Poems Every Child Should Know
Variousandmary E. Burt
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
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. (8 hr 7 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 5:08 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Arrow and the Song; The Babie; Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite; Little Dr… | 6:24 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| True Royalty; Playing Robinson Crusoe; My Shadow; Little White Lily | 5:20 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| How the Leaves Came Down; Wee Willie Winkie; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | 5:58 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; The Duel | 4:36 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Boy Who Never Told a Lie; Whatever Brawls Disturb the Street; Bluebell of S… | 4:13 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Casabianca; The Captain's Daughter | 3:50 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Village Blacksmith; Sweet and Low; The Violet; The Rainbow | 5:51 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| A Visit from St. Nicholas; The Star-Spangled Banner | 6:03 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Father William; The Nightingale and the Glow-worm | 3:55 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Jack Frost; The Owl; Little Billie | 5:26 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Butterfly and the Bee; An Incident of the French Camp; Robert of Lincoln | 6:43 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Old Grimes; Song of Life; Fairy Song | 4:29 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| A Boy's Song; Buttercups and Daisies; The Rainbow; Old Ironsides | 5:04 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Little Orphant Annie; O Captain My Captain | 5:23 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Ingratitude; The Ivy Green; The Noble Nature; The Flying Squirrel | 6:40 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Warren's Address; The Song in Camp; The Bugle Song | 5:28 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Three Bells of Glasgow; Sheridan's Ride | 6:00 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Sandpiper; Lady Clare | 6:48 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Lord of Burleigh | 4:53 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Hiawatha's Childhood | 4:52 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave | 5:34 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Death of the Old Year; Abou Ben Adhem | 4:31 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Farm-Yard Song, A | 3:35 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy | 5:56 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Barbara Frietchie | 3:35 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Lochinvar | 3:41 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Lord Ullin's Daughter; The Charge of the Light Brigade | 5:11 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Tournament; The Wind and the Moon | 5:08 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Jesus the Carpenter; Letty's Globe; A Dream; Heaven is not Reached at a Single … | 5:14 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Battle of Blenheim | 3:30 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Fidelity; The Chambered Nautilus | 6:17 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Crossing the Bar; The Overland-Mail; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu | 5:47 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Marco Bozzaris | 5:48 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Death of Napoleon; How Sleep the Brave; The Flag Goes By; Hohenlinden; My O… | 7:54 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Old Folks at Home; The Wreck of the Hesperus | 6:10 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Robert Bruce's Address to his Army; The Inchcape Rock | 6:00 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Finding of the Lyre; A Chrysalis | 4:44 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| For a' That and a' That; The New Arrival | 4:50 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Brook; The Ballad of the Clampherdown | 6:19 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib; I Remember, I Remember; Driving Home the Cows | 6:02 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Krinken; Stevenson's Birthday | 4:07 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| A Modest Wit; The Legend of Bishop Hatto | 6:57 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Columbus; The Shepherd of King Admetus | 6:07 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| How They Brought The Good News From Ghent to Aix | 5:04 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna; The Eve of Waterloo | 6:10 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| King Henry of Navarre; Ivry | 6:25 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Glove and the Lions; The Well of St. Keyne | 5:26 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Nautilus and the Ammonite; The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk | 5:13 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Homes of England; Horatius at the Bridge (Part 1) | 11:39 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Horatius at the Bridge (pt. 2) | 11:50 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Planting of the Apple Tree | 4:24 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| June; A Psalm of Life; Barnacles | 5:27 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| A Happy Life; Home, Sweet Home; Juliet of Nations; Woodman, Spare That Tree | 5:41 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie | 4:52 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims | 5:40 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Lotos-Eaters; Moly | 5:39 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Cupid Drowned; Cupid Stung; Cupid and my Campasbe; A Ballad for a Boy | 8:52 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Skeleton in Armour | 6:35 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Revenge | 8:41 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Sir Galahad; A Name in the Sand | 6:17 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Voice of Spring; The Forsaken Merman | 10:52 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Banks o' Doon; The Light of Other Days; My Own Shall Come to Me | 4:58 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Ode to a Skylark; The Sands of Dee | 4:55 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| A Wish; Lucy; Solitude; John Anderson; The God of Music | 5:45 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| A Musical Instrument; The Brides of Enderby | 10:55 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Lye; L'Envoi | 4:47 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Contentment; The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls; The Old Oaken Bucket | 5:05 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Raven | 9:03 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Arnold Von Winkelried | 4:43 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Life I Know Not What Thou Art; Mercy; Polonius' Advice; Antony's Speech; The Sk… | 6:04 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Choir Invisible; The World is Too Much With Us; Sonnet on His Blindness; Sh… | 6:40 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | 8:48 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Rabbi Ben Ezra | 10:17 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Prospice; Recessional; Ozymandias of Egypt | 5:43 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Mortality; On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer | 5:56 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Herve Riel | 8:04 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Problem, The | 6:19 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| English Flag, The | 5:47 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| The Man With the Hoe | 4:11 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
| Song of Myself (excerpts) | 8:59 | Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) |
Reviews
Thank you Kara Shallenburg!
mrbilly
For using your lovely voice to make these delights available here on the internet.
I like this.
Danielle.
Beautiful poems, really.
Exquisite poetry for the young and young at heart
ListeninginChicago
I found this book after an internet search on "Hesperus". My mom (who is 75) mentioned that after being in the wind, her mom would often say she looked like the wreck of the Hesperus. Diving into the mystery of this odd saying, I came across the poem in this lovely book. (I can imagine my grandma memorizing poems when she was in grade school - and I think her life was richer for having lines of poetry buried in her mind to call out during her life.) This is an excellent collection that covers the gambit of classic children's poetry - from the simple (Twinkle Twinkle, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat), to the classic (The Raven), to the epic (How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix). A breadth of emotions are covered - there's plenty of lighthearted play, but balanced with some serious and challenging subjects. KayRay does an excellent job of bringing each of these poems to life. Some were quite familiar, for some, hearing the entire poem opened up a new understanding of the one or two familiar lines I knew, and some were entirely new gems. One of the best audio books I have listened to!
Fabulous
jenny
As usual Kayray is marvelous. The poems are a delight and I plan to share them with my grandchildren so they stay "alive".
OMG!
A LibriVox Listener
I can't believe you have this book. I have my mother's copy from her childhood, 1916. She read for me when I was a child. We memorized many together.
poems are the best thing ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
story girl
If you don't like this poem book you must be stupid.
Hooray for Kara S.
soncherie@aol.com
Can't begin to thank you enough for all of your hard work and wonderful joy that you bring to so many. You are a very special person. I will continue and also share your readings and give your nice gifts to others for tons of enjoyment for them. (But you get the mucho credit. I'll try to do what I think is nice too. Thanks again, for your inspiration and ideas. Peace and love...
Reader and Poems
Alimager
Beside the poems being short and not boring for children, each one of them had a unique message within. Also Kara's soft and friendly voice was very calming and positive. Thanks to everyone