_Child_ 41
Why the Dog's Nose Is Always Cold 144
Wishing Bridge, The _Whittier_ 63
Witch's Daughter, The _Whittier_ 188
With Little Boy Blue _Kennedy_ 122
Wolsey's Farewell to His Greatness _Shakespeare_ 94
Women of Mumbles Head, The _C. Scott_ 123
Wood-Box, The _Lincoln_ 177
Work: A Song of Triumph _Morgan_ 154
Work Thou for Pleasure _Cox_ 169

You Put No Flowers on My Papa's Grave _C.E.L. Holmes_ 140

(An Index of First Lines is given on pages 209-213)

PREFACE

In homely phrase, this is a sort of "second helping" of a dish that has
pleased the taste of thousands. Our first collection of _Poems Teachers
Ask For_ was the response to a demand for such a book, and this present
volume is the response to a demand for "more." In Book One it was
impracticable to use all of the many poems entitled to inclusion on the
basis of their being desired. We are constantly in receipt of requests
that certain selections be printed in NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS on
the page "Poems Our Readers Have Asked For." More than two hundred of
these were chosen for Book One, and more than two hundred others, as
much desired as those in the earlier volume, are included in Book Two.

Because of copyright restrictions, we often have been unable to present,
in magazine form, verse of large popular appeal. By special arrangement,
a number of such poems were included in Book One of _Poems Teachers Ask
For_, and many more are given in the pages that follow. Acknowledgment
is made below to publishers and authors for courteous permission to
reprint in this volume material which they control:

THE CENTURY COMPANY--_The Minuet_, from "Poems and Verses," by Mary
Mapes Dodge.

W.B. CONKEY COMPANY--_Solitude_, from "Poems of Passion," and _How
Salvator Won_, from "Kingdom of Love," both by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.--_Encouragement_, by Paul Laurence Dunbar,
copyright by Dodd, Mead & Company; _Work_, by Angela Morgan, from "The
Hour Has Struck," copyright 1914 by Angela Morgan.

DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY--_How Did You Die?_ from "Impertinent Poems,"
and _The Sin of the Coppenter Man_, from "I Rule the Hous