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Poems Every Child Should Know by Various and Mary E. Burt (1850 - 1918)

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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.

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Preface 00:05:08

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

True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily 00:05:20

How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 00:05:58

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel 00:04:36

The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell 00:04:13

Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter 00:03:50

The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow 00:05:51

A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner 00:06:03

Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 00:03:55

Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie 00:05:26

The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln 00:06:43

Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song 00:04:29

A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides 00:05:04

Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain 00:05:23

Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel 00:06:40

Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song 00:05:28

The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride 00:06:00

The Sandpiper; Lady Clare 00:06:48

The Lord of Burleigh 00:04:53

Hiawatha's Childhood 00:04:52

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave 00:05:34

The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem 00:04:31

Farm-Yard Song, A 00:03:35

To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy 00:05:56

Barbara Frietchie 00:03:35

Lochinvar 00:03:41

Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade 00:05:11

The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon 00:05:08

Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound 00:05:14

The Battle of Blenheim 00:03:30

Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus 00:06:17

Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu 00:05:47

Marco Bozzaris 00:05:48

The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home 00:07:54

Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus 00:06:10

Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock 00:06:00

The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis 00:04:44

For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival 00:04:50

The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown 00:06:19

The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows 00:06:02

Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday 00:04:07

A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto 00:06:57

Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus 00:06:07

How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix 00:05:04

The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo 00:06:10

King Henry of Navarre; Ivry 00:06:25

The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne 00:05:26

The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 00:05:13

The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) 00:11:39

Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) 00:11:50

The Planting of the Apple Tree 00:04:24

June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles 00:05:27

A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree 00:05:41

Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie 00:04:52

The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims 00:05:40

The Lotos-Eaters; Moly 00:05:39

Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy 00:08:52

The Skeleton in Armour 00:06:35

The Revenge 00:08:41

Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand 00:06:17

The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman 00:10:52

The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me 00:04:58

Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee 00:04:55

A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music 00:05:45

A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby 00:10:55

The Lye; L'Envoi 00:04:47

Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket 00:05:05

The Raven 00:09:03

Arnold Von Winkelried 00:04:43

Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark 00:06:04

The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight 00:06:40

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 00:08:48

Rabbi Ben Ezra 00:10:17

Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt 00:05:43

Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 00:05:56

Herve Riel 00:08:04

Problem, The 00:06:19

English Flag, The 00:05:47

The Man With the Hoe 00:04:11

Poems Every Child Should Know by Various and Mary E. Burt (1850 - 1918)

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