Poems Every Child Should Know: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems Every Child Should Know, credited to Burt, Mary E., is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Poems Every Child Should Know, edited by Mary E. Burt. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems Every Child Should Know
• Author credits: Burt, Mary E.
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 81
• Listed recording duration: 8:07:47

Catalogue topics

• children
• poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 81

1. 01 - Preface — 5:08
2. 02 - The Arrow and the Song; The Babie; Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite; Little Drops of Water; He Prayeth Best; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Spring's at the Morn; The Days of the Month — 6:24
3. 03 - True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily — 5:21
4. 04 - How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat — 5:58
5. 05 - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel — 4:36
6. 06 - The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of Scotland; Two Little Wings; Farewell — 4:14
7. 07 - Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter — 3:51
8. 08 - The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow — 5:51
9. 09 - A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner — 6:03
10. 10 - Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm — 3:55
11. 11 - Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie — 5:27
12. 12 - The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln — 6:44
13. 13 - Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song — 4:29
14. 14 - A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides — 5:05
15. 15 - Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain — 5:24
16. 16 - Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel — 6:41
17. 17 - Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song — 5:28
18. 18 - The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride — 6:01
19. 19 - The Sandpiper; Lady Clare — 6:49
20. 20 - The Lord of Burleigh — 4:54
21. 21 - Hiawatha's Childhood — 4:52
22. 22 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave — 5:35
23. 23 - The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem — 4:31
24. 24 - A Farm-Yard Song — 3:36

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