すべての子供が知っておくべき詩 Poems That Every Child Should Know

バーネットの『白いひと The White People』の献辞に掲げられたジョン・バローズの詩をWEBで探索していたときに出会ったのが、メアリー・エリザベス・バート Mary Elizabeth Burt, 1850-1918 の編んだ Poems That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Poems of All Times for Young People (初版 1904) でした。

 

　　バートというのはイリノイ州の学校の先生をしてからシカゴの教育局に入って、青少年に啓蒙的な古典（プラトンとか）や文学のアンソロジーを編むだけでなく、個別の作家（バローズとかユージーン・フィールドとか）のアンソロジーを編集した女性の文人のようです。

　　この本は、現在も例のKessinger が復刻版を出しています。でも Internet Archive に音源もテクストも入っているし、Project Gutenberg でも E-text 化されている。そして、文学史でとりあげられるような詩人だけでなくて、スティーヴン・フォスターの歌謡も入っています（90番の「ケンタッキーの我が家 My Old Kentucky Home」と91番の「故郷の人々 Old Folks at Home」）。Bates の "America the Beautiful" は入ってないけれど、アメリカ国歌は入っています。

　　これらの詩を全部知ってる子供がいたら、賢いだろうなあ、と思います。

   六部構成で、全187篇。350ページを超える本です。詩のタイトルのあとに解説が添えられています。ううむ。51番は自分の作品ではないですか。お茶目というか厚顔というか。

PART I  The Budding Moment 
      1. "The Arrow and the Song"    HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
      2. "The Babie"                       JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN
      3. "Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite"  ISAAC WATTS
      4. "Little Things"                    EBENEZER COBHAM BREWER
      5. "He Prayeth Best"               SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE
      6. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"     ANONYMOUS
      7. "Pippa"                              ROBERT BROWNING
      8. "The Days of the Month"      AN OLD SONG
      9. "True Royalty"                    RUDYARD KIPLING
    10. "Playing Robinson Crusoe"    RUDYARD KIPLING
    11. "My Shadow"                       ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    12. "Little White Lily"                GEORGE MACDONALD
    13. "How the Leaves Came Down"    SUSAN COOLIDGE
    14. "Willie Winkie"                    WILLIAM MILLER
    15. "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"  EDWARD LEAR
    16. "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"   EUGENE FIELD
    17. "The Duel"                           EUGENE FIELD
    18. "The Boy Who Never Told a Lie"      ANONYMOUS
    19. "Love Between Brothers and Sisters"     ISAAC WATTS
    20. "The Bluebell of Scotland"       ANONYMOUS
    21. "If I Had But Two Little Wings"    SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE
    22. "A Farewell"                         CHARLES KINGSLEY
    23. "Casablanca"                        FELICIA HEMANS
    24. "The Captain's Daughter"       JAMES T. FIELDS
    25. "The Village Blacksmith"       HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
    26. "Sweet and Low"                  ALFRED TENNYSON
    27. "The Violet"                        JANE TAYLOR
    28. "The Rainbow (a Fragment)"   WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
    29. "A Visit From St. Nicholas"     CLEMENT CLARKE MOORS
    30. "The Star-Spangled Banner"    FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
    31. "Father William"                   LEWIS CARROLL
    32. "The Nightingale and the Glow-worm"     WILLIAM COWPER
PART II  The Little Child
    33. "The Frost"                          HANNAH FLAGG GOULD
    34. "The Owl"                           ALFRED TENNYSON
    35. "Little Billee"                      WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
    36. "The Butterfly and the Bee"   WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
    37. "An Incident of the French Camp"    ROBERT BROWNING
    38. "Robert of Lincoln"               WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
    39. "Old Grimes"                       ALBERT GORTON GREENE
    40. "Song of Life"                     CHARLES MACKAY
    41. "Fairy Song"                       JOHN KEATS
    42. "A Boy's Song"                   JAMES HOGG
    43. "Buttercups and Daisies"     MARY HOWITT
    44. "The Rainbow"                   THOMAS CAMPBELL
    45. "Old Ironsides"                  OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
    46. "Little Orphans Annie"        JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
    47. "O Captain! My Captain!"     WALT WHITMAN
    48. "Ingratitude"                     WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    49. "The Ivy Green"                 CHARLES DICKENS
    50. "The Noble Nature"            BEN JONSON
    51. "The Flying Squirrel"           MARY E. BURT
    52. "Warren's Address"            JOHN PIERPONT
    53. "The Song in Camp"            BAYARD TAYLOR
    54. "The Bugle Song"               ALFRED TENNYSON
    55. "The Three Bells of Glasgow"   JOHN G. WHITTIER
    56. "Sheridan's Ride"               THOMAS BUCHANAN READ
    57. "The Sandpiper"                 CELIA THAXTER
    58. "Lady Clare"                      ALFRED TENNYSON
    59. "The Lord of Burleigh"         ALFRED TENNYSON
    60. "Hiawatha's Childhood"       HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
    61. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
    62. "John Barleycorn"               ROBERT BURNS
    63. "A Life on the Ocean Wave"    EPES SARGENT
    64. "The Death of the Old Year"   ALFRED TENNYSON
    65. "Abou Ben Adhem"             LEIGH HUNT
    66. "Farm-Yard Song"               J. T. TROWBRIDGE
    67. "To a Mouse"                     ROBERT BURNS
    68. "To a Mountain Daisy"         ROBERT BURNS
    69. "Barbara Frietchie"             JOHN G. WHITTIER
PART III  The Day's at the Morn
    70. "Lochinvar"                       SIR WALTER SCOTT
    71. "Lord Ullin's Daughter"        THOMAS CAMPBELL
    72. "The Charge of the Light Brigade"    ALFRED TENNYSON
    73. "The Tournament"              SIDNEY LANIER
    74. "The Wind and the Moon"    GEORGE MACDONALD
    75. "Jesus the Carpenter"         CATHERINE C. LIDDELL
    76. "Letty's Globe"                  CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER
    77. "A Dream"                         WILLIAM BLAKE
    78. "Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound"    J.G. HOLLAND
    79. "The Battle of Blenheim"    ROBERT SOUTHEY
    80. "Fidelity"                          WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
    81. "The Chambered Nautilus"   OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
    82. "Crossing the Bar"              ALFRED TENNYSON
    83. "The Overland-Mail"            RUDYARD KIPLING
    84. "Gathering Song of Donald Dhu"   SIR WALTER SCOTT
    85. "Marco Bozzaris"                FITZ-GREENE HALLECK
    86. "The Death of Napoleon"     ISAAC MCCLELLAN
    87. "How Sleep the Brave"        WILLIAM COLLINS
    88. "The Flag Goes By"             HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT
    89. "Hohenlinden"                   THOMAS CAMPBELL
    90. "My Old Kentucky Home"     STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
    91. "Old Folks at Home"           STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER
    92. "The Wreck of the Hesperus"   HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
    93. "Bannockburn"                   ROBERT BURNS
PART IV  Lad and Lassie
    94. "The Inchcape Rock"           ROBERT SOUTHEY
    95. "The Finding of the Lyre"     JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
    96. "A Chrysalis"                     MARY EMILY BRADLEY
    97. "For a' That"                      ROBERT BURNS
    98. "The New Arrival"               GEORGE W. CABLE
    99. "The Brook"                       ALFRED T ENNYSON
  100. "The Ballad of the Clampherdown"   RUDYARD KIPLING
  101. "The Destruction of Sennacherib"   LORD BYRON
  102. "I Remember, I Remember"  THOMAS HOOD
  103. "Driving Home the COWS"    KATE PUTNAM OSGOE
  104. "Krinken"                           EUGENE FIELD
  105. "Stevenson's Birthday"        KATHERINE MILLER
  106. "A Modest Wit"                  SELLECK OSBORNE
  107. "The Legend of Bishop Hatto"  ROBERT SOUTHEY
  108. "Columbus"                       JOAQUIN MILLER
  109. "The Shepherd of King Admetus"   JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
  110. "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
        　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ROBERT BROWNING
  111. "The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna"  C. WOLFE
  112. "The Eve of Waterloo"         LORD BYRON
  113. "Ivry"                               THOMAS B. MACAULAY
  114. "The Glove and the Lions"    LEIGH HUNT
  115. "The Well of St. Keyne"       ROBERT SOUTHEY
  116. "The Nautilus and the Ammonite"    ANONYMOUS
  117. "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk"   WILLIAM COWPER
  118. "The Homes of England"      FELICIA HEMANS
  119. "Horatius at the Bridge"      THOMAS B. MACAULAY
  120. "The Planting of the Apple-Tree"  WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
PART V  On and On
  121. "June"                              JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
  122. "A Psalm of Life"                HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
  123. "Barnacles"                       SIDNEY LANIER
  124. "A Happy Life"                   SIR HENRY WOTTON
  125. "Home, Sweet Home"          JOHN HOWARD PAYNE
  126. "From Casa Guidi Windows"   ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
  127. "Woodman, Spare That Tree!"   GEORGE POPE MORRIS
  128. "Abide With Me"                 HENRY FRANCIS LYTE
  129. "Lead, Kindly Light"             JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
  130. "The Last Rose of Summer"     THOMAS MOORE
  131. "Annie Laurie"                    WILLIAM DOUGLAS
  132. "The Ship of State"              HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
  133. "America"                           SAMUEL FRANCE SMITH
  134. "The Landing of the Pilgrims"   FELICIA HEMANS
  135. "The Lotos-Eaters"              ALFRED TENNYSON
  136. "Moly"                               EDITH M. THOMAS
  137. "Cupid Drowned"                 LEIGH HUNT
  138. "Cupid Stung"                    THOMAS MOORE
  139. "Cupid and My Campasbe"     JOHN LYLY
  140. "A Ballad for a Boy"              ANONYMOUS
  141. "The Skeleton in Armour"      HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
  142. "The Revenge"                    ALFRED TENNYSON
  143. "Sir Galahad"                      ALFRED TENNYSON
  144. "A Name in the Sand"           HANNAH FLAGG GOULD
PART VI 
  145. "The Voice of Spring"            FELICIA HEMANS
  146. "The Forsaken Merman"         MATTHEW ARNOLD
  147. "The Banks o' Doon"             ROBERT BURNS
  148. "The Light of Other Days"      THOMAS MOORE
  149. "My Own Shall Come to Me"   JOHN BURROUGHS
  150. "Ode to a Skylark"                PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
  151. "The Sands of Dee"              CHARLES KINGSLEY
  152. "A Wish"                             SAMUEL ROGERS
  153. "Lucy"                                WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
  154. "Solitude"                            ALEXANDER POPE
  155. "John Anderson"                    ROBERT BURNS
  156. "The God of Music"                EDITH M. THOMAS
  157. "A Musical Instrument"          ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
  158. "The Brides of Enderby"         JEAN INGELOW
  159. "The Lye"                             SIR WALTER RALEIGH
  160. "L'Envoi"                               RUDYARD KIPLING
  161. "Contentment"                       EDWARD DYER
  162. "The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls"   THOMAS MOORE
  163. "The Old Oaken Bucket"          SAMUEL WOODWORTH
  164. "The Raven"                          EDGAR ALLAN POE
  165. "Arnold von Winkleried"           JAMES MONTGOMERY
  166. "Life, I Know Not What Thou Art"     A. L. BARBAULD
  167. "Mercy"                                  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  168. "Polonius' Advice"                    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  169. "A Fragment from 'Julius Caesar'"    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  170. "The Skylark"                          THOMAS HOGG
  171. "The Choir Invisible"                GEORGE ELIOT
  172. "The World Is Too Much With Us"    WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
  173. "On His Blindness"                   JOHN MILTON
  174. "She Was a Phantom of Delight"     WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
  175. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"    THOMAS GRAY
  176. "Rabbi Ben Ezra"                     ROBERT BROWNING
  177. "Prospice"                              ROBERT BROWNING
  178. "Recessional"                          RUDYARD KIPLING
  179. "Ozymandias of Egypt"             PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
  180. "Mortality"                              WILLIAM KNOX
  181. "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"    JOHN KEATS
  182. "Hervé Riel"                              ROBERT BROWNING
  183. "The Problem"                          RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  184. "To America"                           ALFRED AUSTIN
  185. "The English Flag"                    RUDYARD KIPLING
  186. "The Man With the Hoe"            EDWIN MARKHAM
  187. "Song of Myself"                      WALT WHITMAN

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Mary E. Burt, ed.  Poems Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Poems of All Times for Young People.  Illustrated and decorated by Blanche Ostertag. (New York: Doubleday, 1904)

frontispiece illustrated by Blanche Ostertag.

---.  Rpt.  New York: Doubleday, 1907.  355pp.  E-text @ Internet Archive <http://www.archive.org/stream/poemsthateveryc00burtgoog#page/n6/mode/2up>

---.  Rpt.  New York: Grosset, n.d.  354pp.  E-text @ Internet Archive <http://www.archive.org/stream/poemsthateverych00burtrich#page/n9/mode/2up>

---.  Project Gutenberg E-text <http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16436/16436-h/16436-h.htm> 〔テクストはのちの版みたいだけど、ハイパーリンクが便利そう。結局リプリントはみんな本文の組版は初版を踏襲しているのかも〕 

LibriVox recording of Poems Every Child Should Know, edited by Mary E. Burt. Read by Kara Shallenberg.  <http://www.archive.org/details/poems_every_child_should_know_librivox> 〔朗読。ダウンロードが25万超♪〕

 

Mary E. Burt.  Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers @ The Baldwin Project <http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=burt&book=plato&story=_contents>

Mary E. Burt.  Literary Landmarks: A Guide to Good Reading for Young People, and Teachers' Assistant.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889.  @ Google ブックス <http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=q_wQAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mary+Elizabeth+Burt&source=bl&ots=MNIwvEO0Jv&sig=fwFMl2e60GA3jBDmsvmHfc5ssQA&hl=ja&ei=2j2uTJSoJoiEvAPfpZzHBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false>

 

　　

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kaoru さん、こんばんは～♪
by morichanの父 (2010-10-08 22:20)