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Poems Every Child Should Know

Various and 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.

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

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

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