Classic Poetry: Candlewick Illustrated Classic
(From Amazon): "Few anthologies for this age group include such a fi ne selection of works, introduce the poets so vividly, or provide such a rich collection of haunting illustrations." — BooklistPoetry provides the best introduction to the marvels of the English language. This volume, collected by award-winning author Michael Rosen, presents a glorious selection of classic poetry, chronologically arranged from the seventeenth century to modern day—poems by such celebrated poets as William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, and Langston Hughes— complete with biographical sketches of the poets, information on individual poems, and notes on poetic forms. Paul Howard's full-color illustrations illuminate some of the most brilliant poems of the English-speaking world with stunning breadth and beauty. A book to be treasured, Classic Poetry belongs on every shelf—every child should know these poems and keep this book with them as they grow.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-0-7636-4210
- Print Status
- In Print
- Poems
- 80
- Pages
- 160
- Suggested Grades
- Early Years - 12th
- Publisher
- Candlewick
- Edition
- Reprint
- Copyright
- 2009
Poems
- 1 The World's A Stage - William Shakespeare, p. 12
- 2 Be Not Afeard; the Isle is Full of Noises, p. 14
- 3 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, p. 15
- 4 Nurse's Song - William Blake, p. 16
- 5 The Tyger, p. 17
- 6 Skating - William Wordsworth, p. 20
- 7 Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, p. 22
- 8 The Sun Has Long Been Set, p, 23
- 9 Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, p. 24
- 10 The Destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron, p. 27
- 11 Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley, p. 21
- 12 Clock-a-Clay - John Clare, p. 31
- 13 La Belle Dame Sans Merci- John Keats, p. 32
- 14 The Song of the Shirt - Thomas Hood, p. 35
- 15 Unnamed - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, p. 40
- 16 The Ways of Love, p. 41
- 17 The Slave's Dream - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, p. 42
- 18 Paul Revere's Ride, p. 46
- 19 The Bells - Edgar Allen Poe, p. 52
- 20 Eldorado, p. 53
- 21 Sweet and Low - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, p. 54
- 22 The Eagle, p. 55
- 23 Break, Break, Break, p. 55
- 24 The Splendor Falls, p. 56
- 25 Calico Pie - Edward Lear, p. 58
- 26 My Last Duchess - Robert Browning, p.67
- 27 The Jumblies, p. 60
- 28 "High waving heather" - Emily Bronte, p. 70
- 29 " 'Tis moonlight" - Emily Bronte p. 71
- 30 I Hear America Singing - Walt Whitman, p. 72
- 31 Mannahatta, p. 74
- 32 Miracles, p. 75
- 33 O Captain! My Captain!, p. 76
- 34 "A Bird came down the Walk"- Emily Dickinson, p. 78
- 35 "A slash of Blue" & "A word is dead" Emily Dickinson p. 80
- 36 "I'm Nobody!" - Emily Dickinson p. 80
- 37 "The Wind begun..." - Emily Dickinson p. 81
- 38 "Who has seen the wind?" - Christina Rossetti, p. 82
- 39 Sonnet - p. 82
- 40 "How doth the little crocodile" - Lewis Carroll p. 87
- 41 The Mock's Turtle Song - Lewis Carroll, p. 84
- 42 Jabberwocky, p. 88
- 43 Iroquois Prayer, p. 90
- 44 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, p. 91
- 45 Snow in the Suburbs - Thomas Hardy, p. 92
- 46 Throwing a Tree, p. 94
- 47 At the Railway Station, Upway, p. 95
- 48 A Good Play - Robert Louis Stevenson p. 96
- 49 Block City - Rober Louis Stevenson, p. 97
- 50 From A Railway Carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson, p.98
- 51 Where Go the Boats - Robert Louis Stevenson, 99
- 52 Solitude - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, p. 102
- 53 Waltzing Matilda - Banjo Paterson, p. 104
- 54 Mulga Bill's Bicycle, p. 107
- 55 A Smuggler's Song - Rudyard Kipling, p. 110
- 56 The Deep-Sea Cables, p. 112
- 57 The Way Through the Woods, p. 113
- 58 The Song of Wandering Aengus - William Butler Yeats, p. 114
- 59 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, p. 115
- 60 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, p. 116
- 61 The Lake Isle of Innisfree, p. 116
- 62 Reedy River - Henry Lawson, p. 118
- 63 Tarantella - Hilaire Belloc, p. 122
- 64 Silver - Walter De La Mare, p. 125
- 65 The Listeners, p. 125
- 66 Five Eyes, p. 128
- 67 After Apple-picking - Robert Frost, p. 129
- 68 Stopping by Woods on s Snowy Evening, pp. 130
- 69 The Pasture, p. 132
- 70 Adlestrop - Edward Thomas, p. 133
- 71 Arithmetic - Carl Sandburg, p. 136
- 72 Skyscraper - Carl Sandburg p. 138-141
- 73 Cargoes - John Masefield, p 142
- 74 The General - Siegfried Sassoon, p. 143
- 75 Journey of the Magi - T.S. Eliot, p. 144
- 76 The Fawn - Edna St. Vincent Millay, p. 146
- 77 Travel, p. 148
- 78 Dream Variations - Langston Hughes, p. 149
- 79 Mother to Son & Final Curve p. 150
- 80 Full Moon Rhyme - Judith Wright, p. 152
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