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Poems Every Child Should Know by Unknown
by Loyal Books
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
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01 – Preface
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03 – True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily
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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
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06 – The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell
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07 – Casabianca; The Captain’s Daughter
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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
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10 – Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
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11 – Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie
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12 – The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln
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13 – Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song
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14 – A Boy’s Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides
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15 – Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain
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16 – Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel
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17 – Warren’s Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song
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18 – The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan’s Ride
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19 – The Sandpiper; Lady Clare
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20 – The Lord of Burleigh
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21 – Hiawatha’s Childhood
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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
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24 – A Farm-Yard Song
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25 – To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy
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26 – Barbara Frietchie
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27 – Lochinvar
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28 – Lord Ullin’s Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade
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29 – The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon
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30 – Jesus the Carpenter; Letty’s Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound
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31 – The Battle of Blenheim
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32 – Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus
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33 – Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
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34 – Marco Bozzaris
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35 – The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home
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36 – Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus
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37 – Robert Bruce’s Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock
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38 – The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis
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39 – For a’ That and a’ That; The New Arrival
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40 – The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown
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41 – The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows
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42 – Krinken; Stevenson’s Birthday
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43 – A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto
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44 – Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus
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45 – How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
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46 – The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo
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47 – Ivry
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48 – The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne
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49 – The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
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50 – The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1)
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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
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