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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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O Captain! My Captain!

Written shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1865.

Walt Whitman
  1819-1892.

C. M. Wyman 46, 47

Columbus

Joaquin [Cincinnatus Hiner] Miller
  1841-

Arr. from the German 47, 48

Under the Trees

Richard Henry Stoddard
  1825-

U. Munjinger 49

The Fishermen

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

Christian Gottlob Neefe 50
  1748-1798.

The Storm Song

Bayard Taylor
  1825-1878.

Christoph Willibald Gluck 51, 52
  1714-1787.

The Voyagers

Bayard Taylor
  1825-1878.

Friedrich Silcher 53
  1789-1860.

Air: Die Lorelei.

The Hunter’s Serenade

William Cullen Bryant
  1794-1878.

German air 54, 55

Wind and Sea

Bayard Taylor
  1825-1878.

Johann Abraham Peter Schulz 56, 57
  1747-1800.

A Life on the Ocean Wave

Suggested by a morning walk on the Battery in New York, and the sight of ships and small craft under full sail.

Epes Sargent
  1813-1880.

Henry Russell 58
  1810-

For an Autumn Festival

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

Johann André 59
  1741-1799.

The Corn Song

John Greenleaf Whittier
  1807-1892.

German air 60, 61

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe
  1809-1849.

61

Home, Sweet Home

First sung in an opera written by Sir Henry Bishop, produced in Covent Garden Theatre, London, in 1823. The author, who was all his life a wanderer, has been called "the homeless bard of home."

John Howard Payne
  1792-1852.

Sicilian air 62

Home Again

Marshall S. Pike
  

Marshall S. Pike 63

Around the Hearth

George Howland
  1824-1892.

Scotch air 64
 Air :Auld Lang Syne.

If I were a Sunbeam

Lucy Larcom
  1826-1893.

German air 65

A Midsummer Song

Richard Watson Gilder
  1844-

Franz Abt 66, 67
  1819-1885.

God Speed the Right

William E. Hickson

German air 67

Rain on the Roof

Coates Kinney
  1826-

Johann Gottlieb Naumann 68
  1741-1801.

Woodman, Spare that Tree

The author heard a friend make an appeal voicing the sentiment of the song. On payment of ten dollars the woodman signed a bond to spare the tree.

George Pope Morris
  1802-1864.

Johann Adam Hiller 69
  1728-1804.

The Old Oaken Bucket

The well is still standing in Scituate, Mass., the birthplace of the author.

Samuel Woodworth
  1785-1842.

G. Kiallmark 70
  1781-
 Air :Araby’s Daughter.