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Poems Every Child Should Know

Poems Every Child Should Know

Mary E. Burt
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  • Provider: Librivox
  • Languages: 
    English
  • Genres: 
    Poetry / General
  • Narrators: 
    Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
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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.

Chapters8h 8m

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