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Poems Every Child Should Know

Mary E. Burt; Various

Poems Every Child Should Know by Mary E. Burt; Various. First published 1904. 81 sections, 8 hr 7 min. Public domain recording (LibriVox).

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Length
8 hr 7 min
Sections
81
Language
English
Feed
RSS
Work published
1904
Read by
Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Source
LibriVox
Internet Archive
poems_every_child_should_know_librivox
Rights
Public domain — LibriVox recording of a public-domain text
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Chapters

  1. Preface 5:08
  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 6:24
  3. True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily 5:20
  4. How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 5:58
  5. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel 4:36
  6. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell 4:13
  7. Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter 3:50
  8. The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow 5:51
  9. A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner 6:03
  10. Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 3:55
  11. Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie 5:26
  12. The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln 6:43
  13. Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song 4:29
  14. A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides 5:04
  15. Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain 5:23
  16. Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel 6:40
  17. Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song 5:28
  18. The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride 6:00
  19. The Sandpiper; Lady Clare 6:48
  20. The Lord of Burleigh 4:53
  21. Hiawatha's Childhood 4:52
  22. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave 5:34
  23. The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem 4:31
  24. Farm-Yard Song, A 3:35
  25. To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy 5:56
  26. Barbara Frietchie 3:35
  27. Lochinvar 3:41
  28. Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade 5:11
  29. The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon 5:08
  30. Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound 5:14
  31. The Battle of Blenheim 3:30
  32. Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus 6:17
  33. Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu 5:47
  34. Marco Bozzaris 5:48
  35. The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home 7:54
  36. Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus 6:10
  37. Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock 6:00
  38. The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis 4:44
  39. For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival 4:50
  40. The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown 6:19
  41. The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows 6:02
  42. Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday 4:07
  43. A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto 6:57
  44. Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus 6:07
  45. How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix 5:04
  46. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo 6:10
  47. King Henry of Navarre; Ivry 6:25
  48. The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne 5:26
  49. The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 5:13
  50. The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) 11:39
  51. Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) 11:50
  52. The Planting of the Apple Tree 4:24
  53. June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles 5:27
  54. A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree 5:41
  55. Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie 4:52
  56. The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims 5:40
  57. The Lotos-Eaters; Moly 5:39
  58. Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy 8:52
  59. The Skeleton in Armour 6:35
  60. The Revenge 8:41
  61. Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand 6:17
  62. The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman 10:52
  63. The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me 4:58
  64. Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee 4:55
  65. A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music 5:45
  66. A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby 10:55
  67. The Lye; L'Envoi 4:47
  68. Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket 5:05
  69. The Raven 9:03
  70. Arnold Von Winkelried 4:43
  71. Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark 6:04
  72. The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight 6:40
  73. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 8:48
  74. Rabbi Ben Ezra 10:17
  75. Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt 5:43
  76. Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 5:56
  77. Herve Riel 8:04
  78. Problem, The 6:19
  79. English Flag, The 5:47
  80. The Man With the Hoe 4:11
  81. Song of Myself (excerpts) 8:59