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8:07:47
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235 MB
Catalog date:
2007-01-16
Read by:
Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
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Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
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Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
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Ans Wink

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Poems Every Child Should Know

Various and Mary E. Burt (1850 - 1918)

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.

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Preface Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:08
Play 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 Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:24
Play 03 True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:20
Play 04 How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:58
Play 05 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:36
Play 06 The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:13
Play 07 Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:03:50
Play 08 The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:51
Play 09 A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:03
Play 10 Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:03:55
Play 11 Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:26
Play 12 The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:43
Play 13 Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:29
Play 14 A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:04
Play 15 Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:23
Play 16 Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:40
Play 17 Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:28
Play 18 The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:00
Play 19 The Sandpiper; Lady Clare Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:48
Play 20 The Lord of Burleigh Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:53
Play 21 Hiawatha's Childhood Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:52
Play 22 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:34
Play 23 The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:31
Play 24 Farm-Yard Song, A Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:03:35
Play 25 To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:56
Play 26 Barbara Frietchie Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:03:35
Play 27 Lochinvar Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:03:41
Play 28 Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:11
Play 29 The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:08
Play 30 Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:14
Play 31 The Battle of Blenheim Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:03:30
Play 32 Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:17
Play 33 Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:47
Play 34 Marco Bozzaris Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:48
Play 35 The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:07:54
Play 36 Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:10
Play 37 Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:00
Play 38 The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:44
Play 39 For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:50
Play 40 The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:19
Play 41 The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:02
Play 42 Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:07
Play 43 A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:57
Play 44 Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:07
Play 45 How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:04
Play 46 The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:10
Play 47 King Henry of Navarre; Ivry Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:25
Play 48 The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:26
Play 49 The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:13
Play 50 The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:11:39
Play 51 Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:11:50
Play 52 The Planting of the Apple Tree Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:24
Play 53 June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:27
Play 54 A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:41
Play 55 Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:52
Play 56 The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:40
Play 57 The Lotos-Eaters; Moly Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:39
Play 58 Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:08:52
Play 59 The Skeleton in Armour Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:35
Play 60 The Revenge Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:08:41
Play 61 Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:17
Play 62 The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:10:52
Play 63 The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:58
Play 64 Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:55
Play 65 A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:45
Play 66 A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:10:55
Play 67 The Lye; L'Envoi Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:47
Play 68 Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:05
Play 69 The Raven Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:09:03
Play 70 Arnold Von Winkelried Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:43
Play 71 Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:04
Play 72 The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:40
Play 73 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:08:48
Play 74 Rabbi Ben Ezra Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:10:17
Play 75 Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:43
Play 76 Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:56
Play 77 Herve Riel Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:08:04
Play 78 Problem, The Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:06:19
Play 79 English Flag, The Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:05:47
Play 80 The Man With the Hoe Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:04:11
Play 81 Song of Myself (excerpts) Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
 00:08:59