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

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1. The Voice of Spring [259]
   Felicia Hemans
2. The Forsaken Merman [260]
   Matthew Arnold
3. The Banks o’ Doon [265]
   Robert Burns
4. The Light of Other Days [266]
   Thomas Moore
5. My Own Shall Come to Me [267]
   John Burroughs
6. Ode to a Skylark [268]
   Percy Bysshe Shelley
7. The Sands of Dee [271]
   Charles Kingsley
8. A Wish [272]
   Samuel Rogers
9. Lucy [272]
   William Wordsworth
10. Solitude [273]
    Alexander Pope
11. John Anderson [274]
    Robert Burns
12. The God of Music [275]
    Edith M. Thomas
13. A Musical Instrument [275]
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
14. The Brides of Enderby [277]
    Jean Ingelow
15. The Lye [283]
    Sir Walter Raleigh
16. L’Envoi [285]
    Rudyard Kipling
17. Contentment [286]
    Edward Dyer
18. The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls [287]
    Thomas Moore
19. The Old Oaken Bucket [288]
    Samuel Woodworth
20. The Raven [289]
    Edgar Allan Poe
21. Arnold von Winkleried [296]
    James Montgomery
22. Life, I Know Not What Thou Art [299]
    A. L. Barbauld
23. Mercy [300]
    William Shakespeare
24. Polonius’ Advice [301]
    William Shakespeare
25. A Fragment from “Julius Cæsar” [301]
    William Shakespeare
26. The Skylark [302]
    Thomas Hogg
27. The Choir Invisible [303]
    George Eliot
28. The World Is Too Much With Us [304]
    William Wordsworth
29. On His Blindness [304]
    John Milton
30. She Was a Phantom of Delight [305]
    William Wordsworth
31. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [306]
    Thomas Gray
32. Rabbi Ben Ezra [312]
    Robert Browning
33. Prospice [320]
    Robert Browning
34. Recessional [321]
    Rudyard Kipling
35. Ozymandias of Egypt [322]
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
36. Mortality [323]
    William Knox
37. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer [326]
    John Keats
38. Hervé Riel [326]
    Robert Browning
39. The Problem [333]
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. To America [335]
    Alfred Austin
41. The English Flag [337]
    Rudyard Kipling
42. The Man With the Hoe [342]
    Edwin Markham
43. Song of Myself [344]
    Walt Whitman
44. Index [350]

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• Anonymous
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, [6]
  • The Days of the Month, [7]
  • The Boy who Never Told a Lie, [19]
  • The Bluebell of Scotland, [20]
  • The Nautilus and the Ammonite, [188]
  • A Ballad for a Boy, [236]
• Arnold, Matthew
  • The Forsaken Merman, [260]
• Austin, Alfred
  • To America, [335]

• Barbauld, A. L.
  • Life, I Know Not What Thou Art, [299]
• Bennett, Henry Holcomb
  • The Flag Goes By, [133]
• Blake, William
  • A Dream, [116]
• Bowles, William Lisle
  • The Butterfly and the Bee, [42]
• Bradley, Mary Emily
  • A Chrysalis, [149]
• Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
  • Little Things, [5]
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
  • From Casa Guidi Windows, [222]
  • A Musical Instrument, [275]
• Browning, Robert
  • Pippa, [6]
  • An Incident of the French Camp, [43]
  • How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, [173]
  • Rabbi Ben Ezra, [312]
  • Prospice, [320]
  • Hervé Riel, [326]
• Bryant, William Cullen
  • Robert of Lincoln, [44]
  • The Planting of the Apple Tree, [211]
• Burns, Robert
  • John Barleycorn, [83]
  • To a Mouse, [92]
  • To a Mountain Daisy, [94]
  • Bannockburn, [142]
  • For a’ That, [151]
  • The Banks o’ Doon, [265]
  • John Anderson, [274]
• Burroughs, John
  • My Own Shall Come to Me, [267]
• Burt, Mary E.
  • The Flying Squirrel, [60]
• Byron, Lord
  • The Destruction of Sennacherib, [158]
  • The Eve of Waterloo, [177]

• Cable, George W.
  • The New Arrival, [152]
• Campbell, Thomas
  • The Rainbow, [53]
  • Lord Ullin’s Daughter, [105]
  • Hohenlinden, [134]
• Carroll, Lewis
  • Father William, [33]
• Coleridge, Samuel T.
  • He Prayeth Best, [5]
  • If I Had But Two Little Wings, [21]
• Collins, William
  • How Sleep the Brave, [133]
• Coolidge, Susan
  • How the Leaves Came Down, [12]
• Cowper, William
  • The Nightingale and the Glow-worm, [34]
  • The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, [190]

• Dickens, Charles
  • The Ivy Green, [59]
• Douglas, William
  • Annie Laurie, [226]
• Dyer, Edward
  • Contentment, [286]

• Eliot, George
  • The Choir Invisible, [303]
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • The Problem, [333]

• Field, Eugene
  • Wynken, Blynken and Nod, [16]
  • The Duel, [18]
  • Krinken, [162]
• Fields, James T.
  • The Captain’s Daughter, [23]
• Foster, Stephen Collins
  • My Old Kentucky Home, [136]
  • Old Folks at Home, [137]