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.

       Table of Contents

      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

       Table of Contents

      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

      17 The