Poems Every Child Should Know

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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.

  1. Preface
  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
  3. True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily
  4. How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
  5. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel
  6. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell
  7. Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter
  8. The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow
  9. 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
  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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