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POEMS Every Child Should Know EDITED BY Mary E. Burt

PART I

The Arrow and the Song3
Henry W. Longfello
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  1. The Babie4
    Jeremiah Eames Rankin
  2. Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite4
    Isaac Watts
  3. Little Things5
    Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
  4. He Prayeth Best5
    Samuel T. Coleridge
  5. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star6
    Anonymous
  6. Pippa6
    Robert Browning
  7. The Days of the Month7
    An Old Song
  8. True Royalty7
    Rudyard Kipling
  9. Playing Robinson Crusoe8
    Rudyard Kipling
  10. My Shadow9
    Robert Louis Stevenson
  11. Little White Lily10
    George Macdonald
  12. How the Leaves Came Down12
    Susan Coolidge
  13. Willie Winkie13
    William Miller
  14. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat15
    Edward Lear
  15. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod16
    Eugene Field
  16. The Duel18
    Eugene Field
  17. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie19
    Anonymous
  18. Love Between Brothers and Sisters20
    Isaac Watts
  19. The Bluebell of Scotland20
    Anonymous
  20. If I Had But Two Little Wings21
    Samuel T. Coleridge
  21. A Farewell21
    Charles Kingsley
  22. Casabianca22
    Felicia Hemans
  23. The Captain's Daughter23
    James T. Fields
  24. The Village Blacksmith25
    Henry W. Longfellow
  25. Sweet and Low27
    Alfred Tennyson
  26. The Violet27
    Jane Taylor
  27. The Rainbow (a fragment)28
    William Wordsworth
  28. A Visit From St. Nicholas29
    Clement Clarke Moore
  29. The Star-Spangled Banner31
    Francis Scott Key
  30. Father William33
    Lewis Carroll
  31. The Nightingale and the Glow-worm34
    William Cowper

PART II

  1. The Frost39
    Hannah Flagg Gould
  2. The Owl40
    Alfred Tennyson
  3. Little Billee41
    William Makepeace Thackeray
  4. The Butterfly and the Bee42
    William Lisle Bowles
  5. An Incident of the French Camp43
    Robert Browning
  6. Robert of Lincoln44
    William Cullen Bryant
  7. Old Grimes47
    Albert Gorton Greene
  8. Song of Life48
    Charles Mackay
  9. Fairy Song50
    John Keats
  10. A Boy's Song50
    James Hogg
  11. Buttercups and Daisies51
    Mary Howitt
  12. The Rainbow53
    Thomas Campbell
  13. Old Ironsides53
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  14. Little Orphant Annie54
    James Whitcomb Riley
  15. O Captain! My Captain!57
    Walt Whitman
  16. Ingratitude58
    William Shakespeare
  17. The Ivy Green59
    Charles Dickens
  18. The Noble Nature60
    Ben Jonson
  19. The Flying Squirrel60
    Mary E. Burt
  20. Warren's Address63
    John Pierpont
  21. The Song in Camp64
    Bayard Taylor
  22. The Bugle Song66
    Alfred Tennyson
  23. The Three Bells of Glasgow67
    John G. Whittier
  24. Sheridan's Ride68
    Thomas Buchanan Read
  25. The Sandpiper71
    Celia Thaxter
  26. Lady Clare72
    Alfred Tennyson
  27. The Lord of Burleigh75
    Alfred Tennyson
  28. Hiawatha's Childhood79
    Henry W. Longfellow
  29. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud82
    William Wordsworth
  30. John Barleycorn83
    Robert Burns
  31. A Life on the Ocean Wave85
    Epes Sargent
  32. The Death of the Old Year86
    Alfred Tennyson
  33. Abou Ben Adhem89
    Leigh Hunt
  34. Farm-Yard Song90
    J.T. Trowbridge
  35. To a Mouse92
    Robert Burns
  36. To a Mountain Daisy94
    Robert Burns
  37. Barbara Frietchie96
    John G. Whittier

PART III

  1. Lochinvar103
    Sir Walter Scott
  2. Lord Ullin's Daughter105
    Thomas Campbell
  3. The Charge of the Light Brigade107
    Alfred Tennyson
  4. The Tournament110
    Sidney Lanier
  5. The Wind and the Moon111
    George Macdonald
  6. Jesus the Carpenter114
    Catherine C. Liddell
  7. Letty's Globe115
    Charles Tennyson Turner
  8. A Dream116
    William Blake
  9. Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound117
    J. G. Holland
  10. The Battle of Blenheim117
    Robert Southey
  11. Fidelity120
    William Wordsworth
  12. The Chambered Nautilus122
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  13. Crossing the Bar124
    Alfred Tennyson
  14. The Overland-Mail125
    Rudyard Kipling
  15. Gathering Song of Donald Dhu126
    Sir Walter Scott
  16. Marco Bozzaris128
    Fitz-greene Halleck
  17. The Death of Napoleon131
    Isaac McClellan
  18. How Sleep the Brave133
    William Collins
  19. The Flag Goes By133
    Henry Holcomb Bennett
  20. Hohenlinden134
    Thomas Campbell
  21. My Old Kentucky Home136
    Stephen Collins Foster
  22. Old Folks at Home137
    Stephen Collins Foster
  23. The Wreck of the Hesperus138
    Henry W. Longfellow
  24. Bannockburn142
    Robert Burns

PART IV

  1. The Inchcape Rock145
    Robert Southey
  2. The Finding of the Lyre148
    James Russell Lowell
  3. A Chrysalis149
    Mary Emily Bradley
  4. For a' That151
    Robert Burns
  5. The New Arrival152
    George W. Cable
  6. The Brook153
    Alfred Tennyson
  7. The Ballad of the Clampherdown154
    Rudyard Kipling
  8. The Destruction of Sennacherib158
    Lord Byron
  9. I Remember, I Remember159
    Thomas Hood
  10. Driving Home the Cows160
    Kate Putnam Osgood
  11. Krinken162
    Eugene Field
  12. Stevenson's Birthday164
    Katherine Miller
  13. A Modest Wit165
    Selleck Osborne
  14. The Legend of Bishop Hatto166
    Robert Southey
  15. Columbus160
    Joaquin Miller
  16. The Shepherd of King Admetus171
    James Russell Lowell
  17. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix173
    Robert Browning
  18. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna176
    C. Wolfe
  19. The Eve of Waterloo177
    Lord Byron
  20. Ivry179
    Thomas B. Macaulay
  21. The Glove and the Lions184
    Leigh Hunt
  22. The Well of St. Keyne186
    Robert Southey
  23. The Nautilus and the Ammonite188
    Anonymous
  24. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk190
    William Cowper
  25. The Homes of England192
    Felicia Hemans
  26. Horatius at the Bridge193
    Thomas B. Macaulay
  27. The Planting of the Apple-Tree211
    William Cullen Bryant

PART V

  1. June217
    James Russell Lowell
  2. A Psalm of Life218
    Henry W. Longfellow
  3. Barnacles219
    Sidney Lanier
  4. A Happy Life220
    Sir Henry Wotton
  5. Home, Sweet Home220
    John Howard Payne
  6. From Casa Guidi Windows222
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  7. Woodman, Spare That Tree!222
    George Pope Morris
  8. Abide With Me223
    Henry Francis Lyte
  9. Lead, Kindly Light224
    John Henry Newman
  10. The Last Rose of Summer225
    Thomas Moore
  11. Annie Laurie226
    William Douglas
  12. The Ship of State227
    Henry W. Longfellow
  13. America228
    Samuel Francis Smith
  14. The Landing of the Pilgrims229
    Felicia Hemans
  15. The Lotos-Eaters231
    Alfred Tennyson
  16. Moly233
    Edith M. Thomas
  17. Cupid Drowned234
    Leigh Hunt
  18. Cupid Stung234
    Thomas Moore
  19. Cupid and My Campasbe235
    John Lyly
  20. A Ballad for a Boy236
    Anonymous
  21. The Skeleton in Armour240
    Henry W. Longfellow
  22. The Revenge246
    Alfred Tennyson
  23. Sir Galahad253
    Alfred Tennyson
  24. A Name in the Sand256
    Hannah Flagg Gould

PART VI

  1. The Voice of Spring259
    Felicia Hemans
  2. The Forsaken Merman260
    Matthew Arnold
  3. The Banks o' Doon265
    Robert Burns
  4. The Light of Other Days266
    Thomas Moore
  5. My Own Shall Come to Me267
    John Burroughs
  6. Ode to a Skylark268
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  7. The Sands of Dee271
    Charles Kingsley
  8. A Wish272
    Samuel Rogers
  9. Lucy272
    William Wordsworth
  10. Solitude273
    Alexander Pope
  11. John Anderson274
    Robert Burns
  12. The God of Music275
    Edith M. Thomas
  13. A Musical Instrument275
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  14. The Brides of Enderby277
    Jean Ingelow
  15. The Lye283
    Sir Walter Raleigh
  16. L'Envoi285
    Rudyard Kipling
  17. Contentment286
    Edward Dyer
  18. The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls287
    Thomas Moore
  19. The Old Oaken Bucket288
    Samuel Woodworth
  20. The Raven289
    Edgar Allan Poe
  21. Arnold von Winkleried296
    James Montgomery
  22. Life, I Know Not What Thou Art299
    A. L. Barbauld
  23. Mercy300
    William Shakespeare
  24. Polonius' Advice301
    William Shakespeare
  25. A Fragment from "Julius Cæsar"301
    William Shakespeare
  26. The Skylark302
    Thomas Hogg
  27. The Choir Invisible303
    George Eliot
  28. The World Is Too Much With Us304
    William Wordsworth
  29. On His Blindness304
    John Milton
  30. She Was a Phantom of Delight305
    William Wordsworth
  31. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard306
    Thomas Gray
  32. Rabbi Ben Ezra312
    Robert Browning
  33. Prospice320
    Robert Browning
  34. Recessional321
    Rudyard Kipling
  35. Ozymandias of Egypt322
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  36. Mortality323
    William Knox
  37. On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer326
    John Keats
  38. Hervé Riel326
    Robert Browning
  39. The Problem333
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  40. To America335
    Alfred Austin
  41. The English Flag337
    Rudyard Kipling
  42. The Man With the Hoe342
    Edwin Markham
  43. Song of Myself344
    Walt Whitman
  44. Index350

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