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Poems to Learn by Heart

by Caroline Kennedy Author

(From Amazon): There's a poem to celebrate every moment in life-whether it's hitting a home run, watching a sunset, or laughing with your best friend. A poem is a gift of the heart that can inspire, reassure, or challenge us. Memorize it-share it-it's yours forever.In this diverse collection, a companion to her New York Times #1 best-seller A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has chosen more than a hundred poems that speak to all of us: the young and young at heart, readers new to poetry and devoted fans. These poems explore deep emotions, as well as ordinary experiences. They cover the range of human experience and imagination. Divided into sections about nature, sports, monsters and fairies, friendship and family, this book is full of surprises. Each section is preceded by Caroline's thoughtful introduction reflecting her own family's engagement with and enjoyment of poetry.Illustrated with striking watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J Muth, this is truly a book for all ages and interests, and one that families will want to share for years to come.

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Resource Type: Book
ISBN: 9781423108054
Print Status: In Print
Poems: 113
Pages: 192
Suggested Grades: Early Years - 12th
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Copyright: 2013

Poems

1 First Poem by Rita Dove
2 from The World is Round by Gertrude Stein
3 I am Cherry Alive by Delmore Schwartz
4 My Shadow by Robert Lewis Stevenson
5 Crying by Galway Kinnell
6 O Dear! How Disgusting is Life by Edward Lear
7 Bad Morning by Langston Hughes
8 Ode to Pablo's Tennis Shoes by Gary Soto
9 Don't Worry if Your Job Is Small by Anonymous
10 It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest
11 Personal by Langston Hughes
12 A Man said by Stephen Crane
13 Sonnet 94 by William Shakespeare
14 Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
15 If-- by Rudyard Kipling
16 from A Drama of Exile by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
17 Between What I See and What I Say... by Octavio Paz
18 Micah 6:8
19 Disobedience by A.A.Milne
20 Brother by Mary Ann Hoberman
21 Brother and Sister by Lewis Carroll
22 If Little Red Riding Hood... by Jeff Moss
23 Andre Gwendolyn Brooks
24 The Parent by Ogden Nash
25 Bilingual/BilingÃ¼e by Rhina P. Espaillat
26 Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
27 Manners by Elizabeth Bishop
28 Bee! I'm expecting you! by Emily Dickenson
29 Vade Mecum by Billy Collins
30 Evil Langston Hughes
31 A Poison Tree by William Blake
32 Tableau by Countee Cullen
33 Voices Rising by DreamYard Prep Slam Team
34 A Blessing by James Wright
35 Invitation to Love by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
36 1 Corinthians 13:1-8
37 For Katrina's Sun-Dial by Henry van Dyke
38 Liberty by Janet S. Wong
39 The Little Elf by John Kendrick Bangs
40 The Fairies by Rose Fyleman
41 I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child by Robert Graves
42 Some One by Walter de la Mare
43 Under the Bed by Penny Trzynka
44 What's That? by Florence Parry Heide
45 from TheMasque of Queens by Ben Jonson
46 Songs of the Ogres by W.H. Auden
47 The S[plendour Falls on Castle Walls by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
48 Foolish Questions by American Folk Rhyme
49 Way Down South Anonymous
50 There was an old man in a garden by Edward Lear
51 There was an old Person whose habits by Edward Lear
52 Baby Ate a Microchip by Neal Levin
53 from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
54 Herbert Glerbett by Jack Prelutsky
55 The Toys Talk of the World by Katherine Pyle
56 All About Boys and Girls by John Ciardi
57 Some Words Inside of Words by Richard Wilbur
58 The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
59 Duty of the Student by Edward Anthony
60 Gnome by Samuel Beckett
61 Sick by Shel Silverstein
62 Homework by Jane Yolen
63 Lucky Trade by Matthew M. Fredericks
64 Bubble Troubles by Janet S. Wong
65 How to Paint a Donkey by Naomi Shihab Nye
66 The Lesson by Billy Collins
67 Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
68 if everything happens that can't be done by E.E.Cummings
69 The Secret Sits by Robert Frost
70 Hide-and-Seek, 1933 by Galway Kinnell
71 Block City by Robert Lewis Stevenson
72 The Girls in the Circle by Nikki Giovanni
73 We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
74 Slam, Dunk, & Hook by Yusef Komunyakaa
75 Defender by Linda Sue Park
76 Zuri at Bat by Nikki Grimes
77 Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
78 Casey's Revenge by Grantland Rice
79 May by John Updike
80 Will, lost in a sea of trouble by Archilochos
81 The Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon, Lord Byron
82 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
83 from Henry V, iii, 56-67 by William Shakespeare
84 Shiloh by Herman Melville
85 Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
86 Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
87 Ukase by Pfc. C.G.Tiggas
88 When he was small, when he would fall by Vladimir Nabokov
89 The Unknown Soldier by Billy Rose
90 First They Came for the Jews by Martin NiemÃ¶ller
91 from "Voices from Lemnos" by Seamus Heaney
92 Peace by Gerard Manley Hopkins
93 from "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake
94 Happy Thought by Robert Lewis Stevenson
95 What Are Heavy? by Christina Rossetti
96 Devotion by Robert Frost
97 Will There Really Be a Morning? by Emily Dickinson
98 Ballad of the Morning Streets by Amiri Baraka
99 who are you, little i by E.E.Cummings
100 In beauty may I walk from the Navajo
101 Tom by Gwendolyn Brooks
102 from As You Like It, II, v 5-12; 18-25 by William Shakespeare
103 Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens
104 The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
105 Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
106 from The Metamorphoses, Book I by Ovid
107 The World by William Brighty Rands
108 from The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
109 Young Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
110 The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service
111 Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
112 Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
113 Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve Merriam

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