Poems Every Child Should Know

by Burt, Mary E. · Free audiobook · 81 chapters

LibriVox recording of Poems Every Child Should Know, edited by Mary E. Burt. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. Download M4B (225MB)

Chapters

• 1. 01 - Preface5:08
• 2. 02 - 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 Month6:24
• 3. 03 - True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily5:20
• 4. 04 - How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat5:58
• 5. 05 - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel4:36
• 6. 06 - The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell4:13
• 7. 07 - Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter3:50
• 8. 08 - The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow5:51
• 9. 09 - A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner6:03
• 10. 10 - Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm3:55
• 11. 11 - Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie5:26
• 12. 12 - The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln6:43
• 13. 13 - Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song4:29
• 14. 14 - A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides5:04
• 15. 15 - Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain5:23
• 16. 16 - Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel6:41
• 17. 17 - Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song5:28
• 18. 18 - The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride6:00
• 19. 19 - The Sandpiper; Lady Clare6:48
• 20. 20 - The Lord of Burleigh4:53
• 21. 21 - Hiawatha's Childhood4:52
• 22. 22 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave5:34
• 23. 23 - The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem4:31
• 24. 24 - A Farm-Yard Song3:35
• 25. 25 - To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy5:56
• 26. 26 - Barbara Frietchie3:35
• 27. 27 - Lochinvar3:41
• 28. 28 - Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade5:11
• 29. 29 - The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon5:08
• 30. 30 - Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound5:14
• 31. 31 - The Battle of Blenheim3:30
• 32. 32 - Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus6:17
• 33. 33 - Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu5:47
• 34. 34 - Marco Bozzaris5:49
• 35. 35 - The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home7:54
• 36. 36 - Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus6:10
• 37. 37 - Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock6:00
• 38. 38 - The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis4:44
• 39. 39 - For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival4:50
• 40. 40 - The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown6:20
• 41. 41 - The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows6:02
• 42. 42 - Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday4:07
• 43. 43 - A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto6:57
• 44. 44 - Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus6:07
• 45. 45 - How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix5:04
• 46. 46 - The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo6:10
• 47. 47 - Ivry6:25
• 48. 48 - The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne5:26
• 49. 49 - The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk5:14
• 50. 50 - The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1)11:39
• 51. 51 - Horatius at the Bridge (Part 2)11:50
• 52. 52 - The Planting of the Apple Tree4:24
• 53. 53 - June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles5:27
• 54. 54 - A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree5:41
• 55. 55 - Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie4:52
• 56. 56 - The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims5:40
• 57. 57 - The Lotos-Eaters; Moly5:39
• 58. 58 - Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy8:53
• 59. 59 - The Skeleton in Armour6:35
• 60. 60 - The Revenge8:41
• 61. 61 - Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand6:17
• 62. 62 - The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman10:52
• 63. 63 - The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me4:58
• 64. 64 - Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee4:55
• 65. 65 - A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music5:45
• 66. 66 - A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby10:55
• 67. 67 - The Lye; L'Envoi4:47
• 68. 68 - Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket5:05
• 69. 69 - The Raven9:03
• 70. 70 - Arnold von Winkelried4:43
• 71. 71 - Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark6:04
• 72. 72 - The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight6:41
• 73. 73 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard8:48
• 74. 74 - Rabbi Ben Ezra10:17
• 75. 75 - Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt5:43
• 76. 76 - Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer5:56
• 77. 77 - Herve Riel8:04
• 78. 78 - The Problem; To America6:19
• 79. 79 - The English Flag5:47
• 80. 80 - The Man with the Hoe4:11
• 81. 81 - Song of Myself (excerpts)8:59