Poems Every Child Should Know by Unknown
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Poems Every Child Should Know by Unknown is a arts podcast hosted by Loyal Books. It has 81 episodes, with the latest published January 2026.
A treasure trove of more than two hundred poems, this gem of an anthology compiled by Mary E Burt is indeed a most valuable set of poems to read or listen to.Published in 1904, Poems Every Child Should Know contains some well-loved verses like Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Lewis Carroll's delightful parody Father William, Felicia Hemans' deeply-moving Casablanca and other favorites. It also has lesser-known but equally beautiful pieces like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Arrow and The Song, Robert Browning's The Incident of the French Camp, Eugene Field's nonsense lyrics Wynken, Blynken and Nod and a host of other wonderful verses. For modern day children, unaccustomed to reading and memorizing poetry, the book is a throwback to the days when this was the norm in most classrooms and homes. Fragments from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Mark Antony pays tribute to the dead Brutus, Polonius' advice to his son Laertes from Hamlet with the stirring lines
arts ·en-us ·81 episodes
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
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
09 – A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner
10 – Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
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
20 – The Lord of Burleigh
21 – Hiawatha’s Childhood
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
24 – A Farm-Yard Song
25 – To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy
26 – Barbara Frietchie
27 – Lochinvar
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
31 – The Battle of Blenheim
32 – Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus
33 – Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
34 – Marco Bozzaris
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
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
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)
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