Poems Every Child Should Know
Joseph Pearce
Poetry is meant for everyone.
For you. For your child. But where to start?
Poems Every Child Should Know is here to help.
Selected and accompanied by commentary from bestselling author and literature professor Joseph Pearce, this exciting collection of verse contains classic poems that every child should know to begin a poetic ascent towards God. Not only that, but these poems are chosen so as to help all "become as little children," and are ones everyone should know, regardless of age. These timeless treasures form a foundation upon which to build poetic knowledge and to see the world through the eyes of a poet, the way God intended it.
Culled from the rich history of English poetry, these gems of the English language’s inheritance are meant to enrich our children’s cultural treasure chest. Verse, like virtue, is often most beautiful when it is most simple. A good beginning makes a good end all the more likely, so immersing children in beautiful words—words which so powerfully and continually shape our world, our thoughts, our prayers—and teaching them to take a minute and stop to observe a beautiful sentence is of the utmost importance. Appreciating beauty in even the most ordinary of life’s moments is a lesson that will prepare their minds to receive Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Himself.
Throughout the book, readers will find “things to think about,” inviting them to engage more deeply with individual poems. These should be seen as an invitation to an adventure into unknown territory, an opportunity to go further up and further in. Be fearless, be adventurous, and enjoy this journey into the realm of the good, the true, and the beautiful of our English language.
Duration - 6h 55m.
Author - Joseph Pearce.
Narrator - Kevin O'Brien.
Published Date - Sunday, 01 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2022 Joseph Pearce ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Poetry is meant for everyone. For you. For your child. But where to start? Poems Every Child Should Know is here to help. Selected and accompanied by commentary from bestselling author and literature professor Joseph Pearce, this exciting collection of verse contains classic poems that every child should know to begin a poetic ascent towards God. Not only that, but these poems are chosen so as to help all "become as little children," and are ones everyone should know, regardless of age. These timeless treasures form a foundation upon which to build poetic knowledge and to see the world through the eyes of a poet, the way God intended it. Culled from the rich history of English poetry, these gems of the English language’s inheritance are meant to enrich our children’s cultural treasure chest. Verse, like virtue, is often most beautiful when it is most simple. A good beginning makes a good end all the more likely, so immersing children in beautiful words—words which so powerfully and continually shape our world, our thoughts, our prayers—and teaching them to take a minute and stop to observe a beautiful sentence is of the utmost importance. Appreciating beauty in even the most ordinary of life’s moments is a lesson that will prepare their minds to receive Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Himself. Throughout the book, readers will find “things to think about,” inviting them to engage more deeply with individual poems. These should be seen as an invitation to an adventure into unknown territory, an opportunity to go further up and further in. Be fearless, be adventurous, and enjoy this journey into the realm of the good, the true, and the beautiful of our English language. Duration - 6h 55m. Author - Joseph Pearce. Narrator - Kevin O'Brien. Published Date - Sunday, 01 January 2023. Copyright - © 2022 Joseph Pearce ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:28
Publisher's Note
Duration:00:06:03
How to Enjoy this Book
Duration:00:04:09
Part One: Poems for Younger Children
Duration:00:00:18
Selections from Mother Goose
Duration:00:02:11
Old King Cole
Duration:00:00:30
Its Bitsy Spider
Duration:00:00:23
London Bridge is Falling Down
Duration:00:01:45
The Days of the Month
Duration:00:00:21
My Lady Wind
Duration:00:00:56
Little Robin Redbreast
Duration:00:00:34
Little Boy Blue
Duration:00:00:18
Frère Jacques
Duration:00:00:34
Pop Goes the Weasel
Duration:00:00:20
St. Swithin's day
Duration:00:00:17
The Bells of London Town
Duration:00:01:12
Peter Piper
Duration:00:00:16
Humpty Dumpty
Duration:00:00:16
Four Brothers Over the Sea
Duration:00:01:32
Two, Three and Four Legs
Duration:00:00:42
Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
Duration:00:00:15
One Old Oxford Ox
Duration:00:00:55
Little Miss Muffet
Duration:00:00:19
The House That Jack Built
Duration:00:01:57
Handy-Spandy
Duration:00:00:15
When a Twister a Twisting
Duration:00:00:43
Ride a Cock-Horse
Duration:00:00:17
There Were Two Blackbirds
Duration:00:00:19
Over the Water and Over the Lea
Duration:00:00:36
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son
Duration:00:00:19
A Was an Archer
Duration:00:01:45
Merry Are the Bells
Duration:00:00:49
Solomon Grundy
Duration:00:00:23
Hey! Diddle, Diddle
Duration:00:00:15
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Duration:00:00:18
There Was an Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket
Duration:00:00:35
Jack and Jill
Duration:00:00:16
The Spider and the Fly
Duration:00:04:19
Early to Bed
Duration:00:00:12
When Little Fred
Duration:00:00:25
I Saw a Ship a Sailing
Duration:00:00:41
Ladybug Ladybug
Duration:00:00:20
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Duration:00:00:21
Little Jack Horner
Duration:00:00:16
Bow Wow Says the Dog
Duration:00:00:39
The Champions of Christendom
Duration:00:03:02
I Have Seen You, Little Mouse
Duration:00:00:42
Bryan O'Lin
Duration:00:00:20
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
Duration:00:00:34
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Duration:00:00:16
There Was a Crooked Man
Duration:00:00:19
Pussy-Cat, Pussy-Cat
Duration:00:00:18
Where Should a Baby Rest?
Duration:00:00:54
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Duration:00:00:15
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Duration:00:01:01
The Little Clock
Duration:00:00:25
In Marble Walls
Duration:00:00:33
This Old Man
Duration:00:01:31
God Bless the Master of This House
Duration:00:00:24
Birds, Beasts and Fishes
Duration:00:03:28
My Little Brother
Duration:00:00:24
An Apple Pie
Duration:00:00:22
As Little Jenny Wren
Duration:00:00:20
Hey, My Kitten, My Kitten
Duration:00:00:24
January Brings the Snow
Duration:00:01:23
Bye, Baby Bunting
Duration:00:00:17
Five Little Ducks
Duration:00:00:52
He We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Duration:00:00:57
My Hat It has Three Corners
Duration:00:00:14
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Duration:00:02:20
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Duration:00:00:30
Turkey in the Straw
Duration:00:01:29
The Farmer in the Dell
Duration:00:01:02
Old Macdonald Had a Farm
Duration:00:01:55
Five Little Monkeys
Duration:00:00:51
The Muffin Man
Duration:00:00:22
Oh Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone
Duration:00:00:27
Six Little Ducks
Duration:00:01:15
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
Duration:00:00:13
Ten in the Bed
Duration:00:01:15
Part Two: Poems for Children of All Ages
Duration:00:00:18
Geoffrey Chaucer
Duration:00:00:39
From The General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales
Duration:00:02:58
William Shakespeare
Duration:00:00:24
Saint Crispin's Day Speech
Duration:00:04:15
All the World's a Stage
Duration:00:03:09
The Quality of Mercy
Duration:00:02:01
Richard Lovelace
Duration:00:00:42
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Duration:00:01:29
William Blake
Duration:00:00:30
The Lamb
Duration:00:01:40
The Clod and the Pebble
Duration:00:01:30
The Tiger
Duration:00:01:54
Jerusalem
Duration:00:01:31
Robert Burns
Duration:00:00:34
A Red, Red Rose
Duration:00:01:45
Scots, Wha Hae
Duration:00:01:47
James Hogg
Duration:00:00:19
A Boy's Song
Duration:00:01:23
William Wordsworth
Duration:00:00:33
Daffodils
Duration:00:02:32
Sir Walter Scott
Duration:00:00:23
Lochinvar
Duration:00:04:26
John Keats
Duration:00:00:31
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Duration:00:04:13
Saint John Henry Newman
Duration:00:00:31
The Pilgrim Queen - A Song
Duration:00:03:48
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Duration:00:00:36
The Mountain and the Squirrel
Duration:00:01:17
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Duration:00:00:30
The Song of Hiawatha - An Excerpt
Duration:00:14:25
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - An Excerpt
Duration:00:03:34
Paul Revere's Ride
Duration:00:07:29
The Village Blacksmith
Duration:00:03:41
Excelsior
Duration:00:04:14
The Children's Hour
Duration:00:02:02
Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior
Duration:00:00:24
Old Ironsides
Duration:00:01:56
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Duration:00:00:34
The Eagle
Duration:00:00:28
The Lady of Shalott
Duration:00:10:32
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Duration:00:02:49
Robert Browning
Duration:00:00:39
Pippa's Song
Duration:00:00:45
Edward Lear
Duration:00:00:25
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Duration:00:01:31
William Brighty Rands
Duration:00:00:26
Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World
Duration:00:02:15
Coventry Patmore
Duration:00:00:38
The Toys
Duration:00:02:16
Magna Est Veritas
Duration:00:01:16
Emily Dickinson
Duration:00:00:32
There is No Frigate like a Book
Duration:00:01:18
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Duration:00:00:48
Christina Rossetti
Duration:00:00:38
What
Duration:00:00:32
City Mouse and Garden Mouse
Duration:00:00:31
An Emerald Is as Green as Grass
Duration:00:00:57
Prettier Than These
Duration:00:01:08
If All Were Rain and Never Sun
Duration:00:00:50
Lady of the Land
Duration:00:01:20
A Rose has Thorns as well as Honey
Duration:00:02:32
If Stars Dropped Out of Heaven
Duration:00:00:30
What Do the Stars Do?
Duration:00:01:16
Baby Lies So Fast Asleep
Duration:00:00:35
Motherless Baby
Duration:00:00:45
A Christmas Carol
Duration:00:02:13
Lewis Carroll
Duration:00:00:29
Jabberwocky
Duration:00:01:45
The Crocodile
Duration:00:00:28
Algernon Chares Swinburne
Duration:00:00:30
A Baby's Feet
Duration:00:00:42
Charles Warren Stoddard
Duration:00:00:36
Ave-Maria Bells
Duration:00:01:53
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Duration:00:00:27
Pied Beauty
Duration:00:01:39
Rosa Mystica
Duration:00:05:04
Eugene Field
Duration:00:00:18
Wynken, Blynken and Nod
Duration:00:02:12
Robert Louis Stevenson
Duration:00:00:31
Winter-Time
Duration:00:01:13
Picture Books in Winter
Duration:00:01:02
Summer Sun
Duration:00:01:41
Block City
Duration:00:01:59
The Wind
Duration:00:01:18
Nest Eggs
Duration:00:01:38
My Shadow
Duration:00:01:26
Bed in Summer
Duration:00:01:00
North-West Passage
Duration:00:03:38
The Land of Story-Books
Duration:00:01:15
The Land of Nod
Duration:00:00:54
The Whole Duty of Children
Duration:00:00:18
To Any Reader
Duration:00:01:19
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Duration:00:00:24
A Little Song of Life
Duration:00:01:17
A Christmas Folk Song
Duration:00:01:05
The Good Joan
Duration:00:01:33
Francis Thompson
Duration:00:00:29
Motto and Invocation
Duration:00:01:43
To a Snowflake
Duration:00:01:26
Kenneth Grahame
Duration:00:00:16
The Song of Mr. Toad
Duration:00:01:01
Ernest Thayer
Duration:00:00:19
Casey at the Bat
Duration:00:05:02
Rudyard Kipling
Duration:00:00:30
If
Duration:00:03:51
Recessional
Duration:00:02:55
Beatrix Potter
Duration:00:00:40
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes - Excerpts
Duration:00:00:44
Hilaire Belloc
Duration:00:00:35
Child!
Duration:00:00:51
Introduction
Duration:00:01:07
The Yak
Duration:00:00:43
The Polar Bear
Duration:00:00:16
The Lion
Duration:00:00:19
The Hippopotamus
Duration:00:00:15
The Dodo
Duration:00:00:25
The Marmozet
Duration:00:00:15
The Frog
Duration:00:00:36
The Vulture
Duration:00:00:25