Poems Every Child Should Know
by Mary E. Burt, Various
English
⏱ 8h 7m
81 chapters
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About this audiobook
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.
Chapters
1
Preface
5m
2
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
6m
3
True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily
5m
4
How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
5m
5
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel
4m
6
The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell
4m
7
Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter
3m
8
The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow
5m
9
A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner
6m
10
Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
3m
11
Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie
5m
12
The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln
6m
13
Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song
4m
14
A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides
5m
15
Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain
5m
16
Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel
6m
17
Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song
5m
18
The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride
6m
19
The Sandpiper; Lady Clare
6m
20
The Lord of Burleigh
4m
21
Hiawatha's Childhood
4m
22
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave
5m
23
The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem
4m
24
Farm-Yard Song, A
3m
25
To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy
5m
26
Barbara Frietchie
3m
27
Lochinvar
3m
28
Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade
5m
29
The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon
5m
30
Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound
5m
31
The Battle of Blenheim
3m
32
Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus
6m
33
Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
5m
34
Marco Bozzaris
5m
35
The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home
7m
36
Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus
6m
37
Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock
6m
38
The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis
4m
39
For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival
4m
40
The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown
6m
41
The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows
6m
42
Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday
4m
43
A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto
6m
44
Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus
6m
45
How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix
5m
46
The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo
6m
47
King Henry of Navarre; Ivry
6m
48
The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne
5m
49
The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
5m
50
The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1)
11m
51
Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2)
11m
52
The Planting of the Apple Tree
4m
53
June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles
5m
54
A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree
5m
55
Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie
4m
56
The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims
5m
57
The Lotos-Eaters; Moly
5m
58
Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy
8m
59
The Skeleton in Armour
6m
60
The Revenge
8m
61
Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand
6m
62
The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman
10m
63
The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me
4m
64
Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee
4m
65
A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music
5m
66
A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby
10m
67
The Lye; L'Envoi
4m
68
Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket
5m
69
The Raven
9m
70
Arnold Von Winkelried
4m
71
Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark
6m
72
The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight
6m
73
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
8m
74
Rabbi Ben Ezra
10m
75
Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt
5m
76
Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
5m
77
Herve Riel
8m
78
Problem, The
6m
79
English Flag, The
5m
80
The Man With the Hoe
4m
81
Song of Myself (excerpts)
8m