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What if a poem learned in childhood could stay with you for life?
Poems Every Child Should Know brings well-loved English and American verse together for young readers and the adults who read with them. Editor Mary E. Burt, an American teacher and writer on education, chooses poems to learn by heart. Her collection invites you to make room for poetry at home or in the classroom, one remembered line at a time.
The collection draws mainly on poets of the nineteenth century and earlier, with voices such as Longfellow, Tennyson, Whittier and Stevenson. Strong rhythm and clear rhyme give readers sounds to hold on to. Alongside the pleasure of verse come lessons in courage, kindness, work and love of country, as well as wonder at the natural world.
What you’ll discover
- Verse to carry with you Find poems chosen for children to learn by heart and keep through life.
- A gathering of voices Meet English and American verse brought together by a teacher who values poetry in childhood.
- Rhythm you can remember Enjoy strong rhythms and clear rhymes that help a poem settle into memory.
- Lessons woven into poetry Explore courage, kindness and work through poems that reflect the values of Burt's age.
- Words to share aloud Read with a child beside you and share the sound and pleasure of verse.
Who will love it
Parents, teachers and grandparents who like reading verse aloud, and anyone who wants the songs and ballads that schoolrooms once shared, from Longfellow and Tennyson to Burns, Browning and Kipling.
What’s inside
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- Children help shape the collection
- Lullabies and bedtime songs appear early in the book
- Nonsense and humour keep children coming back
- Nature poems teach children to look closely
- Ballads of courage give boys and girls heroes
- Some poems ask hard questions about war and mercy
- Stories in verse carry morals about hearts and pride
- Home, country and festival songs bind a community
- Later poems grow with the reader into life and faith
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Which poems do children ask to learn by heart? Mary E.
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Children help shape the collection
The editor, Mary E. Burt, built this book from her own teaching. She gathered the poems that children asked for, learned by heart and recited week after week. Her notes often recall a pupil's favourite, but some explain a lesson or a memory of her own.
The first poem sets the tone. The Arrow and the Song stands at the front because a six-year-old girl loved to recite it to her. Another poem is there for a ten-year-old boy who was moved by a line about a baby with no wings. A third was picked by an eight-year-old who studied it through a whole year of weekly poetry hours.
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What is Poems Every Child Should Know about?
It is an anthology of verse chosen by teacher Mary E. Burt, covering lullabies, humorous poems, nature poems, ballads of courage, songs of home and country, and reflective poems on life and death. Many have short notes.
Who chose the poems in this collection?
Mary E. Burt, a teacher, chose them, often because children in her classes asked to learn them. Her notes mention pupils aged from six to twenty who loved particular poems, along with recommendations from other teachers.
Which famous poets appear in the collection?
The poets include Longfellow, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Burns, Browning, Kipling, Stevenson, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Whitman, Poe and Shakespeare, together with writers of well-loved songs and some anonymous pieces.
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