Poems That Every Child Should Know/Index of Authors

INDEX OF AUTHORS

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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, 6
The Days of the Month, 7
The Boy who Never Told a Lie, 19
The Bluebell of Scotland, 20
The Nautilus and the Ammonite, 188
A Ballad for a Boy, 236
Arnold, Matthew
The Forsaken Merman, 260
Austin, Alfred
To America, 335

Barbauld, A. L.
Life, I Know Not What Thou Art, 299
Bennett, Henry Holcomb
The Flag Goes By, 133
Blake, William
A Dream, 116
Bowles, William Lisle
The Butterfly and the Bee, 42
Bradley, Mary Emily
A Chrysalis, 149
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Little Things, 5
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
From Casa Guida Windows, 222
A Musical Instrument, 275
Browning, Robert
Pippa, 6
An Incident of the French Camp, 43
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, 173
Rabbi Ben Ezra, 312
Prospice, 320
Hervé Riel, 326
Bryant, William Cullen
Robert of Lincoln, 44
The Planting of the Apple Tree, 211
Burns, Robert
John Barleycorn, 83
To a Mouse, 92
To a Mountain Daisy, 94
Bannockburn, 142
For a' That, 151
The Banks o' Doon, 265
John Anderson, 274
Burroughs, John
My Own Shall Come to Me, 267
Burt, Mary E.
The Flying Squirrel, 60
Byron, Lord
The Destruction of Sennacherib, 158
The Eve of Waterloo, 177

Cable, George W.
The New Arrival, 152
Campbell, Thomas
The Rainbow, 53
Lord Ullin's Daughter, 105
Hohenlinden, 134
Carroll, Lewis
Father William, 33
Coleridge, Samuel T.
He Prayeth Best, 5
If I Had But Two Little Wings, 21
Collins, William
How Sleep the Brave, 133
Coolidge, Susan
How the Leaves Came Down, 12
Cowper, William
The Nightingale and the Glow-worm, 34
The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, 190

Dickens, Charles
The Ivy Green, 59
Douglas, William
Annie Laurie, 226
Dyer, Edward
Contentment, 286
Eliot, George
The Choir Invisible, 303
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The Problem, 333

Field, Eugene
Wynken, Blynken and Nod, 16
The Duel, 18
Krinken, 162
Fields, James T.
The Captain's Daughter, 23
Foster, Stephen Collins
My Old Kentucky Home, 136
Old Folks at Home, 137

Gould, Hannah Flagg
The Frost, 39
A Name in the Sand, 256
Gray, Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 306

Greene, Albert Gorton
Old Grimes, 47

Halleck, Fitz-Greene
Marco Bozarris, 128
Hemans, Felicia
Casabianca, 22
The Homes of England, 192
The Landing of the Pilgrims, 229
The Voice of Spring, 259
Hood, Thomas
I Remember, I Remember, 159
Hogg, James
A Boy's Song, 50
The Skylark, 302
Holland, J. G
Heaven is Not Reached at a Single Bound, 117
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Old Ironsides, 53
The Chambered Nautilus, 122
Howitt, Mary
Buttercups and Daisies, 51
Hunt Leigh
Abou Ben Adhem, 89
The Glove and the Lions, 184
Cupid Drowned, 234

Ingelow, Jean
The Brides of Enderby, 277

 

Jonson, Ben
The Noble Nature, 60

Keats, John
Fairy Song, 50
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, 326
Key, Francis Scott
The Star-Spangled Banner, 31
Kingsley, Charles
A Farewell, 21
The Sands of Dee. 271
 Kipling, Rudyard
True Royalty, 7
Playing Robinson Crusoe, 8
The Overland Mail, 125
The Ballad of the Clampner-down, 154
L'Envoi, 285
Recessional, 321
The English Flag, 337
Knox, William
Mortality, 323

Lanier, Sidney
The Tournament, 110
Barnacles, 219
Lear, Edward
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, 15
Liddell, Catherine C.
Jesus the Carpenter, 114
Longfellow, Henry W.
The Arrow and the Song, 3
The Village Blacksmith, 25
Hiawatha's Childhood, 79
The Wreck of the Hesperus, 138
A Psalm of Life, 218
The Ship of State, 227
The Skeleton in Armour, 240
Lowell, James Russell
The Finding of the Lyre, 148
The Shepherd of King Admetus, 171
June, 217
Lyly, John
Cupid and My Campasbe, 235
Lyte, Henry Francis
Abide With Me, 223

Macaulay, Thomas B.
Ivy, 179
Horatius at the Bridge, 193
Macdonald, George
Little White Lily, 10
The Wind and the Moon, 111
Mackay, Charles
Song of Life, 48
Markham, Edwin
The Man With the Hoe, 34
McClellan, Isaac
The Death of Napoleon, 131
Miller, Joaquin
Columbus, 169
Miller, Katherine
Stevenson's Birthday, 164
Miller, William
Willie Winkie, 13
Milton, John
On His Blindness, 304
Montgomery, James
Arnold von Winkleried, 296
Moore, Clement Clarke
A Visit from St. Nicholas, 29
Moore, Thomas
The Last Rose of Summer, 234
Cupid Stung, 234
The Light of Other Days, 266
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Hall, 287
Morris, George Pope
Woodman, Spare That Tree 222
 
Newman, John Henry
Lead, Kindly Light, 224

Osborne, Selleck
A Modest Wit, 165
Osgood, Kate Putnam
Driving Home the Cows, 160

Payne, John Howard
Home, Sweet Home, 220
Pierpont, John
Warren's Address, 63
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Raven, 289

Pope, Alexander
Solitude, 273

 

Raleigh, Sir Walter
The Lye, 283
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames
The Babie, 4
Read, Thomas Buchanan
Sheridan's Ride, 68
Riley, James Whitcomb
Little Orphant Annie, 54
Rogers, Samuel
A Wish, 272

 

Sargent, Epes
A Life on the Ocean Wave, 85
Scott, Sir Walter
Lochinvar, 103
The Gathering Song of Donald Dhu, 126
Shakespeare, William
Ingratitude, 58
Mercy, 300
Polonius' Advice, 301
A Fragment from Julius Cæsar, 301
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Ode to a Skylark, 268
Ozymandias in the Desert, 322
Smith, Samuel Francis
America, 228
Southey, Robert
The Battle of Blenheim, 117
The Inchcape Rock, 145
The Legend of Bishop Hatto, 166
The Well of St. Keyne, 186
Stevenson, Robert Louis
My Shadow, 9

 

Taylor, Bayard
The Song in Camp, 64
Taylor, Jane
The Violet, 27
Tennyson, Alfred
Sweet and Low, 27
The Owl, 40
The Bugle Song, 66
Lady Clare, 72

The Lord of Burleigh, 75
The Death of the Old Year, 86
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 107
Crossing the Bar, 124
The Brook, 153
The Lotos Eaters, 131
The Revenge, 246
Sir Galahad, 253
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Little Billee, 41
Thaxter, Celia
The Sandpiper, 71
Thomas, Edith
Moly, 233
The God of Music, 275
Trowbridge, J. T.
Farmyard Song, 90
Turner, Charles Tennyson
Letty's Globe, 115

 

Watts, Isaac
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite, 4
Love Between Brothers and Sisters, 20
Whitman, Walt
O Captain! My Captain! 57
Song of Myself, 344
Whittier, John G.
The Three Bells of Glasgow, 67
Barbara Frietchie, 96
Wolfe, C.
The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 176
Woodworth, Samuel
The Old Oaken Bucket, 288
Wordsworth, William
The Rainbow (a fragment), 28
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, 82
Fidelity, 120
Lucy, 272
The World is Too Much With Us, 304
She Was a Phantom of Delight, 305
Wotton, Sir Henry
A Happy Life, 220