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Poems Every Child Should Know
A treasure trove of more than two hundred poems, this gem of an anthology compiled by Mary E Burt is indeed a most valuable set of poems to read or listen to.
Published in 1904, Poems Every Child Should Know contains some well-loved verses like Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Lewis Carroll's delightful parody Father William, Felicia Hemans' deeply-moving Casablanca and other favorites. It also has lesser-known but equally beautiful pieces like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Arrow and The Song, Robert Browning's The Incident of the French Camp, Eugene Field's nonsense lyrics Wynken, Blynken and Nod and a host of other wonderful verses...
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Beowulf
Beowulf is a long narrative poem composed in Old English some time in between the 8th and 11th century AD. The only surviving manuscript that contains the poem is preserved in the British Library and it too was badly damaged by fire in 1731. It is considered to be the oldest surviving work of poetry in English and one of the rare pieces of vernacular European literature that has survived since Medieval times.
A prince arrives to rid a neighboring country of a terrible monster. He mortally wounds the horrendous creature and it retreats to die in its lair in the remote mountains...
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The Keepsake
“The Keepsake, or, Poems and Pictures For Childhood and Youth”, is a collection of twenty pastoral poems published as one collection in London, 1818. The topics are moral encouragement for children, young and old alike.
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Humour of the North
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour. . . . The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious claim. It embraces, however, what are believed to be representative examples of the work of some of our better-known writers, many of which will no doubt be quite familiar to Canadian readers, but perhaps none the less welcome on that account.
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The Odyssey
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The Poetics of Aristotle
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
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The Odyssey of Homer
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The Odyssey Done into English prose
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The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda
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The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
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The Illustrated Alphabet of Birds
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Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece
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The Georgics
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Works of Horace
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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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The Hymns of Prudentius
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Sea Garden
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The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse
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The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala
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Codex Junius 11
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Hymen
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Cromwell
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The Emperor's Rout
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My Dog Tray
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Locrine/Mucedorus
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Tommy Tatters Uncle Toby's Series
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Revised Edition of Poems
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Dame Duck's First Lecture on Education
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The Arctic Queen
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Th' History o' Haworth Railway fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony
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Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog
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Surprising Stories about the Mouse and Her Sons, and the Funny Pigs. With Laughable Colored Engravings
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The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home"
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Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses
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My Flower-pot Child's Picture Book
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Rookie rhymes, by the men of the 1st and 2nd provisional training regiments, Plattsburg, New York
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question...
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The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children
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Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl
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Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two
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Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"
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Christmas Sunshine
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Aunt Kitty's Stories
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Poems of To-Day: an Anthology
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Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
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Anthology of Massachusetts Poets
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Eyes of Youth A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Lindsay, Hugh Austin
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Leaves of Grass
Nearly 160 years after it was first published, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass continues to inspire, enthrall and educate generations of readers. This collection of poems serves as a vehicle for Whitman's philosophy, ideals, love of nature and mystical musings and it subsequently became one of the corner stones of American literature.
Whitman was inspired to write Leaves of Grass based on Ralph Waldo Emerson's clarion call for a truly American poet who would tell of its glories, virtues and vices...
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Specimen Days
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman’s scrap book. It documents most of his life’s adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.
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Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4
This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
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