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all-time favorite poems to delight and inspire all ages
A collection of more than 340 unforgettable poems, this book includes such well-known favorites as "The Night Before Christmas," "The Bridge Builder," "If," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Old Ironsides" and "O Captain! My Captain!" Selected for their rhyme, meter, and content, these poems tell stories, teach history, give advice, instill a reverence for nature, and inspire the mind. Comments are included with each poem, providing extra information or light anecdotes. Organized by theme with large text and illustrations, this book is easy to read and browse.
Nursery: Now I lay me down to sleep -- Twinkle, twinkle, little star -- Lullaby town -- Twenty froggies -- Sweet and low -- There was a little girl -- Wynken, blynken, and nod -- Three little kittens -- Animal fair -- Nursery rhymes -- Youth: The children's hour -- Arrow and the song -- My shadow -- Days of birth -- Boy's song -- Boy who never told a lie -- Days of the month -- Boy reciter -- If I only was the fellow -- Hiawatha's childhood -- Owl and the pussy-cat -- Suppose -- Whistling boy -- Jest 'fore Christmas -- Night before Christmas -- Little red hen -- How to be happy -- Let dogs delight to bark and bite -- Our heroes -- Children's puzzles -- Home and family: Home -- Home, sweet home! -- Our mother -- Nobody knows but mother -- Hand that rocks the cradle -- Cane-bottomed chair -- Send them to bed with a kiss -- New arrival -- Old arm-chair -- Mother's boys -- Little boy blue -- Thanksgiving Day -- Brother Jim -- Out to old Aunt Mary's -- House with nobody in it -- Talents -- Good advice: The spider and the fly -- Fable -- Smile -- Taken at the flood -- Wise old owl -- Hustle and grin -- Old man's comforts -- Hullo! -- Be the best of whatever you are -- Can't -- John Wesley's rule -- Count that day lost -- Do it now -- Charity -- Do it now! -- Don't quit -- Drop a pebble in the water -- Get a transfer -- He who knows -- Horse sense -- How old are you? -- I know something good about you -- It isn't the town, it's you -- Life's scars -- Lifting and leaning -- Mr. Meant-to -- My creed -- Optimism -- Outwitted -- Perseverance -- Polonius' advice to Laertes -- Solitude -- Smile -- Gate at the end of things -- Work while you work -- Sin of omission -- Thinker -- Winds of fate -- Then laugh -- Try smiling -- Your mission -- Which are you -- Man who thinks he can -- Tell him so -- Results and roses -- Moderation -- Little things -- Laughter -- To-day -- I believe -- Forget it -- Calf-path -- Be true -- Cry of a dreamer -- Six feet of earth -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Faith and reverence: L'envoi -- Creation -- Fool's prayer -- Ring out wild bells -- Lord is my shepherd -- Prayer -- Landing of pilgrim fathers -- Abou Ben Adhem -- Battle-hymn of the republic -- Crossing the bar -- Lost chord -- Each in his own tongue -- Elegy written in a country church-yard -- I met the master -- I saw three ships -- Captain's daughter -- Pippa's song -- Ten commandments -- This, too, shall pass away -- Through the year -- Wonderer -- Ode on his blindness -- Thanatopsis -- Rocked in the cradle of the deep -- Requiem -- Onward, Christian soldiers -- Nearer to thee -- Light shining out of darkness -- Inspiration: A psalm of life -- Columbus -- Happiness -- God give us men -- If I can stop one heart from breaking -- It's fine today -- It couldn't be done -- Keep a'goin? -- Nobility -- Song -- Bridge builder -- Day is done -- Town of don't-you-worry -- Village blacksmith -- Today -- Where are you going, Greatheart? -- Where there's a will there's a way -- Worth while -- You mustn't quit -- Ordinary man -- What I live for -- Manly man -- Common road -- Chambered nautilus -- One, two, three -- Miller of the Dee -- Inspiration -- Great-heart -- Under the portrait of Milton -- Friendship: A friend or two -- Good King Wenceslas -- Friend's greeting -- Ingratitude -- Mile with me -- Auld lang syne -- Fellowship -- Loyalty -- Our own -- New friends and old friends -- House by the side of the road -- To a friend -- Touching shoulders -- Challenge: Always finish -- Carry on! -- Give us men! -- Never say fail! -- I shall not pass this way again -- I shall not pass this way again -- IF -- Lord, make a regular man out of me -- It can be done -- Myself -- Soliloquy from "Hamlet" -- Coming American -- Quitter -- Things that haven't been done before -- Try, try again -- Men that don't fit in -- Work: A song of triumph -- Law of the Yukon -- Two glasses -- Humor: The duel -- Chaperon -- Blind men and the elephant -- He worried about it -- Female of the species -- My familiar -- Captain Jinks -- Casey at the bat -- Casey's revenge -- I had but fifty cents -- Methuselah -- I never even suggested it -- Johnny's hist'ry lesson -- Optimist -- O'Grady's goat -- Some little bug -- Patter of the shingle -- Walrus and the carpenter -- King John and the abbot of Canterbury -- Goat -- Deacon's masterpiece -- Cremation of Sam McGee -- Time's revenge -- Repentance -- Maternity -- Birth of St. Patrick -- V-A-S-E -- Purple cow -- Twins -- Little elf -- On the aristocracy of Harvard -- On the democracy of Yale -- Lay of ancient Rome -- Fore -- (Contract) Contact bridge -- Shooting of Dan McGrew -- Wally's bits of wit and wisdom: Wally on business -- Wally on sports -- Wally on daily life -- Wally on government -- Wally's advice -- Wally on education -- Love and romance: When I was one-and-twenty -- Should you go first -- When lovely woman -- Annabel Lee -- To Helen -- To Celia -- Red, red rose -- Night has a thousand eyes -- White flag -- Tell her so -- Health -- Certain young lady -- Nature: A little dog-angel -- Little cat angel -- Hark, the herald leaves of spring -- Thing of beauty -- Bum -- Under the greenwood tree -- Fountain -- Wreck of the "Hesperus" -- Wet sheet and a flowing sea -- When the frost in on the punkin -- Out fishin' -- Plant a tree -- Sea fever -- Woodman, spare that tree -- Lord God planted a garden -- Trees -- To a waterfowl -- To a skylark -- World is too much with us -- Rhodora -- Heart of the tree -- Daffodils -- Song of the Chattahoochee -- I broke the spell that held me long -- To a mouse -- To a cricket -- Sea -- Rime of the ancient mariner -- Raven -- Inchcape rock -- Green little shamrock of Ireland -- Cricket -- Where the bee sucks -- Death of the flowers -- Brook's song -- Robert of Lincoln -- Old winter -- June -- Bravery: Casabianca -- Leak in the dike -- How did you die -- Battle of Blenheim -- Ballad of east and west -- Gunga Din -- Fuzzy-wuzzy -- Spires of Oxford -- Patriotism: America -- America for me -- America, the beautiful -- My land -- My native land -- Star-spangled banner -- Flag goes by -- War inevitable -- Paul Revere's ride -- Concord hymn -- Song of Marion's men -- Old ironsides -- Charge of the light brigade -- Georgia volunteer -- Blue and the gray -- Gettysburg address -- Barbara Frietchie -- O captain! My captain! -- Boots -- Recessional -- Unknown soldier -- In Flanders fields -- America's answer -- Marine's hymn -- Hate comes to paradise -- Father land and mother tongue -- Bivouac of the dead -- Bougainville -- Interesting places: Hell in Texas -- Owed to New York -- Mandalay -- Spell of the Yukon -- Out where the west begins -- Looking back: To critics -- Recompense -- Growing older -- Old oaken bucket -- Old oaken bucket -- Oft in the stilly night -- Pessimist -- Diana, a special kind of shooting star -- Little by little -- Old man dreams -- Barefoot boy -- Rock me to sleep -- Grandfather's clock -- Wanderlust -- Break, break, break -- Land of beginning again -- Bill and Joe -- River of life -- Sometimes -- One by one -- Bells -- Life's a game -- Bag of tools -- For want of a horseshoe nail -- All the world's a stage -- Some time at eve -- Index: First line and title -- Index: Author and title.
selected and annotated by Samuel Norfleet Etheredge.