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

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    In her introduction to this collection of English and American poetry, the editor argues that learning a poem is a very desirable task for a child since it develops memory skills and a love of literature. There are many well-known poems in this collection that children have loved through the ages.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 19, 2019
    ISBN4057664117052
    Poems Every Child Should Know: The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library

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      Poems Every Child Should Know - Good Press

      Various

      Poems Every Child Should Know

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

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664117052

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      PART I

      PART II

      PART III

      PART IV

      PART V

      PART VI

      INDEX OF AUTHORS

      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.

      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

      PART III. The Day's at the Morn

      Lochinvar.

      Lord Ullin's Daughter.

      The Charge of the Light Brigade.

      The Tournament.

      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.

      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.

      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.

      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

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