Poems to learn by heart
[selected by] Caroline Kennedy ; paintings by Jon J Muth.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Disney Hyperion Books, c2013.
- 191 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes indexes.
The first book / by Caroline Kennedy -- Rita Dove -- Introduction / First poem. Here I am, and other poems about the self. from The world is round / I am cherry alive / My shadow / Crying / O dear! How disgusting is life! / Bad morning / Ode to Pablo's tennis shoes / Don't worry if your job is small / It couldn't be done / Personal / A man said / Sonnet 94 / Dust of snow / If-- / from A drama of exile / Between what I see and what I say-- / Micah 6:8 -- Gertrude Stein ; Delmore Schwartz ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Galway Kinnell ; Edward Lear ; Langston Hughes ; Gary Soto ; anonymous ; Edgar Albert Guest ; Langston Hughes ; Stephen Crane ; William Shakespeare ; Robert Frost ; Rudyard Kipling ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Octavio Paz ; I dreamed I had to pick a mother out, and other poems about family. Disobedience / Brother / Brother and sister / If Little Red Riding Hood-- / Andre / The parent / Bilingual/bilingue / Ballad of Birmingham / Manners / A.A. Milne ; Mary Ann Hoberman ; Lewis Carroll ; Jeff Moss ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Ogden Nash ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Dudley Randall ; Elizabeth Bishop -- I'm expecting you! and other poems about friendship and love. Bee! I'm expecting you! / Vade mecum / Evil / A poison tree / Tableau / Voices rising / He wishes for the cloths of heaven / The dream keeper / A blessing / Invitation to love / 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / For Katrina's sun-dial / Liberty / Emily Dickinson ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; William Blake ; Countee Cullen ; DreamYard Prep Slam Team ; William Butler Yeats ; Langston Hughes ; James Wright ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Saint Paul ; Henry van Dyke ; Janet S. Wong -- I met a little elf-man, once, and other poems about fairies, ogres, and witches. The little elf / The fairies / I'd love to be a fairy's child / Some one / Under the bed / What's that? / from The masque of queens / Song of the ogres / The splendour falls on castle walls / John Kendrick Bangs ; Rose Fyleman ; Robert Graves ; Walter de la Mare ; Penny Trzynka ; Florence Parry Heide ; Ben Jonson ; W.H. Auden ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Where can a man buy a cap for his knee? and other nonsensical poems. Foolish questions / Way down South / There was an old man in a garden / There was an old person whose habits / Baby ate a microchip / from Through the looking-glass / Herbert Glerbett / The toys talk of the world / All about boys and girls / Some worlds inside of words / The tale of custard the dragon / American folk rhyme ; anonymous ; Edward Lear ; Edward Lear ; Neal Levin ; Lewis Carroll ; Jack Prelutsky ; Katharine Pyle ; John Ciardi ; Richard Wilbur ; Ogden Nash -- It is the duty of the student, and other poems about school. Duty of the student / Gnome / Sick / Homework / Lucky trade / Bubble troubles / How to paint a donkey / The lesson / Theme for English B / if everything happens that can't be done / Edward Anthony ; Samuel Beckett ; Shel Silverstein ; Jane Yolen ; Matthew M. Fredericks ; Janet S. Wong ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; E.E. Cummings -- We dance round in a ring and suppose, and other poems about sports and games. The secret sits / Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Block city / The girls in the circle / We real cool / Slam, dunk, & hook / Defender / Zuri at bat / Casey at the bat / Casey's revenge / May / Robert Frost ; Galway Kinnell ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Nikki Giovanni ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Linda Sue Park ; Nikki Grimes ; Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; Grantland Rice ; John Updike -- Four score and seven years ago, and other poems about war. Will, lost in a sea of trouble / The destruction of Sennacherib / Ozymandias / from Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / Shiloh / Gettysburg Address / Charge of the light brigade / Ukase / When he was small, when he would fall / The unknown soldier / First they came for the Jews / from "Voice from Lemnos" / Peace / Archilochos ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; William Shakespeare ; Herman Melville ; Abraham Lincoln ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Pfc. C.G. Tiggas ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Billy Rose ; Martin Niemoller ; Seamus Heaney ; Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The world is so full of a number of things, and other poems about nature. from "Auguries of innocence" / Happy thought / What are heavy? / Devotion / Will there really be a "morning"? / Ballad of the morning streets / who are you, little i / In beauty may I walk / Tommy / from As You Like It, II, v, 5-12: 18-25 / Anecdote of the jar / The snow man / Winter trees / from The metamorphoses, Book I / The world / William Blake ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Christina Rossetti ; Robert Frost ; Emily Dickinson ; Amiri Baraka ; E.E. Cummings ; from the Navajo ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; William Shakespeare ; Wallace Stevens ; Wallace Stevens ; William Carlos Williams ; Ovid ; William Brighty Rands -- Extra credit. from The Canterbury tales, general prologue / Young Lochinvar / The cremation of Sam McGee / Paul Revere's ride / Kubla Khan / Geoffrey Chaucer ; Sir Walter Scott ; Robert Service ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Last poem. Catch a little rhyme / Eve Merriam.
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.