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Poems Every Child Should Know

PART II

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The Frost 39 Hannah Flagg Gould

The Owl 40 Alfred Tennyson

Little Billee 41 William Makepeace Thackeray

The Butterfly and the Bee 42 William Lisle Bowles

An Incident of the French Camp 43 Robert Browning

Robert of Lincoln 44 William Cullen Bryant

Old Grimes 47 Albert Gorton Greene

Song of Life 48 Charles Mackay

Fairy Song 50 John Keats

A Boy’s Song 50 James Hogg

Buttercups and Daisies 51 Mary Howitt

The Rainbow 53 Thomas Campbell

Old Ironsides 53 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Little Orphant Annie 54 James Whitcomb Riley

O Captain! My Captain! 57 Walt Whitman

Ingratitude 58 William Shakespeare

The Ivy Green 59 Charles Dickens

The Noble Nature 60 Ben Jonson

The Flying Squirrel 60 Mary E. Burt

Warren’s Address 63 John Pierpont

The Song in Camp 64 Bayard Taylor

The Bugle Song 66 Alfred Tennyson

The Three Bells of Glasgow 67 John G. Whittier

Sheridan’s Ride 68 Thomas Buchanan Read

The Sandpiper 71 Celia Thaxter

Lady Clare 72 Alfred Tennyson

The Lord of Burleigh 75 Alfred Tennyson

Hiawatha’s Childhood 79 Henry W. Longfellow

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 82 William Wordsworth

John Barleycorn 83 Robert Burns

A Life on the Ocean Wave 85 Epes Sargent

The Death of the Old Year 86 Alfred Tennyson

Abou Ben Adhem 89 Leigh Hunt

Farm-Yard Song 90 J.T. Trowbridge

To a Mouse 92 Robert Burns

To a Mountain Daisy 94 Robert Burns

Barbara Frietchie 96 John G. Whittier

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