Format:
Book
Title:
Poems that touch the heart / compiled by A.L. Alexander.
Author:
Alexander, Albert Louis, 1905-
Call Number:
808.81 A374po2d
Edition:
New, enl. ed.
Publisher, Date:
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1956.
Description:
xxxvii, 415 p. ; 22cm.
Subjects:
American poetry.
English poetry.
Poetry -- Collections.
Contents:
Contents : -- Preface to New, Enlarged Edition -- Introduction -- Around the Corner / Charles Hanson Towne -- Success / Berton Braley -- Why Do I Love You? / Roy Croft -- The Dark Candle / Strickland Gillilan -- A Friend / Author Unknown -- What Is Youth? / Author Unknown -- Should You Go First / Albert Rowswell -- The Tone of Voice / Author Unknown -- Treasures / Claire R. Thomas -- Tell Her So / Author Unknown -- Happiness / Priscilla Leonard -- Goodnight (For Husbands and Wives) / Dr. F. Alexander Magoun -- The Little Chap Who Follows Me / Author Unknown -- How Do I Love Thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The Story of Life / John G. Saxe -- Alabaster Boxes / Author Unknown -- The Touch of the Master's Hand / Myra Brooks Welch -- On Children / Kahlil Gibran -- The Bar / Author Unknown -- Your House / Author Unknown -- The Happiest Season / Author Unknown -- Instructions of King Cormac / King of Cashel -- At Set of Sun / George Eliot -- A Prayer Found in Chester Cathedral -- The Sculptor / Author Unknown -- Dream House / Catherine Parmenter Newell -- The World Needs / Author Unknown -- Wide Walls / Author Unknown -- Miss You / Author Unknown -- The Meaning of a Letter -- Bankrupt / Cortlandt W. Sayres -- A Bag of Tools / R.L. Sharpe -- A Last Will / Williston Fish -- You Mustn't Quit / Author Unknown -- Home Is Where There's One to Love Us / CHarles Swain -- Success / Author Unknown -- Don't Give Up / Author Unknown -- It Might Have Been Worse / G.J. Russell -- The Pendulum / Dwight Lyman Moody -- Mistakes / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- To a New Daughter-in-Law / Author Unknown -- Take the World as It Is, selection / Charles Swain -- A Birthday Wish / Dorothy Nell McDonald -- Sunshine and Music / Author Unknown -- That's Success! / Berton Braley -- Friendship / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik -- The Dawn / Author Unknown -- Knowledge / Author Unknown -- A Builder's Lesson, selection / John Boyle O'Reilly -- Mother's Hands / W. Dayton Wedgefarth -- A Smile / Henry Ward Beecher - The Whole Duty of a Poem / Arthur Guiterman -- God the Artist / Angela Morgan -- Who Does Not Love True Poetry / Henry Clay Hall -- Open Your Eyes / Emma Boge Whisenand - Blind / John Kendrick Bangs -- Fullfillment / Author Unknown -- How Old Are You? / H.S. Fritsch -- Little Words / Benjamin Keech -- Help Me Today / Elsie Robinson -- Thinking Happiness / Robert E. Farley -- A Good Creed / Author Unknown -- It's Simply Great / Sidney Warren Mase -- Outwitted / Edwin Markham -- Prayer of an Unemployed Man / W. C. Ackerly -- The Monk and the Peasant / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Sinner / Margaret E. Bruner -- Auction Sale-Household Furnishings / Adele de Leeuw -- Aloha Oe / Don Blanding -- Be Kind / Margaret Courtney -- Mediation No. 4891 -- Any Husband or Wife / Carol Haynes -- Let Me Be a Giver / Mary Carolyn Davies -- Four Things / Henry Van Dyke -- I Have Found Such Joy / Grace Noll Crowell -- Rendezvous / Mary Scott Fitzgerald -- Philosophy / John Kendrick Bangs -- The Right Kind of People / Edwin Markham -- Friendship / Author Unknown -- To Husband and Wife / Author Unknown -- If you Made Gentler the Churlish World / Max Ehrmann -- Forgiven / Margaret E. Sangster -- My Wage / Jessie B. Rittenhouse -- Good-by / Grace Denio Litchfield -- The House of Pride / William J. Dawson -- Ol' Clothes / Author unknown --
Morning Prayer / Author Unknown -- Equipment / Edgar A. Guest -- Pippa Passes, selection / Robert Browning -- Prayer for This House / Louis Untermeyer -- No Friend Like Music / Daniel Whitehead Hicky -- Thank You, God / Nina Stiles -- My Creed / S.E. Kiser -- Beauty as a Shield / Elsie Robinson -- Together / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Toys / Coventry Patmore -- A Prayer / Max Ehrmann -- Shabby Old Dad / Anne Campbell -- A Bargain Sale / S.E. Kiser -- Mediation No. 11087 -- The Old Mother / Author Unknown -- The Riddle / H.E.H. -- The Lesson of the Water Mill / Sarah Doudney -- Weighing the Baby / Ethel Lynn Beers -- Old Mothers / Charles Sarsfield Ross -- Courtesy / F.E. E.Ewell -- To My Son / Margaret Johnston Griffin -- A Bridge Instead of a Wall / Author Unknown -- For Sale or Rent / Author Unknown -- I Saw Two Clouds at Morning / John Gardiner Brainard -- You Never Can Tell / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- For One Lately Bereft/ Margaret E. Bruner -- I Ponder on Life/ Max Ehrmann -- The Clown/ Margaret E. Bruner -- Shall I Complain?/ Louise Chandler Moulton -- The Friend Who Just Stands By / B.Y. Williams -- Mediation No. 10871 -- Seeds of Kindness / Author Unknown -- A Woman's Question / Lena Lathrop -- Blind / Norman V. Pearce -- Wishes / A.C. Child -- On City Streets / Margaret E. Bruner -- Accept My Full Heart's Thanks / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- The Dreaded Task / Margaret E. Bruner -- What Makes a Home? / Author Unknown -- Beyond the Profit of Today / Author Unknown -- Courage to Live / Grace Noll Crowell -- Mediation No. 908 -- Start Where You Stand / Berton Braley -- He Lived a Life, selection / H.N. Fifer -- Temper / Author Unknown -- Essay on Man -- Erasers / Author Unknown -- The New Leaf / Helen Field Fischer -- This Prayer I Make / William Wordsworth -- On Work / Kahlil Gibran -- The Human Touch / Spencer Michael Free -- Forget Thee?, selection / John Moultrie -- Many Things / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- There Is a Mystic Borderland / Helen Field Fischer -- Will / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- A Smile / Author Unknown -- From the Florence Nightingale Pledge -- To Be a Nurse / A.H. Lawrence -- This, Too, Shall Pass Away / adapted by A.L. Alexander -- 'Tis a Little Journey / Author Unknown -- Today / John Kendrick Bangs -- Nightfall / Charles Hanson Towne -- Good Thoughts / Katherine Maurine Haaff --
New Friends and Old Friends / Joseph Parry -- If I Knew You and You Knew Me / Nixon Waterman -- High Resolve / Author Unknown -- A Morning Prayer / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- The Broken Sword / Edward Rowland Sill -- Lest Thou Forget / William L. Stidger -- On File / John Kendrick Bangs -- The Family / Donna R. Lydston -- The Most Vital Thing in LIfe / Grenville Kleiser -- Mediation NO. 11009 -- Better Than Gold / Abram J. Ryan -- The Door-Bell / Charlotte Becker -- Disillusion / Bessie B. Decker -- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes / Francis W. Bourdillon -- There Is a Mystery in Human Hearts / Author Unknown -- One Year to Live / Mary Davis Reed -- True Love / Phoebe Cary -- What Shall I Do? from "Absence" / Francis Anne Kemble -- Dusk / Helen Welshimer -- Parting / Coventry Patmore -- Giving and Forgiving / Thomas Grant Springer -- If I can Stop One Heart from Breaking / Emily Dickinson -- Tribute on the Passing of a Very Real Person / Author Unknown -- Those We Love the Best / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Somewhere / Sir Edwin Arnold -- Faith / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Prayer for Strength / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Pessimist / Author Unknown -- How to Forget / Rebecca Foresman -- Life's Mirror / Madeline Bridges -- Are You There? / Strickland Gillilan -- Song / Harold C. Sandall -- The Anvil-God's Word / Author Unknown -- Crime and Punishment / Kahlil Gibran -- The Shut-in / Nellie De Hearn -- Worth While / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- When a Man Turns Homeward / Daniel Whitehead Hicky -- Mediation No. 1894 -- Two Kinds of People / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- The Sin of Omission / Margaret E. Sangster -- At a Window / Carl Sandburg -- Definitions / Joseph Joel Keith -- Pain / Elsie Robinson -- Hymn / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- First Impressions / Alfred Grant Walton -- This Is Your Hour / Herbert Kaufman -- Good in Everything, selection / William Shakespeare -- The Old Year / Clarence Urmy -- The New Year / Horatio Nelson Powers -- Fate / Susan Marr Spalding -- Patience with the Living / Margaret E. Sangster -- A Day / William L. Stidger -- Prayer of Any Husband / Mazie V. Caruthers -- Success / C.C. Cameron -- Speak Gently / G.W. Langford -- Home / June Brown Harris -- Life's Made Up of Little Things / Mary R. Hartman -- Prayer / St. Francis of Assisi -- We Have Lived and Loved Together / Charles Jefferys -- Your Neighbor / H. Howard Biggar -- The Beggar / Margaret E. Bruner -- Good-by / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Little Things / Elizabeth Isler -- Silence / Edgar Lee Masters -- The Hate and the Love of the World / Max Ehrmann -- Who Are My People? / Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni -- Praise / R.H. Grenville -- Old Houses / Homer D'Lettuso -- In Your Absence / Elizabeth Baxter -- Little Things / Orrick Johns -- Quiet Days / Mildred T. Mey -- The Ship That Sails / Author Unknown -- The Blind Men and the Elephant / John G. Saxe -- For One Who Is Serene / Margaret E. Bruner -- Faith / Author Unknown -- Old Houses / Jennie Romano -- Thanksgiving / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Mediation No. 2053 -- The Kindly Neighbor / Edward A. Guest -- Harmony / Thomas Grant Springer -- Let Us Have Peace / Nancy Byrd Turner -- The Only Way to Have a Friend / Author Unknown -- The Touch of Human Hands / Thomas Curtis Clark -- Atonement / Margaret E. Bruner -- Drop A Pebble in the Water / James W. Foley -- Vision / Elizabeth N. Hauer -- Rabbi Ben Ezra, selection / Robert Browning -- Mediation No. 13057 -- Wedding Anniversary/ Margaret E. Bruner -- John Anderson, My Jo / Robert Burns -- As We Grow Older / Rollin J. Wells -- Ideals / Robert Greene --
Roof-Tops / Charles Hanson Towne -- Learn to Wait / Author Unknown -- Faith for Tomorrow / Thomas Curtis Clark -- God Be with You / Author Unknown -- The Philosopher / Sara Teasdale -- Who Loves the Rain / Frances Wills Shaw -- Selfishness / Margaret E. Bruner -- Endurance / Elizabeth Akers Allen -- Talk Happiness / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- A Poem for Christmas / C.A. Snodgrass -- I Think that God Is Proud / Grace Noll Crowell -- Mediation No. 1313 -- The Closed Door / Theoidosia Garrison -- One Thing at a Time / M.A. Stodart -- Hungering Hearts / Author Unknown -- The Joy of Incompleteness / Albert Crowell -- Firm Belief / Author Unknown -- Barter / Marie Blake -- Midwinter / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Quiet Life / Alexander Pope -- Before It Is Too Late / Frank Herbert Sweet -- I Never Knew a Night So Black / John Kendrick Bangs -- Worries / Author Unknown -- True Happiness / Morris Talpalar -- Friendship / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Prayer for Shut-ins / Ruth Winant Wheeler -- Salutation to the Dawn / Kalidasa -- Three Gates of Gold / Beth Day -- Unsubdued / S.E. Kiser -- There Is a Loneliness / Margaret E. Bruner -- Life / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Whatever Is-Is Best / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- The Boomerang / Carrie May Nichols -- Mediation No. 12672 -- Compensation / E. M. Brainard -- Work / J.W. Thompson -- To Chloe, selection / William Cartwright -- The Common Tasks / Grace Noll Crowell -- A Vow for New Year's / Mary Carolyn Davies -- Mother / Max Ehrmann -- Rest / Author Unknown -- Beautitudes for a Housewife / Mary Mae Oesch -- The Celestial Surgeon / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Little Child's Faith / Louis Edwin Thayer -- Heart Wounds / Claire Richcreek Thomas -- Life's Lesson / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- The Bridge-Builder / Will Allen Dromgoole -- It Can Be Done / Author Unknown -- Next Year / Nora Perry -- A Gentle Word / Author Unknown -- Little Things / Author Unknown -- Too Late / Nora Perry -- Communion / P.M. Snider -- Because You Care / Frank Crane -- Retaliation / Margaret E. Bruner -- Casual Meeting / Margaret E. Bruner -- Understanding / H.W. Bliss -- Watch Yourself Go By / Strickland Gillilan -- The Greater Gift / Margaret E. Bruner -- Only a Little Thing / M.P. Handy -- The five Best Doctors / O.S. Hoffman -- One of Us Two / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Before and After Marriage / Anne Campbell -- My Meighbor's Roses / A.L. Gruber -- My Neighbor's Reply / Author Unknown --
Be Hopeful / Stickland Gillilan -- A Prayer for Broken Little Families / Violet Alleyn Storey -- The Old Woman / Joseph Campbell -- Decision / Author Unknown -- Minutes of Gold / Author Unknown -- Prayer for a Day's Walk / Grace Noll Crowell -- The Heart's Anchor / William Winter -- Away / Max Ehrmann -- You Tell on Yourself / Author Unknown -- The Preacher's Mistake / William Croswell Doane -- The Gift / Margaret E. Bruner -- Mediation No. 1458 -- Life / Author Unknown -- Our Own / Margaret E. Sangster -- Alone / Carolyn Wells -- Then Laugh / Bertha Adams Backus -- At the Door / Lillie Fuller Merriam -- Good Night! Good Night! / John Holmes -- Home / Nellie Womack Hines -- To the New Owner / Lucile Hargrove Reynolds -- God Bless You / Author Unknown --- Is It a Dream? / G.A. Studdert-Kennedy -- The Whirlpool / Author Unknown -- There is Always a Place for You / Anne Campbell -- Time's Hand Is Kind / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Blind Man / Margaret E. Sangster -- To Give One's Life / Mary Carolyn Davies -- Resolve / Charlotte P.S. Gilman -- Confide in a Friend / Author Unknown -- A Prayer for Every Day / Mary Carolyn Davies -- Art Thou Lonely? / John Oxenham -- What Is Good? / John Boyle O'Reilly -- Definition / Grace Noll Crowell -- The Sincere Man / Alfred Grant Walton -- If You Had a Friend / Robert Lewis -- Eternal Values / Grace Noll Crowell -- Rememberance / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Voie of God / Louis I. Newman -- Good-Bye / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "No!" / Eliza Cook -- Retribution, selection / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Lonely Dog / Margaret E. Bruner -- Beyond the Grave / Margaret E. Bruner -- Hospital / Wilfred Funk -- So Live, from "Thanatopsis" / William Cullen Bryant -- Life Owes Me Mothing / Author Unknown -- Mother / Herman Hagedorn -- A Thankful Heart / Robert Herrick -- Love's Philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Plea for Tolerance / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Arrow and the Song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Worry / Author Unknown -- Today / Ethel Romig Fuller -- God's Ways Are Strange / Margaret E. Bruner -- Cloak of Laughter / Abigail Cresson -- If Lincoln Should Return / Margaret E. Bruner -- What the King Has / Ethel Romig Fuller -- Husband and Wife / Arthur Guiterman -- A Friend / Sir Thomas N. Talfourd -- What's in It for Me? / Edgar A. Guest -- Take Time to Live / Thomas Curtis Clark -- For a New Home / Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni -- The Human Heart / Frank Carleton Nelson -- Patty-Poem / Nick Kenny -- Thanks Be to God / Janie Alford -- Recipe for Living / Alfred Grant Walton -- I Am Your Wife / Author Unknown -- Love Is Kind / Benjamin Keech -- Content / Dora Greenwell -- These Are Not Lost / Richard Metcalf -- Need of Loving / Strickland Gillilan -- I Would Be True / Howard Arnold Walter -- Why Do I Live? / Thomas Guthrie -- Let's Forget / Charles L.H. Wagner -- For Those Who Fail / Joaquin Miller -- For Love's Sake Only / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Rebirth / Margaret E. Bruner -- Just to Be Needed / Mary Eversley -- Count Ten / Bonaro Overstreet -- A Prayer for Faith / Margaret E. Sangster -- The World We Make / Alfred Grant Walton -- Mediation No. 2979 -- Thank God! / Author Unknown -- Be Patient / George Klingle -- A Dog's Vigil / Margaret E. Bruner -- The Dreams Ahead / Edwin Carlile Litsey -- Sons of Promise / Thomas Curtis Clark -- Friends / Thomas Curtis Clark -- Mediation No. 7398 -- Two Prayers / Andrew Gillies -- We Kiss'd Again with Tears, from "The Princess" / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Let Him Return / Leona Ames Hill -- Discovery / Benjamin Keech -- True to the Best / Benjamin Keech -- Little Roads to Happiness / Wilhelmina Stitch -- The Tongue / Author Unknown -- At Sunrise / Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni -- Question Not / Adam Lindsay Gordon -- Understanding / Author Unknown -- I Am Still Rich / Thomas Curtis Clark -- I Know Something Good about You / Author Unknown -- Was, Is, and Yet-to-be / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Blessed Are They / Wilhelmina Stitch -- A Country Town, selection / Philip James Bailey -- Giving / Author Unknown -- Work for Small Men, selection / Sam Walter Foss -- The Power of Prayer / Richard Chevenix Trench -- Mother / Author Unknown -- My Friends Are Little Lamps To Me / Elizabeth Whittemore -- Moderation / William Cowper -- Translation of Horace (Odes Book II) -- To My Friend / Anne Campbell -- Visit The Sick / James J. Metcalfe -- An Angry Word / Margaret E. Bruner -- Guide-posts on the Footpath to Peace / Henry Van Dyke -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Authors -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines.