| Description |
144 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 x 26 cm |
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Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Come, ye thankful people, come -- The Gift Outright / Robert Frost -- The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- First Thanksgiving / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Circles / Carl Sandburg -- Come, Ye Thankful People, Come / George J. Elvey -- Ring! Oh, ring for liberty! -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Paul Revere Speaks / Myra Cohn Livingston -- John Hancock / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Molly Pitcher / Laura E. Richards -- Independence Bell / Anonymous -- Washington / Inscription at Mount Vernon -- Home of the brave: The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- Western Wagons / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet -- Battle Won is Lost / Phil George -- Pioneers / Lillian M. Fisher -- Casey Jones / Anonymous -- The Railroad Cars Are Coming / Anonymous -- What's the Railroad / Henry David Thoreau -- Child of the Sun / Lillian M. Fisher -- From a Song of Joys / Walt Whitman -- John Henry / Anonymous -- The Erie Canal / Anonymous -- Marching on: Come Up From the Fields Father / Walt Whitman -- The Whipporwill Calls / Beverly McLoughland -- Harriet Tubman -- John Brown's Body / Henry Howard Brownell -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Loneliness of Lincoln / X. J. Kennedy -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- Frederick Douglass / Langston Hughes -- From Song of Myself / Walt Whitman -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- I hear America singing: The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- America, The Beautiful / Katherine Lee Bates -- I Hear America Singing / Walt Whitman -- Crazy Boys / Beverly McLoughland -- Flying-Man / Mother Goose -- Nat Love: Black Cowboy / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- When Johnny comes marching home--again: There is a Power in a Union / Attributed to Joe Hill -- When Johnny Comes Marching Home / Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore -- The Bean Eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- What Shall We Do for the Striking Seamen? / Traditional -- Soup / Carl Sandburg -- Madam's Past History / Langston Hughes -- Young Woman at a Window / William Carlos Williams -- From the People, Yes / Carl Sandburg -- Depression / Isabel Joshlin Glaser -- Mail King / Paul Janeczko -- The Last Good War--and Afterward / Isabel Joshlin Glaser -- From Trail Breakers / James Daugherty -- Riding to and from: Illinois Farmer / Carl Sandburg -- Double Features / Ed Rossman -- Living in Cheston / Cynthia Rylant -- Good Times / Lucille Clifton -- Subways are People / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Commuter / E. B. White -- From Skyscraper / Carl Sandburg -- Farmer / Prince Redcloud -- Bugs / Anonymous -- Building a New Church / Anonymous -- Un-American Investigators / Langston Hughes -- Come with dreams: The World is a Beautiful Place / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Arthur Thinks on Kennedy / Mrya Cohn Livingston -- Martin Luther King / Aileen Fisher -- We Shall Overcome / Anonymous -- en-vi-RON-ment / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Vietnam / Clarence Major -- We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Enemies / Charlotte Zolotow -- Thought / Walt Whitman -- Manhattan Lullaby / Rachel Field -- Voyaging: Midnight Vigil / Fran Haraway -- From a Page of Short Poems / Eugene McCarthy -- Post Early for Space / Peter J. Henniker-Heaton -- From the People, Yes / Carl Sandburg -- From U.S.A. / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet -- From America / Samuel Francis Smith -- Acknowledgments -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Index of authors. |
| Summary |
A collection of poems and lyrics from several songs provides a look at our country, from colonial times to the present. Presenting American history through poetry, Lee Bennett Hopkins offers a unique perspective on each part of the American experience. Filled with wit, color, knowledge, and truth, these selections offer rich detail about the lives and events that have shaped our nation. Each poet lends a particular voice and vision to the subject. From the founding of this nation, through the Great Depression and the wars we've fought, to the issues of today, these poems echo the emotions of our triumphs and defeats. Here are all the varied people who make up America -- the different races and their various ways of facing life. Their brave spirit speaks loudly in the special language of poetry. It opens our eyes to see in a new way that which we already knew. |
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United States -- Juvenile poetry.
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Children's poetry, American.
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United States -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Hopkins, Lee Bennett.
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Fiore, Peter M., illustrator.
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| ISBN |
067173315X: $19.95 ($26.00 Can.) |
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9780671733155 |
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