Poems Every Child Should Know, edited by Mary Burt

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The Budding Moment

01 – Preface

02 – 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

03 – True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily

04 – How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

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05 – Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel

06 – The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell

07 – Casabianca; The Captain’s Daughter

08 – The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow


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09 – A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner

10 – Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm

The Little Child

11 – Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie

12 – The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln

13 – Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song

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14 – A Boy’s Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides

15 – Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain

16 – Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel

17 – Warren’s Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song

18 – The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan’s Ride

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19 – The Sandpiper; Lady Clare

20 – The Lord of Burleigh

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21 – Hiawatha’s Childhood

22 – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave

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23 – The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem

24 – A Farm-Yard Song

25 – To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy

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26 – Barbara Frietchie

The Day’s at the Morn

27 – Lochinvar

28 – Lord Ullin’s Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade
Charge of the Light Brigade

29 – The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon

30 – Jesus the Carpenter; Letty’s Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound

31 – The Battle of Blenheim

32 – Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus

33 – Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu

34 – Marco Bozzaris

The Death of Napoleon by Steuben

35 – The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home

36 – Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus

37 – Robert Bruce’s Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock

Bruce addresses his troops at the Battle of Bannockburn

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38 – The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis

39 – For a’ That and a’ That; The New Arrival

40 – The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown

41 – The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows

42 – Krinken; Stevenson’s Birthday

43 – A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto

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44 – Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus

45 – How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix

46 – The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo

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47 – Ivry

48 – The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne

49 – The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk

50 – The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1)

51 – Horatius at the Bridge (Part 2)

52 – The Planting of the Apple Tree

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On and On

53 – June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles

54 – A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree

55 – Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie

56 – The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims

Landing of the Pilgrims by Bacon

57 – The Lotos-Eaters; Moly

58 – Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy

59 – The Skeleton in Armour

60 – The Revenge

61 – Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand

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“Grow old along with me!….”
62 – The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman

63 – The Banks o’ Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me

64 – Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee

65 – A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music

66 – A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby

67 – The Lye; L’Envoi

68 – Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket

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69 – The Raven

70 – Arnold von Winkelried

71 – Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius’ Advice; Antony’s Speech; The Skylark

72 – The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight

73 – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

74 – Rabbi Ben Ezra

75 – Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt


76 – Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

77 – Herve Riel

78 – The Problem; To America

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79 – The English Flag

80 – The Man with the Hoe

81 – Song of Myself (excerpts)

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