Poems Every Child Should Know

Contents

The Arrow and the Song by Henry W. Longfellow

The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts

Little Things by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

He Prayeth Best by Samuel T. Coleridge

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Anonymous

Pippa by Robert Browning

The Days of the Month by An Old Song

True Royalty by Rudyard Kipling

Playing Robinson Crusoe by Rudyard Kipling

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Little White Lily by George Macdonald

How the Leaves Came Down by Susan Coolidge

Willie Winkie by William Miller

The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field

The Duel by Eugene Field

The Boy Who Never Told A Lie by Anonymous

Love Between Brothers and Sisters by Isaac Watts

The Bluebell of Scotland by Anonymous

If I Had But Two Little Wings by Samuel T. Coleridge

A Farewell by Charles Kingsley

Casabianca by Felicia Hemans

The Captain's Daughter by James T. Fields

The Village Blacksmith by Henry W. Longfellow

Sweet and Low by Alfred Tennyson

The Violet by Jane Taylor

The Rainbow (A Fragment) by William Wordsworth

A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore

The Star-spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key

Father William by Lewis Carroll

The Nightingale and the Glow-worm by William Cowper


Part Ii

The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould

The Owl by Alfred Tennyson

Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Butterfly and the Bee by William Lisle Bowles

An Incident of the French Camp by Robert Browning

Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant

Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene

Song of Life by Charles Mackay

Fairy Song by John Keats

A Boy's Song by James Hogg

Buttercups and Daisies by Mary Howitt

The Rainbow by Thomas Campbell

Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

Ingratitude by William Shakespeare

The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens

The Noble Nature by Ben Jonson

The Flying Squirrel by Mary E. Burt

Warren's Address by John Pierpont

The Song in Camp by Bayard Taylor

The Bugle Song by Alfred Tennyson

The Three Bells of Glasgow by John G. Whittier

Sheridan's Ride by Thomas Buchanan Read

The Sandpiper by Celia Thaxter

Lady Clare by Alfred Tennyson

The Lord of Burleigh by Alfred Tennyson

Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry W. Longfellow

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth

John Barleycorn by Robert Burns

A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent

The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Tennyson

Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt

Farm-yard Song by J.t. Trowbridge

To A Mouse by Robert Burns

To A Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns

Barbara Frietchie by John G. Whittier


Part Iii

Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott

Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson

The Tournament by Sidney Lanier

The Wind and the Moon by George Macdonald

Jesus The Carpenter by Catherine C. Liddell

Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner

A Dream by William Blake

Heaven Is Not Reached at A Single Bound by J. G. Holland

The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey

Fidelity by William Wordsworth

The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson

The Overland-mail by Rudyard Kipling

Gathering Song of Donald Dhu by Sir Walter Scott

Marco Bozzaris by Fitz-greene Halleck

The Death of Napoleon by Isaac Mcclellan

How Sleep the Brave by William Collins

The Flag Goes By Henry Holcomb Bennett

Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell

My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Collins Foster

Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster

The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry W. Longfellow

Bannockburn by Robert Burns


Part Iv

The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey

The Finding of the Lyre by James Russell Lowell

A Chrysalis by Mary Emily Bradley

For A' That by Robert Burns

The New Arrival by George W. Cable

The Brook by Alfred Tennyson

The Ballad of the Clampherdown by Rudyard Kipling

The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron

I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood

Driving Home the Cows by Kate Putnam Osgood

Krinken by Eugene Field

Stevenson's Birthday by Katherine Miller

A Modest Wit by Selleck Osborne

The Legend of Bishop Hatt by Robert Southey

Columbus by Joaquin Miller

The Shepherd of King Admetus by James Russell Lowell

How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix byRobert Browning

The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna by C. Wolfe

The Eve of Waterloo by Lord Byron

Ivry by Thomas B. Macaulay

The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt

The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey

The Nautilus and the Ammonite by Anonymous

The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk by William Cowper

The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans

Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas B. Macaulay

The Planting of the Apple-tree by William Cullen Bryant


Part V

June by James Russell Lowell

A Psalm of Life by Henry W. Longfellow

Barnacles by Sidney Lanier

A Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton

Home, Sweet Home by John Howard Payne

From Casa Guidi Windows by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Woodman, Spare That Tree! by George Pope Morris

Abide With Me by Henry Francis Lyte

Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman

The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore

Annie Laurie by William Douglas

The Ship of State by Henry W. Longfellow

America by Samuel Francis Smith

The Landing of the Pilgrims by Felicia Hemans

The Lotos-eaters by Alfred Tennyson

Moly by Edith M. Thomas

Cupid Drowned by Leigh Hunt

Cupid Stung by Thomas Moore

Cupid and My Campasbe by John Lyly

A Ballad For A Boy by Anonymous

The Skeleton In Armour by Henry W. Longfellow

The Revenge by Alfred Tennyson

Sir Galahad by Alfred Tennyson

A Name In the Sand by Hannah Flagg Gould


Part Vi

The Voice of Spring by Felicia Hemans

The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold

The Banks O' Doon by Robert Burns

The Light of Other Days by Thomas Moore

My Own Shall Come to Me by John Burroughs

Ode to A Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Sands of Dee by Charles Kingsley

A Wish by Samuel Rogers

Lucy by William Wordsworth

Solitude by Alexander Pope

John Anderson by Robert Burns

The God of Music by Edith M. Thomas

A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Brides of Enderby by Jean Ingelow

The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh

L'envoi by Rudyard Kipling

Contentment by Edward Dyer

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls by Thomas Moore

The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Arnold Von Winkleried by James Montgomery

Life, I Know Not What Thou Art by A. L. Barbauld

Mercy by William Shakespeare

Polonius' Advice by William Shakespeare

A Fragment From "Julius Cæsar" by William Shakespeare

The Skylark by Thomas Hogg

The Choir Invisible byGeorge Eliot

The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth

On His Blindness by John Milton

She Was A Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth

Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning

Prospice by Robert Browning

Recessional by Rudyard Kipling

Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mortality by William Knox

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats

Hervé Riel by Robert Browning

The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To America by Alfred Austin

The English Flag by Rudyard Kipling

The Man With the Hoe by Edwin Markham

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman