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POEMS Every Child Should Know EDITED BY Mary E. Burt
PART I
The Arrow and the Song3
Henry W. Longfellow
- The Babie4
Jeremiah Eames Rankin - Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite4
Isaac Watts - Little Things5
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - He Prayeth Best5
Samuel T. Coleridge - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star6
Anonymous - Pippa6
Robert Browning - The Days of the Month7
An Old Song - True Royalty7
Rudyard Kipling - Playing Robinson Crusoe8
Rudyard Kipling - My Shadow9
Robert Louis Stevenson - Little White Lily10
George Macdonald - How the Leaves Came Down12
Susan Coolidge - Willie Winkie13
William Miller - The Owl and the Pussy-Cat15
Edward Lear - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod16
Eugene Field - The Duel18
Eugene Field - The Boy Who Never Told a Lie19
Anonymous - Love Between Brothers and Sisters20
Isaac Watts - The Bluebell of Scotland20
Anonymous - If I Had But Two Little Wings21
Samuel T. Coleridge - A Farewell21
Charles Kingsley - Casabianca22
Felicia Hemans - The Captain's Daughter23
James T. Fields - The Village Blacksmith25
Henry W. Longfellow - Sweet and Low27
Alfred Tennyson - The Violet27
Jane Taylor - The Rainbow (a fragment)28
William Wordsworth - A Visit From St. Nicholas29
Clement Clarke Moore - The Star-Spangled Banner31
Francis Scott Key - Father William33
Lewis Carroll - The Nightingale and the Glow-worm34
William Cowper
PART II
- The Frost39
Hannah Flagg Gould - The Owl40
Alfred Tennyson - Little Billee41
William Makepeace Thackeray - The Butterfly and the Bee42
William Lisle Bowles - An Incident of the French Camp43
Robert Browning - Robert of Lincoln44
William Cullen Bryant - Old Grimes47
Albert Gorton Greene - Song of Life48
Charles Mackay - Fairy Song50
John Keats - A Boy's Song50
James Hogg - Buttercups and Daisies51
Mary Howitt - The Rainbow53
Thomas Campbell - Old Ironsides53
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Little Orphant Annie54
James Whitcomb Riley - O Captain! My Captain!57
Walt Whitman - Ingratitude58
William Shakespeare - The Ivy Green59
Charles Dickens - The Noble Nature60
Ben Jonson - The Flying Squirrel60
Mary E. Burt - Warren's Address63
John Pierpont - The Song in Camp64
Bayard Taylor - The Bugle Song66
Alfred Tennyson - The Three Bells of Glasgow67
John G. Whittier - Sheridan's Ride68
Thomas Buchanan Read - The Sandpiper71
Celia Thaxter - Lady Clare72
Alfred Tennyson - The Lord of Burleigh75
Alfred Tennyson - Hiawatha's Childhood79
Henry W. Longfellow - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud82
William Wordsworth - John Barleycorn83
Robert Burns - A Life on the Ocean Wave85
Epes Sargent - The Death of the Old Year86
Alfred Tennyson - Abou Ben Adhem89
Leigh Hunt - Farm-Yard Song90
J.T. Trowbridge - To a Mouse92
Robert Burns - To a Mountain Daisy94
Robert Burns - Barbara Frietchie96
John G. Whittier
PART III
- Lochinvar103
Sir Walter Scott - Lord Ullin's Daughter105
Thomas Campbell - The Charge of the Light Brigade107
Alfred Tennyson - The Tournament110
Sidney Lanier - The Wind and the Moon111
George Macdonald - Jesus the Carpenter114
Catherine C. Liddell - Letty's Globe115
Charles Tennyson Turner - A Dream116
William Blake - Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound117
J. G. Holland - The Battle of Blenheim117
Robert Southey - Fidelity120
William Wordsworth - The Chambered Nautilus122
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Crossing the Bar124
Alfred Tennyson - The Overland-Mail125
Rudyard Kipling - Gathering Song of Donald Dhu126
Sir Walter Scott - Marco Bozzaris128
Fitz-greene Halleck - The Death of Napoleon131
Isaac McClellan - How Sleep the Brave133
William Collins - The Flag Goes By133
Henry Holcomb Bennett - Hohenlinden134
Thomas Campbell - My Old Kentucky Home136
Stephen Collins Foster - Old Folks at Home137
Stephen Collins Foster - The Wreck of the Hesperus138
Henry W. Longfellow - Bannockburn142
Robert Burns
PART IV
- The Inchcape Rock145
Robert Southey - The Finding of the Lyre148
James Russell Lowell - A Chrysalis149
Mary Emily Bradley - For a' That151
Robert Burns - The New Arrival152
George W. Cable - The Brook153
Alfred Tennyson - The Ballad of the Clampherdown154
Rudyard Kipling - The Destruction of Sennacherib158
Lord Byron - I Remember, I Remember159
Thomas Hood - Driving Home the Cows160
Kate Putnam Osgood - Krinken162
Eugene Field - Stevenson's Birthday164
Katherine Miller - A Modest Wit165
Selleck Osborne - The Legend of Bishop Hatto166
Robert Southey - Columbus160
Joaquin Miller - The Shepherd of King Admetus171
James Russell Lowell - How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix173
Robert Browning - The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna176
C. Wolfe - The Eve of Waterloo177
Lord Byron - Ivry179
Thomas B. Macaulay - The Glove and the Lions184
Leigh Hunt - The Well of St. Keyne186
Robert Southey - The Nautilus and the Ammonite188
Anonymous - The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk190
William Cowper - The Homes of England192
Felicia Hemans - Horatius at the Bridge193
Thomas B. Macaulay - The Planting of the Apple-Tree211
William Cullen Bryant
PART V
- June217
James Russell Lowell - A Psalm of Life218
Henry W. Longfellow - Barnacles219
Sidney Lanier - A Happy Life220
Sir Henry Wotton - Home, Sweet Home220
John Howard Payne - From Casa Guidi Windows222
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Woodman, Spare That Tree!222
George Pope Morris - Abide With Me223
Henry Francis Lyte - Lead, Kindly Light224
John Henry Newman - The Last Rose of Summer225
Thomas Moore - Annie Laurie226
William Douglas - The Ship of State227
Henry W. Longfellow - America228
Samuel Francis Smith - The Landing of the Pilgrims229
Felicia Hemans - The Lotos-Eaters231
Alfred Tennyson - Moly233
Edith M. Thomas - Cupid Drowned234
Leigh Hunt - Cupid Stung234
Thomas Moore - Cupid and My Campasbe235
John Lyly - A Ballad for a Boy236
Anonymous - The Skeleton in Armour240
Henry W. Longfellow - The Revenge246
Alfred Tennyson - Sir Galahad253
Alfred Tennyson - A Name in the Sand256
Hannah Flagg Gould
PART VI
- The Voice of Spring259
Felicia Hemans - The Forsaken Merman260
Matthew Arnold - The Banks o' Doon265
Robert Burns - The Light of Other Days266
Thomas Moore - My Own Shall Come to Me267
John Burroughs - Ode to a Skylark268
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Sands of Dee271
Charles Kingsley - A Wish272
Samuel Rogers - Lucy272
William Wordsworth - Solitude273
Alexander Pope - John Anderson274
Robert Burns - The God of Music275
Edith M. Thomas - A Musical Instrument275
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Brides of Enderby277
Jean Ingelow - The Lye283
Sir Walter Raleigh - L'Envoi285
Rudyard Kipling - Contentment286
Edward Dyer - The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls287
Thomas Moore - The Old Oaken Bucket288
Samuel Woodworth - The Raven289
Edgar Allan Poe - Arnold von Winkleried296
James Montgomery - Life, I Know Not What Thou Art299
A. L. Barbauld - Mercy300
William Shakespeare - Polonius' Advice301
William Shakespeare - A Fragment from "Julius Cæsar"301
William Shakespeare - The Skylark302
Thomas Hogg - The Choir Invisible303
George Eliot - The World Is Too Much With Us304
William Wordsworth - On His Blindness304
John Milton - She Was a Phantom of Delight305
William Wordsworth - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard306
Thomas Gray - Rabbi Ben Ezra312
Robert Browning - Prospice320
Robert Browning - Recessional321
Rudyard Kipling - Ozymandias of Egypt322
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Mortality323
William Knox - On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer326
John Keats - Hervé Riel326
Robert Browning - The Problem333
Ralph Waldo Emerson - To America335
Alfred Austin - The English Flag337
Rudyard Kipling - The Man With the Hoe342
Edwin Markham - Song of Myself344
Walt Whitman - Index350
INDEX OF AUTHORS
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, 6
- The Days of the Month, 7
- The Boy who Never Told a Lie, 19
- The Bluebell of Scotland, 20
- The Nautilus and the Ammonite, 188
- A Ballad for a Boy, 236
- Life, I Know Not What Thou Art, 299
- The Butterfly and the Bee, 42
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- From Casa Guidi Windows, 222
- A Musical Instrument, 275
- Pippa, 6
- An Incident of the French Camp, 43
- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 173
- Rabbi Ben Ezra, 312
- Prospice, 320
- Hervé Riel, 326
- Robert of Lincoln, 44
- The Planting of the Apple Tree, 211
- John Barleycorn, 83
- To a Mouse, 92
- To a Mountain Daisy, 94
- Bannockburn, 142
- For a' That, 151
- The Banks o' Doon, 265
- John Anderson, 274
- My Own Shall Come to Me, 267
- The Destruction of Sennacherib, 158
- The Eve of Waterloo, 177
- The Rainbow, 53
- Lord Ullin's Daughter, 105
- Hohenlinden, 134
- He Prayeth Best, 5
- If I Had But Two Little Wings, 21
- How the Leaves Came Down, 12
- The Nightingale and the Glow-worm, 34
- The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, 190
- Wynken, Blynken and Nod, 16
- The Duel, 18
- Krinken, 162
- The Captain's Daughter, 23
- My Old Kentucky Home, 136
- Old Folks at Home, 137
- The Frost, 39
- A Name in the Sand, 256
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 306
- Casabianca, 22
- The Homes of England, 192
- The Landing of the Pilgrims, 229
- The Voice of Spring, 259
- I Remember, I Remember, 159
- A Boy's Song, 50
- The Skylark, 302
- Heaven is Not Reached at a Single Bound, 117
- Old Ironsides, 53
- The Chambered Nautilus, 122
- Buttercups and Daisies, 51
- Abou Ben Adhem, 89
- The Glove and the Lions, 184
- Cupid Drowned, 234
- The Brides of Enderby, 277
- Fairy Song, 50
- On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, 326
- The Star-Spangled Banner, 31
- A Farewell, 21
- The Sands of Dee, 271
- True Royalty, 7
- Playing Robinson Crusoe, 8
- The Overland Mail, 125
- The Ballad of the Clampherdown, 154
- L'Envoi, 285
- Recessional, 321
- The English Flag, 337
- The Tournament, 110
- Barnacles, 219
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, 15
- The Arrow and the Song, 3
- The Village Blacksmith, 25
- Hiawatha's Childhood, 79
- The Wreck of the Hesperus, 138
- A Psalm of Life, 218
- The Ship of State, 227
- The Skeleton in Armour, 240
- The Finding of the Lyre, 148
- The Shepherd of King Admetus, 171
- June, 217
- Cupid and My Campasbe, 235
- Ivry, 179
- Horatius at the Bridge, 193
- Little White Lily, 10
- The Wind and the Moon, 111
- The Man With the Hoe, 342
- The Death of Napoleon, 131
- Stevenson's Birthday, 164
- Arnold von Winkleried, 296
- A Visit from St. Nicholas, 29
- The Last Rose of Summer, 234
- Cupid Stung, 23d
- The Light of Other Days, 266
- The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, 287
- Woodman, Spare That Tree, 222
- Driving Home the Cows, 160
- A Life on the Ocean Wave, 85
- Lochinvar, 103
- The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 126
- Ingratitude, 58
- Mercy, 30d
- Polonius' Advice, 301
- A Fragment from Julius Cæsar, 301
- Ode to a Skylark, 268
- Ozymandias in the Desert, 322
- The Battle of Blenheim, 117
- The Inchcape Rock, 145
- The Legend of Bishop Hatto, 166
- The Well of St. Keyne, 186
- Sweet and Low, 27
- The Owl, 40
- The Bugle Song, 66
- Lady Clare, 72
- The Lord of Burleigh, 75
- The Death of the Old Year, 86
- The Charge of the Light Brigade, 107
- Crossing the Bar, 124
- The Brook, 153
- The Lotos Eaters, 231
- The Revenge, 246
- Sir Galahad, 253
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Moly, 233
- The God of Music, 275
- Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, 4
- Love Between Brothers and Sisters, 20
- O Captain! My Captain! 57
- Song of Myself, 344
- The Three Bells of Glasgow, 67
- Barbara Frietchie, 96
- The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 176
- The Old Oaken Bucket, 288
- The Rainbow (a fragment), 28
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, 82
- Fidelity, 120
- Lucy, 27d
- The World is Too Much With Us, 304
- She Was a Phantom of Delight, 305