Poems Every Child Should Know by Unknown
81 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsA 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, “This above all: to thine own self be true...” are some of the masterpieces contained here.
Poems Every Child Should Know also contained some of the most famous poems in English by poets like Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Browning and Milton. American poets like Walt Whitman are featured here with their immortal lines in poems like Song of Myself. Another famous American poet found here is Edgar Allan Poe with his iconic The Raven.
The book is divided into six parts, with a very interesting and self explanatory preface by the author. She begins with something that readers would say when they first encounter a poetry anthology: “Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use?” and goes on to explain how she selected the ones included here. Most of them were picked because they were short enough for a child to memorize. This is a now forgotten activity that can give hours of pleasure as you recall the lines long after you've put away the book. Others were chosen for the heroic and patriotic sentiments, like The Star Spangled Banner, Lord Ullin's Daughter, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Horatius at the Bridge and a host of other inspiring poems.
Mary Elizabeth Burt was a gifted teacher who believed that poetry had the power to inspire, educate and mold young minds so that they could mature into valuable and useful citizens of the country. For modern day readers, this is indeed a delightful collection, which offers endless hours of pleasure as you thumb through rediscovering old favorites, and enjoying new ones.
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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
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03 – True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 – How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
05 – Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 – The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
07 – Casabianca; The Captain’s Daughter
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08 – The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
12 – The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 – Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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
December 18, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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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28 – Lord Ullin’s Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade
December 06, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
29 – The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
30 – Jesus the Carpenter; Letty’s Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound
December 04, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
31 – The Battle of Blenheim
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32 – Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus
December 02, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
33 – Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
December 01, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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
November 29, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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
November 24, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
41 – The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows
November 23, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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
November 19, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
46 – The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo
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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)
November 14, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com