# Famous Single Poems

FAMOUS SINGLE POEMS
FAMOUS SINGLE POEMS
First Series
Famous Single Poems
And the Controversies Which Have Raged Around Them
By Burton E. Stevenson
George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.
First Published in 1924
Printed in the United States of America
I would rather risk for future fame upon one lyric than upon ten volumes. Oliver Wendell Holmes
CONTENTS
* PAGE
* One-Poem Men................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
* There Is No Death................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................John Luckey McCreery9
* Kaiser & Co.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Alexander Macgregor Rose27
* A Visit from St. Nicholas................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Clement Clarke Moore47
* There Is No Unbelief................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Lizzie York Case81
* Casey at the Bat................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Ernest Lawrence Thayer99
* If I Should Die To-night................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Arabella Eugenia Smith and Ben King127
* Waiting................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................John Burroughs143
* Ben Bolt................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Thomas Dunn English159
* Beautiful Snow................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................John Whitaker Watson173
* Nothing to Wear................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................William Allen Butler191
* Solitude................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Ella Wheeler Wilcox223
* Rock Me to Sleep................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Elizabeth Akers243
* The Lesson of the Water-Mill................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Sarah Doudney271
* What My Lover Said................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Homer Greene291
* Derelict................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Young E. Allison315
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