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Boy Poems —

As Recommended by Actual Boys

The notable quality about this selection of poems and recitations for boys is that they were selected, not by an adult who tried to anticipate what boys would like, or should like, but by several authentic boys. Admittedly, the boys involved have been coerced into memorizing poems for several years, but have been given a fair latitude in their selection of poetry.

Elementary

Old Ironsides	by Oliver Wendel Holmes
The Marines Hymn	—Anonymous
Danegeld	by Rudyard Kipling
The Charge of the Light Brigade	by Alfred Tennyson
The Twins	by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
The Story of Augustus	by Heinrich Hoffman
Tyger	by William Blake
Hildebrand	by Hilaire Belloc
Algernon	by Hilaire Belloc
B for Bear	by Hilaire Belloc
Ozymandias	by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Intermediate

Jim	by Hilaire Belloc
Abul Abduldul Amir	by Percy French
Oonts	by Rudyard Kipling
The Burial of Sir John Moore	by Charles Wolfe
The Cremation of Sam McGee	by Robert Service
Derelict	by Ewing Allison
Clancy Lowered the Boom
Fuzzy Wuzzy	by Rudyard Kipling
The Gettysburg Address	by Abraham Lincoln
All the World's a Stage	by Shakespeare
To-morrow and To-morrow	by Shakespeare
If—	by Rudyard Kipling
The Three Witches	by Shakespeare
O Captain! My Captain!	by Walt Whitman
Jabberwocky	by Lewis Carroll
The Siege of Belgrade	by A. A. Watts

Advanced

Gunga Din	by Rudyard Kipling
The Walrus and the Carpenter	by Lewis Carroll
The Spell of the Yukon	by Robert Service
Speech before the Battle of Agincourt	by Shakespeare
Mark Antony's Eulogy	by Shakespeare
Hamlet's Soliloquey	by Shakespeare
Casey at Bat	by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Ballad of the East and West	by Rudyard Kipling
The Gods of the Copybook Headings	by Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Strange Ascetic	by G. K. Chesterton

Featured Character

Archbishop Laud British 1573 - 1645 clergy: Archbishop

Featured Battle

Battle of Herrera 23-Aug, 1837 Carlist Wars