Poems Every Child Should Know
Mary E. Burt
This audio reading of Poems Every Child Should Know is read by
Kara Shallenberg
Contents
- 01 - Preface - 00:05:08
- 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 Month - 00:06:24
- 03 - True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily - 00:05:20
- 04 - How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - 00:05:58
- 05 - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel - 00:04:36
- 06 - The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell - 00:04:13
- 07 - Casabianca; The Captain’s Daughter - 00:03:50
- 08 - The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow - 00:05:51
- 09 - A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner - 00:06:03
- 10 - Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm - 00:03:55
- 11 - Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie - 00:05:26
- 12 - The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln - 00:06:43
- 13 - Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song - 00:04:29
- 14 - A Boy’s Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides - 00:05:04
- 15 - Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain - 00:05:23
- 16 - Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel - 00:06:40
- 17 - Warren’s Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song - 00:05:28
- 18 - The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan’s Ride - 00:06:00
- 19 - The Sandpiper; Lady Clare - 00:06:48
- 20 - The Lord of Burleigh - 00:04:53
- 21 - Hiawatha’s Childhood - 00:04:52
- 22 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave - 00:05:34
- 23 - The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem - 00:04:31
- 24 - A Farm-Yard Song - 00:03:35
- 25 - To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy - 00:05:56
- 26 - Barbara Frietchie - 00:03:35
- 27 - Lochinvar - 00:03:41
- 28 - Lord Ullin’s Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade - 00:05:11
- 29 - The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon - 00:05:08
- 30 - Jesus the Carpenter; Letty’s Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound - 00:05:14
- 31 - The Battle of Blenheim - 00:03:30
- 32 - Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus - 00:06:17
- 33 - Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu - 00:05:47
- 34 - Marco Bozzaris - 00:05:48
- 35 - The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home - 00:07:54
- 36 - Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus - 00:06:10
- 37 - Robert Bruce’s Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock - 00:06:00
- 38 - The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis - 00:04:44
- 39 - For a’ That and a’ That; The New Arrival - 00:04:50
- 40 - The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown - 00:06:19
- 41 - The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows - 00:06:02
- 42 - Krinken; Stevenson’s Birthday - 00:04:07
- 43 - A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto - 00:06:57
- 44 - Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus - 00:06:07
- 45 - How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix - 00:05:04
- 46 - The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo - 00:06:10
- 47 - Ivry - 00:06:25
- 48 - The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne - 00:05:26
- 49 - The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk - 00:05:13
- 50 - The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) - 00:11:39
- 51 - Horatius at the Bridge (Part 2) - 00:11:50
- 52 - The Planting of the Apple Tree - 00:04:24
- 53 - June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles - 00:05:27
- 54 - A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree - 00:05:41
- 55 - Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie - 00:04:52
- 56 - The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims - 00:05:40
- 57 - The Lotos-Eaters; Moly - 00:05:39
- 58 - Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy - 00:08:52
- 59 - The Skeleton in Armour - 00:06:35
- 60 - The Revenge - 00:08:41
- 61 - Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand - 00:06:17
- 62 - The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman - 00:10:52
- 63 - The Banks o’ Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me - 00:04:58
- 64 - Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee - 00:04:55
- 65 - A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music - 00:05:45
- 66 - A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby - 00:10:55
- 67 - The Lye; L’Envoi - 00:04:47
- 68 - Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket - 00:05:05
- 69 - The Raven - 00:09:03
- 70 - Arnold von Winkelried - 00:04:43
- 71 - Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius’ Advice; Antony’s Speech; The Skylark - 00:06:04
- 72 - The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight - 00:06:40
- 73 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - 00:08:48
- 74 - Rabbi Ben Ezra - 00:10:17
- 75 - Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt - 00:05:43
- 76 - Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - 00:05:56
- 77 - Herve Riel - 00:08:04
- 78 - The Problem; To America - 00:06:19
- 79 - The English Flag - 00:05:47
- 80 - The Man with the Hoe - 00:04:11
- 81 - Song of Myself (excerpts) - 00:08:59
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