Poems Every Child Should Know
by Mary E. Burt
Description: An outstanding collection of poems that appeal to both boys and girls, compiled by a teacher who believed in the formative power of learning poetry by heart. 'Children,' she maintains, 'should build for their future—and get, while they are children, what only the fresh imagination of the child can assimilate. They should store up an untold wealth of heroic sentiment; they should acquire the habit of carrying a literary quality in their conversation; they should carry a heart full of the fresh and delightful associations and memories connected with poetry hours to brighten mature years. They should develop their memories while they have memories to develop.' The poems are grouped into six sections (The Budding Moment, The Little Child, The Day's at the Morn, Lad and Lassie, On and On, 'Grow Old Along with Me') to make it easier to locate poems that match a child's maturity.
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Table of Contents
The Budding Moment
1. The Arrow and the Song
2. The Babie
3. Let Dogs Delight To Bark and Bite
4. Little Things
5. He Prayeth Best
6. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
7. Pippa
8. The Days of the Month
9. True Royalty
10. Playing Robinson Crusoe
11. My Shadow
12. Little White Lily
13. How the Leaves Came Down
14. Willie Winkie
15. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
16. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
17. The Duel
18. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie
19. Love Between Brothers and Sisters
20. The Bluebell of Scotland
21. If I Had But Two Little Wings
22. A Farewell
23. Casabianca
24. The Captain's Daughter
25. The Village Blacksmith
26. Sweet and Low
27. The Violet
28. The Rainbow
29. A Visit From St. Nicholas
30. The Star-Spangled Banner
31. Father William
32. The Nightingale and the Glow-Worm
The Little Child
33. The Frost
34. The Owl
35. Little Billee
36. The Butterfly and the Bee
37. An Incident of the French Camp
38. Robert of Lincoln
39. Old Grimes
40. Song of Life
41. Fairy Song
42. A Boy's Song
43. Buttercups and Daisies
44. The Rainbow
45. Old Ironsides
46. Little Orphant Annie
47. Captain! My Captain!
48. Ingratitude
49. The Ivy Green
50. The Noble Nature
51. The Flying Squirrel
52. Warren's Address
53. The Song in Camp
54. The Bugle Song
55. The Three Bells of Glasgow
56. Sheridan's Ride
57. The Sandpiper
58. Lady Clare
59. The Lord of Burleigh
60. Hiawatha's Childhood
61. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
62. John Barelycorn
63. A Life on the Ocean Wave
64. The Death of the Old Year
65. Abou Ben Adhem
66. Farm-Yard Song
67. To a Mouse
68. To a Mountain Daisy
69. Barbara Frietchie
The Day's at the Morn
70. Lochinvar
71. Lord Ullin's Daughter
72. The Charge of the Light Brigade
73. The Tournament
74. The Wind and the Moon
75. Jesus the Carpenter
76. Letty's Globe
77. A Dream
78. Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound
79. The Battle of Blenheim Fidelity
80. The Chambered Nautilus
81. Crossing the Bar
82. The Overland-Mail
83. Gathering Song of Donald Dhu
84. Marco Bozzaris
85. The Death of Napoleon
86. How Sleep the Brave
87. The Flag Goes By
88. Hohenlinden
89. My Old Kentucky Home
90. Old Folks at Home
91. The Wreck of the Hesperus
92. Bannockburn
Lad and Lassie
93. The Inchcape Rock
94. The Finding of the Lyre
95. A Chrysalis
96. For a' That
97. The New Arrival
98. The Brook
99. The Ballad of the Clampherdown
100. The Destruction of Sennacherib
101. I Remember, I Remember
102. Driving Home the Cows
103. Krinken
104. Stevenson's Birthday
105. A Modest Wit
106. The Legend of Bishop Hatto
107. Columbus
108. The Shepherd of King Admetus
109. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
110. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
111. The Eve of Waterloo
112. Ivry
113. The Glove and the Lions
114. The Well of St. Keyne
115. The Nautilus and the Ammonite
116. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
117. The Homes of England
118. Horatius at the Bridge
119. The Planting of the Apple-Tree
On and On
120. June
121. A Psalm of Life
122. Barnacles
123. A Happy Life
124. Home, Sweet Home
125. From Casa Guidi Windows
126. Woodman, Spare That Tree!
127. Abide with Me
128. Lead, Kindly Light
129. The Last Rose of Summer
130. Annie Laurie
131. A Ship of State
132. America
133. The Landing of the Pilgrims
134. The Lotos-Eaters
135. Moly
136. Cupid Drowned
137. Cupid Stung
138. Cupid and My Campasbe
139. A Ballad for a Boy
140. A Skeleton in Armor
141. The Revenge
142. Sir Galahad
143. A Name in the Sand
"Grow old along with me!..."
144. The Voice of Spring
145. The Forsaken Merman
146. The Banks o' Doon
147. The Light of Other Days
148. My Own Shall Come to Me
149. Ode to a Skylark
150. The Sands of Dee
151. A Wish
152. Lucy
153. Solitude
154. John Anderson
155. The God of Music
156. A Musical Instrument
157. The Brides of Enderby
158. The Lye
159. L'Envoi
160. Contentment
161. The Harp That Once through Tara's Halls
162. The Old Oaken Bucket
163. The Raven
164. Arnold von Winkleried
165. Life, I Know Not What Thou Art
166. Mercy
167. Polonius' Advice
168. A Fragment from Julius Caesar
169. The Skylark
170. The Choir Invisible
171. The World Is Too Much with Us
172. On His Blindness
173. She Was a Phantom of Delight
174. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
175. Rabbi Ben Ezra
176. Prospice
177. Recessional
178. Ozymandias of Egypt
179. Mortality
180. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
181. Herve Riel
182. The Problem
183. To America
184. The English Flag
185. The Man with the Hoe
186. Song of Myself
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