
Poems Every Child Should Know
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Poetry is meant for everyone.
For you. For your child. But where to start?
Poems Every Child Should Know is here to help.
Selected and accompanied by commentary from bestselling author and literature professor Joseph Pearce, this exciting collection of verse contains classic poems that every child should know to begin a poetic ascent towards God. Not only that, but these poems are chosen so as to help all "become as little children," and are ones everyone should know, regardless of age. These timeless treasures form a foundation upon which to build poetic knowledge and to see the world through the eyes of a poet, the way God intended it.
Culled from the rich history of English poetry, these gems of the English language''s inheritance are meant to enrich our children''s cultural treasure chest. Verse, like virtue, is often most beautiful when it is most simple. A good beginning makes a good end all the more likely, so immersing children in beautiful words-words which so powerfully and continually shape our world, our thoughts, our prayers-and teaching them to take a minute and stop to observe a beautiful sentence is of the utmost importance. Appreciating beauty in even the most ordinary of life''s moments is a lesson that will prepare their minds to receive Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Himself.
Throughout the book, readers will find "things to think about," inviting them to engage more deeply with individual poems. These should be seen as an invitation to an adventure into unknown territory, an opportunity to go further up and further in. Be fearless, be adventurous, and enjoy this journey into the realm of the good, the true, and the beautiful of our English language.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- How to Enjoy this Book
- Part One: Poems for Younger Children
- Selections from Mother Goose: (18th Century)
- Old King Cole
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- London Bridge Is Falling Down
- The Days of the Month
- My Lady Wind
- Little Robin Redbreast
- Little Boy Blue
- "Frère Jacques"
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- St. Swithin's Day
- The Bells of London Town
- Peter Piper
- Humpty Dumpty
- Four Brothers Over the Sea
- Two, Three, and Four Legs
- Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
- One Old Oxford Ox
- Little Miss Muffet
- The House That Jack Built
- Handy-Spandy
- When a Twister a Twisting
- Ride a Cock-Horse
- There were Two Blackbirds
- Over The Water, And Over The Lea
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
- A Was An Archer
- Merry Are The Bells
- Solomon Grundy
- Hey! Diddle, Diddle
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- There Was An Old Woman Tossed Up In A Basket
- Jack and Jill
- The Spider and the Fly
- Early to Bed
- When Little Fred
- I Saw a Ship a Sailing
- Ladybug Ladybug
- There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
- Little Jack Horner
- Bow, Wow, Says The Dog
- The Champions of Christendom
- I Have Seen You, Little Mouse
- Bryan O'Lin
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- There was a Crooked Man
- Pussy-Cat, Pussy-Cat
- Where Should a Baby Rest?
- Hickory, Dickory, Dock
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- The Little Clock
- In Marble Walls
- This Old Man
- God Bless The Master Of This House
- Birds, Beasts, and Fishes
- My Little Brother
- An Apple Pie
- As Little Jenny Wren
- Hey, My Kitten, My Kitten
- January Brings The Snow
- Bye, Baby Bunting
- Five Little Ducks
- Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
- My Hat It Has Three Corners
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
- Turkey in the Straw
- The Farmer in the Dell
- Old Macdonald Had a Farm
- Five Little Monkeys
- The Muffin Man
- Oh Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?
- Six Little Ducks
- Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
- Ten In The Bed
- Part Two: Poems for Children of All Ages
- Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1345-1400)
- From The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Saint Crispin's Day Speech (From Henry V)
- All the World's A Stage (From As You Like It)
- The Quality of Mercy (From The Merchant of Venice)
- Richard Lovelace (1618-57)
- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- The Lamb
- The Clod and the Pebble
- The Tiger
- Jerusalem
- Robert Burns (1759-96)
- A Red, Red Rose
- Scots, Wha Hae
- James Hogg (1770-1835)
- A Boy's Song
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Daffodils
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Lochinvar
- John Keats (1795-1821)
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Saint John Henry Newman (1801-90)
- The Pilgrim Queen (A Song)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
- The Mountain and the Squirrel
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
- The Song of Hiawatha (An Excerpt)
- Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (An Excerpt)
- Paul Revere's Ride
- The Village Blacksmith
- Excelsior
- The Children's Hour
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-94)
- Old Ironsides
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92)
- The Eagle
- The Lady of Shalott
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Robert Browning (1812-89)
- Pippa's Song
- Edward Lear (1812-88)
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
- William Brighty Rands (1823-82)
- Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World
- Coventry Patmore (1823-96)
- The Toys
- Magna Est Veritas
- Emily Dickinson (1830-86)
- There is no Frigate like a Book
- "Hope" Is The Thing With Feathers
- Christina Rossetti (1830-94)
- What?
- City Mouse and Garden Mouse
- An Emerald is as Green as Grass
- Prettier than These
- If All were Rain and Never Sun
- Lady of the Land
- A Rose has Thorns as well as Honey
- If Stars Dropped Out of Heaven
- What do the Stars Do?
- Baby Lies So Fast Asleep
- Motherless Baby
- A Christmas Carol
- Lewis Carroll (1832-98)
- Jabberwocky
- The Crocodile
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
- A Baby's Feet
- Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)
- Ave-Maria Bells
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89)
- Pied Beauty
- Rosa Mystica
- Eugene Field (1850-95)
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
- Winter-Time
- Picture Books in Winter
- Summer Sun
- Block City
- The Wind
- Nest Eggs
- My Shadow
- Bed in Summer
- North-West Passage
- The Land of Story-Books
- The Land of Nod
- The Whole Duty of Children
- To Any Reader
- Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
- A Little Song of Life
- A Christmas Folk Song
- The Good Joan
- Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
- Motto and Invocation
- To a Snowflake
- Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
- The Song of Mr. Toad
- Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
- Casey at the Bat
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- If
- Recessional
- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
- Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (Excerpts)
- Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
- Child!
- Introduction
- The Yak
- The Polar
- The Lion
- The Tiger
- The Hippopotamus
- The Dodo
- The Marmozet
- The Frog
- The Vulture
- The Microbe
- Jim, Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion
- Matilda, Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death
- Godolphin Horne, Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
- Algernon, Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father
- Rebecca, Who slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably
- George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions
- Charles Augustus Fortescue, Who always Did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune
- Lord Lucky
- Twelfth Night
- Ha'nacker Mill
- Tarantella
- The End of the Road
- W. H. Davies (1870-1940)
- Leisure
- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
- Me
- Some One
- The Listeners
- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
- The Donkey
- The Fish
- The Skeleton
- By the Babe Unborn
- Lepanto
- Mary Leslie Newton (1874-1944)
- Queen Anne's Lace
- Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
- The Cremation of Sam McGee
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- The Pasture
- Nothing Gold Can Stay
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- The Road Not Taken
- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
- Primer Lesson
- Fog
- Alfred Noyes (1880-1959)
- The Highwayman
- A Song of Sherwood
- Daddy Fell into the Pond
- The New Duckling
- Herbert Asquith (1881-1947)
- Skating
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
- The Sky
- The Cornfield
- Milking Time
- The Woodpecker
- The Star (A Song)
- Firefly (A Song)
- The Rabbit
- Father's Story
- Strange Tree
- Three Dominican Nuns
- Padraic Colum (1881-1972)
- An Old Woman of the Roads
- A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
- The Christening
- Market Square
- Daffadowndilly
- The Three Foxes
- At the Zoo
- Missing
- Hoppity
- The Dormouse and the Doctor
- Sand-Between-The-Toes
- Knights and Ladies
- The Mirror
- Halfway Down
- The Invaders
- Teddy Bear
- In the Fashion
- The Alchemist
- Vespers
- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
- There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)
- Barter
- February Twilight
- Stars
- Christmas Carol
- Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
- Prayer for This House
- Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
- The House with Nobody in It
- Trees
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Excerpt)
- Joseph Pearce (1961-)
- The Hedgehog
- Star
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