Favorite Poems Old and New"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasured for over 60 years, here is the only poetry collection your family needs—brimming with favorite, classic poems carefully selected to inspire young readers. Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry. "If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."—Kirkus "A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."—Library Journal "This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."—The Horn Book |
Contents
The Secret Cavern | 11 |
MY ALMANAC | 12 |
The CaveBoy | 17 |
MY FAMILY AND I | 27 |
Frances Frost | 34 |
Two in | 40 |
Leroy F Jackson | 45 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 51 |
Seal Lullaby | 177 |
Roads Go Ever On and | 183 |
FROM THE GOOD EARTH GROWING | 205 |
John Drinkwater | 247 |
Barbara A Huff | 250 |
Sara Teasdale | 264 |
Walter de la Mare | 265 |
Joy of the Morning Edwin Markham | 279 |
Louis Untermeyer | 57 |
Edgar Allan | 64 |
Written in March | 69 |
David McCord | 75 |
Tis Merry in Greenwood | 76 |
The Mist and | 82 |
An Old Christmas Greeting | 88 |
Clear | 94 |
Allie | 100 |
Kate Greenaway | 101 |
Margaret Widdemer | 104 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 106 |
Clinton Scollard | 112 |
LITTLE THINGS THAT CREEP AND CRAWL AND SWIM | 119 |
Carl Sandburg | 129 |
Puppy and I A A Milne | 153 |
Poem William Carlos Williams | 159 |
Robert Frost | 161 |
Anonymous | 165 |
Elizabeth Coatsworth | 171 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 290 |
Christopher Morley | 395 |
Alfred Noyes | 461 |
Kenneth Grahame | 495 |
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes | 499 |
The Dorchester Giant Oliver Wendell Holmes | 506 |
Meg Merrilies John Keats | 512 |
Lord Ullins Daughter Thomas Campbell | 520 |
A A Milne | 570 |
Burro with the Long Ears Translated by Hilda Faunce | 574 |
35 | 577 |
11 | 582 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne 38 | 583 |
80 | 585 |
Margaret Widdemer | 590 |
Emily Dickinson | 591 |
39 | 592 |
Fannie Stearns Davis | 596 |
Adapted by Ruth Sawyer | 598 |
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