Poems Every Child Should Know

by Mary E. Burt, Various

81 chapters8h 7mEnglish1904

About this book

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 (81)

1Preface

308

2The 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

384

3True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily

320

4How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

358

5Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel

276

6The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell

253

7Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter

230

8The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow

351

9A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner

363

10Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm

235

11Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie

326

12The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln

403

13Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song

269

14A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides

304

15Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain

323

16Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel

400

17Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song

328

18The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride

360

19The Sandpiper; Lady Clare

408

20The Lord of Burleigh

293

21Hiawatha's Childhood

292

22I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave

334

23The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem

271

24Farm-Yard Song, A

215

25To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy

356

26Barbara Frietchie

215

27Lochinvar

221

28Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade

311

29The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon

308

30Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound

314

31The Battle of Blenheim

210

32Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus

377

33Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu

347

34Marco Bozzaris

348

35The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home

474

36Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus

370

37Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock

360

38The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis

284

39For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival

290

40The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown

379

41The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows

362

42Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday

247

43A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto

417

44Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus

367

45How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix

304

46The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo

370

47King Henry of Navarre; Ivry

385

48The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne

326

49The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk

313

50The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1)

699

51Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2)

710

52The Planting of the Apple Tree

264

53June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles

327

54A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree

341

55Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie

292

56The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims

340

57The Lotos-Eaters; Moly

339

58Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy

532

59The Skeleton in Armour

395

60The Revenge

521

61Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand

377

62The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman

652

63The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me

298

64Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee

295

65A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music

345

66A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby

655

67The Lye; L'Envoi

287

68Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket

305

69The Raven

543

70Arnold Von Winkelried

283

71Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark

364

72The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight

400

73Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

528

74Rabbi Ben Ezra

617

75Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt

343

76Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer

356

77Herve Riel

484

78Problem, The

379

79English Flag, The

347

80The Man With the Hoe

251

81Song of Myself (excerpts)

539

Poems Every Child Should Know

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