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Poems Every Child Should Know

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The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem

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.

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Listen next episodes of Poems Every Child Should Know:
A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree , A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto , A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby , A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music , Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie , Arnold Von Winkelried , Barbara Frietchie , Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus , Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket , Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu , Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy , Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , English Flag, The , Farm-Yard Song, A , Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus , For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival , Herve Riel , Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) , How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix , Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single Bound , June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles , King Henry of Navarre; Ivry , Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday , Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark , Lochinvar , Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade , Marco Bozzaris , Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer , Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee , Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus , Problem, The , Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt , Rabbi Ben Ezra , Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock , Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand , Song of Myself (excerpts) , The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me , The Battle of Blenheim , The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown , The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo , The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight , The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My Old Kentucky Home , The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows , The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis , The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne , The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) , The Lotos-Eaters; Moly , The Lye; L'Envoi , The Man With the Hoe , The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk , The Planting of the Apple Tree , The Raven , The Revenge , The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims , The Skeleton in Armour , The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon , The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman , To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy