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Poems Every Child Should Know

Part 6 — INDEX OF AUTHORS

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Anonymous Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, 6 The Days of the Month, 7 The Boy who Never Told a Lie, 19 The Bluebell of Scotland, 20 The Nautilus and the Ammonite, 188 A Ballad for a Boy, 236

Arnold, Matthew The Forsaken Merman, 260

Austin, Alfred To America, 335

Barbauld, A. L. Life, I Know Not What Thou Art, 299

Bennett, Henry Holcomb The Flag Goes By, 133

Blake, William A Dream, 116

Bowles, William Lisle The Butterfly and the Bee, 42

Bradley, Mary Emily A Chrysalis, 149

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham Little Things, 5

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett From Casa Guidi Windows, 222 A Musical Instrument, 275

Browning, Robert Pippa, 6 An Incident of the French Camp, 43 How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 173 Rabbi Ben Ezra, 312 Prospice, 320 Hervé Riel, 326

Bryant, William Cullen Robert of Lincoln, 44 The Planting of the Apple Tree, 211

Burns, Robert John Barleycorn, 83 To a Mouse, 92 To a Mountain Daisy, 94 Bannockburn, 142 For a’ That, 151 The Banks o’ Doon, 265 John Anderson, 274

Burroughs, John My Own Shall Come to Me, 267

Burt, Mary E. The Flying Squirrel, 60

Byron, Lord The Destruction of Sennacherib, 158 The Eve of Waterloo, 177

Cable, George W. The New Arrival, 152

Campbell, Thomas The Rainbow, 53 Lord Ullin’s Daughter, 105 Hohenlinden, 134

Carroll, Lewis Father William, 33

Coleridge, Samuel T. He Prayeth Best, 5 If I Had But Two Little Wings, 21

Collins, William How Sleep the Brave, 133

Coolidge, Susan How the Leaves Came Down, 12

Cowper, William The Nightingale and the Glow-worm, 34 The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, 190

Dickens, Charles The Ivy Green, 59

Douglas, William Annie Laurie, 226

Dyer, Edward Contentment, 286

Eliot, George The Choir Invisible, 303

Emerson, Ralph Waldo The Problem, 333

Field, Eugene Wynken, Blynken and Nod, 16 The Duel, 18 Krinken, 162

Fields, James T. The Captain’s Daughter, 23

Foster, Stephen Collins My Old Kentucky Home, 136 Old Folks at Home, 137

Gould, Hannah Flagg The Frost, 39 A Name in the Sand, 256

Gray, Thomas Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 306

Greene, Albert Gorton Old Grimes, 47

Halleck, Fitz-greene Marco Bozzaris, 128

Hemans, Felicia Casabianca, 22 The Homes of England, 192 The Landing of the Pilgrims, 229 The Voice of Spring, 259

Hood, Thomas I Remember, I Remember, 159

Hogg, James A Boy’s Song, 50 The Skylark, 302

Holland, J. G. Heaven is Not Reached at a Single Bound, 117

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Old Ironsides, 53 The Chambered Nautilus, 122

Howitt, Mary Buttercups and Daisies, 51

Hunt, Leigh Abou Ben Adhem, 89 The Glove and the Lions, 184 Cupid Drowned, 234

Ingelow, Jean The Brides of Enderby, 277

Jonson. Ben The Noble Nature, 60

Keats, John Fairy Song, 50 On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, 326

Key, Francis Scott The Star-Spangled Banner, 31

Kingsley, Charles A Farewell, 21 The Sands of Dee, 271

Kipling, Rudyard True Royalty, 7 Playing Robinson Crusoe, 8 The Overland Mail, 125 The Ballad of the Clampherdown, 154 L’Envoi, 285 Recessional, 321 The English Flag, 337

Knox, William Mortality, 323

Lanier, Sidney The Tournament, 110 Barnacles, 219

Lear, Edward The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, 15

Liddell, Catherine C. Jesus the Carpenter, 114

Longfellow, Henry W. The Arrow and the Song, 3 The Village Blacksmith, 25 Hiawatha’s Childhood, 79 The Wreck of the Hesperus, 138 A Psalm of Life, 218 The Ship of State, 227 The Skeleton in Armour, 240

Lowell, James Russell The Finding of the Lyre, 148 The Shepherd of King Admetus, 171 June, 217

Lyly, John Cupid and My Campasbe, 235

Lyte, Henry Francis Abide With Me, 223

Macaulay, Thomas B. Ivry, 179 Horatius at the Bridge, 193

Macdonald, George Little White Lily, 10 The Wind and the Moon, 111

Mackay, Charles Song of Life, 48

Markham, Edwin The Man With the Hoe, 342

McClellan, Isaac The Death of Napoleon, 131

Miller, Joaquin Columbus, 169

Miller, Katherine Stevenson’s Birthday, 164

Miller, William Willie Winkie, 13

Milton, John On His Blindness, 304

Montgomery, James Arnold von Winkleried, 296

Moore, Clement Clarke A Visit from St. Nicholas, 29

Moore, Thomas The Last Rose of Summer, 234 Cupid Stung, 234 The Light of Other Days, 266 The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls, 287

Morris, George Pope Woodman, Spare That Tree, 222

Newman, John Henry Lead, Kindly Light, 224

Osborne, Selleck A Modest Wit, 165

Osgood, Kate Putnam Driving Home the Cows, 160

Payne, John Howard Home, Sweet Home, 220

Pierpont, John Warren’s Address, 63

Poe, Edgar Allan The Raven, 289

Pope, Alexander Solitude, 273

Raleigh, Sir Walter The Lye, 283

Rankin. Jeremiah Eames The Babie, 4

Read, Thomas Buchanan Sheridan’s Ride, 68

Riley, James Whitcomb Little Orphant Annie, 54

Rogers, Samuel A Wish, 272

Sargent, Epes A Life on the Ocean Wave, 85

Scott, Sir Walter Lochinvar, 103 The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 126

Shakespeare, William Ingratitude, 58 Mercy, 300 Polonius’ Advice, 301 A Fragment from Julius Cæsar, 301

Shelley, Percy Bysshe Ode to a Skylark, 268 Ozymandias in the Desert, 322

Smith, Samuel Francis America, 228

Southey, Robert The Battle of Blenheim, 117 The Inchcape Rock, 145 The Legend of Bishop Hatto, 166 The Well of St. Keyne, 186

Stevenson, Robert Louis My Shadow, 9

Taylor, Bayard The Song in Camp, 64

Taylor, Jane The Violet, 27

Tennyson, Alfred Sweet and Low, 27 The Owl, 40 The Bugle Song, 66 Lady Clare, 72 The Lord of Burleigh, 75 The Death of the Old Year, 86 The Charge of the Light Brigade, 107 Crossing the Bar, 124 The Brook, 153 The Lotos Eaters, 231 The Revenge, 246 Sir Galahad, 253

Thackeray, William Makepeace Little Billee, 41

Thaxter, Celia The Sandpiper, 71

Thomas, Edith Moly, 233 The God of Music, 275

Trowbridge, J. T. Farmyard Song, 90

Turner, Charles Tennyson Letty’s Globe, 115

Watts, Isaac Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, 4 Love Between Brothers and Sisters, 20

Whitman, Walt O Captain! My Captain! 57 Song of Myself, 344

Whittier, John G. The Three Bells of Glasgow, 67 Barbara Frietchie, 96

Wolfe, C. The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 176

Woodworth, Samuel The Old Oaken Bucket, 288

Wordsworth, William The Rainbow (a fragment), 28 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, 82 Fidelity, 120 Lucy, 272 The World is Too Much With Us, 304 She Was a Phantom of Delight, 305

Wotton, Sir Henry A Happy Life, 220

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