Poems Every Child Should Know

This collection of poems, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may not be as familiar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize.

An outstanding collection of poems that appeal to both boys and girls.

In the author’s words, children should build for their future - and get, while they are children, what only the fresh imagination of the child can assimilate.

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.

The collection includes poems by William Blake, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Burroughs, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Coleridge, William Cowper, Charles Dickens, George Elliot, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Longfellow, John Milton, Thomas Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespear, Walt Whitman. Includes such classics from "Oh Captain, My Captain" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" to bedtime poems such as "Wynken, Blinken and Nod."

It will bring endless hours of joy to you and your family!