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, “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.
01 – Preface
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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
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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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51 – Horatius at the Bridge (Part 2)
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52 – The Planting of the Apple Tree
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53 – June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles
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54 – A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree
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55 – Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie
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56 – The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims
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57 – The Lotos-Eaters; Moly
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58 – Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy
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59 – The Skeleton in Armour
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60 – The Revenge
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61 – Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand
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62 – The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman
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63 – The Banks o’ Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me
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64 – Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee
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65 – A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music
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66 – A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby
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67 – The Lye; L’Envoi
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68 – Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket
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69 – The Raven
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70 – Arnold von Winkelried
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71 – Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius’ Advice; Antony’s Speech; The Skylark
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72 – The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight
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73 – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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74 – Rabbi Ben Ezra
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75 – Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt
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76 – Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer