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Poems Every Child Should Know — 81 episodes

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1

Preface

2

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

3

True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily

4

How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

5

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel

6

The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell

7

Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter

8

The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow

9

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

Farm-Yard Song, A

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

King Henry of Navarre; 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)

51

Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2)

52

The Planting of the Apple Tree

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June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles

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A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree

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Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie

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The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims

57

The Lotos-Eaters; Moly

58

Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy

59

The Skeleton in Armour

60

The Revenge

61

Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand

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

67

The Lye; L'Envoi

68

Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket

69

The Raven

70

Arnold Von Winkelried

71

Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark

72

The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight

73

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

74

Rabbi Ben Ezra

75

Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt

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Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer

77

Herve Riel

78

Problem, The

79

English Flag, The

80

The Man With the Hoe

81

Song of Myself (excerpts)