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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Poetry for a lifetime
    sub title: all-time favorite poems to delight and inspire all ages
  name:
    name part: Etheredge, Samuel Norfleet.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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 -…
  target audience: juvenile
  note: selected and annotated by Samuel Norfleet Etheredge.
  note: Includes indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
    genre: Collections
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
  classification: PN6101 .P53 1999
  classification: 808.81
  identifier: 0966580400
  identifier: 9780966580402
  identifier: 98086906
  record info:
    record content source: CGP
    record creation date: 990526
    record change date: 20151201153055.0
    record identifier: in00002594627