Poems Every Child Should Know / The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library
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A treasure trove of more than two hundred poems, this gem of an anthology compiled by Mary E Burt is indeed a most valuable set of poems to read or listen to.Published in 1904, Poems Every Child Should Know contains some well-loved verses like Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Lewis Carroll's delightful parody Father William, Felicia Hemans' deeply-moving Casablanca and other favorites. It also has lesser-known but equally beautiful pieces like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Arrow and The Song, Robert Browning's The Incident of the French Camp, Eugene Field's nonsense lyri...
Chapters (214)
- CONTENTS
- POEMS Every Child Should Know
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PART I
- PART II
- PART III
- PART IV
- PART V
- PART VI
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- PART I. The Budding Moment
- The Arrow and the Song.
- The Babie.
- Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite.
- Little Things.
- He Prayeth Best.
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
- Pippa.
- The Days of the Month.
- True Royalty.
- Playing Robinson Crusoe.
- My Shadow.
- Little White Lily.
- How the Leaves Came Down.
- Willie Winkie.
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.
- The Duel.
- The Boy Who Never Told a Lie.
- Love Between Brothers and Sisters.
- The Bluebell of Scotland.
- If I Had But Two Little Wings.
- A Farewell.
- Casabianca.
- The Captain’s Daughter.
- The Village Blacksmith.
- Sweet and Low.
- The Violet.
- The Rainbow. (A FRAGMENT.)
- A Visit From St. Nicholas.
- The Star-Spangled Banner.
- Father William.
- The Nightingale and the Glow-worm.
- PART II. The Little Child
- The Frost.
- The Owl.
- Little Billee.
- The Butterfly and the Bee.
- An Incident of the French Camp.
- Robert of Lincoln.
- Old Grimes.
- Song of Life.
- Fairy Song.
- A Boy’s Song
- Buttercups and Daisies.
- The Rainbow.
- Old Ironsides.
- Little Orphant Annie.
- O Captain! My Captain!
- Ingratitude.
- The Ivy Green.
- The Noble Nature.
- The Flying Squirrel.
- Warren’s Address to the American Soldiers.
- The Song in Camp.
- The Bugle Song.
- The “Three Bells” of Glasgow.
- Sheridan’s Ride.
- The Sandpiper.
- Lady Clare.
- The Lord of Burleigh.
- Hiawatha’s Childhood.
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
- John Barleycorn.
- A Life on the Ocean Wave.
- The Death of the Old Year.
- Abou Ben Adhem.
- Farm-Yard Song.
- To a Mouse, ON TURNING UP HER NEST WITH THE PLOW, NOVEMBER, 1785
- To a Mountain Daisy, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOW IN APRIL, 1786
- Barbara Frietchie.
- PART III. The Day’s at the Morn
- Lochinvar.
- Lord Ullin’s Daughter.
- The Charge of the Light Brigade.
- The Tournament.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- The Wind and the Moon.
- Jesus the Carpenter.
- Letty’s Globe.
- A Dream.
- Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound. (A FRAGMENT.)
- The Battle of Blenheim.
- Fidelity.
- The Chambered Nautilus.
- Crossing the Bar
- The Overland-Mail.
- Gathering Song of Donald Dhu.
- Marco Bozzaris.
- The Death of Napoleon.
- How Sleep the Brave.
- The Flag Goes By.
- Hohenlinden.
- My Old Kentucky Home.
- Old Folks at Home.
- The Wreck of the “Hesperus.”
- Bannockburn. ROBERT BRUCE’S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY.
- PART IV. Lad and Lassie
- The Inchcape Rock.
- The Finding of the Lyre.
- A Chrysalis.
- For a’ That.
- A New Arrival.
- The Brook.
- The Ballad of the “Clampherdown.”
- The Destruction of Sennacherib.
- I Remember, I Remember.
- Driving Home the Cows.
- Krinken.
- Stevenson’s Birthday.
- A Modest Wit.
- The Legend of Bishop Hatto.
- Columbus.
- The Shepherd of King Admetus.
- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.
- The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna.
- The Eve of Waterloo.
- Ivry. A SONG OF THE HUGUENOTS.
- The Glove and the Lions.
- The Well of St. Keyne.
- The Nautilus and the Ammonite.
- The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk.
- The Homes of England.
- Horatius at the Bridge.
- The Planting of the Apple-Tree.
- PART V. On and On
- June.
- A Psalm of Life. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST.
- Barnacles.
- A Happy Life.
- Home, Sweet Home!
- From Casa Guidi Windows.
- Woodman, Spare That Tree!
- Abide With Me.
- Lead, Kindly Light
- The Last Rose of Summer.
- Annie Laurie.
- The Ship of State.
- America.
- The Landing of the Pilgrims.
- The Lotos-Eaters.
- Moly.
- Cupid Drowned.
- Cupid Stung.
- Cupid and My Campasbe.
- A Ballad for a Boy.
- The Skeleton in Armour.
- The Revenge. A BALLAD OF THE FLEET
- Sir Galahad.
- A Name in the Sand.
- PART VI.
- The Voice of Spring.
- The Forsaken Merman.
- The Banks o’ Doon.
- The Light of Other Days.
- My Own Shall Come to Me.
- Ode to a Skylark.
- The Sands of Dee.
- A Wish.
- Lucy.
- Solitude.
- John Anderson
- The God of Music.
- A Musical Instrument.
- The Brides of Enderby.
- The Lye.
- L’Envoi.
- Contentment
- The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls.
- The Old Oaken Bucket
- The Raven.
- Arnold von Winkleried.
- Life, I Know Not What Thou Art.
- Mercy.
- Polonius’ Advice.
- A Fragment from Mark Antony’s Speech.
- The Skylark.
- The Choir Invisible.
- The World Is Too Much With Us.
- On His Blindness.
- She Was a Phantom of Delight.
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
- THE EPITAPH.
- Rabbi Ben Ezra
- Prospice.
- Recessional.
- Ozymandias of Egypt.
- Mortality.
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s “Homer.”
- Hervé Riel.
- The Problem.
- To America.
- The English Flag.
- The Man With the Hoe.
- WRITTEN AFTER SEEING THE PAINTING BY MILLET.
- Song of Myself.
- INDEX
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