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Title: Poems Every Child Should Know  The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library

Author: Various

Editor: Mary E. Burt

Release Date: August 4, 2005 [EBook #16436]

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Frontispiece Title page Acknowledgments to Publishers and Authors Preface Contents Index of Authors Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Index of First Lines

When the shadows are long

POEMS

Every Child Should Know

EDITED BY Mary E. Burt

THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY

Published by

DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC. Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine" 9 EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK

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COPYRIGHT. 1904, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS

It sometimes happens that there are people who do not know that authors are protected by copyright laws. A publisher once cited to me an instance of a teacher who innocently put forth a little volume of poems that she loved and admired, without asking permission of any one. Her annoyance was boundless when she found that she had no right to the poems.

Special permission has been obtained for each copyrighted poem in this volume, and the right to publish has been purchased of the author or publisher, except in those cases where the author or the publisher has, for reasons of courtesy and friendship, given the permission.

In addition to the business arrangements which have been made, we wish to extend our thanks and acknowledgments to those firms which have so kindly allowed us to use their material.

To H OUGHTON , M IFFLIN & C OMPANY , of Boston, we are indebted for the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of Longfellow—"The Arrow and the Song," "A Fragment of Hiawatha's Childhood," "The Skeleton in Armour," "The Wreck of the Hesperus ," "The Ship of State," "The Psalm of Life," "The Village Blacksmith." From Whittier—"Barbara Frietchie" and "The Three Bells of Glasgow." From Emerson—"The Problem." From Burroughs—"My Own Shall Come to Me." From Lowell—"The Finding of the Lyre," "The Shepherd of King Admetus," and a fragment of "The Vision of Sir Launfal," From Holmes—"The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides." From James T. Fields—"The Captain's Daughter." From Bayard Taylor—"The Song in Camp," From Celia Thaxter—"The Sandpiper." From J. T. Trowbridge—"Farm-Yard Song." From Edith M. Thomas—"The God of Music" and Hermes' "Moly."

To C HARLES S CRIBNER ' S S ONS we are indebted for the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of Eugene Field—"Wynken Blynken, and Nod," "Krinken," and "The Duel." From Robert Louis Stevenson—"My Shadow." From James Whitcomb Riley's poems—"Little Orphant Annie." From the poems of Sidney Lanier— "Barnacles" and "The Tournament." From "The Poems of Patriotism"—"Sheridan's Ride."

We are further indebted to C HARLES S CRIBNER ' S S ONS , as well as to M R . G EORGE W. C ABLE , for "The New Arrival," taken from "The Cable Story Book," and to M RS . K ATHERINE M ILLER and Scribner's Magazine for "Stevenson's Birthday."

To J. B. L IPPINCOTT C OMPANY we are indebted for the use of "Sheridan's Ride," from the complete works of T. Buchanan Read.

To H ARPER & B ROTHERS for the use of "Driving Home the Cows," by Kate Putnam Osgood.

To L ITTLE , B ROWN & C OMPANY , of Boston, "How the Leaves Came Down," by Susan Coolidge.

To the W HITAKER & R AY C OMPANY , of San Francisco, "Columbus," by Joaquin Miller, from his complete works published and copyrighted bythat company.

To D. A PPLETON & C OMPANY for "The Planting of the Apple-Tree" and "Robert of Lincoln," from the complete works of William Cullen Bryant; also for "Marco Bozzaris," from the works of Fitz-Greene Halleck.

To the M ACMILLAN C OMPANY for "The Forsaken Merman," by Matthew Arnold, from the complete volume of his poems published by that company.

To the H OWARD U NIVERSITY P RINT , Washington, D.C., for Jeremiah Rankin's little poem, "The Babie," from "Ingleside Rhaims."

To the heirs of M ARY E MILY B RADLEY for "A Chrysalis."

To H ENRY H OLCOMB B ENNETT for "The Flag Goes By."

PREFACE

Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This is too long," and "That is too hard," and "I don't like that because it is not interesting"?

Are there three or four pleasing poems and are all the rest put in to fill up the book? Nay, verily! The poems in this collection are those that children love. With the exception of seven, they are short enough for children to commit to memory without wearying themselves or losing interest in the poem. If one boy learns "TheOverland Mail," or "The Recruit," or "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," or "The Song in Camp," or "Old Ironsides," or "I Have a Little Shadow," or "The Tournament," or "The Duel," nine boys out of ten will be eager to follow him. I know because I have tried it a dozen times. Every boy loves "Paul Revere's Ride" (alas! I have not been able to include it), and is ambitious to learn it, but only boys having a quick memory will persevere to the end. Shall the slower boy be deprived of the pleasure of reading the whole poem and getting its inspiring sentiment and learning as many stanzas as his mind will take? No, indeed. Half of such a poem is better than none. Let the slow boy learn and recite as many stanzas as he can and the boy of quick memory follow him up with the rest. It does not help the slow boy's memory to keep it down entirely or deprive it of its smaller activity because he cannot learn the whole. Some people will invariably give the slow child a very short poem. It is often better to divide a long poem among the children, letting each child learn a part. The sustained interest of a long poem is worth while. " The Merman," "The Battle of Ivry," "Horatius at the Bridge," "Krinken," "The Skeleton in Armour," "The Raven" and "Hervé Riel" may all profitably be learned that way. Nevertheless, the child enjoys most the poem that is just long enough, and there is much to be said in favour of the selection that is adapted, in length, to the average mind; for the child hesitates in the presence of quantity rather than in the presence of subtle thought. I make claim for this collection that it is made up of poems that the majority of children will learn of their own free will. There are people who believe that in the matter of learning poetry there is no " ought ," but this is a false belief. There is a duty , even there; for every American citizen ought to know the great national songs that keep alive the spirit of patriotism. Children should build for their future—and get, while they are children, what only the fresh imagination of the child can assimilate.

They should store up an untold wealth of heroic sentiment; they should acquire the habit of carrying a literary quality in their conversation; they should carry a heart full of the fresh and delightful associations and memories, connected with poetry hours to brighten mature years. They should develop their memories while they have memories to develop.

Will the boy who took every poetry hour for a whole school year to learn "Henry of Navarre" ever regret it, or will the children who listened to it? No. It was fresh every week and they brought fresh interest in listening. The boy will always love it because he used to love it. There were boys who scrambled for the right to recite "The 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.

M ARY E. B URT . The John A. Browning School, 1904.

CONTENTS

PART I

1. The Arrow and the Song H ENRY W. L ONGFELLOW 2. The Babie J EREMIAH E AMES R ANKIN 3. Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite I SAAC W ATTS 4. Little Things E BENEZER C OBHAM B REWER 5. He Prayeth Best S AMUEL T. C OLERIDGE 6. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star A NONYMOUS 7. Pippa R OBERT B ROWNING 8. The Days of the Month A N O LD S ONG 9. True Royalty R UDYARD K IPLING 10. Playing Robinson Crusoe R UDYARD K IPLING 11. My Shadow R OBERT L OUIS S TEVENSON 12. Little White Lily G EORGE M ACDONALD 13. How the Leaves Came Down S USAN C OOLIDGE 14. Willie Winkie W ILLIAM M ILLER 15. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat E DWARD L EAR 16. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod E UGENE F IELD 17. The Duel E UGENE F IELD 18. The Boy Who Never Told a Lie A NONYMOUS 19. Love Between Brothers and Sisters I SAAC W ATTS 20. The Bluebell of Scotland A NONYMOUS 21. If I Had But Two Little Wings S AMUEL T. C OLERIDGE 22. A Farewell C HARLES K INGSLEY 23. Casabianca F ELICIA H EMANS 24. The Captain's Daughter J AMES T. F IELDS 25. The Village Blacksmith H ENRY W. L ONGFELLOW 26. Sweet and Low A LFRED T ENNYSON 27. The Violet J ANE T AYLOR 28. The Rainbow (a fragment) W ILLIAM W ORDSWORTH 29. A Visit From St. Nicholas C LEMENT C LARKE M OORE

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33. The Frost H ANNAH F LAGG G OULD 34. The Owl A LFRED T ENNYSON 35. Little Billee W ILLIAM M AKEPEACE T HACKERAY 36. The Butterfly and the Bee W ILLIAM L ISLE B OWLES 37. An Incident of the French Camp R OBERT B ROWNING 38. Robert of Lincoln W ILLIAM C ULLEN B RYANT 39. Old Grimes A LBERT G ORTON G REENE 40. Song of Life C HARLES M ACKAY 41. Fairy Song J OHN K EATS 42. A Boy's Song J AMES H OGG 43. Buttercups and Daisies M ARY H OWITT 44. The Rainbow T HOMAS C AMPBELL 45. Old Ironsides O LIVER W ENDELL H OLMES 46. Little Orphant Annie J AMES W HITCOMB R ILEY 47. O Captain! My Captain! W ALT W HITMAN 48. Ingratitude W ILLIAM S HAKESPEARE 49. The Ivy Green C HARLES D ICKENS 50. The Noble Nature B EN J ONSON 51. The Flying Squirrel M ARY E. B URT 52. Warren's Address J OHN P IERPONT 53. The Song in Camp B AYARD T AYLOR 54. The Bugle Song A LFRED T ENNYSON 55. The Three Bells of Glasgow J OHN G. W HITTIER 56. Sheridan's Ride T HOMAS B UCHANAN R EAD 57. The Sandpiper C ELIA T HAXTER 58. Lady Clare A LFRED T ENNYSON 59. The Lord of Burleigh A LFRED T ENNYSON 60. Hiawatha's Childhood

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H ENRY W. L ONGFELLOW 61. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud W ILLIAM W ORDSWORTH 62. John Barleycorn R OBERT B URNS 63. A Life on the Ocean Wave E PES S ARGENT 64. The Death of the Old Year A LFRED T ENNYSON 65. Abou Ben Adhem L EIGH H UNT 66. Farm-Yard Song J.T. T ROWBRIDGE 67. To a Mouse R OBERT B URNS 68. To a Mountain Daisy R OBERT B URNS 69. Barbara Frietchie J OHN G. W HITTIER

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70. Lochinvar S IR W ALTER S COTT 71. Lord Ullin's Daughter T HOMAS C AMPBELL 72. The Charge of the Light Brigade A LFRED T ENNYSON 73. The Tournament S IDNEY L ANIER 74. The Wind and the Moon G EORGE M ACDONALD 75. Jesus the Carpenter C ATHERINE C. L IDDELL 76. Letty's Globe C HARLES T ENNYSON T URNER 77. A Dream W ILLIAM B LAKE 78. Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound J. G. H OLLAND 79. The Battle of Blenheim R OBERT S OUTHEY 80. Fidelity W ILLIAM W ORDSWORTH 81. The Chambered Nautilus O LIVER W ENDELL H OLMES 82. Crossing the Bar A LFRED T ENNYSON 83. The Overland-Mail R UDYARD K IPLING 84. Gathering Song of Donald Dhu S IR W ALTER S COTT 85. Marco Bozzaris F ITZ - GREENE H ALLECK 86. The Death of Napoleon I SAAC M C C LELLAN 87. How Sleep the Brave W ILLIAM C OLLINS 88. The Flag Goes By H ENRY H OLCOMB B ENNETT 89. Hohenlinden T HOMAS C AMPBELL 90. My Old Kentucky Home S TEPHEN C OLLINS F OSTER

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94. The Inchcape Rock R OBERT S OUTHEY 95. The Finding of the Lyre J AMES R USSELL L OWELL 96. A Chrysalis M ARY E MILY B RADLEY 97. For a' That R OBERT B URNS 98. The New Arrival G EORGE W. C ABLE 99. The Brook A LFRED T ENNYSON 100. The Ballad of the Clampherdown R UDYARD K IPLING 101. The Destruction of Sennacherib L ORD B YRON 102. I Remember, I Remember T HOMAS H OOD 103. Driving Home the Cows K ATE P UTNAM O SGOOD 104. Krinken E UGENE F IELD 105. Stevenson's Birthday K ATHERINE M ILLER 106. A Modest Wit S ELLECK O SBORNE 107. The Legend of Bishop Hatto R OBERT S OUTHEY 108. Columbus J OAQUIN M ILLER 109. The Shepherd of King Admetus J AMES R USSELL L OWELL 110. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix R OBERT B ROWNING 111. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna C. W OLFE 112. The Eve of Waterloo L ORD B YRON 113. Ivry T HOMAS B. M ACAULAY 114. The Glove and the Lions L EIGH H UNT 115. The Well of St. Keyne R OBERT S OUTHEY 116. The Nautilus and the Ammonite A NONYMOUS 117. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk W ILLIAM C OWPER 118. The Homes of England F ELICIA H EMANS 119. Horatius at the Bridge T HOMAS B. M ACAULAY 120. The Planting of the Apple-Tree W ILLIAM C ULLEN B RYANT

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121. June J AMES R USSELL L OWELL 122. A Psalm of Life H ENRY W. L ONGFELLOW 123. Barnacles S IDNEY L ANIER 124. A Happy Life S IR H ENRY W OTTON 125. Home, Sweet Home J OHN H OWARD P AYNE 126. From Casa Guidi Windows E LIZABETH B ARRETT B ROWNING 127. Woodman, Spare That Tree! G EORGE P OPE M ORRIS 128. Abide With Me H ENRY F RANCIS L YTE 129. Lead, Kindly Light J OHN H ENRY N EWMAN 130. The Last Rose of Summer T HOMAS M OORE 131. Annie Laurie W ILLIAM D OUGLAS 132. The Ship of State H ENRY W. L ONGFELLOW 133. America S AMUEL F RANCIS S MITH 134. The Landing of the Pilgrims F ELICIA H EMANS 135. The Lotos-Eaters A LFRED T ENNYSON 136. Moly E DITH M. T HOMAS 137. Cupid Drowned L EIGH H UNT 138. Cupid Stung T HOMAS M OORE 139. Cupid and My Campasbe J OHN L YLY 140. A Ballad for a Boy A NONYMOUS 141. The Skeleton in Armour H ENRY W. L ONGFELLOW 142. The Revenge A LFRED T ENNYSON 143. Sir Galahad A LFRED T ENNYSON 144. A Name in the Sand H ANNAH F LAGG G OULD

145. The Voice of Spring F ELICIA H EMANS 146. The Forsaken Merman M ATTHEW A RNOLD 147. The Banks o' Doon R OBERT B URNS 148. The Light of Other Days T HOMAS M OORE 149. My Own Shall Come to Me J OHN B URROUGHS 150. Ode to a Skylark

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