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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932)

A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): animals (406), Christmas (201), birds (147), flowers (48), seasons (37), dreams (21), rhymes (20), weather (19), jingles (14), country (13) ... [Show full list]

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:05:38
Play 01	Merry are the Bells	BettyB	00:01:18
Play 02	Safe in Bed	BettyB	00:00:28
Play 03	Jenny Wren	BettyB	00:00:41
Play 04	Curly Locks	BettyB	00:00:28
Play 05	Pussy-Cat Mew	BettyB	00:00:26
Play 06	Draw a Pail of Water	BettyB	00:00:26
Play 07	I Saw a Ship A-Sailing	BettyB	00:00:47
Play 08	The Nut-Tree	BettyB	00:00:33
Play 09	My Maid Mary	RecordingPerson	00:00:31
Play 10	The Wind and the Fisherman	RecordingPerson	00:00:34
Play 11	Blow, Wind, Blow	RecordingPerson	00:00:28
Play 12	All Busy	RecordingPerson	00:00:26
Play 13	Winter Has Come	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:26
Play 14	Poor Robin	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:28
Play 15	I Have a Little Sister	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:34
Play 16	In Marble Walls	RecordingPerson	00:00:37
Play 17	The Moon by Eliza Lee Follen	RecordingPerson	00:00:51
Play 18	The Star by A. and J. Taylor	RecordingPerson	00:01:02
Play 19	Kitty by Mrs. E. Prentiss	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:19
Play 20	Kitty: How to Treat Her	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:33
Play 21	Kitty: What She Thinks of Herself by W.B. Rands	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:41
Play 22	The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:44
Play 23	The Cuckoo	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:34
Play 24	The Bird-Scarer's Song	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:28
Play 25	Cradle Song	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:41
Play 26	Good-Night! by A. and J. Taylor	Phil Schempf	00:00:56
Play 27	Daffodils by W. Shakespeare	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:00:28
Play 28	To Daffodils by R. Herrick	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:10
Play 29	Daffodils by W. Wordsworth	Lynne T	00:01:26
Play 30	The Months by Sara Coleridge	BettyB	00:01:19
Play 31	The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt	BettyB	00:03:01
Play 32	The Four Sweet Months by R. Herrick	BettyB	00:00:43
Play 33	Glad Day by W.G. Robertson	Phil Schempf	00:01:17
Play 34	Buttercups and Daisies by Mary Howitt	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:50
Play 35	The Merry Month of March by W. Wordsworth	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:11
Play 36	What the Birds Say by S.T. Coleridge	Phil Schempf	00:00:53
Play 37	Spring's Procession by Sydney Dobell	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:48
Play 38	The Call of the Woods by W. Shakespeare	Jude	00:01:03
Play 39	A Prescription for a Spring Morning by John Davidson	Vittoria Conn	00:01:16
Play 40	The Country Faith by Norman Gale	Jude	00:00:49
Play 41	The Butterfly's Ball by W. Roscoe	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:04:00
Play 42	A Wish by Samuel Rogers	Vittoria Conn	00:01:10
Play 43	Wishing by W. Allingham	RecordingPerson	00:01:09
Play 44	Bunches of Grapes by Walter Ramal	RecordingPerson	00:00:46
Play 45	Contentment by Eugene Field	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:02:30
Play 46	The Land of Story-Books by R.L. Stevenson	Damla Ozdemir	00:01:22
Play 47	Sand Castles by W.G. Robertson	Phil Schempf	00:01:18
Play 48	Ring o' Roses by W.G. Robertson	Damla Ozdemir	00:01:04
Play 49	Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:02:26
Play 50	The Drummer-Boy and the Shepherdess by W.B. Rands	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:21
Play 51	The Land of Dreams by William Blake	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:17
Play 52	Sweet and Low by Lord Tennyson	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:54
Play 53	Cradle Song by Sir Walter Scott	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:21
Play 54	Mother and I by Eugene Field	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:56
Play 55	The Fairies by W. Allingham	Patrick Saville	00:02:10
Play 56	Shakespeare's Fairies by W. Shakespeare	Patrick Saville	00:03:52
Play 57	The Lavender Beds by W.B. Rands	Patrick Saville	00:01:32
Play 58	Farewell to the Fairies by Richard Corbet	Patrick Saville	00:01:54
Play 59	Death of Oberon by G.W. Thornbury	Patrick Saville	00:00:56
Play 60	Kilmeny by James Hogg	Patrick Saville	00:06:26
Play 61	A Boy's Song by James Hogg	RecordingPerson	00:01:12
Play 62	A Girl's Song by Thomas Moore	RecordingPerson	00:01:14
Play 63	Three Things to Remember by William Blake	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:00:44
Play 64	The Knight of Bethlehem by H.N. Maugham	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:00:50
Play 65	The Lamb by William Blake	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:27
Play 66	The Tiger by William Blake	Lynne T	00:01:18
Play 67	I Had a Dove by J. Keats	Damla Ozdemir	00:00:50
Play 68	Robin Redbreast by W. Allingham	Vittoria Conn	00:01:46
Play 69	Black Bunny by W.B. Rands	Vittoria Conn	00:02:05
Play 70	The Cow by A. and J. Taylor	Phil Schempf	00:00:43
Play 71	The Skylark by James Hogg	Vittoria Conn	00:01:20
Play 72	Christmas Eve by John Davidson	BettyB	00:01:55
Play 73	A Christmas Carol by R. Herrick	BettyB	00:01:39
Play 74	A Child's Present by R. Herrick	BettyB	00:01:12
Play 75	The Peace-Giver by A.C. Swinburne	Vittoria Conn	00:01:27
Play 76	To a Singer by P.B. Shelley	Vittoria Conn	00:01:42
Play 77	The Happy Piper by William Blake	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:01:19
Play 78	The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:02:19
Play 79	Sheridan's Ride by T. Buchanan Read	Vittoria Conn	00:03:10
Play 80	Columbus by Joaquin Miller	Phil Schempf	00:02:21
Play 81	Horatius by Lord Macaulay	Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)	00:26:54

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