Instructions for reading verse
Selections for reading : Anecdote of the Duke of Newcastle / Blackwood's Magazine --
The needle / Samuel Woodworth --
Description of a storm / Benjamin Disraeli --
After the thunderstorm / James Thomson --
House cleaning / Francis Hopkinson --
Schemes of life often illusory / Samuel Johnson --
The brave old oak / Henry Fothergill Chorley --
Pictures of Memory / Alice Cary --
The morning oratorio / Wilson Flagg --
Short selections in poetry : The cloud / John Wilson --
My mind / William Byrd --
A good name / William Shakespeare --
Sunrise / James Thomson --
Old age and death / Edmund Waller --
Death of Little Nell / Charles Dickens --
Vanity of life / Johann Gottfried von Herder --
A political pause / Charles James Fox --
My experience in elocution / John Neal --
Elegy in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray --
Speech before the Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry --
The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake --
Ironical eulogy on debt --
The three warnings / Hester Lynch Thrale --
The memory of our fathers / Lyman Beecher.
Short selections in prose : Dryden and Pope / Samuel Johnson --
Las casas dissuading from battle / R.B. Sheridan --
Action and repose / John Ruskin --
Time and change / Sir Humphry Davy --
The poet / William Ellery Channing --
Mountains / William Howitt --
The jolly old pedagogue / George Arnold --
The teacher and sick scholar / Charles Dickens --
The snow shower / William Cullen Bryant --
Character of Napoleon Bonaparte / Charles Phillips --
Napoleon at rest / John Pierpont --
Speech of Walpole in reproof of Mr. Pitt / Sir R. Walpole --
Pitt's reply to Sir Robert Walpole / William Pitt --
Character of Mr. Pitt / Henry Grattan --
The soldier's rest / Sir Walter Scott --
Henry V. to his troops / William Shakespeare --
Speech of Paul on Mars' Hill / Bible --
God is everywhere / Joseph Hutton --
Lafayette and Robert Raikes / Thomas S. Grimké --
Fall of Cardinal Wolsey / William Shakespeare --
The philosopher / John P. Kennedy --
Marmion and Douglas / Sir Walter Scott --
The present / Adelaide Anne Procter --
The baptism / John Wilson --
Sparrows / Adeline D. Train Whitney --
Observance of the Sabbath / Gardiner Spring --
God's goodness to such as fear him / Bible --
Character of Columbus / Washington Irving --
"He giveth his beloved sleep" / Elizabeth B. Browning --
Description of a siege / Sir Walter Scott --
Marco Bozzaris / Fitz-Greene Halleck --
Song of the Greek Bard / Lord George Gordon Byron --
North American Indians / Charles Sprague --
Lochiel's warning / Thomas Campbell --
On happiness of temper / Oliver Goldsmith --
The fortune teller / Henry Mackenzie --
Rienzi's address to the Romans / Mary Russell Mitford --
The Puritan fathers of New England / F.W.P. Greenwood --
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans --
Necessity of education / Lyman Beecher --
Riding on a snow-plow / Benjamin Franklin Taylor --
The quarrel of Brutus and Cassius / William Shakespeare --
The quack / John Tobin --
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
Bill and Joe / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Sorrow for the dead / Washington Irving --
The eagle / James Gates Percival --
Political toleration / Thomas Jefferson --
What constitutes a state? / Sir William Jones --
The brave at home / Thomas Buchanan Read --
South Carolina / Robert Young Hayne --
Massachusetts and South Carolina / Daniel Webster --
The church scene from Evangeline / H.W. Longfellow --
Song of the shirt / Thomas Hood --
Diamond cut diamond / Édouard René Lefebvre-Laboulaye --
Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant --
Indian jugglers / William Hazlitt --
Antony over Caesar's dead body / William Shakespeare --
The English character / William Hickling Prescott --
The song of the potter / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
A hot day in New York / William Dean Howells --
Discontent: an allegory / Joseph Addison --
Jupiter and ten / James T. Fields --
Scene from "The poor gentleman" / George Colman --
My mother's picture / William Cowper --
Death of Samson / John Milton --
The barefoot boy / John Greenleaf Whittier --
The glove and the lions / James Henry Leigh Hunt --
The folly of intoxication / William Shakespeare --
Starved rock / Francis Parkman --
Prince Henry and Falstaff / William Shakespeare --
Studies / Sir Francis Bacon --
Surrender of Granada / Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton --
Hamlet's soliloquy / William Shakespeare.
Ginevra / Samuel Rogers --
Inventions and discoveries / John Caldwell Calhoun --
Enoch Arden at the window / Alfred Tennyson --
Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott --
Speech on the trial of a murderer / Daniel Webster --
The closing year / George Denison Prentice --
A new city in Colorado / Helen Hunt Jackson --
Importance of the union / Daniel Webster --
The influences of the sun / John Tyndall --
Colloquial powers of Franklin / William Wirt --
The dream of Clarence / William Shakespeare --
Homeward bound / Richard H. Dana, Jr. --
Impeachment of Warren Hastings / T.B. Macaulay --
Destruction of the Carnatic / Edmund Burke --
The raven / Edgar Allan Poe --
A view of the Colosseum / Orville Dewey --
The bridge / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Objects and limits of science / Robert Charles Winthrop --
The downfall of Poland / Thomas Campbell --
Labor / Horace Greeley --
The last days of Herculaneum / Edwin Atherstone --
How men reason / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Thunderstorm on the Alps / Lord Byron --
Origin of property / Sir William Blackstone --
Battle of Waterloo / Lord Byron --
"With brains, Sir" / John Brown --
The New England pastor / Timothy Dwight --
Death of Absalom / Bible --
Abraham Davenport / John Greenleaf Whittier --
The falls of Yosemite / Thomas Starr King --
A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Franklin's entry into Philadelphia / Benjamin Franklin --
Lines to a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant --
Goldsmith and Addison / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Immortality of the soul / Joseph Addison --
Character of Washington / Jared Sparks --
Eulogy on Washington / Henry Lee --
The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth --
Value of the present / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Happiness / Alexander Pope --
Marion / William Gilmore Simms --
A common thought / Henry Timrod --
A definite aim in reading / Noah Porter --
Ode to Mt. Blanc / Samuel Taylor Coleridge.