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.
9781423108054 (hbk.) 1423108051 (hbk.)
9781423108054
2011022651
American poetry
English poetry
j821.008 Poe 28
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.
9781423108054 (hbk.) 1423108051 (hbk.)
9781423108054
2011022651
American poetry
English poetry
j821.008 Poe 28