Poems Every Child Should Know

<h3><SPAN name="Love_Between_Brothers_and_Sisters" id="Love_Between_Brothers_and_Sisters"></SPAN>Love Between Brothers and Sisters.</h3> <table class="poem" summary="poem"><tr><td><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Whatever brawls disturb the street,<br/></span> <span class="i2">There should be peace at home;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Where sisters dwell and brothers meet,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Quarrels should never come.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Birds in their little nests agree;<br/></span> <span class="i2">And 'tis a shameful sight,<br/></span> <span class="i0">When children of one family<br/></span> <span class="i2">Fall out and chide and fight.<br/></span></div> </td></tr></table> <p class="quotsig"><span class="smcap">Isaac Watts.</span></p> <h3><SPAN name="The_Bluebell_of_Scotland" id="The_Bluebell_of_Scotland"></SPAN>The Bluebell of Scotland.</h3> <table class="poem" summary="poem"><tr><td><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Oh where! and oh where! is your Highland laddie gone?<br/></span> <span class="i0">He's gone to fight the French for King George upon the throne;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And it's oh! in my heart how I wish him safe at home.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Oh where! and oh where! does your Highland laddie dwell?<br/></span> <span class="i0">He dwells in merry Scotland at the sign of the Bluebell;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And it's oh! in my heart that I love my laddie well.<br/></span></div> </td></tr></table> <h3><SPAN name="If_I_Had_But_Two_Little_Wings" id="If_I_Had_But_Two_Little_Wings"></SPAN>If I Had But Two Little Wings.</h3> <div class="pre_poem"><p>"If I Had But Two Little Wings," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), is recommended by a number of teachers and school-girls.</p> </div> <table class="poem" summary="poem"><tr><td><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If I had but two little wings<br/></span> <span class="i2">And were a little feathery bird,<br/></span> <span class="i4">To you I'd fly, my dear!<br/></span> <span class="i0">But thoughts like these are idle things<br/></span> <span class="i4">And I stay here.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">But in my sleep to you I fly:<br/></span> <span class="i2">I'm always with you in my sleep!<br/></span> <span class="i4">The world is all one's own.<br/></span> <span class="i0">And then one wakes, and where am I?<br/></span> <span class="i4">All, all alone.<br/></span></div> </td></tr></table> <p class="quotsig"><span class="smcap">Samuel T. Coleridge.</span></p> <h3><SPAN name="A_Farewell" id="A_Farewell"></SPAN>A Farewell.</h3> <div class="pre_poem"><p>"A Farewell," by Charles Kingsley (1819-75), makes it seem worth while to be good.</p> </div> <table class="poem" summary="poem"><tr><td><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">My fairest child, I have no song to give you;<br/></span> <span class="i2">No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you<br/></span> <span class="i16">For every day.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Do noble things, not dream them all day long:<br/></span> <span class="i0">And so make life, death, and that vast forever<br/></span> <span class="i16">One grand, sweet song.<br/></span></div> </td></tr></table> <p class="quotsig"><span class="smcap">Charles Kingsley.</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />