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Poems Every Child Should Know

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The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk

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 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 , Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket , Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy , Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , English Flag, The , Herve Riel , Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) , June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles , Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Skylark , Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer , Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee , Problem, The , Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt , Rabbi Ben Ezra , 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 Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; She Was a Phantom of Delight , The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) , The Lotos-Eaters; Moly , The Lye; L'Envoi , The Man With the Hoe , 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 Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman