| January 1 |
| | The Proclamation by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| | Boston Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| | Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine by William Mackworth Praed |
| | The Last of the New Year’s Callers by Henry Cuyler Bunner |
| January 2 |
| | The Battle of Murfreesboro by Kinahan Cornwallis |
| January 3 |
| | Rachel by Matthew Arnold |
| January 4 |
| | To Charles Dickens by Thomas Hood |
| January 5 |
| | St. Simeon Stylites by Enrico Nencione |
| | Released by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| January 6 |
| | Epiphany by Reginald Heber |
| January 7 |
| | Holy Cross Day by Robert Browning |
| | St. Distaff’s Day by Robert Herrick |
| January 8 |
| | Verlaine by Bliss Carman |
| | The Battle of New Orleans by Thomas Dunn English |
| | Jackson at New Orleans by Wallace Rice |
| | The Battle of New Orleans by Wallace Rice |
| January 9 |
| | Death of Louis Napoleon by Christopher Pearse Cranch |
| January 10 |
| | Laud by William Wordsworth |
| January 11 |
| | Bayard Taylor by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| January 12 |
| | To William H. Seward by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| January 13 |
| | Spenser by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| January 14 |
| | Cardinal Manning from London Punch |
| | In Memory of Lewis Carroll from London Punch |
| | Death of a Firstborn by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| January 15 |
| | Everett by Thomas William Parsons |
| | A Thought by John Hall Ingham |
| January 16 |
| | Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe |
| January 17 |
| | Colonel Burnaby by Andrew Lang |
| | St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes, Anonymous |
| January 18 |
| | To Austin Dobson by Richard Watson Gilder |
| January 19 |
| | To Mr. Congreve by Elizabeth Tollet |
| January 20 |
| | St. Agnes’ Eve by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| January 21 |
| | Execution of Louis XVI by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| January 22 |
| | God Save the King! by Theodosia Garrison |
| | The Akond of Swat by Edward Lear |
| | A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan |
| | On Lord Bacon’s Birthday by Ben Jonson |
| | On My Thirty-seventh Birthday by Lord Byron |
| January 23 |
| | A Welcome to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| | On the Death of Canon Kingsley by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| | Epitaph for William Pitt by Lord Byron |
| | Phillips Brooks by Harriet Prescott Spofford |
| | Phillips Brooks by John Hall Ingham |
| January 24 |
| | After the Lecture on Spion Kop by Joseph I. C. Clarke |
| | Sidney Godolphin by Clinton Scollard |
| January 25 |
| | Robin Burns by Gerald Massey |
| January 26 |
| | Gordon by Bertram Tennyson |
| | Epitaph on General Gordon by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| January 27 |
| | Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| | Unter den Linden by Harry Thurston Peck |
| January 28 |
| | Drake’s Drum by Henry Newbolt |
| | Epigram on Francis Drake by Cowley, translated by Ben Jonson |
| January 29 |
| | On the Death of George the Third by Horace Smith |
| January 30 |
| | Execution of Charles I. by Andrew Marvell |
| | Upon the Death of King Charles I. by James Graham, Marquess of Montrose |
| | On the Funeral of Charles the First by William Lisle Bowles |
| January 31 |
| | Three Portraits of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang |
| | Charles H. Spurgeon, London Punch |
| | Laus Deo! by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| |
| February 1 |
| | Arthur Henry Hallam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| February 2 |
| | Candlemas by Robert Herrick |
| | The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche |
| February 3 |
| | Before the Convent of Yuste, 1556 by From the German of Count Platen |
| February 4 |
| | Thomas Carlyle, London Punch |
| | Carlyle by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| February 5 |
| | Death of Cato by Joseph Addison |
| | The Ballad of Paco Town by Clinton Scollard |
| February 6 |
| | A Man’s Name by Richard Realf |
| February 7 |
| | To Charles Dickens by John Forster |
| | Pio Nono by Julia Ward Howe |
| February 8 |
| | Adieux a Mary Stuart by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| | The Battle of Eylau by Isaac McLellan |
| February 9 |
| | How We Burned the “Philadelphia” by Barrett Eastman |
| | The Murder of Darnley by William E. Aytoun |
| February 10 |
| | To Charles Lamb by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton |
| February 11 |
| | Corydon, a Pastoral by John Cunningham |
| February 12 |
| | Abraham Lincoln by Joel Benton |
| February 13 |
| | The Widow of Glencoe by William E. Aytoun |
| | Only a Woman’s Hair by James Ashcroft Noble |
| | Saint Valentine’s Eve by Ernest McGaffey |
| | William the Third by William Wordsworth |
| February 14 |
| | Grandmother’s Valentine by Minnia Irving |
| | A Valentine by Frank Dempster Sherman |
| | Valentine Verses by Thomas Nelson Page |
| | Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| | Song: “Shake off your heavy trance” by Francis Beaumont |
| | Sherman by Richard Watson Gilder |
| February 15 |
| | The Fifteenth of February by Charles Edward Russell |
| | The Spirit of the Maine by Tudor Jenks |
| | Off Havana by John Hall Ingham |
| | The Fighting Race by Joseph I. C. Clarke |
| February 16 |
| | Elisha Kent Kane by George H. Boker |
| February 17 |
| | Heine’s Grave by Matthew Arnold |
| February 18 |
| | At Luther’s Grave, Wittenberg by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | The Dead Czar by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| February 19 |
| | Lines on the Prince of Wales, Anonymous |
| February 20 |
| | The Constitution’s Last Fight by James Jeffrey Roche |
| | Andrew Hofer by Julius Mosen |
| February 21 |
| | Epitaph: David Halliday, Anonymous |
| February 22 |
| | George Washington by John Hall Ingham |
| | The Twenty-second of February by William Cullen Bryant |
| | Edgar W. Nye by Marion F. Ham |
| February 23 |
| | Keats by Erasmus H. Brodie |
| | Keats by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| | The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde |
| | An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| February 24 |
| | Ode to France by James Russell Lowell |
| | Derwentwater’s Farewell, Old Ballad |
| February 25 |
| | Wallenstein’s Death by Owen Meredith |
| February 26 |
| | The Loss of the “Birkenhead” by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle |
| February 27 |
| | Longfellow by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| February 28 |
| | Anne Clough by Edmund Gosse |
| February 29 |
| | Rossini by John Todhunter |
| |
| March 1 |
| | Robinson of Leyden by Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| March 2 |
| | Ulric Dahlgren by Kate Brownlee Sherwood |
| March 3 |
| | On the Freeing of the Serfs by Edna Dean Proctor |
| | Epigram on Waller by Thomas Middleton |
| March 4 |
| | To Alexander H. Stephens by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| March 5 |
| | Lines on the Death of Gen. Joseph Reed by Philip Freneau |
| | The Boston Massacre by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| March 6 |
| | The Defence of the Alamo by Joaquin Miller |
| | Louisa May Alcott by Louise Chandler Moulton |
| | Michael Angelo Buonarotti by Christopher Pearse Cranch |
| March 7 |
| | Ichabod by John Greenleaf Whittier |
| | On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle by Philip Freneau |
| March 8 |
| | Judas the Second by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| | The Battle of Alexandria by James Montgomery |
| March 9 |
| | Wilhelm I., Emperor of Germany by Henry Cuyler Bunner |
| | The Murder of Riccio by William E. Aytoun |
| | The Death of Cardinal Mazarin by Lydia Huntley Sigourney |
| March 10 |
| | A Welcome to Alexandra by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| | On the Monument Erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| March 11 |
| | Tasso by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| March 12 |
| | The Bells of San Blas by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| March 13 |
| | Ballade to Banville by Edmund Gosse |
| | Alexander II. by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| | For a Portrait of Felice Orsini, Anonymous |
| March 14 |
| | Benjamin Harrison by Charles Edward Russell |
| | Ivry by Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| March 15 |
| | The Death of Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare |
| | An International Episode by Caroline Duer |
| March 16 |
| | Destiny by Emma Lazarus |
| | On the Death of Burbage by Thomas Middleton |
| March 17 |
| | St. Patrick Was a Gentleman by Henry Bennett |
| | Wanted—Saint Patrick by Fitz-James O’Brien |
| | The Dead Cannoneer by James Ryder Randall |
| | The Band in the Pines by John Esten Cooke |
| | The Men of Monomoy by Joe Cone |
| March 18 |
| | On Laurence Sterne, Anonymous |
| March 19 |
| | The Race of the “Oregon” by John James Meehan |
| | Battle-Song of the Oregon by Wallace Rice |
| March 20 |
| | To Louis Kossuth, Anonymous |
| | John Mitchel by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| March 21 |
| | Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton by Alexander Pope |
| | Cranmer by William Wordsworth |
| | On the Death of Southey by Walter Savage Landor |
| | The Death of the Duke d’Enghien by Henry Kirke White |
| March 22 |
| | Death of Goethe by Matthew Arnold |
| | On the Death of Decatur by William Crafts |
| March 23 |
| | Occupation of Naples by the Austrians by Thomas Moore |
| March 24 |
| | The Loss of the Eurydice by Edmund Gosse |
| March 25 |
| | The Annunciation by Father John Banister Tabb |
| | On the Union by Ben Jonson |
| March 26 |
| | Beethoven by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | Cecil Rhodes by Rudyard Kipling |
| | On Sir John Vanbrugh—Poet and Architect by Abel Evans |
| March 27 |
| | Bois Ton Sang, Beaumanoir by Frances Sargent Osgood |
| March 28 |
| | Anton Seidl by John Hall Ingham |
| | In Memoriam Prince Leopold by Henry Halloran |
| March 29 |
| | Battle of Towton by William Shakespeare |
| March 30 |
| | Guns of Peace by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| March 31 |
| | Haworth Churchyard by Matthew Arnold |
| | Charlotte Brontë by Charlotte Becker |
| | Donne by Hartley Coleridge |
| | Epitaph on Prince Frederick, Anonymous |
| |
| April 1 |
| | The First of April by Mortimer Collins |
| | Madcap April by Tudor Jenks |
| | The Loss of the Emigrants by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| April 2 |
| | Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell |
| | Mirabeau Dying by William Ross Wallace |
| April 3 |
| | Death of Prince Arthur by William Shakespeare |
| April 4 |
| | Peter Cooper by Joaquin Miller |
| April 5 |
| | The Lost Leader by Robert Browning |
| | The Sixty-second Birthday of Swinburne by Charles Edward Russell |
| April 6 |
| | The Massacre at Scio by William Cullen Bryant |
| | Fitz James O’Brien by Andrew E. Watrous |
| | Albert Sidney Johnston by Kate Brownlee Sherwood |
| | General Albert Sidney Johnston by Mary Jervey |
| April 7 |
| | Wordsworth by Lord Byron |
| | The Battle of Charleston Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| April 8 |
| | On Captain Barney’s Victory over the Ship General Monk by Philip Freneau |
| | Easter Even by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| April 9 |
| | Easter Morning by Edmund Spenser |
| | Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Edmund Gosse |
| | Peace by Phoebe Cary |
| | The Conquered Banner by Abram Joseph Ryan |
| | “Stack Arms!” by Joseph Blynth Alston |
| | In the Land Where We Were Dreaming by Daniel B. Lucas |
| April 10 |
| | Chartist Song by Thomas Cooper |
| April 11 |
| | The Protestants’ Joy, Old Ballad |
| | Death of Cardinal Beaufort by William Shakespeare |
| | Abdication of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| April 12 |
| | Sumter by Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| April 13 |
| | Men of the North and West by Richard Henry Stoddard |
| April 14 |
| | Battle of Barnet by William Shakespeare |
| April 15 |
| | The Réveille by Francis Bret Harte |
| | Father Damien by Father John Banister Tabb |
| | How We Became a Nation by Harriet Prescott Spofford |
| | O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman |
| | Abraham Lincoln by Richard Henry Stoddard |
| | Abraham Lincoln by Tom Taylor |
| April 16 |
| | Charles Edward at Versailles by William E. Aytoun |
| April 17 |
| | On the Late Massacre in Piedmont by John Milton |
| | The Death of the Duke of Buckingham by Alexander Pope |
| | Character of Zimri by John Dryden |
| | On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau |
| April 18 |
| | Sir Sidney Smith by Thomas Dibdin |
| April 19 |
| | At His Grave by Alfred Austin |
| | Through Baltimore by Bayard Taylor |
| | Apocalypse by Richard Realf |
| | Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| | The Minute Men of Northboro’ by Wallace Rice |
| | Byron by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| April 20 |
| | Spain’s Hour of Doom by Albert Rowland Haven |
| | To Spain—A Last Word by Edith M. Thomas |
| | The Sudbury Fight by Wallace Rice |
| April 21 |
| | The Fight at San Jacinto by John Williamson Palmer |
| April 22 |
| | Incident of the French Camp by Robert Browning |
| April 23 |
| | An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton |
| | On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson |
| | Cervantes by William Cullen Bryant |
| | Wordsworth by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| April 24 |
| | The “Varuna” by George H. Boker |
| April 25 |
| | Cowper’s Grave by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| | Tasso by Lord Byron |
| April 26 |
| | Farewell to Salvini by Henry Cuyler Bunner |
| April 27 |
| | To Toussaint l’Ouverture by William Wordsworth |
| | Grant at Rest by John James Meehan |
| April 28 |
| | The Launching of Cortez’ Ships by Kinahan Cornwallis |
| April 29 |
| | The Battle of Limerick by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| April 30 |
| | Epicede by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| | The Death of Livingstone by Roden Noel |
| | For the Picture by J. M. W. Turner |
| |
| May 1 |
| | Manila Bay by H. E. W., Jr. |
| | Dewey in Manila Bay by R. V. Risley |
| | Kitchen May-day Song, Old Ballad |
| | Lines on a Late Hospicious Ewent by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | Hooker ’s Across by George H. Boker |
| May 2 |
| | Keenan’s Charge (Part II) by George Parsons Lathrop |
| | The Brier-wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly |
| May 3 |
| | Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons |
| | Battle of St. Albans by William Shakespeare |
| May 4 |
| | Battle of Tewksbury by William Shakespeare |
| May 5 |
| | Death of Napoleon by Isaac McLellan |
| | Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Popular Recollections of Bonaparte by Father Prout (Francis Mahony) |
| | Napoleon by Richard Watson Gilder |
| May 6 |
| | An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battlefields of the Wilderness by Herman Melville |
| | Thoreau’s Flute by Louisa May Alcott |
| May 7 |
| | To Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor |
| May 8 |
| | Relief of Orleans by William Shakespeare |
| May 9 |
| | The Death of Schiller by William Cullen Bryant |
| May 10 |
| | The Surprise at Ticonderoga by Mary A. P. Stansbury |
| | Under the Shade of the Trees by Margaret J. Preston |
| | Death of Stonewall Jackson by Harry L. Flash |
| | The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson by Sidney Lanier |
| | Stonewall Jackson by Herman Melville |
| | Stonewall Jackson’s Way by John Williamson Palmer |
| May 11 |
| | Fontenoy by Thomas Osborne Davis |
| | Lord Chatham by William Cowper |
| | One Country—One Sacrifice by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | To Dr. John Brown by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| | On the Death of Mr. Perceval by Thomas Moore |
| May 12 |
| | Obsequies of Stuart by John R. Thompson |
| May 13 |
| | To King Charles and Queen Mary, for the Loss of Their First-born by Ben Jonson |
| May 14 |
| | Henry IV by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| May 15 |
| | Daniel O’Connell by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| | Miss Nightingale by Alexander Smith |
| May 16 |
| | Mary Queen of Scots by William Wordsworth |
| | Mrs. Hemans by B. Hallock |
| | Battle of Albuera by Lord Byron |
| May 17 |
| | On the Death of General Worth by George W. Cutter |
| May 18 |
| | A Ballad of Sir John Franklin by George H. Boker |
| May 19 |
| | William E. Gladstone, London Punch |
| | Lament of Anne Boleyn on the Eve of Her Execution by Anne Boleyn |
| May 20 |
| | I Am! Yet What I Am by John Clare |
| May 21 |
| | The Execution of Montrose by William E. Aytoun |
| May 22 |
| | The Death of King Bomba, Anonymous |
| | Victor Hugo by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| May 23 |
| | I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood |
| | Death of Savonarola by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| May 24 |
| | Second Review of the Grand Army by Francis Bret Harte |
| | To the Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| May 25 |
| | Emerson by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| May 26 |
| | The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron |
| | The Voice of the Oregon by H. J. D. Browne |
| May 27 |
| | The Black Regiment by George H. Boker |
| May 28 |
| | Thomas Moore by Richard Henry Stoddard |
| May 29 |
| | Charles the Second by William Wordsworth |
| | A Little Dead Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| | A Short Hymn upon the Birth of Prince Charles by Henry Wotton |
| May 30 |
| | The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch |
| | The Reason Why, Anonymous |
| | The Rear Guard by Irene Fowler Brown |
| | Memorial Day by Cy Warman |
| | Decoration Day by Eugene Fitch Ware (“Ironquill”) |
| | A Scot to Jeanne d’Arc by Andrew Lang |
| May 31 |
| | A Ballad of the Conemaugh Flood by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley |
| | Hervé Riel by Robert Browning |
| |
| June 1 |
| | The “Shannon” and the “Chesapeake” by Thomas Tracy Bouvé |
| | Louis Napoleon by Oscar Wilde |
| | Destiny by Emma Lazarus |
| June 2 |
| | The Royal Victory over the Dutch, Old Ballad |
| June 3 |
| | Hobson and His Men by Robert Loveman |
| | Eight Volunteers by Lansing C. Bailey |
| | The Men of the Merrimac by Clinton Scollard |
| | Sinking the Merrimac by Joe Cone |
| June 4 |
| | Grattan by Aubrey T. De Vere |
| June 5 |
| | Sacheverel by William Wordsworth |
| June 6 |
| | The Rhymed Will of Hunnis by William Hunnis |
| | Blaine of Maine by Eugene Fitch Ware (“Ironquill”) |
| June 7 |
| | J. B. by Henry Cuyler Bunner |
| June 8 |
| | Mahomet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| | In the Round Tower at Jhansi by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| | To Andrew Jackson by George H. Boker |
| June 9 |
| | Saint Columba by Lionel Johnson |
| | Dickens in Camp by Francis Bret Harte |
| June 10 |
| | Bethel by Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne |
| June 11 |
| | Sir John Franklin by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| | Lady Franklin by Elizabeth Whittier |
| | On Sir Kenelm Digby, Anonymous |
| June 12 |
| | Bryant Dead! by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| | Rugby Chapel by Matthew Arnold |
| | The Kidnapping of Sims by John Pierpont |
| June 13 |
| | On the Lord General Fairfax by John Milton |
| | On the Death of Lord Hastings by John Dryden |
| June 14 |
| | Naseby by Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| | The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake |
| | Betsy’s Battle Flag by Minna Irving |
| June 15 |
| | Eve of Quatre Bras by Lord Byron |
| | Frederick III by Ina D. Coolbrith |
| June 16 |
| | Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry, Cardinal Newman |
| | The Death of Marlborough by George Walter Thornbury |
| | The Lay of the Brave Cameron by John Stuart Blackie |
| June 17 |
| | Warren’s Address by John Pierpont |
| | Addison by Elisabeth J. Eames |
| June 18 |
| | Defeat of Napoleon by Lord Byron |
| | Elegy on William Cobbett by Ebenezer Elliott |
| June 19 |
| | Maximilian by John Godfrey Saxe |
| | The Alabama by Maurice Bell |
| June 20 |
| | The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis |
| | The Nameless One by James Clarence Mangan |
| | The Young Queen by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| June 21 |
| | The Summer Solstice by Edith Thomas |
| | Trial of Queen Katherine by William Shakespeare |
| June 22 |
| | The Battle of Morat by William Wetmore Story |
| | Recessional by Rudyard Kipling |
| June 23 |
| | The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey by Susan Coolidge |
| June 24 |
| | Bannockburn by Robert Burns |
| | M. Carnot’s Death by John Hall Ingham |
| | The Death of Hampden by Pakenham Beatty |
| | Saint John the Baptist by William Drummond |
| | The Forced Recruit by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| June 25 |
| | The Martyrdom of the Archbishop of Paris by John Mason Neale |
| | Miles Keogh’s Horse by John Hay |
| June 26 |
| | The Vigil, London Punch |
| | Mercedes by Thomas William Parsons |
| June 27 |
| | The Battle of Pultowa by Robert Southey |
| June 28 |
| | Mollie Pitcher by Kate Brownlee Sherwood |
| | To John Boyle O’Reilly by James Berry Bensel |
| | Raglan by Edwin Arnold |
| June 29 |
| | St. Peter’s Day by John Keble |
| | On the Death of Mrs. Browning by Sydney Dobell |
| | To E. B. B. by James Thomson |
| June 30 |
| | Acquittal of the Bishops by William Wordsworth |
| |
| July 1 |
| | The Boyne Water, Old Ballad |
| | The Charge at Santiago by William Hamilton Hayne |
| July 2 |
| | Three Hundred Thousand More, Anonymous |
| | Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor by Winthrop Mackworth Praed |
| | Santiago by Thomas A. Janvier |
| | The Fleet at Santiago by Charles E. Russell |
| | The Brooklyn at Santiago by Wallace Rice |
| | The Men behind the Guns by John Jerome Rooney |
| | Spain’s Last Armada by Wallace Rice |
| July 3 |
| | High Tide at Gettysburg by Will Henry Thompson |
| | To the Spirit of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder |
| July 4 |
| | Before Vicksburg by George H. Boker |
| | England and America by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| July 5 |
| | The Field of Wagram by Edmond Rostand |
| July 6 |
| | Edward VI by William Wordsworth |
| | Cœur de Lion at the Bier of His Father by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| July 7 |
| | On the Death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Lord Byron |
| | Lines on the Death of Sheridan by Thomas Moore |
| July 8 |
| | Shelley by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| | The Grave of Shelley by Oscar Wilde |
| July 9 |
| | The Song of Braddock’s Men, Old Ballad |
| | The Patriot’s Password by James Montgomery |
| July 10 |
| | The Tower of Flame by Richard Watson Gilder |
| July 11 |
| | First News from Villafranca by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| July 12 |
| | Death of Jack Cade by William Shakespeare |
| | Caesar by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| July 13 |
| | Charlotte Corday, Anonymous |
| July 14 |
| | The Column of July by George Gordon McCrae |
| | La Tricoteuse by George Walter Thornbury |
| July 15 |
| | Napoleon’s Farewell by Lord Byron |
| | Character of the Duke of Monmouth by John Dryden |
| July 16 |
| | From “The Fight of Faith” by Anne Askew |
| | On the Death of M. D’Ossoli and His Wife, Margaret Fuller by Walter Savage Landor |
| | The Burial of Béranger by Alfred Watts |
| July 17 |
| | Leconte de Lisle by Edmund Gosse |
| July 18 |
| | Dean Stanley by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| | Thackeray’s Birthday by Robert Cameron Rogers |
| July 19 |
| | Petrarch’s Tomb by Lord Byron |
| July 20 |
| | The Dead Singer by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| | Logan at Peach Tree Creek by Hamlin Garland |
| July 21 |
| | On the Death of Burns by William Roscoe |
| | At the Grave of Burns by William Wordsworth |
| | Manassas by Catherine Warfield |
| | Battle of Shrewsbury by William Shakespeare |
| July 22 |
| | Napoleon II., Duke of Reichstadt by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| July 23 |
| | Vanquished by Francis F. Browne |
| July 24 |
| | Thomas à Kempis by Richard Rogers Bowker |
| July 25 |
| | Coleridge’s Epitaph on Himself by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| July 26 |
| | Parsifal—at Baireuth by Irving Browne |
| July 27 |
| | The Burial March of Dundee by William E. Aytoun |
| July 28 |
| | The Death of Robespierre by Henry Howard Brownell |
| July 29 |
| | How Cyrus Laid the Cable by John Godfrey Saxe |
| July 30 |
| | The Siege of Derry by Cecil Frances Alexander |
| | Stanzas on the Death of Thomas Gray, Anonymous |
| July 31 |
| | Sir Walter Raleigh to a Caged Linnet by Eugene Lee Hamilton |
| |
| August 1 |
| | Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| August 2 |
| | Wha’ll Be King but Charlie? by Lady Nairne |
| August 3 |
| | Nilsson by Sidney Lanier |
| August 4 |
| | On the Coronation of Queen Victoria by Jedediah Vincent Huntington |
| | Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Gosse |
| August 5 |
| | Farragut by William Tuckey Meredith |
| | Sheridan by Richard Watson Gilder |
| August 6 |
| | To Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick |
| | The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood |
| August 7 |
| | Leonidas by George Croly |
| | The Death of Queen Caroline by Thomas Noon Talfourd |
| August 8 |
| | The Armada by Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| | A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth by Austin Dobson |
| | Execution of Ugo Bassi by Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King |
| August 9 |
| | Dryden by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| | Cedar Mountain by Annie Fields |
| August 10 |
| | The Death of Lyon, Anonymous |
| August 11 |
| | John Henry Newman by Edmund Gosse |
| | Thaddeus Stevens by Phoebe Cary |
| August 12 |
| | Robert Southey by Lord Byron |
| | William Blake by Edmund Gosse |
| | Helen Hunt Jackson by Ina D. Coolbrith |
| August 13 |
| | The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey |
| | Philip My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| August 14 |
| | At the Farragut Statue by Robert Bridges |
| August 15 |
| | Sir Walter Scott by Lord Byron |
| | The Assumption by Father John Banister Tabb |
| | Lillian Adelaide Neilson by Clement Scott |
| | Napoleon by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| August 16 |
| | The Battle of Bennington by William Cullen Bryant |
| August 17 |
| | Murder of the Princes in the Tower by William Shakespeare |
| August 18 |
| | Kilmarnock’s Lament, Old Ballad |
| August 19 |
| | The Capture of the Guerriere by the Constitution by Philip Freneau |
| August 20 |
| | Marco Bozzaris by Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| | When the Great Gray Ships Come in by Guy Wetmore Carryl |
| August 21 |
| | Farewell to France by Mary Queen of Scots |
| | Inscription for a Monument at Vimeiro by Robert Southey |
| | Prince Eugene, Anonymous |
| August 22 |
| | Dead Men’s Holiday by Louise Chandler Moulton |
| | To the Memory of Sydney Dobell by John Stuart Blackie |
| August 23 |
| | The Death of Wallace by Robert Southey |
| August 24 |
| | Millais’s “Huguenots,” London Spectator |
| | Twilight on Sumter by Richard Henry Stoddard |
| August 25 |
| | The Heart of the Bruce by William E. Aytoun |
| | On the Death of Chatterton by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| | Chatterton by Charles Edward Russell |
| August 26 |
| | To Celia Thaxter by Annie Field |
| August 27 |
| | The Maryland Battalion by John Williamson Palmer |
| | Ode on the Death of Thomson by William Collins |
| August 28 |
| | Lohengrin by Andrew E. Watrous |
| August 29 |
| | To O. W. Holmes by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| | On the Loss of the Royal George by William Cowper |
| August 30 |
| | Convention of Cintra by William Wordsworth |
| | “Our Left” by Francis O. Ticknor |
| | The Death of Cleopatra by Horace |
| August 31 |
| | The Revenge by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| | Ave Atque Vale by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| |
| September 1 |
| | Dirge for a Soldier by George H. Boker |
| | Before Sedan by Austin Dobson |
| September 2 |
| | The Sphinx of the Tuileries by John Hay |
| September 3 |
| | Execution of the Princess de Lamballe by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | On the Death of Oliver Cromwell by John Dryden |
| September 4 |
| | Geronimo by Ernest McGaffey |
| | Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| September 5 |
| | On the Taking of Namur by the King of Great Britain by Matthew Prior |
| September 6 |
| | The Pilgrim Fathers by William Wordsworth |
| September 7 |
| | Sidney Lanier by William Hamilton Hayne |
| | Threnody of the Pines by William Hamilton Hayne |
| September 8 |
| | Eutaw Springs by Philip Freneau |
| September 9 |
| | Edinburgh after Flodden by William E. Aytoun |
| | Dreyfus by John Hall Ingham |
| September 10 |
| | Perry’s Victory, Old Ballad |
| September 11 |
| | The Battle of Lake Champlain by Philip Freneau |
| | The Taking of Sebastopol by Thomas William Parsons |
| September 12 |
| | The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook by Edward Everett Hale |
| | At the Grave of Walker by Joaquin Miller |
| September 13 |
| | On General Wolfe, Anonymous |
| | On the Death of Mr. Fox by Lord Byron |
| September 14 |
| | The Warden of the Cinque Ports by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| | Wellington by Lord Beaconsfield |
| | Faithful unto Death by R. H. Titherington |
| | The Comfort of the Trees by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key |
| September 15 |
| | Arthur Henry Hallam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| September 16 |
| | Bishop Patteson by Menella Bute Smedley |
| September 17 |
| | In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| September 18 |
| | King Henry V. at Harfleur by William Shakespeare |
| September 19 |
| | On the Slain at Chickamauga by Herman Melville |
| | At the President’s Grave by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | The Bells at Midnight by Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| September 20 |
| | Chediock Ticheborne by Chediock Ticheborne |
| | Alma by Richard Chenevix Trench |
| | O! Breathe Not His Name by Thomas Moore |
| | When He Who Adores Thee by Thomas Moore |
| | She Is Far from the Land by Thomas Moore |
| September 21 |
| | Sir Walter Scott by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| | To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| September 22 |
| | Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch |
| | Nathan Hale by Joe Cone |
| September 23 |
| | Victory of the “Bonhomme Richard” over the “Serapis” by Philip Freneau |
| | Paul Jones’ Victory, Anonymous |
| | Death of General Marceau by Lord Byron |
| September 24 |
| | Monterey by Charles Fenno Hoffman |
| September 25 |
| | Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke by Ben Jonson |
| September 26 |
| | John George Nicolay by Richard Watson Gilder |
| September 27 |
| | The Reduction of Harfleur by William Shakespeare |
| | The Song of the Railroad by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton |
| September 28 |
| | Marathon by Lord Byron |
| September 29 |
| | Michael the Archangel by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| September 30 |
| | On the Death of The Rev. George Whitefield by Phillis Wheatley |
| |
| October 1 |
| | October by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| October 2 |
| | To the Memory of Channing by Anne Charlotte Lynch |
| | Richard III by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| October 3 |
| | The Battle of Moncontour by Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| October 4 |
| | In Memory of Barry Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| October 5 |
| | In Memoriam—J. O. by Andrew E. Watrous |
| October 6 |
| | Under the Pine by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| | Parnell by Lionel Johnson |
| | Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| October 7 |
| | To Edgar A. Poe by Sarah Helen Whitman |
| | Lament for Sir Philip Sidney by Mathew Roydon |
| | Oliver Wendell Holmes by William Hamilton Hayne |
| October 8 |
| | Rienzi’s Address to the Romans by Mary Russell Mitford |
| October 9 |
| | Chicago by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| | The Siege of Savannah by Rivington’s Gazette, 1779 |
| October 10 |
| | Reopening of the Drury Lane Theatre by Lord Byron |
| | The Baby’s Debut by Horace and James Smith |
| | The Battle of Maciejowice by Thomas Campbell |
| October 11 |
| | Sir Thomas Wyatt by Sir Antonio Sentleger |
| October 12 |
| | The Wexford Massacre by Michael Joseph Barry |
| | The Wanderer by Eugene Field |
| | Columbus by Joaquin Miller |
| | Columbus by Lydia Huntley Sigourney |
| | Tennyson by Thomas Henry Huxley |
| | “Gone Forward” by Margaret J. Preston |
| October 13 |
| | The Defeat of Burgoyne by Rev. Wheeler Case |
| October 14 |
| | Jena by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| | Saxon Grit by Robert Collyer |
| October 15 |
| | A Ballad of the French Fleet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| | Lines upon Himself by Robert Herrick |
| October 16 |
| | John Brown by Eugene Fitch Ware (“Ironquill”) |
| | Execution of Marie Antoinette by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | Latimer and Ridley by William Wordsworth |
| October 17 |
| | The Field of the Grounded Arms by Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| October 18 |
| | St. Luke the Painter by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| | Fall of Wolsey by William Shakespeare |
| | The Wasp’s Frolic by From “Naval Songster,” 1815 |
| October 19 |
| | Yorktown Centennial Lyric by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| | The Kinship of the Celt by Joseph I. C. Clarke |
| | Swift by Hartley Coleridge |
| October 20 |
| | Burton by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| October 21 |
| | Trafalgar Day by E. Nesbit |
| October 22 |
| | Theophile Gautier by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| October 23 |
| | A Dinner at the House of Dugal Stewart by Robert Burns |
| October 24 |
| | Montefiore by Ambrose Bierce |
| | Webster by Epes Sargent |
| October 25 |
| | The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton |
| | The “United States” and “Macedonian,” Old Ballad |
| | The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| | Chaucer by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| October 26 |
| | On William Hogarth—In Chiswick Churchyard, Anonymous |
| | Lady Penelope Clifton by Francis Beaumont |
| October 27 |
| | The Two Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| | On a Portrait of Servetus by Richard Watson Gilder |
| October 28 |
| | Alfred by William Wordsworth |
| October 29 |
| | Death of Sir Walter Raleigh by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| October 30 |
| | De Long by Andrew E. Watrous |
| | Henry George by Bliss Carman |
| | Of Henry George by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | John A. Andrew by Louise Chandler Moulton |
| | Nikolson’s Nek by Charles Edward Russell |
| October 31 |
| | Hallow E’en by Nora Hopper Chesson |
| | All Souls’ Day by Rosamund Marriott Watson |
| |
| November 1 |
| | All-Saints’ Day by James Russell Lowell |
| | When I beneath the Cold, Red Earth Am Sleeping by William Motherwell |
| November 2 |
| | To Jenny Lind by Edmund Gosse |
| November 3 |
| | To Bryant on His Birthday by George H. Boker |
| November 4 |
| | Eugene Field by Marion F. Ham |
| | Churchill’s Grave by Lord Byron |
| November 5 |
| | Inkerman by Richard Chenevix Trench |
| | Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lord Byron |
| | Gunpowder Plot by William Wordsworth |
| November 6 |
| | The Old Admiral by Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| November 7 |
| | The Man of Ross by Alexander Pope |
| | The Gospel of Peace by James Jeffrey Roche |
| November 8 |
| | Madame Roland, Anonymous |
| | Francis Parkman by Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| November 9 |
| | Boston by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| November 10 |
| | The Fishermen of Wexford by John Boyle O’Reilly |
| November 11 |
| | St. Martin’s Day by Browne Willis |
| November 12 |
| | Epitaph on Sir Thomas Fairfax by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham |
| November 13 |
| | Stevenson’s Birthday by Katherine Miller |
| November 14 |
| | The Traveller at the Source of the Nile by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| | Nell Gwynn by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| November 15 |
| | The Comedian’s Last Night by Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| | Song of the Battle of Morgarten by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| November 16 |
| | James McCosh by Robert Bridges |
| November 17 |
| | The Defence of Lucknow by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| November 18 |
| | Burial of the Duke of Wellington by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| November 19 |
| | Emma Lazarus by Richard Watson Gilder |
| | The Dead Player by John James Meehan |
| | To the King on His Birthday by Ben Jonson |
| November 20 |
| | St. Paul at Melita by John Henry, Cardinal Newman |
| | Hawke by Henry Newbolt |
| | Chatterton at Bristol by Charles Edward Russell |
| November 21 |
| | On the Death of James Hogg by William Wordsworth |
| November 22 |
| | Alexander’s Feast; Or, the Power of Music by John Dryden |
| November 23 |
| | To Philip Massinger, “A Stranger” by Charles Edward Russell |
| | Richard Hakluyt’s Men by Wallace Rice |
| November 24 |
| | The Battle in the Clouds by William Dean Howells |
| | The Battle of Lookout Mountain by Kinahan Cornwallis |
| November 25 |
| | On the Birthday of Catherine of Braganza by Mrs. Knight |
| | Queen Henrietta Maria by Oscar Wilde |
| | Gaetano Donizetti by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| November 26 |
| | He Never Smiled Again by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| November 27 |
| | Philip Van Artevelde by Sir Henry Taylor |
| | Horace by Alexander Pope |
| November 28 |
| | Eleanor of Castile, Anonymous |
| November 29 |
| | At Chappaqua by Joel Benton |
| November 30 |
| | Jefferson Davis by Harry Thurston Peck |
| | When the Assault Was Intended to the City by John Milton |
| | “Shot through the Heart” by Ina Marie Porter |
| |
| December 1 |
| | A Poet’s Epitaph by Ebenezer Elliott |
| December 2 |
| | The Last Cæsar, 1851–1870 by Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| | To Louis Napoleon by George H. Boker |
| | Austerlitz by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| December 3 |
| | A Grave in Samoa by John Macfarlane |
| | To Robert Louis Stevenson by Herman Knickerbocker Viele |
| | Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell |
| December 4 |
| | On Washington’s Farewell Address by St. John Honeywood |
| December 5 |
| | Killing of Macbeth by William Shakespeare |
| | Mozart’s Requiem by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| December 6 |
| | Kitty Clive by Charles Churchill |
| December 7 |
| | Epitaph on Algernon Sidney by Robert Southey |
| December 8 |
| | To Christina of Sweden by William Cowper, trans. |
| December 9 |
| | Milton by Ernest Myers |
| | Milton by Craven Langstroth Betts |
| | Milton’s Sonnets by John Milton |
| December 10 |
| | The Retreat from Moscow by George Walter Thornbury |
| | The French Army in Russia by William Wordsworth |
| December 11 |
| | Mario by Francis Saltus Saltus |
| | Charles XII. of Sweden by Samuel Johnson |
| December 12 |
| | Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor |
| | The Twelfth of December by Richard Watson Gilder |
| December 13 |
| | The Battle of Fredericksburg by Kinahan Cornwallis |
| | The Martyrdom of St. Lucy by John Mason Neale |
| | On Dr. Johnson by John Wolcot |
| | On the Death of Dr. Johnson by William Cowper |
| December 14 |
| | To the Princess Alice by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| | The Prince Consort by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| | Washington by Lord Byron |
| | On the Death of Washington by Theodore Dwight |
| | Agassiz by James Thomas Fields |
| December 15 |
| | The Return of Napoleon from St. Helena by Lydia Huntley Sigourney |
| December 16 |
| | To the Authoress of “Our Village” by Charles Kingsley |
| | Beethoven by John Hall Ingham |
| December 17 |
| | Bolivar by Barry Cornwall |
| December 18 |
| | To Samuel Rogers, Esq. by Lord Byron |
| December 19 |
| | To Bayard Taylor beyond Us by Paul Hamilton Hayne |
| December 20 |
| | The Little Church round the Corner by A. E. Lancaster |
| December 21 |
| | A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie’s Day by John Donne |
| | The Winter Solstice by Edith Thomas |
| | The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| December 22 |
| | Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible by George Eliot |
| | George Eliot by James Ashcroft Noble |
| | Shan Van Vocht, Anonymous |
| December 23 |
| | Savannah by Alethea S. Burroughs |
| December 24 |
| | Adsum by Richard Henry Stoddard |
| | A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett |
| | A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore |
| | Christmas Eve, London “Public Opinion” |
| December 25 |
| | The Eve of Mary by Nora Hopper Chesson |
| | A Christmas Song by Tudor Jenks |
| | The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour by Ben Jonson |
| | The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| | Christmas Night of ’62 by W. Gordon McCabe |
| December 26 |
| | The Battle of Trenton, Anonymous |
| December 27 |
| | Charles Lamb by Pakenham Beatty |
| | To the Sister of “Elia” by Walter Savage Landor |
| December 28 |
| | The Death of Queen Mary, Old Ballad |
| December 29 |
| | To Carmen Sylva by Emma Lazarus |
| December 30 |
| | Blücher on the Rhine by August Kopisch |
| | On His Marriage to Mary Godwin by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Wicliffe by William Wordsworth |
| December 31 |
| | Montgomery at Quebec by Clinton Scollard |
| | New Year’s Eve by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
