| Description |
xii, 180 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
America : America, the beautiful / Katherine Lee Bates -- For John F. Kennedy his inauguration / Robert Frost -- The Gift outright / Robert Frost -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- Let America be America again / Langston Hughes -- Brown river, smile / Jean Toomer. |
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First poems : First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- At the ancient pond / Basho -- How reluctantly / Basho -- The land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Bed in summer / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Teddy bear's picnic / Jimmy Kennedy -- Three ponies / Arthur Guiterman -- The yak / Theodore Roethke -- Grizzly bear / Mary Austin -- The elephant / Hilaire Belloc -- The little turtle / Vachel Lindsay -- Dogs and weather / Winifred Welles -- Little trotty wagtail / John Clare -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- The crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- Fireflies in the garden / Robert Frost -- The Rose Family / Robert Frost -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti -- Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc -- Sherwood / Alfred Noyes -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Some keep the Sabbath going to church / Emily Dickinson -- Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- Psalm 23 -- Luke 2:1-14 -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore. |
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Adventure : Skye boat song -- Cargoes / John Masefield -- Sea-fever / John Masefield -- Hunting-song of the Seeonee pack / Rudyard Kipling -- Tableau / Countee Cullen -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Song / John Donne -- Richard III, I, i, 1-13 / William Shakespeare -- Henry V, IV, iii, 40-67 (St. Crispin's Day speech) / William Shakespeare -- The Isles of Greece / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Ulysses / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Ithaca / Constantine P. Cavafy. |
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Escape : The flowers / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Behind stowe / Elizabeth Bishop -- In just / E.E. Cummings -- The pasture / Robert Frost -- Portrait by a neighbour / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats -- The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- The odyssey, book IX / Homer -- The tempest, V, i, 104-110 (Ariel's song) / William Shakespeare -- I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson -- These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The dawn / William Butler Yeats -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Of mere being / Wallace Stevens. |
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Romance and love : Song of Solomon 2:8-16 -- Paradise lost, book IV, 639-658 / John Milton -- Romeo and Juliet, III, ii, 17-31 / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet XVIII / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet XXIX / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet CXVI / William Shakespeare -- The bargain / Sir Philip Sidney -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Her reply / Sir Walter Raleigh -- She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Dr. Faustus, scene XIII / Christopher Marlowe -- The hill / Rupert Brooke -- The vase of perfume / Chang Wu-chien -- When a beggar beholds you... / Anonymous -- Somewhere I have never travelled, glady beyond / E.E. Cummings -- For C.K. at his christening / Daniel Lawrence Kelleher -- A prayer in spring / Robert Frost -- Corinthians 13:1-13. |
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Reflection : Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 -- Prayer for peace / St. Francis of Assisi -- Sonnet on his blindness / John Milton -- Death, be not proud / John Donne -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- His pilgrimage / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Antigone, ode I / Sophocles -- Agamemnon, Act I / Aeschylus -- Olympian ode II / Pindar -- Magpies in Picardy / T.P. Cameron Wilson -- Aftermath / Siegfried Sassoon -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Choose something like a star / Robert Frost -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- The truly great / Stephen Spender -- For a poet / Countee Cullen -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats -- Matthew 5:1-10. |
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In her own words : Essay / Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- Sea joy / Jacqueline Bouvier -- Thoughts / Jacqueline Bouvier -- Meanwhile in Massachusetts / Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.
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Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0786868090 |
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9780786868094 |
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1401302483 |
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9781401302481 |
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