Lyrics of the Hearthside
Dream Song. II
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Pray, what can dreams avail
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Florida: Essays and Poems
Evening Song
by Sidney Lanier
The author describes a sunset on the coast.
A Child's Garden of Verses: Selected Poems
Autumn Fires
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The poet muses on fires.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series One
Nature, Poem 6: A Service of Song
by Emily Dickinson
Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
Nursery Rhymes and Traditional Poems
Trit-Trot, Trit-Trot
by Traditional
A nursery rhyme that acts a a gesture and/or action song relating the sounds to the actions of trotting to and from a market.
The Wind in the Willows
The Return of Ulysses
by Kenneth Grahame
Toad Hall is liberated. Toad sings a song in celebration.
Treasure Island
Part One: The Old Buccaneer, Chapter 1: The Old Sea-Dog at the Admiral Benbow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jim Hawkins starts his tale of an island. An old imposing sailor stays at Jim’s father’s inn and terrorizes the other inhabitants. He warns Jim about a one-legged sailor whom he fears and threatens Dr. Livesey with a knife.
Florida Trails
Chapter X: “Down the Indian River”
by Winthrop Packard
The narrator describes the birds (in particular the bobolinks and the yellow-billed cuckoo) and their migrating routes. He also talks about the different fruit and trees found along the Indian River.
The Tin Woodman of Oz
Chapter 16: “Captain Fyter”
by L. Frank Baum
The Tin Soldier tells the Tin Man and his friends how he came to be made of Tin. His story surprises them. They continue on their journey to find Nimmie Amee.
Deductive Logic
Part 3: Chapter 18
by George William Joseph Stock, M.A.
Lyrics of Lowly Life
"The Dilletante: A Modern Type"
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"He scribbles some in prose and verse,"
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Chapter 11
by James Weldon Johnson
The narrator reflects on his past and experiemce being a “white man.”
Lyrics of Love and Laughter
Response
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"When Phyllis sighs and from her eyes"
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
Twilight
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"‘Twixt a smile and a tear,"
The Souls of Black Folk
Chapter 10: Of the Faith of the Fathers
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Du Bois discusses the religious growth of the black man.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
"To Maecenas."
by Phillis Wheatley
MAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade,
Lyrics of Love and Laughter
Life's Tragedy
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"It may be misery not to sing at all"
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Song
by Edgar Allan Poe
"I saw thee on thy bridal day–"
The Secret Garden
Chapter 24: “‘Let Them Laugh’”
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The children agree to let Dickon’s mother (Mrs. Sowerby) in on the secret of the garden. They tell her of their large appetites and she sends them food. Mary and Colin find it difficult to maintain their charade.
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
A Song
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Thou art the soul of a summer’s day,"
Selected American and British Poems
“Laughing Song”
by William Blake
A cheerful poem about springtime.
The Busy Blue Jay: True Bird Stories from My Notebooks
The Busy Blue Jay, Chapter 2
by Olive Thorne Miller
A story about a blue jay named Jakie. This chapter focuses on the relationship between Jakie and the speaker.
The Colored Cadet at West Point
Chapter 7: Yearling Camp
by Henry O. Flipper
As the plebe period inevitably comes to an end, cadets enter the yearling phase of their education and instruction at West Point, resulting in the introduction of an ever expanding array of subject matter.
Japanese Fairy Tales
The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child
by Yei Theodora Ozaki
A bamboo cutter finds a small, luminescent girl, and raises her as Princess Moonlight. She refuses all suitors, befriends the Emperor, and eventually returns to her rightful home, the Moon.
Lyrics of Lowly Life
"The Sparrow"
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"A little bird, with plumage brown,"