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

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• Raleigh, Sir Walter
  • The Lye, [283]
• Rankin. Jeremiah Eames
  • The Babie, [4]
• Read, Thomas Buchanan
  • Sheridan’s Ride, [68]
• Riley, James Whitcomb
  • Little Orphant Annie, [54]
• Rogers, Samuel
  • A Wish, [272]

• Sargent, Epes
  • A Life on the Ocean Wave, [85]
• Scott, Sir Walter
  • Lochinvar, [103]
  • The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, [126]
• Shakespeare, William
  • Ingratitude, [58]
  • Mercy, [300]
  • Polonius’ Advice, [301]
  • A Fragment from Julius Cæsar, [301]
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Ode to a Skylark, [268]
  • Ozymandias in the Desert, [322]
• Smith, Samuel Francis
  • America, [228]
• Southey, Robert
  • The Battle of Blenheim, [117]
  • The Inchcape Rock, [145]
  • The Legend of Bishop Hatto, [166]
  • The Well of St. Keyne, [186]
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • My Shadow, [9]

• Taylor, Bayard
  • The Song in Camp, [64]
• Taylor, Jane
  • The Violet, [27]
• Tennyson, Alfred
  • Sweet and Low, [27]
  • The Owl, [40]
  • The Bugle Song, [66]
  • Lady Clare, [72]
  • The Lord of Burleigh, [75]
  • The Death of the Old Year, [86]
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade, [107]
  • Crossing the Bar, [124]
  • The Brook, [153]
  • The Lotos Eaters, [231]
  • The Revenge, [246]
  • Sir Galahad, [253]
• Thackeray, William Makepeace
  • Little Billee, [41]
• Thaxter, Celia
  • The Sandpiper, [71]
• Thomas, Edith
  • Moly, [233]
  • The God of Music, [275]
• Trowbridge, J. T.
  • Farmyard Song, [90]
• Turner, Charles Tennyson
  • Letty’s Globe, [115]

• Watts, Isaac
  • Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, [4]
  • Love Between Brothers and Sisters, [20]
• Whitman, Walt
  • O Captain! My Captain! [57]
  • Song of Myself, [344]
• Whittier, John G.
  • The Three Bells of Glasgow, [67]
  • Barbara Frietchie, [96]
• Wolfe, C.
  • The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, [176]
• Woodworth, Samuel
  • The Old Oaken Bucket, [288]
• Wordsworth, William
  • The Rainbow (a fragment), [28]
  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, [82]
  • Fidelity, [120]
  • Lucy, [272]
  • The World is Too Much With Us, [304]
  • She Was a Phantom of Delight, [305]
• Wotton, Sir Henry
  • A Happy Life, [220]

PART I.
The Budding Moment

The Arrow and the Song.

“The Arrow and the Song,” by Longfellow (1807-82), is placed first in this volume out of respect to a little girl of six years who used to love to recite it to me. She knew many poems, but this was her favourite.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.