VIOLET! SWEET VIOLET! _James Russell Lowell_ 54 TO THE DANDELION _James Russell Lowell_ 56 THE DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 59 THE TRAILING ARBUTUS _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 60 TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY _Robert Burns_ 61 SWEET PEAS _John Keats_ 63 CHORUS OF FLOWERS _Leigh Hunt_ 64 TREES _Joyce Kilmer_ 68 WINTER THE GREAT BLIZZARD _Hamlin Garland_ 69 THE FROST _Hannah F. Gould_ 75 THE FROST SPIRIT _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 76 THE SNOW STORM _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 78 SNOWFLAKES _Henry W. Longfellow_ 80 MIDWINTER _John T. Trowbridge_ 82 BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND _William Shakespeare_ 84 WHEN ICICLES HANG BY THE WALL _William Shakespeare_ 85 PART II ADVENTURES OLD AND NEW INTRODUCTION 89 THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY KING ARTHUR STORIES Adapted from _Sir Thomas Malory_ THE COMING OF ARTHUR 91 THE STORY OF GARETH 105 THE PEERLESS KNIGHT LANCELOT 126 THE PASSING OF ARTHUR 149 NARRATIVES IN VERSE SIR PATRICK SPENS _Folk Ballad_ 168 THE SKELETON IN ARMOR _Henry W. Longfellow_ 171 THE THREE FISHERS _Charles Kingsley_ 177 LORD ULLIN’S DAUGHTER _Thomas Campbell_ 178 THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 181 SPANISH WATERS _John Masefield_ 184 KILMENY—A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS _Alfred Noyes_ 186 THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH _Sir Arthur Conan Doyle_ 188 STORIES OF THE SEA A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM _Edgar Allan Poe_ 191 THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY _Charles Dickens_ 210 TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE AS YOU LIKE IT _Charles and Mary Lamb_ 259 THE TEMPEST _Charles and Mary Lamb_ 275 PART III IDEALS AND HEROES OF FREEDOM INTRODUCTION 289 SCOTLAND’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE