Poems Every Child Should Know
Mary E. Burt , Various
81 chapters · 8 h 8 min · English
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Poetry
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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.
Chapters
1 Preface 5 min 2 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 6 min 3 True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily 5 min 4 How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 6 min 5 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel 5 min 6 The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell 4 min 7 Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter 4 min 8 The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow 6 min 9 A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner 6 min 10 Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 4 min 11 Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie 5 min 12 The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln 7 min 13 Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song 4 min 14 A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides 5 min 15 Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain 5 min 16 Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel 7 min 17 Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song 5 min 18 The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride 6 min 19 The Sandpiper; Lady Clare 7 min 20 The Lord of Burleigh 5 min 21 Hiawatha's Childhood 5 min 22 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave 6 min 23 The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem 5 min 24 Farm-Yard Song, A 4 min 25 To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy 6 min 26 Barbara Frietchie 4 min 27 Lochinvar 4 min 28 Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade 5 min 29 The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon 5 min 30 Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound 5 min 31 The Battle of Blenheim 4 min 32 Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus 6 min 33 Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu 6 min 34 Marco Bozzaris 6 min 35 The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home 8 min 36 Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus 6 min 37 Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock 6 min 38 The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis 5 min 39 For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival 5 min 40 The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown 6 min 41 The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows 6 min 42 Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday 4 min 43 A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto 7 min 44 Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus 6 min 45 How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix 5 min 46 The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo 6 min 47 King Henry of Navarre; Ivry 6 min 48 The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne 5 min 49 The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 5 min 50 The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) 12 min 51 Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) 12 min 52 The Planting of the Apple Tree 4 min 53 June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles 5 min 54 A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree 6 min 55 Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie 5 min 56 The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims 6 min 57 The Lotos-Eaters; Moly 6 min 58 Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy 9 min 59 The Skeleton in Armour 7 min 60 The Revenge 9 min 61 Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand 6 min 62 The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman 11 min 63 The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me 5 min 64 Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee 5 min 65 A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music 6 min 66 A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby 11 min 67 The Lye; L'Envoi 5 min 68 Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket 5 min 69 The Raven 9 min 70 Arnold Von Winkelried 5 min 71 Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark 6 min 72 The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight 7 min 73 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 9 min 74 Rabbi Ben Ezra 10 min 75 Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt 6 min 76 Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 6 min 77 Herve Riel 8 min 78 Problem, The 6 min 79 English Flag, The 6 min 80 The Man With the Hoe 4 min 81 Song of Myself (excerpts) 9 min
