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Christmas, Nahum Tate

The Queen of the Year, Edna Dean Proctor
The Nativity, William Shakespeare

A Christmas Song, Tudor Jenks

A Christmas Carol, James Russell Lowell
God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, Unknown
The Little Christmas Tree, Susan Coolidge
Christmas Bells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Shepherds in Judea, Mary Austin
A Christmas Hymn, Alfred Domett
Christmas Carol, James S. Park

Bells Across the Snow, Frances Ridley Havergal
The Waits, Margaret Deland

Christmas, 1898, Edward Sandford Martin

A Visit from St. Nicholas, Clement C. Moore
Jest 'Fore Christmas, Eugene Field

SPECIAL DAYS

Dear Land of All My Love, Sidney Lanier

ARBOR DAY

What Do We Plant When We Plant the Tree? Henry Abbey

Plant a Tree, Lucy Larcom

The Planting of the Apple-Tree, William Cullen Bryant
Woodman, Spare that Tree, George P. Morris

The Tree, Bjornstjerne Bjornson

An Arbor Day Tree, Unknown

The Oak, George Hill

The Brave Old Oak, Henry Fothergill Chorley

The Apple Barrel, Edwin L. Sabin

The Heart of the Tree, H. C. Bunner

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Faithful unto Death, R. H. Titherington
The Comfort of the Trees, Richard Watson Gilder

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Laus Deo, John Greenleaf Whittier

No Slave Beneath the Flag, George Lansing Taylor

The Freeman, William Cowper

The Death of Slavery, William Cullen Bryant

FLAG DAY

The American Flag, Joseph Rodman Drake
E Pluribus Unum, George Washington Cutter
The Flower of Liberty, Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key
The Name of Old Glory, James Whitcomb Riley
The Flag, Lucy Larcom

Betsy's Battle Flag, Minna Irving.

The Old Flag Forever, Frank L. Stanton
Old Flag, Hubbard Parker.

The Flag Goes By, Henry Holcomb Bennett

FLOWER DAY

Weeds and Flowers, John Vance Cheney
Somebody's Garden, Margaret Steele Anderson
The Young Dandelion, Dinah Maria Mulock
The Procession of the Flowers, Sydney Dobell
Green Things Growing, Dinah Maria Mulock
The Dandelions, Helen Gray Cone

To the Dandelion, James Russell Lowell
The Dandelion, Katharine Pyle

Ragged Robin and Bouncing Bet, Alice Reid
Daffodils, William Wordsworth
Buttercups and Daisies, Mary Howitt
The Ivy Green, Charles Dickens
To a Mountain Daisy, Robert Burns

The Voice of the Grass, Sarah Roberts Boyle
Talking in Their Sleep, Edith M. Thomas
Wishing, William Allingham

FOREFATHERS' DAY

Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Felicia Hemans

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The Pilgrim Fathers, John Pierpont

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The "Mayflower," Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth

Five Kernels of Corn, Hezekiah Butterworth

The Word of God to Leyden Came, Jeremiah Eames Rankin

The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers, Lydia Huntley Sigourney

HALLOWE'EN

Hallowe'en, Arthur Cleveland Coxe

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All Hallow Eve, Carolyn Wells

The Spell, John Gay

Hallowe'en, Joel Benton

Hallowe'en, Nora Hopper

On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln, Richard Watson Gilder
Lincoln, James Russell Lowell

MAY DAY

Phillida and Corydon, Nicholas Breton
The May Queen, Alfred Tennyson
Going a-Maying, Robert Herrick

Kitchen May-Day Song, Unknown

PATRIOTS' DAY

Lexington, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Carmen Bellicosum, Guy Humphreys McMaster .
Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seventy-six, William Cullen Bryant

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

St. Patrick Was a Gentleman, Henry Bennett
The Birth of St. Patrick, Samuel Lover
The Shamrock, Maurice de Guérin

St. Patrick, William Maginn

The Wearin' o' the Green, Unknown

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A Valentine, Laura Elizabeth Richards

Valentine, Charles G. Blanden.

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The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Francis W. Bourdillon

SAN JACINTO DAY

The Fight at San Jacinto, John Williamson Palmer

Brown, John

Brown of Ossawatomie, John Greenleaf Whittier Bryant, William Cullen

Bryant Dead, Paul Hamilton Hayne

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