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The Budding Moment
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
05 – Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel
07 – Casabianca; The Captain’s Daughter
08 – The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow
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
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
19 – The Sandpiper; Lady Clare
22 – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave
23 – The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem
25 – To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy
The Day’s at the Morn
28 – Lord Ullin’s Daughter; The 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
32 – Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus
33 – Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
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
Lad and Lassie
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
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
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
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
58 – Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy
61 – Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand
“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
68 – Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket
71 – Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius’ Advice; Antony’s Speech; The Skylark
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
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