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Poems Every Child Should Know
edited by Mary E. Burt (1850-1918)
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.
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Total running time: 8:07:47
Read by Kara Shallenberg
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- 01 – Preface – 00:05:08
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[ogg vorbis - 2.7MB] - 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 – 00:06:24
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[ogg vorbis - 3.3MB] - 03 – True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily – 00:05:20
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[ogg vorbis - 2.8MB] - 04 – How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat – 00:05:58
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[ogg vorbis - 3.1MB] - 05 – Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel – 00:04:36
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[ogg vorbis - 2.4MB] - 06 – The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell – 00:04:13
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[ogg vorbis - 2.2MB] - 07 – Casabianca; The Captain’s Daughter – 00:03:50
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[ogg vorbis - 2.0MB] - 08 – The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow – 00:05:51
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[ogg vorbis - 3.0MB] - 09 – A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner – 00:06:03
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[ogg vorbis - 3.2MB] - 10 – Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm – 00:03:55
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[ogg vorbis - 2.1MB] - 11 – Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie – 00:05:26
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[ogg vorbis - 2.9MB] - 12 – The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln – 00:06:43
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[ogg vorbis - 3.6MB] - 13 – Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song – 00:04:29
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[ogg vorbis - 2.4MB] - 14 – A Boy’s Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides – 00:05:04
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[ogg vorbis - 2.7MB] - 15 – Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain – 00:05:23
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[ogg vorbis - 2.8MB] - 16 – Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel – 00:06:40
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[ogg vorbis - 3.5MB] - 17 – Warren’s Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song – 00:05:28
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[ogg vorbis - 2.8MB] - 18 – The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan’s Ride – 00:06:00
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[ogg vorbis - 3.1MB] - 19 – The Sandpiper; Lady Clare – 00:06:48
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[ogg vorbis - 3.5MB] - 20 – The Lord of Burleigh – 00:04:53
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[ogg vorbis - 2.5MB] - 21 – Hiawatha’s Childhood – 00:04:52
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[ogg vorbis - 2.5MB] - 22 – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave – 00:05:34
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[ogg vorbis - 2.9MB] - 23 – The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem – 00:04:31
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[ogg vorbis - 2.3MB] - 24 – A Farm-Yard Song – 00:03:35
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[ogg vorbis - 1.8MB] - 25 – To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy – 00:05:56
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[ogg vorbis - 3.0MB] - 26 – Barbara Frietchie – 00:03:35
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[ogg vorbis - 1.8MB] - 27 – Lochinvar – 00:03:41
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[ogg vorbis - 1.9MB] - 28 – Lord Ullin’s Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade – 00:05:11
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[ogg vorbis - 2.6MB] - 29 – The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon – 00:05:08
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[ogg vorbis - 2.6MB] - 30 – Jesus the Carpenter; Letty’s Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound – 00:05:14
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[ogg vorbis - 2.7MB] - 31 – The Battle of Blenheim – 00:03:30
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[ogg vorbis - 1.8MB] - 32 – Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus – 00:06:17
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[ogg vorbis - 3.2MB] - 33 – Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu – 00:05:47
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[ogg vorbis - 3.0MB] - 34 – Marco Bozzaris – 00:05:48
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[ogg vorbis - 3.0MB] - 35 – The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home – 00:07:54
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[ogg vorbis - 4.1MB] - 36 – Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus – 00:06:10
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[ogg vorbis - 3.2MB] - 37 – Robert Bruce’s Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock – 00:06:00
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[ogg vorbis - 3.1MB] - 38 – The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis – 00:04:44
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[ogg vorbis - 2.5MB] - 39 – For a’ That and a’ That; The New Arrival – 00:04:50
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[ogg vorbis - 2.5MB] - 40 – The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown – 00:06:19
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[ogg vorbis - 3.3MB] - 41 – The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows – 00:06:02
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[ogg vorbis - 3.1MB] - 42 – Krinken; Stevenson’s Birthday – 00:04:07
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[ogg vorbis - 2.1MB] - 43 – A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto – 00:06:57
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[ogg vorbis - 3.6MB] - 44 – Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus – 00:06:07
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[ogg vorbis - 3.2MB] - 45 – How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix – 00:05:04
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[ogg vorbis - 2.6MB] - 46 – The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo – 00:06:10
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[ogg vorbis - 3.2MB] - 47 – Ivry – 00:06:25
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[ogg vorbis - 3.3MB] - 48 – The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne – 00:05:26
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[ogg vorbis - 2.8MB] - 49 – The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk – 00:05:13
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[ogg vorbis - 2.7MB] - 50 – The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) – 00:11:39
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[ogg vorbis - 6.0MB] - 51 – Horatius at the Bridge (Part 2) – 00:11:50
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[ogg vorbis - 6.1MB] - 52 – The Planting of the Apple Tree – 00:04:24
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[ogg vorbis - 2.3MB] - 53 – June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles – 00:05:27
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[ogg vorbis - 2.8MB] - 54 – A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree – 00:05:41
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[ogg vorbis - 2.9MB] - 55 – Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie – 00:04:52
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[ogg vorbis - 2.5MB] - 56 – The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims – 00:05:40
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[ogg vorbis - 2.9MB] - 57 – The Lotos-Eaters; Moly – 00:05:39
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[ogg vorbis - 2.9MB] - 58 – Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy – 00:08:52
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[ogg vorbis - 4.6MB] - 59 – The Skeleton in Armour – 00:06:35
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[ogg vorbis - 3.4MB] - 60 – The Revenge – 00:08:41
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[ogg vorbis - 4.5MB] - 61 – Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand – 00:06:17
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[ogg vorbis - 3.2MB] - 62 – The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman – 00:10:52
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[ogg vorbis - 5.6MB] - 63 – The Banks o’ Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me – 00:04:58
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[ogg vorbis - 2.6MB] - 64 – Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee – 00:04:55
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[ogg vorbis - 2.6MB] - 65 – A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music – 00:05:45
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[ogg vorbis - 3.0MB] - 66 – A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby – 00:10:55
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[ogg vorbis - 5.7MB] - 67 – The Lye; L’Envoi – 00:04:47
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[ogg vorbis - 2.5MB] - 68 – Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket – 00:05:05
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[ogg vorbis - 2.7MB] - 69 – The Raven – 00:09:03
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[ogg vorbis - 4.8MB] - 70 – Arnold von Winkelried – 00:04:43
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[ogg vorbis - 2.5MB] - 71 – Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius’ Advice; Antony’s Speech; The Skylark – 00:06:04
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[ogg vorbis - 3.2MB] - 72 – The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight – 00:06:40
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[ogg vorbis - 3.5MB] - 73 – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – 00:08:48
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[ogg vorbis - 4.6MB] - 74 – Rabbi Ben Ezra – 00:10:17
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[ogg vorbis - 5.4MB] - 75 – Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt – 00:05:43
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[ogg vorbis - 3.0MB] - 76 – Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer – 00:05:56
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[ogg vorbis - 3.1MB] - 77 – Herve Riel – 00:08:04
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[ogg vorbis - 4.2MB] - 78 – The Problem; To America – 00:06:19
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[ogg vorbis - 3.3MB] - 79 – The English Flag – 00:05:47
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[ogg vorbis - 3.0MB] - 80 – The Man with the Hoe – 00:04:11
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[ogg vorbis - 2.2MB] - 81 – Song of Myself (excerpts) – 00:08:59
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Cataloged on January 16, 2007
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