- Introduction
- Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
- "There are loyal hearts..."
- Press On by Park Benjamin
- Daffodils by William Wordsworth
- Serenity by Lord Byron
- Onward by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
- To Live by William Cullen Bryant
- Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Wouldst shape a noble kife?" by Goethe and "Though to-day may mot fulfill" by P. Gerhardt
- At the End of all Desire by Swinburne
- Judge Not by Adelaide A. Proctor
- Be Strong? by Maltbie Davenport Babcock
- "Who looks to heaven..." by Henry Van Dyke
- Where Ignorance Is Bliss by Thomas Gray
- The Brave at Home by Thomas Buchanan Read
- Love of Country by Sir Walter Scott
- Fair Ines by Thomas Hood
- "Be though the rainbow..." by Byron and "Action" by Shakespeare
- "Westward the star of empire..."
- On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
- The Arrow and the Song by Longfellow
- "The summer vanishes..."
- Courage by Thomas F. Porter and "All is of God" by John G. Whittier
- Loss of the Royal George by W. Cowper
- Character by Emerson
- O, Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman
- Forbearance by Emerson
- L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling
- "If you and I..."
- Pippa's Song by Robert Browning
- Song by Aubrey de Vere
- "The Common Problem..." by Browning
- At Nightfall by Charles Harrison Towne
- "Ah, be not false" by Richard Watson Gilder
- "Let us love so well" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and My Creed by Alice Creed
- Victory by Ellsworth Kaye and A Prayer by Amora Fitch
- A Psalm of Life by H. W. Longfellow
- "High thoughts and noble in all lands" by Richard Burton
- "So I will trudge with heart elate" by Alice Cary
- Service by Whittier
- "Whichever way the wind doth blow" by Caroline A. Mason
- Faith by Tennyson
- The World Over by Lowell
- It's Raining Violets by Robert Loveman
- Action by Omar Khayyam
- "Westward the star of empire takes its way" by George Bishop Berkeley
- Clear the Way by Charles Mackay
- "If you have gracious words to say"
- How Sleep the Brave by William Collins
- Warren's Address by John Pierpont
- Worth by Alexander Pope
- The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "If I can stop one heart from breaking" by Emily Dickinson
- "He taught us" by John Ruskin and The Task of Happiness by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Three Kinds of Courage by Roy Farrell Greene
- Friendship by Emerson
- "O! joyous Day! O! Smile of God" by Thomas Augustin Daly
- Friends by James Montgomery
- "We just shake hands at meeting" by Gerald Massey
- The Rosary of my Years by Father Ryan
- Mercy by Shakespeare
- Haste Not, Rest Not by Goethe
- Freedom by James Russell Lowell
- Character of a Happy Life by Sir N. Wotton
- The Splendor Falls by Alfred Tennyson
- Lead Kindly Light by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman
- The Rosary
- The Spring of Love by Stopford A. Brooks
- Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell
- Opportunity by John James Ingalls
- "The star of the unconquered will" by H. W. Longfellow
- Service by John Milton
- When the Birds go North Again by Ella Higginson
- Balancing by Wilbur D. Nesbit and "Believe not each accusing tongue" by Sheridan
- The Inevitable by Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Sympathy by Sir Thomas N. Talfourd
- Come Good or Evil by William Makepeace Thackeray and "Then let us smile"
- Resolve by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
- The Sluggard by Isaac Watts
- Crossing the Bar by Tennyson
- Young and Old by Charles Kingsley
- "Yes, they whose feet..." by Edwin Markham
- When in Disgrace by Shakespeare and "But in the mud . . ." by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Mizpah by Julia A. Baker
- Twenty Years Ago by A. J. Gault
- "'Tis not the weight of jewel or plate..."
This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but will resonate with all poetry lovers, and convey sentiments of hope and inspiration. - Summary by Larry Wilson
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