No Flowers on My Papa's Grave _C.E.L. Holmes_ 140
(An Index of First Lines is given on pages 209-213)
In homely phrase, this is a sort of "second helping" of a dish that has pleased the taste of thousands. Our first collection of _Poems Teachers Ask For_ was the response to a demand for such a book, and this present volume is the response to a demand for "more." In Book One it was impracticable to use all of the many poems entitled to inclusion on the basis of their being desired. We are constantly in receipt of requests that certain selections be printed in NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS on the page "Poems Our Readers Have Asked For." More than two hundred of these were chosen for Book One, and more than two hundred others, as much desired as those in the earlier volume, are included in Book Two.
Because of copyright restrictions, we often have been unable to present, in magazine form, verse of large popular appeal. By special arrangement, a number of such poems were included in Book One of _Poems Teachers Ask For_, and many more are given in the pages that follow. Acknowledgment is made below to publishers and authors for courteous permission to reprint in this volume material which they control:
THE CENTURY COMPANY--_The Minuet_, from "Poems and Verses," by Mary Mapes Dodge.
W.B. CONKEY COMPANY--_Solitude_, from "Poems of Passion," and _How Salvator Won_, from "Kingdom of Love," both by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.