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Poems to learn by heart / [selected by] Caroline Kennedy ; paintings by Jon J Muth.
For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781423108054 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1423108051 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 191 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Disney Hyperion Books, ©2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / by Caroline Kennedy -- First poem. The first book / Rita Dove -- Here I am, and other poems about the self. from The world is round / Gertrude Stein ; I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz ; My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Crying / Galway Kinnell ; O dear! How disgusting is life! / Edward Lear ; Bad morning / Langston Hughes ; Ode to Pablo's tennis shoes / Gary Soto ; Don't worry if your job is small / anonymous ; It couldn't be done / Edgar Albert Guest ; Personal / Langston Hughes ; A man said / Stephen Crane ; Sonnet 94 / William Shakespeare ; Dust of snow / Robert Frost ; If-- / Rudyard Kipling ; from A drama of exile / Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Between what I see and what I say-- / Octavio Paz ; Micah 6:8 -- I dreamed I had to pick a mother out, and other poems about family. Disobedience / A.A. Milne ; Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman ; Brother and sister / Lewis Carroll ; If Little Red Riding Hood-- / Jeff Moss ; Andre / Gwendolyn Brooks ; The parent / Ogden Nash ; Bilingual/bilingüe / Rhina P. Espaillat ; Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall ; Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- I'm expecting you! and other poems about friendship and love. Bee! I'm expecting you! / Emily Dickinson ; Vade mecum / Billy Collins ; Evil / Langston Hughes ; A poison tree / William Blake ; Tableau / Countee Cullen ; Voices rising / DreamYard Prep Slam Team ; He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats ; The dream keeper / Langston Hughes ; A blessing / James Wright ; Invitation to love / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / Saint Paul ; For Katrina's sun-dial / Henry van Dyke ; Liberty / Janet S. Wong -- I met a little elf-man, once, and other poems about fairies, ogres, and witches. The little elf / John Kendrick Bangs ; The fairies / Rose Fyleman ; I'd love to be a fairy's child / Robert Graves ; Some one / Walter de la Mare ; Under the bed / Penny Trzynka ; What's that? / Florence Parry Heide ; from The masque of queens / Ben Jonson ; Song of the ogres / W.H. Auden ; The splendour falls on castle walls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Where can a man buy a cap for his knee? and other nonsensical poems. Foolish questions / American folk rhyme ; Way down South / anonymous ; There was an old man in a garden / Edward Lear ; There was an old person whose habits / Edward Lear ; Baby ate a microchip / Neal Levin ; from Through the looking-glass / Lewis Carroll ; Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky ; The toys talk of the world / Katharine Pyle ; All about boys and girls / John Ciardi ; Some worlds inside of words / Richard Wilbur ; The tale of custard the dragon / Ogden Nash -- It is the duty of the student, and other poems about school. Duty of the student / Edward Anthony ; Gnome / Samuel Beckett ; Sick / Shel Silverstein ; Homework / Jane Yolen ; Lucky trade / Matthew M. Fredericks ; Bubble troubles / Janet S. Wong ; How to paint a donkey / Naomi Shihab Nye ; The lesson / Billy Collins ; Theme for English B / Langston Hughes ; if everything happens that can't be done / E.E. Cummings -- We dance round in a ring and suppose, and other poems about sports and games. The secret sits / Robert Frost ; Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Galway Kinnell ; Block city / Robert Louis Stevenson ; The girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Slam, dunk, & hook / Yusef Komunyakaa ; Defender / Linda Sue Park ; Zuri at bat / Nikki Grimes ; Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; Casey's revenge / Grantland Rice ; May / John Updike -- Four score and seven years ago, and other poems about war. Will, lost in a sea of trouble / Archilochos ; The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; from Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / William Shakespeare ; Shiloh / Herman Melville ; Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln ; Charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Ukase / Pfc. C.G. Tiggas ; When he was small, when he would fall / Vladimir Nabokov ; The unknown soldier / Billy Rose ; First they came for the Jews / Martin Niemöller ; from "Voice from Lemnos" / Seamus Heaney ; Peace / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The world is so full of a number of things, and other poems about nature. from "Auguries of innocence" / William Blake ; Happy thought / Robert Louis Stevenson ; What are heavy? / Christina Rossetti ; Devotion / Robert Frost ; Will there really be a "morning"? / Emily Dickinson ; Ballad of the morning streets / Amiri Baraka ; who are you, little i / E.E. Cummings ; In beauty may I walk / from the Navajo ; Tommy / Gwendolyn Brooks ; from As You Like It, II, v, 5-12: 18-25 / William Shakespeare ; Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens ; The snow man / Wallace Stevens ; Winter trees / William Carlos Williams ; from The metamorphoses, Book I / Ovid ; The world / William Brighty Rands -- Extra credit. from The Canterbury tales, general prologue / Geoffrey Chaucer ; Young Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott ; The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert Service ; Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Last poem. Catch a little rhyme / Eve Merriam. |
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| Subject: | American poetry > Juvenile literature. English poetry > Juvenile literature. |
| Genre: | Children's poetry. |
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| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tHere I am, and other poems about the self. ‡tfrom The world is round / ‡rGertrude Stein ; ‡tI am cherry alive / ‡rDelmore Schwartz ; ‡tMy shadow / ‡rRobert Louis Stevenson ; ‡tCrying / ‡rGalway Kinnell ; ‡tO dear! How disgusting is life! / ‡rEdward Lear ; ‡tBad morning / ‡rLangston Hughes ; ‡tOde to Pablo's tennis shoes / ‡rGary Soto ; ‡tDon't worry if your job is small / ‡ranonymous ; ‡tIt couldn't be done / ‡rEdgar Albert Guest ; ‡tPersonal / ‡rLangston Hughes ; ‡tA man said / ‡rStephen Crane ; ‡tSonnet 94 / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare ; ‡tDust of snow / ‡rRobert Frost ; ‡tIf-- / ‡rRudyard Kipling ; ‡tfrom A drama of exile / ‡rElizabeth Barrett Browning ; ‡tBetween what I see and what I say-- / ‡rOctavio Paz ; ‡tMicah 6:8 -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tI dreamed I had to pick a mother out, and other poems about family. ‡tDisobedience / ‡rA.A. Milne ; ‡tBrother / ‡rMary Ann Hoberman ; ‡tBrother and sister / ‡rLewis Carroll ; ‡tIf Little Red Riding Hood-- / ‡rJeff Moss ; ‡tAndre / ‡rGwendolyn Brooks ; ‡tThe parent / ‡rOgden Nash ; ‡tBilingual/bilingüe / ‡rRhina P. Espaillat ; ‡tBallad of Birmingham / ‡rDudley Randall ; ‡tManners / ‡rElizabeth Bishop -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tI'm expecting you! and other poems about friendship and love. ‡tBee! I'm expecting you! / ‡rEmily Dickinson ; ‡tVade mecum / ‡rBilly Collins ; ‡tEvil / ‡rLangston Hughes ; ‡tA poison tree / ‡rWilliam Blake ; ‡tTableau / ‡rCountee Cullen ; ‡tVoices rising / ‡rDreamYard Prep Slam Team ; ‡tHe wishes for the cloths of heaven / ‡rWilliam Butler Yeats ; ‡tThe dream keeper / ‡rLangston Hughes ; ‡tA blessing / ‡rJames Wright ; ‡tInvitation to love / ‡rPaul Laurence Dunbar ; ‡t1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / ‡rSaint Paul ; ‡tFor Katrina's sun-dial / ‡rHenry van Dyke ; ‡tLiberty / ‡rJanet S. Wong -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tI met a little elf-man, once, and other poems about fairies, ogres, and witches. ‡tThe little elf / ‡rJohn Kendrick Bangs ; ‡tThe fairies / ‡rRose Fyleman ; ‡tI'd love to be a fairy's child / ‡rRobert Graves ; ‡tSome one / ‡rWalter de la Mare ; ‡tUnder the bed / ‡rPenny Trzynka ; ‡tWhat's that? / ‡rFlorence Parry Heide ; ‡tfrom The masque of queens / ‡rBen Jonson ; ‡tSong of the ogres / ‡rW.H. Auden ; ‡tThe splendour falls on castle walls / ‡rAlfred, Lord Tennyson -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tWhere can a man buy a cap for his knee? and other nonsensical poems. ‡tFoolish questions / ‡rAmerican folk rhyme ; ‡tWay down South / ‡ranonymous ; ‡tThere was an old man in a garden / ‡rEdward Lear ; ‡tThere was an old person whose habits / ‡rEdward Lear ; ‡tBaby ate a microchip / ‡rNeal Levin ; ‡tfrom Through the looking-glass / ‡rLewis Carroll ; ‡tHerbert Glerbett / ‡rJack Prelutsky ; ‡tThe toys talk of the world / ‡rKatharine Pyle ; ‡tAll about boys and girls / ‡rJohn Ciardi ; ‡tSome worlds inside of words / ‡rRichard Wilbur ; ‡tThe tale of custard the dragon / ‡rOgden Nash -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tIt is the duty of the student, and other poems about school. ‡tDuty of the student / ‡rEdward Anthony ; ‡tGnome / ‡rSamuel Beckett ; ‡tSick / ‡rShel Silverstein ; ‡tHomework / ‡rJane Yolen ; ‡tLucky trade / ‡rMatthew M. Fredericks ; ‡tBubble troubles / ‡rJanet S. Wong ; ‡tHow to paint a donkey / ‡rNaomi Shihab Nye ; ‡tThe lesson / ‡rBilly Collins ; ‡tTheme for English B / ‡rLangston Hughes ; ‡tif everything happens that can't be done / ‡rE.E. Cummings -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tWe dance round in a ring and suppose, and other poems about sports and games. ‡tThe secret sits / ‡rRobert Frost ; ‡tHide-and-seek, 1933 / ‡rGalway Kinnell ; ‡tBlock city / ‡rRobert Louis Stevenson ; ‡tThe girls in the circle / ‡rNikki Giovanni ; ‡tWe real cool / ‡rGwendolyn Brooks ; ‡tSlam, dunk, & hook / ‡rYusef Komunyakaa ; ‡tDefender / ‡rLinda Sue Park ; ‡tZuri at bat / ‡rNikki Grimes ; ‡tCasey at the bat / ‡rErnest Lawrence Thayer ; ‡tCasey's revenge / ‡rGrantland Rice ; ‡tMay / ‡rJohn Updike -- |
| 505 | 8 | 0. | ‡tFour score and seven years ago, and other poems about war. ‡tWill, lost in a sea of trouble / ‡rArchilochos ; ‡tThe destruction of Sennacherib / ‡rGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron ; ‡tOzymandias / ‡rPercy Bysshe Shelley ; ‡tfrom Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare ; ‡tShiloh / ‡rHerman Melville ; ‡tGettysburg Address / ‡rAbraham Lincoln ; ‡tCharge of the light brigade / ‡rAlfred, Lord Tennyson ; ‡tUkase / ‡rPfc. C.G. Tiggas ; ‡tWhen he was small, when he would fall / ‡rVladimir Nabokov ; ‡tThe unknown soldier / ‡rBilly Rose ; ‡tFirst they came for the Jews / ‡rMartin Niemöller ; ‡tfrom "Voice from Lemnos" / ‡rSeamus Heaney ; ‡tPeace / ‡rGerard Manley Hopkins -- |
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