Fourth Grade English

The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1863)*
Verses by Helen Hunt Jackson (1874)*
Child Life: A Collection of Poems edited by John Greenleaf Whittier (1874)*
Childhood Songs by Lucy Larcom (1875)*
The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary by Alice and Phoebe Cary (1882)*
Open Sesame! Poetry and Prose for School-Days by Blanche Wilder Bellamy and Maud Wilder Goodwin (1889)*
Songs of Three Centuries by John Greenleaf Whittier (1890)*
Tennyson for the Young by Alfred Tennyson (1891)*
Little-Folk Lyrics by Frank Dempster Sherman (1892)*
The Heart of Oak Books Fourth Book by Charles Eliot Norton (1895)
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1896)*
Stepping Stones to Literature:  A Fourth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1897)
Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)*
The Land of Song for Primary Grades by Katharine H. Shute and Larkin Dunton (1898)*
The Land of Song Book II for Lower Grammar Grades by Katharine H. Shute and Larkin Dunton (1899)*
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1901)*
The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge by John Townsend Trowbridge (1903)*
Language Lessons by James Witt Sewell (1903)
The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1904)*
Graded City Speller:  Second, Third, and Fourth Year Grades by William Estabrook Chancellor (1904)
Special Method in Language in Eight Grades by Charles A McMurry, Ph.D. (1905)
Select Poems of Robert Browning by Robert Browning (1905)*
The "Original Poems" and Others by Ann and Jane Taylor and Adelaide O'Keeffe (1905)*
Poems by Grades:  Primary (First-Fourth Year) by Ada Van Stone Harris and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1907)
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1908)*
Graded Lessons in Language Book One:  Third Year through Fifth Year by Rosa Viola Winterburn (1908)
Standard Catholic Reader Fourth Year:  For Fourth and Fifth Grades by Mary E. Doyle (1909)
A Fourth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1910)
Guide Books to English, Book One (Third-Fifth Year) by Ada Van Stone Harris and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1910)
The Progressive Composition Lessons Book 1:  Third and Fourth Years by Ida M. Brautigam (1912)
Arbor Day:  Its History, Observation, Spirit and Significance (containing "Plant a Tree" by Lucy Larcom) by Robert Haven Schauffler (1913)*
A Method for Teaching Primary Reading by Lida Brown McMurry (1914)
Games and Rhymes for Language Teaching in the First Four Grades by Alhambra Georgia Deming (1919)
A Book of Famous Verse by Agnes Repplier (1920)*
The Spell-to-Write Spelling Books:  Books One and Two (First-Fourth Year) by Ambrose Leo Suhrie and Robert Philip Koehler (1921)

*See A Graded List of Poems and Stories for Use in Schools by Charles Banajah Gilbert and Ada Van Stone Harris (1901) for specific titles of poems and stories suitable for this grade.