Poems Every Child Should Know: The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library | Page 3

Knights! See who can learn it first as I say it to you. But I find that I have forgotten a line of it, so you may open your books and teach it to me. Now, I can recite every word of it. How much of it can you repeat from memory? One boy can say it all. Nearly every child has learned the most of it. Now, it will be easy for you to learn it alone. And Memory, the Goddess Beautiful, will henceforth go with you to recall this happy hour.
MARY E. BURT.
The John A. Browning School, 1904.
POEMS
CONTENTS
PART I
1. The Arrow and the Song 3 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
2. The Babie 4 JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN
3. Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite 4 ISAAC WATTS
4. Little Things 5 EBENEZER COBHAM BREWER
5. He Prayeth Best 5 SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE
6. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 6 ANONYMOUS
7. Pippa 6 ROBERT BROWNING
8. The Days of the Month 7 AN OLD SONG
9. True Royalty 7 RUDYARD KIPLING
10. Playing Robinson Crusoe 8 RUDYARD KIPLING
11. My Shadow 9 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
12. Little White Lily 10 GEORGE MACDONALD
13. How the Leaves Came Down 12 SUSAN COOLIDGE
14. Willie Winkie 13 WILLIAM MILLER
15. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 15 EDWARD LEAR
16. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 16 EUGENE FIELD
17. The Duel 18 EUGENE FIELD
18. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie 19 ANONYMOUS
19. Love Between Brothers and Sisters 20 ISAAC WATTS
20. The Bluebell of Scotland 20 ANONYMOUS
21. If I Had But Two Little Wings 21 SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE
22. A Farewell 21 CHARLES KINGSLEY
23. Casabianca 22 FELICIA HEMANS
24. The Captain's Daughter 23 JAMES T. FIELDS
25. The Village Blacksmith 25 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
26. Sweet and Low 27 ALFRED TENNYSON
27. The Violet 27 JANE TAYLOR
28. The Rainbow (a fragment) 28 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
29. A Visit From St. Nicholas 29 CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
30. The Star-Spangled Banner 31 FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
31. Father William 33 LEWIS CARROLL
32. The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 34 WILLIAM COWPER
PART II
33. The Frost 39
HANNAH FLAGG GOULD
34. The Owl 40
ALFRED TENNYSON
35. Little Billee 41
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
36. The Butterfly and the Bee 42
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
37. An Incident of the French Camp 43
ROBERT BROWNING
38. Robert of Lincoln 44
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
39. Old Grimes 47
ALBERT GORTON GREENE
40. Song of Life 48
CHARLES MACKAY
41. Fairy Song 50
JOHN KEATS
42. A Boy's Song 50
JAMES HOGG
43. Buttercups and Daisies 51
MARY HOWITT
44. The Rainbow 53
THOMAS CAMPBELL
45. Old Ironsides 53
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
46. Little Orphant Annie 54
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
47. O Captain! My Captain! 57
WALT WHITMAN
48. Ingratitude 58
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
49. The Ivy Green 59
CHARLES DICKENS
50. The Noble Nature 60
BEN JONSON
51. The Flying Squirrel 60
MARY E. BURT
52. Warren's Address 63
JOHN PIERPONT
53. The Song in Camp 64
BAYARD TAYLOR
54. The Bugle Song 66
ALFRED TENNYSON
55. The Three Bells of Glasgow 67
JOHN G. WHITTIER
56. Sheridan's Ride 68
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ
57. The Sandpiper 71
CELIA THAXTER
58. Lady Clare 72
ALFRED TENNYSON
59. The Lord of Burleigh 75
ALFRED TENNYSON
60. Hiawatha's Childhood 79
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
61. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 82
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
62. John Barleycorn 83
ROBERT BURNS
63. A Life on the Ocean Wave 85
EPES SARGENT
64. The Death of the Old Year 86
ALFRED TENNYSON
65. Abou Ben Adhem 89
LEIGH HUNT
66. Farm-Yard Song 90
J.T. TROWBRIDGE
67. To a Mouse 92
ROBERT BURNS
68. To a Mountain Daisy 94
ROBERT BURNS
69. Barbara Frietchie 96
JOHN G. WHITTIER
PART III
70. Lochinvar 103
SIR WALTER SCOTT
71. Lord Ullin's Daughter 105
THOMAS CAMPBELL
72. The Charge of the Light Brigade 107
ALFRED TENNYSON
73. The Tournament 110
SIDNEY LANIER
74. The Wind and the Moon 111
GEORGE MACDONALD
75. Jesus the Carpenter 114
CATHERINE C. LIDDELL
76. Letty's Globe 115
CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER
77. A Dream 116
WILLIAM BLAKE
78. Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound 117
J.G. HOLLAND
79. The Battle of Blenheim 117
ROBERT SOUTHEY
80. Fidelity 120
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
81. The Chambered Nautilus 122
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
82. Crossing the Bar 124
ALFRED TENNYSON
83. The Overland-Mail 125
RUDYARD KIPLING
84. Gathering Song of Donald Dhu 126
SIR WALTER SCOTT
85. Marco Bozzaris 128
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
86. The Death of Napoleon 131
ISAAC MCCLELLAN
87. How Sleep the Brave 133
WILLIAM COLLINS
88. The Flag Goes By 133
HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT
89. Hohenlinden 134
THOMAS CAMPBELL
90. My Old Kentucky Home 136
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
91. Old Folks at Home 137
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
92. The Wreck of the Hesperus 138
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
93. Bannockburn 142
ROBERT BURNS
PART IV
94. The Inchcape Rock 145
ROBERT SOUTHEY
95. The Finding of the Lyre 148
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
96. A Chrysalis 149
MARY EMILY BRADLEY
97. For a' That 151
ROBERT BURNS
98. The New Arrival 152
GEORGE W. CABLE
99. The Brook 153
ALFRED TENNYSON
100. The Ballad of the Clampherdown 154
RUDYARD KIPLING
101. The Destruction of Sennacherib 158
LORD BYRON
102. I Remember, I Remember 159
THOMAS HOOD
103. Driving Home the Cows 160
KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD
104. Krinken 162
EUGENE FIELD
105. Stevenson's Birthday 164
KATHERINE MILLER
106. A Modest Wit 165
SELLECK OSBORNE
107. The Legend of Bishop Hatto 166
ROBERT SOUTHEY
108. Columbus 160
JOAQUIN MILLER
109. The Shepherd of King Admetus 171
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
110. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to 173
Aix?ROBERT BROWNING
111. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna 176
C. WOLFE
112. The Eve of Waterloo 177
LORD BYRON
113. Ivry 179
THOMAS B. MACAULAY
114. The Glove and the Lions 184
LEIGH HUNT
115. The Well of St. Keyne 186
ROBERT SOUTHEY
116. The Nautilus and the Ammonite 188
ANONYMOUS
117. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 190
WILLIAM COWPER
118. The Homes of England 192
FELICIA HEMANS
119. Horatius at the Bridge 193
THOMAS B. MACAULAY
120. The Planting of the Apple-Tree 211
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
PART V
121. June 217
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
122. A Psalm