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• The Rhode-Island book: selections in prose and verse (H. Fuller;, 1841), by Anne C. Lynch Botta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature of the English language; comprising representative selections from the best authors, also lists of contemporaneous writers and their principal works. (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and company, 1870), by Ephraim Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose; selections (Macmillan, 1898), by George Rice Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story, essay, and verse : modern prose and poetry selected from the Atlantic monthly (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921), by H. G. Paul and Charles Swain Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lotos leaves : original stories, essays and poems (R. Worthington, 1879), by William Fearing Gill, Whitelaw Reid, and N.Y.) Lotos Club (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sutton's leisure hour miscellany. (Aldine, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose and poetry for young people : readings and recitations for children from four to fourteen : compiled from the best sources. (Penn, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perfect jewels: a collection of the choicest things in the literature of life, love and religion. (Mills, Dodge &Pomeroy, 1888), by William Ralston Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• English and American literature : studies in literary criticism, interpretation and history ;in ten volumes, with numerous halftone illustrations. (Smith & Reeve, 1905), by Charles Herbert Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select extracts from British and American authors in prose and verse, for the use of schools : chronologically arranged with short biographical notes. ([s.n.], 1917), by Elizabeth Fison, Fritz Kriete, Ernst Regel, and Mathilde Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gleanings from popular authors, grave and gay. (Cassell & co., ltd., 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masterpieces of American literature (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1902), by H. N. Wheeler and John Kneeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlantic prose and poetry (The Atlantic monthly press, 1920), by Charles Swain Thomas and H. G. Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to American literature, including illustrative selections, with notes (B. H. Sanborn & co., 1917), by Franklin Verzeline Newton Painter (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose; selections with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction. (Macmillan, 1916), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stories and poems (Cochrane Publishing, 1909), by Craven Langstroth Betts and Craven Langstroth Betts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous story book (Lothrop publishing company, 1896), by Lothrop Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americana, as taught to the tune of a hickory stick. (Women's National Book Association, 1954), by W. W. Livengood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wit, wisdom, and eloquence ... Anglo-Saxon's foremost wits, orators, and logicians: Henry Grady, Henry Clay, President Lincoln ... (Staunton, Va., 1927), by Randal Lockhart Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to American literature, including illustrative selections, with notes (Sibley & company, 1916), by F. V. N. Painter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lotos leaves. Original stories (W. F. Gill and company, 1875), by John Brougham and John Elderkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings from the works of Charles Dickens and from Irish and American authors (Carson, 1884), by John Andrew Jennings and Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verses by the poets of the class of 1881 of Harvard College, for its Class Day and later class reunions. (Harvard University Press, 1923), by Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1881 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and life (Scott, Foresman, 1929), by Edwin Almiron Greenlaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• One act plays for stage and study; a collection of plays by well-known dramatists, American, English, and Irish (S. French; [etc., etc.], 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Representative American plays (Century co., 1922), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black blunders, and other farces (W.H. Baker & Co., 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writing desk; [or, Youth in danger] (Printed for Charles Smith, 1801), by August von Kotzebue, Henry Willis Wells, and Charles Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories (C. Scribner's sons, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories by American authors. (C. Scribner's sons, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard novels. (J. Cunningham, etc., 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of long stories (The Macmillan company, 1927), by Arthur H. Nethercot (page images at HathiTrust)

• American familiar verse, vers de société (Longmans, Green, and co., 1904), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The floral gift; from nature and the heart (Leavitt & Co., 1850), by Mary Chauncy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the American poets; with some introductory remarks. (W.F. Wakeman, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of the poets; the modern poets of the nineteenth century. (Scott, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of British and American verse (Doubleday, Page, 1923), by Henry Van Dyke, Asa Don Dickinson, and Hardin Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden treasury of American songs and lyrics (L.C. Page & Company (incorporated), 1906), by Frederic Lawrence Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The magic carpet; poems for travelers selected by Mrs. Waldo Richards... (Houghton Mifflin company, 1924), by Waldo Richards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• War-time echoes; patriotic poems, heroic and pathetic, humorous and dialectic, of the Spanish-American war. (Werner, 1898), by James Henry Brownlee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's book of verse (Frederick A. Stokes, 1923), by Helen Dean Fish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Open gates; a book of poems for boys and girls of junior high school age (Houghton Mifflin company, 1924), by Susan Thompson Spaulding and Francis Trow Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of American poetry, with critical and biographical notices. (S. G. Goodrich & co., 1829), by Samuel Kettell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A festival of song: a series of evenings with the greatest poets of the English language. (Chicago etc. Scammell & company, 1876), by Frederick Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry of the gathered years. (A. C. McClurg and company, 1892), by Martha Harger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The floral gift; from nature and the heart (J. Grout, 1846), by Mary Chauncy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language of gems, with their poetic sentiments (A. Tompkins and B.B. Mussey, 1845), by Hannah Jane Woodman Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The family library of poetry and song. (Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1878), by William Cullen Bryant and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new library of poetry and song: (Doubleday, Page, 1918), by William Cullen Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Favorite poems from English and American authors (Belford, 1884), by Thomas W. Handford and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Maryland poetry ([Printed by John Murphy company], 1900), by Bernard C. Steiner, Richard Lewis, E. Holdsworth, and Ebenezer Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little book of bookly verse ... to help make Christmas merry. (The Bookfellows, 1919), by Bookfellows (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grandfather's rhymes and grandson's chimes, or, The poetical writings of Wm. Whitford : and a collection of favorite selections of poetry and song (Published by C. P. Whitford in behalf of the family, 1882), by William Whitford and Charles P. Whitford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems of poetry (S. Andrus and son, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poets and poetry of America; with an historical introd. (Carey and Hart, 1843), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book lover's library of poetical literature. (Cooperative publications, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gems of genius in poetry and art (Chicago, 1899), by Frederick Saunders and Minnie K. Davis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopaedia of poetry; a thousand and one gems of poetry (David McKay, 1834), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Favorite poems by famous authors (Worthington co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poets of America, with occasional notes. (S. Andrus and son, 1847), by George B. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female poets of America. (H.C. Baird, 1852), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crown jewels, or Gems of literature, art and music; being choice selections from the writings and musical productions of the most celebrated authors, from the earliest ... Including a biography of the authors. (Northwestern Pub. Co., 1888), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short standard poems : an anthology. (C. Tittmann, 1886), by Mary Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michigan poets and poetry, with portraits and biographies. (Michigan publishing company, 1904), by Warren Wayne Lamport (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred and one famous poems, with a prose supplement. (R. J. Cook, 1922), by Roy Jay Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems that every child should know; a selection of the best poems of all times for young people. (Doubleday, Page & company, 1914), by Mary E. Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American anthology, 1787-1900. (Boston, etc., 1901), by Edmund Clarence Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• American poems, 1625-1892. Selected and edited, with illustrative and explanatory notes and a bibliography. (University of Chicago Press, 1917), by Walter C. Bronson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poets and poetry of Nebraska and Missouri (American publishers' association, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems of poetry, with notes and illustrations. (Rhodes & McClure pub. co., 1904), by Richard S. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of famous verse. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894), by Agnes Repplier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden number; a book of verse for youth (Doubleday, Page & company, 1916), by Kate Douglas Wiggins and Nora Archibald Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems that never die : or, golden thoughts from the world's best authors comprising poems on mother, home, heaven, the fireside, friendship ... including personal sketches of authors by Margaret M. Browning. (L.G. Stahl?], 1901), by Margaret M. Browning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyra heroica : a book of verse for boys (C. Scribner's Sons, 1911), by William Ernest Henley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A library of poetry and song; being choice selections from the best poets (J. B. Ford and company, 1870), by William Cullen Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's poetry (Rand, McNally & company, 1925), by Miriam Blanton Huber and Herbert Bascom Bruner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetry cure; a pocket medicine chest of verse (Dodd, Mead and company, 1927), by Robert Haven Schauffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The home book of modern verse, American and English (Holt, 1953), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great odes; English and American. (W. Scott, 1890), by William Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred and one famous poems. (R.J. Cook, 1924), by Roy J. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Millsaps college verse, first series, 1923-1925. (Millsaps College, 1925), by Milton Christian White (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of poetry (Edwards Brothers, 1932), by Richard Ray Kirk and Roger Philip McCutcheon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Songs of nature (Grosset, 1901), by John Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flow'ring field; an anthology. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by Kate Ursula Brock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A poetry-book of songs and sonnets, odes and idylls. 2d series. From the end of the eighteenth century to the present times. (B. Tauchnitz, 1878), by Amelia B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our poetical favorites; a selection from the best minor poems of the English language. (Sheldon & Co., 1874), by A. C. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rainbow gold; poems old and new selected for boys and girls, ed. by Sara Teasdale, illust. by Dugald Stewart Walker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Story-Telling Ballads: Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott, illust. by Milo Winter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rookie rhymes, by the men of the 1st and 2nd provisional training regiments, Plattsburg, New York, by Plattsburgh Barracks (N.Y.) (Gutenberg ebook)
• Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth, ed. by Nora Archibald Smith and Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems Teachers Ask For: Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" (Gutenberg ebook)

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