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Poems Every Child Should Know

Mary E. Burt, Various

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Preface (5:08)
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 (6:24)
True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily (5:20)
How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (5:58)
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel (4:36)
The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell (4:13)
Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter (3:50)
The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow (5:51)
A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner (6:03)
Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm (3:55)
Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie (5:26)
The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln (6:43)
Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song (4:29)
A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides (5:04)
Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain (5:23)
Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel (6:40)
Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song (5:28)
The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride (6:00)
The Sandpiper; Lady Clare (6:48)
The Lord of Burleigh (4:53)
Hiawatha's Childhood (4:52)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave (5:34)
The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem (4:31)
Farm-Yard Song, A (3:35)
To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy (5:56)
Barbara Frietchie (3:35)
Lochinvar (3:41)
Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade (5:11)
The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon (5:08)
Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound (5:14)
The Battle of Blenheim (3:30)
Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus (6:17)
Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu (5:47)
Marco Bozzaris (5:48)
The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home (7:54)
Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus (6:10)
Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock (6:00)
The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis (4:44)
For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival (4:50)
The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown (6:19)
The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows (6:02)
Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday (4:07)
A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto (6:57)
Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus (6:07)
How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix (5:04)
The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo (6:10)
King Henry of Navarre; Ivry (6:25)
The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne (5:26)
The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk (5:13)
The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) (11:39)
Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) (11:50)
The Planting of the Apple Tree (4:24)
June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles (5:27)
A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree (5:41)
Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie (4:52)
The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims (5:40)
The Lotos-Eaters; Moly (5:39)
Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy (8:52)
The Skeleton in Armour (6:35)
The Revenge (8:41)
Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand (6:17)
The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman (10:52)
The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me (4:58)
Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee (4:55)
A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music (5:45)
A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby (10:55)
The Lye; L'Envoi (4:47)
Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket (5:05)
The Raven (9:03)
Arnold Von Winkelried (4:43)
Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark (6:04)
The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight (6:40)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (8:48)
Rabbi Ben Ezra (10:17)
Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt (5:43)
Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer (5:56)
Herve Riel (8:04)
Problem, The (6:19)
English Flag, The (5:47)
The Man With the Hoe (4:11)
Song of Myself (excerpts) (8:59)