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)

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