Poems Every Child Should Know

This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize.

By : VARIOUS ( - ) and Mary E. BURT (1850 - 1918)

01 - Preface 02 - The Arrow and the Song; The Babie; Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite; Little Drops of Water; He Prayeth Best; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Spring's at the Morn; The Days of the Month 03 - True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily 04 - How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 05 - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel 06 - The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell 07 - Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter 08 - The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow 09 - A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner 10 - Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 11 - Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie 12 - The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln 13 - Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song 14 - A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides 15 - Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain 16 - Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel 17 - Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song 18 - The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride 19 - The Sandpiper; Lady Clare 20 - The Lord of Burleigh 21 - Hiawatha's Childhood 22 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave 23 - The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem 24 - Farm-Yard Song, A Kara Shallenberg 25 - To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy 26 - Barbara Frietchie 27 - Lochinvar 28 - Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade 29 - The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon 30 - Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound 31 - The Battle of Blenheim 32 - Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus 33 - Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu 34 - Marco Bozzaris 35 - The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home 36 - Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus 37 - Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock 38 - The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis 39 - For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival 40 - The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown 41 - The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows 42 - Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday 43 - A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto 44 - Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus 45 - How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix 46 - The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo 47 - King Henry of Navarre; Ivry 48 - The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne 49 - The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 50 - The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) 51 - Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) 52 - The Planting of the Apple Tree 53 - June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles 54 - A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree 55 - Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie 56 - The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims 57 - The Lotos-Eaters; Moly 58 - Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy 59 - The Skeleton in Armour 60 - The Revenge 61 - Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand 62 - The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman 63 - The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me 64 - Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee 65 - A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music 66 - A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby 67 - The Lye; L'Envoi 68 - Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket 69 - The Raven 70 - Arnold Von Winkelried 71 - Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark 72 - The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight 73 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 74 - Rabbi Ben Ezra 75 - Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt 76 - Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 77 - Herve Riel 78 - Problem, The 79 - English Flag, The 80 - The Man With the Hoe 81 - Song of Myself (excerpts)