Librivox: Poems Every Child Should Know by Burt, Mary E.
Summary: 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.
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02 "Babie, The" by Rankin, Jeremiah Eames; "Arrow and the Song, The" by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; "Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite" by Watts, Isaac; "Little Drops of Water" by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham; "He Prayeth Best" by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" by Anonymous; "Spring's at the Morn" by Browning, Robert; "Days of the Month, The" by Anonymous
03 "True Royalty" by Kipling, Rudyard; "Playing Robinson Crusoe" by Kipling, Rudyard; "My Shadow" by Stevenson, Robert Louis; "Little White Lily" by MacDonald, George
04 "How the Leaves Came Down" by Coolidge, Susan; "Wee Willie Winkie" by Miller, William; "Owl and the Pussycat, The" by Lear, Edward
05 "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" by Field, Eugene; "Duel, The" by Field, Eugene
06 "Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street" by Watts, Isaac; "If I Had But Two Little Wings" by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; "Farewell, A" by Kingsley, Charles; "Bluebell of Scotland, The" by Anonymous; "Boy Who Never Told a Lie, The" by Anonymous
07 "Casabianca" by Hemans, Felicia; "Captain's Daughter, The" by Fields, James T.
08 "Village Blacksmith, The" by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; "Sweet and Low" by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord; "Violet, The" by Taylor, Jane; "Rainbow, The" by Wordsworth, William
09 "Twas the Night Before Christmas: Visit from St. Nicholas, A" by Moore, Clement Clarke; "Star-Spangled Banner, The" by Key, Francis Scott
10 "Father William" by Carroll, Lewis; "Nightingale, The" by Cowper, William
11 "Jack Frost" by Gould, Hannah Flagg; "Owl, The" by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord; "Little Billee" by Thackeray, William Makepeace
12 "Butterfly and the Bee, The" by Bowles, William Lisle; "Incident of the French Camp, An" by Browning, Robert; "Robert of Lincoln" by Bryant, William Cullen
13 "Old Grimes" by Greene, Albert Gorton; "Song of Life" by Mackay, Charles; "Fairy Song" by Keats, John
14 "Boy's Song, A" by Hogg, James; "Buttercups and Daisies" by Howwit, Mary; "Rainbow, The" by Campbell, Thomas; "Old Ironsides" by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
15 "Little Orphant Annie" by Riley, James Whitcomb; "O Captain! My Captain!" by Whitman, Walt
