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The Daily Poem

The World's Greatest Poem

The Daily Poem

Goldberry Studios

Education For Kids, Arts, Kids & Family

4.6729 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Let's kick off April with the world's greatest poems.

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0:00.0

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0:02.8

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0:05.5

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0:19.6

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0:36.8

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0:42.3

Welcome back to the Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Thursday, April 1st,

0:47.3

2021. And today I'm going to share a poem with you by Edward Lear, the great Edward Lear. He was an English poet and, you know,

0:56.3

dabble in a bunch of other arts as well. He lived from May of 1812 until January of 1888.

1:02.5

And today I think I'm probably going to be reading you what is maybe the greatest poem ever written,

1:07.8

the greatest poem in the history of the English language. It might be this poem.

1:11.6

And the miraculous thing is, it's written by someone who is known for a book called the

1:17.6

Book of Nonsense, and it's only four lines long. And if you have kids, you should definitely

1:22.4

make sure that they hear this one, because why wouldn't you want your kids to hear the greatest

1:27.0

poem in the history of the English

1:28.2

language? So this is your April 1st poem. It's called There Was an Old Man with a Beard.

1:35.6

I read it a few times for you, as I usually do. There was an old man with a beard who said,

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