Poems Every Child Should Know

About this eBook

Editor

Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1850-1918

Title

Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library

Credits

Juliet Sutherland, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

American poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

16436

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16436

Release Date

August 4, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CONTENTS — POEMS Every Child Should Know — ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS — PREFACE — CONTENTS — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV — PART V — PART VI — INDEX OF AUTHORS
2. 2.PART I. The Budding Moment — The Arrow and the Song. — The Babie. — Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite. — Little Things. — He Prayeth Best. — Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. — Pippa. — The Days of the Month. — True Royalty. — Playing Robinson Crusoe. — My Shadow. — Little White Lily. — How the Leaves Came Down. — Willie Winkie. — The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. — Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. — The Duel. — The Boy Who Never Told a Lie. — Love Between Brothers and Sisters. — The Bluebell of Scotland. — If I Had But Two Little Wings. — A Farewell. — Casabianca. — The Captain’s Daughter. — The Village Blacksmith. — Sweet and Low. — The Violet. — The Rainbow. (A FRAGMENT.) — A Visit From St. Nicholas. — The Star-Spangled Banner. — Father William. — The Nightingale and the Glow-worm.
3. 3.PART II. The Little Child — The Frost. — The Owl. — Little Billee. — The Butterfly and the Bee. — An Incident of the French Camp. — Robert of Lincoln. — Old Grimes. — Song of Life. — Fairy Song. — A Boy’s Song — Buttercups and Daisies. — The Rainbow. — Old Ironsides. — Little Orphant Annie. — O Captain! My Captain! — Ingratitude. — The Ivy Green. — The Noble Nature. — The Flying Squirrel. — Warren’s Address to the American Soldiers. — The Song in Camp. — The Bugle Song. — The “Three Bells” of Glasgow. — Sheridan’s Ride. — The Sandpiper. — Lady Clare. — The Lord of Burleigh. — Hiawatha’s Childhood. — I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. — John Barleycorn. — A Life on the Ocean Wave. — The Death of the Old Year. — Abou Ben Adhem. — Farm-Yard Song. — To a Mouse, ON TURNING UP HER NEST WITH THE PLOW, NOVEMBER, 1785 — To a Mountain Daisy, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOW IN APRIL, 1786 — Barbara Frietchie.
4. 4.PART III. The Day’s at the Morn — Lochinvar. — Lord Ullin’s Daughter. — The Charge of the Light Brigade. — The Tournament. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — The Wind and the Moon. — Jesus the Carpenter. — Letty’s Globe. — A Dream. — Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound. (A FRAGMENT.) — The Battle of Blenheim. — Fidelity. — The Chambered Nautilus. — Crossing the Bar — The Overland-Mail. — Gathering Song of Donald Dhu. — Marco Bozzaris. — The Death of Napoleon. — How Sleep the Brave. — The Flag Goes By. — Hohenlinden. — My Old Kentucky Home. — Old Folks at Home. — The Wreck of the “Hesperus.” — Bannockburn. ROBERT BRUCE’S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY.
5. 5.PART IV. Lad and Lassie — The Inchcape Rock. — The Finding of the Lyre. — A Chrysalis. — For a’ That. — A New Arrival. — The Brook. — The Ballad of the “Clampherdown.” — The Destruction of Sennacherib. — I Remember, I Remember. — Driving Home the Cows. — Krinken. — Stevenson’s Birthday. — A Modest Wit. — The Legend of Bishop Hatto. — Columbus. — The Shepherd of King Admetus. — How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. — The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna. — The Eve of Waterloo. — Ivry. A SONG OF THE HUGUENOTS. — The Glove and the Lions. — The Well of St. Keyne. — The Nautilus and the Ammonite. — The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk. — The Homes of England. — Horatius at the Bridge. — The Planting of the Apple-Tree.
6. 6.PART V. On and On — June. — A Psalm of Life. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. — Barnacles. — A Happy Life. — Home, Sweet Home! — From Casa Guidi Windows. — Woodman, Spare That Tree! — Abide With Me. — Lead, Kindly Light — The Last Rose of Summer. — Annie Laurie. — The Ship of State. — America. — The Landing of the Pilgrims. — The Lotos-Eaters. — Moly. — Cupid Drowned. — Cupid Stung. — Cupid and My Campasbe . — A Ballad for a Boy. — The Skeleton in Armour. — The Revenge. A BALLAD OF THE FLEET — Sir Galahad. — A Name in the Sand.
7. 7.PART VI. — The Voice of Spring. — The Forsaken Merman. — The Banks o’ Doon. — The Light of Other Days. — My Own Shall Come to Me. — Ode to a Skylark. — The Sands of Dee. — A Wish. — Lucy. — Solitude. — John Anderson — The God of Music. — A Musical Instrument. — The Brides of Enderby. — The Lye. — L’Envoi. — Contentment — The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls. — The Old Oaken Bucket — The Raven. — Arnold von Winkleried. — Life, I Know Not What Thou Art. — Mercy. — Polonius’ Advice. — A Fragment from Mark Antony’s Speech. — The Skylark. — The Choir Invisible. — The World Is Too Much With Us. — On His Blindness. — She Was a Phantom of Delight. — Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. — THE EPITAPH. — Rabbi Ben Ezra — Prospice. — Recessional. — Ozymandias of Egypt. — Mortality. — On First Looking Into Chapman’s “Homer.” — Hervé Riel. — The Problem. — To America. — The English Flag. — The Man With the Hoe. — WRITTEN AFTER SEEING THE PAINTING BY MILLET. — Song of Myself. — INDEX

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