Poems Every Child Should Know

Joseph Pearce

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• Publié par: St. Benedict Press LLC
• Date de parution: 21 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781505126327
• Langue: English

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POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW
Selected and with Commentary by Joseph Pearce
TAN Books Gastonia, North Carolina
Poems Every Child Should Know © 2022 Joseph Pearce
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“Daddy Fell Into the Pond” © Alfred Noyes and reprinted by permission of the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Alfred Noyes.
The illustrations for Appley Dapply are by Beatrix Potter and are in the public domain.
The Belloc poems are illustrated by Basil Temple Blackwood and are in the public domain.
Cover design by Caroline Green and Jordan Avery
ISBN: 978-1-5051-2630-3 Kindle ISBN: 978-1-5051-2631-0 ePUB ISBN: 978-1-5051-2632-7
Published in the United States by TAN Books PO Box 269 Gastonia, NC 28053 www.TANBooks.com
CONTENTS
Publisher’s Note
How to Enjoy this Book
P ART O NE : P OEMS FOR Y OUNGER C HILDREN
Selections from Mother Goose
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
P ART T WO : P OEMS FOR C HILDREN OF A LL A GES
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
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Every child is called to be a poet. In fact, everyone is called to be a poet.
But how?
The role of a poet is “to glorify things just because they are.” 1 In other words, the poet wants to see the beauty of something in the ordinary, to see the imprint of the finger of God upon every instance of creation. It is the duty of the poet to show that something’s existence gives glory to God just because He loves it. As King David writes in Psalms, “The heavens show forth the glory of God, and the firmament declares the work of his hands.” 2
Poetry is man’s reflections upon life around him. Poetry is, as it were, natural revelation—revelation of man to his fellow man about his reflections on the truth of some matter. And yet, there is something supernatural in the poet’s verse. It is as if he can catch a glimmer of the divine, ever so faintly retained in this fallen world. Poetry is God’s way of reminding mankind of the world before the fall and of the world that awaits him.
The poet, the artist, is the one who gazes into the innermost being of a thing, reflects upon its truth and goodness, and sees its beauty—especially in the routine and ordinary, to the point where people stop upon seeing the poet’s verse and say, “How did I miss that this was so beautiful?” Poetry, in short, is wellordered, insightful, and beautiful words.
But being a poet must, like any habit, be continually nourished as one grows. Saint Thomas Aquinas, a magnificent poet in his own right, gives us a very solid principle: “A small mistake in the beginning leads to a big mistake in the end.” 3 We must ensure the most important of beginnings, our childh