Poems Every Child Should Know. Various
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Tournament," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "The Star-Spangled Banner," and so on. The boy who was first to reach the front had the privilege. The triumph of getting the chance to recite added to the zest of it. Will they ever forget it?
I know Lowell's "The Finding of the Lyre." Attention, Sir Knights! See who can learn it first as I say it to you. But I find that I have forgotten a line of it, so you may open your books and teach it to me. Now, I can recite every word of it. How much of it can you repeat from memory? One boy can say it all. Nearly every child has learned the most of it. Now, it will be easy for you to learn it alone. And Memory, the Goddess Beautiful, will henceforth go with you to recall this happy hour.
Mary E. Burt.
The John A. Browning School, 1904.
PART I
1 The Arrow and the Song 3 Henry W. Longfellow
2 The Babie 4 Jeremiah Eames Rankin
3 Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite 4 Isaac Watts
4 Little Things 5 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
5 He Prayeth Best 5 Samuel T. Coleridge
6 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 6 Anonymous
7 Pippa 6 Robert Browning
8 The Days of the Month 7 An Old Song
9 True Royalty 7 Rudyard Kipling
10 Playing Robinson Crusoe 8 Rudyard Kipling
11 My Shadow 9 Robert Louis Stevenson
12 Little White Lily 10 George Macdonald
13 How the Leaves Came Down 12 Susan Coolidge
14 Willie Winkie 13 William Miller
15 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 15 Edward Lear
16 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 16 Eugene Field
17 The Duel 18 Eugene Field
18 The Boy Who Never Told a Lie 19 Anonymous
19 Love Between Brothers and Sisters 20 Isaac Watts
20 The Bluebell of Scotland 20 Anonymous
21 If I Had But Two Little Wings 21 Samuel T. Coleridge
22 A Farewell 21 Charles Kingsley
23 Casabianca 22 Felicia Hemans
24 The Captain's Daughter 23 James T. Fields
25 The Village Blacksmith 25 Henry W. Longfellow
26 Sweet and Low 27 Alfred Tennyson
27 The Violet 27 Jane Taylor
28 The Rainbow (a fragment) 28 William Wordsworth
29 A Visit From St. Nicholas 29 Clement Clarke Moore
30 The Star-Spangled Banner 31 Francis Scott Key
31 Father William 33 Lewis Carroll
32 The Nightingale and the Glow-worm 34 William Cowper
PART II
1 The Frost 39 Hannah Flagg Gould
2 The Owl 40 Alfred Tennyson
3 Little Billee 41 William Makepeace Thackeray
4 The Butterfly and the Bee 42 William Lisle Bowles
5 An Incident of the French Camp 43 Robert Browning
6 Robert of Lincoln 44 William Cullen Bryant
7 Old Grimes 47 Albert Gorton Greene
8 Song of Life 48 Charles Mackay
9 Fairy Song 50 John Keats
10 A Boy's Song 50 James Hogg
11 Buttercups and Daisies 51 Mary Howitt
12 The Rainbow 53 Thomas Campbell
13 Old Ironsides 53 Oliver Wendell Holmes
14 Little Orphant Annie 54 James Whitcomb Riley
15 O Captain! My Captain! 57 Walt Whitman
16 Ingratitude 58 William Shakespeare
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