Poetry speaks who I am

Eternity / Perhaps the world ends here / Still I rise / Cinderella's diary / Vampire's serenade / Alone / Alone / Caroline / "What are friends for..." / I loved my friend / In the fifth-grade locker room / Bra shopping / Blood charm / Pause / The delight song of Tsoai-talee / Indian education / One art / Here / Haiku / Good girl / Bad boats / No images / won't you celebrate with me / What I'm telling you / How I learned to sweep / Sonnet 130 / Litany / A teenage couple / Free period / Zodiac / The Skokie theater / Valentine / An angry Valentine / What great grief has made the empress mute / Mad girl's love song / How we heard the name / The gladiator / Worth / I am a Black / Lost sister / Flash cards / Arithmetic / Dream variations / Dreams / Blackberry-picking / Manners / Mascara / from For a girl beginning / Every day it is always there / Dear Mama (4) / A boy in a bed in the dark / The talk / A small poem / Fears of the eighth grade / When I have fears that I may cease to be / Death of a snowman / Oatmeal / Eating poetry / The bagel / Hope is the thing with feathers / If I can stop one heart from breaking / The Duke's castle / Ozymandias / The sacred / The road not taken / Prowess / What we might be, what we are / Sideman / XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you / Sometimes with one I love / In the desert / Annabel Lee / The summer of black widows / Permanently / A dog on his master / Mowing / Seal / Seahorses / So far / The germ / Baseball / Poetry slalom / How I discovered poetry / Used book shop / The survivor / New clothes / Mediation / A fable / Houses / Snowmen / The floral apron / Abuelito who / Legacies / Instead of her own / Tia Chucha / The adversary / What your mother tells you now / 33 / 49 / What are heavy? / The wind / Acquainted with the night / When you are old / "Nobody can counsel and help you" / "Live a while in these books" / Here yet be dragons / Sedna / The wr

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America, the beautiful / For John F. Kennedy his inauguration / The Gift outright / Paul Revere's ride / I hear America singing / Let America be America again / Brown river, smile

First fig / Second fig / Fog / At the ancient pond / How reluctantly / The land of counterpane / The swing / Bed in summer / Teddy bear's picnic / Three ponies / The yak / Grizzly bear / The elephant / The little turtle / Dogs and weather / Little trotty wagtail / The owl and the pussy-cat / The crocodile / Fireflies in the garden / The Rose Family / Who has seen the wind? / Tarantella / Sherwood / Annabel Lee / Some keep the Sabbath going to church / Hope is the thing with feathers / Mother to son / The red wheelbarrow / Psalm 23 -- Luke 2:1-14 -- A visit from St. Nicholas

Skye boat song -- Cargoes / Sea-fever / Hunting-song of the Seeonee pack / Tableau / Merry-go-round / The road not taken / Song / Richard III, I, i, 1-13 / Henry V, IV, iii, 40-67 (St. Crispin's Day speech) / The Isles of Greece / Ulysses / Ithaca

The flowers / Behind stowe / In just / The pasture / Portrait by a neighbour / The song of wandering Aengus / The lake isle of Innisfree / The odyssey, book IX / The tempest, V, i, 104-110 (Ariel's song) / I taste a liquor never brewed / These are the days when birds come back / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Kubla Khan / The dawn / Sailing to Byzantium / Of mere being

Song of Solomon 2:8-16 -- Paradise lost, book IV, 639-658 / Romeo and Juliet, III, ii, 17-31 / Sonnet XVIII / Sonnet XXIX / Sonnet CXVI / The bargain / The passionate shepherd to his love / Her reply / She walks in beauty / Dr. Faustus, scene XIII / The hill / The vase of perfume / When a beggar beholds you ... / Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / For C.K. at his christening / A prayer in spring / Corinthians 13:1-13.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 -- Prayer for peace / Sonnet on his blindness / Death, be not proud / Ozymandias / His pilgrimage / Ode on a Grecian urn / Antigone, ode I / Agamemnon, Act I / Olympian ode II / Magpies in Picardy / Aftermath / The second coming / Choose something like a star / One art / The Negro speaks of rivers / Acquainted with the night / The truly great / For a poet / He wishes for the cloths of heaven / Matthew 5:1-10.

Sea joy / Thoughts / Meanwhile in Massachusetts

The Random House book of poetry for children

Book of poetry for children

Introduction -- Nature Is : -- Auguries of innocence / All things bright and beautiful / I'm glad the sky is painted blue / Universe / Measurement / On the Bridge / Flint / Wolf Cry / Secret song / Last rites / Trees / Crocus / Dandelion / Ferns / Birch trees / Wind-wolves / Wind / Mountain wind / Windy nights / Who has seen the wind? / Mountain brook / River winding / Water's edge / Mud / Muddy puddle / Sea shell / Sea / Until I saw the sea / Rain has silver sandals / Rain clouds / To walk in warm rain / Rhyme / More it snows / First snow / When all the world is full of snow / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Snowflake / Check / Moon's the north wind's cooky / Star / Night comes / Night / Silver / Night is a big black cat / Four Seasons : -- Months / Four seasons / January / Martin Luther King / Lincoln / Ground hog day / Beyond winter / Valentine / Ice / Washington / Smells / February twilight / Paper dragons / Maple feast / When / Daylight saving time / March / March wind / Wearing of the green / Spring rain / Ode to spring / Easter / Spring is / On mother's day / Spring / Good-by my winter suit / Moment in summer / Rocket in my pocket / Maytime magic / Summer / Joyful / October / October / August / Harvest home / This is Halloween / Lazy witch / Thanksgiving magic / 12 October / Thanksgiving / Thanksgiving day / Light the festive candles / Children's Carol / Winter moon / I heard a bird sing / Merry Christmas / From : a Christmas package / Visit from St Nicholas / Dogs And Cats And Bears And Bats : -- Waltzer in the house / Mice / Chipmunk's song / To a squirrel at kyle-na-no / Rabbit / Hedgehog / Bat / Bat / Sloth / Camel / Camel's complaint / Buffalo dusk / Hippopotamus / Holding hands / Oliphaunt / Wolf / Beside the line of elephants / Four little foxes / Grandpa bear's lullaby / Lesser lynx / Polar bear / Lion / Lion / Leopard / Seal / Performing seal / Donkey / Wild, the free / Mandrill / Ode to the pig : his tail / Pig /Roland Young -- Hairy dog / Pig is never blamed / Cow / Roger the dog / Lone dog / Sunning / Bliss / I've got a dog / His highness's dog / Cat of cats / Cat in despondency / Cats of kilkenny / Country barnyard / Cats / Cat / Little things / Feather or fur / Cat's menu / Ways Of Living Things : -- Hey, Bug! / Hurt no living thing / Green stems / Bug sat in a silver flower / Crickets / Praying mantis / Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating / Wasps / Flea / Bug in a jug / Bug / Oh the toe-test! / When mosquitoes make a meal / Cockroaches / Dragonfly / Fireflies in the garden / Caterpillar / Tickle rhyme / Ladybug / Codfish / Wee little worm / Flattered flying fish / Long gone / Shark / Fishes' evening song / Sally and Manda / Lizard / Boa / Brontosaurus / Desert tortoise / Frog / Crocodile / Samuel / Tree frog / Hummingbird / Polliwog / Baby talk / Canary / Ducks' ditty / Duck / Blackbird / Sea gull / Sandpiper / Sandpiper / Something told the wild geese / Hen / Night heron / Vulture / Sparrow hawk / Eagle / City, Oh City!: -- Just for one day / Riveter / Gift with the wrappings off / City, city / Sing a song of subways / Things to do if you are a subway / Flowers are a silly bunch / Rudolph is tired of the city / That May morning / Umbilical / Sunrise / People / People upstairs / Zebra / Crowds / Concrete mixers / They've all gone south / Pigeons / Sing a song of people / Stickball / Sad song about Greenwich village / Fog / Alley cat school / Open hydrant / April rain song / City lights / Rainy nights / City / Frightening / Where are you now? / Foghorns / City dump / Cockpit in the clouds

Children, Children Everywhere : -- Hug o' war / Advice to small children / Joke / Changing / Somebody / I saw a little girl I hate / Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry / Love / I love you / Question / I hate Harry / Puzzle / John, Tom, and James / Double-barreled ding-dong-bat / Yip-yap rattletrap / Tag along / Ten kinds / There was a little girl / Two people / Read this with gestures / Table manners / Jack / Bubble gum / Did you? / Why run? / Story of Augustus who would not have any soup / Eat-it-all Elaine / Tired Tim / Wendy in winter / Tony baloney / Fernando / Queenie / Jessica Jane / Follow the leader / Freddy / Girls can, too! / No girls allowed / Little Clotilda / We're racing, racing down the walk / Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / Wrestling / Measles / Barbershop / Wiggly giggles / Since Hanna moved away / Lullaby / What in the world? / Me I Am!: -- My name is / Me / My father owns the butcher shop / I am Rose / Me / Every time I climb a tree / Reason I like chocolate / Mark's fingers / When I was lost / Keziah / Just me / How to get there / Wolf / Dust of snow / Sulk / If no one ever marries me / Broom balancing / About feet / On the skateboard / I can fly / Basketball / Basketball star / Song / Growing up / Marrog / Everybody says / Stupid old myself / Don't tell me that I talk too much! / Surprises / If we didn't have birthdays / History / I am cherry alive / I'm really not lazy / Winter clothes / I'm nobody! who are you? / Yawning / Rhinos purple, hippos green / One day when we went walking / Home! You're Where It's Warm Inside : -- Wrong start / Mother's nerves / John / Waking / Mother doesn't want a dog / Amelia mixed the mustard / I wish I could meet the man that knows / Some things don't make any sense at all / First tooth / Bringing up babies / Six weeks old / Help! / Lil' bro' / My brother / Leave me alone / Myra song / Let other share / In the motel / Rules / Runaway / Soap / What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday / They're calling / Going up / Up in the pine / Homework / Homework / Hot line / I'm alone in the evening / Winning of the TV west / Middle of the night / Our house / Two people / I'm Hungry!: -- My mouth / This is just to say / Tomorrow's the fair / Turtle soup / Oodles of noodles / Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / Egg thoughts / Pie problem / Meg's Egg / Celery / Taste of purple / Chocolate cake / Patience / My little sister / Little bits of soft-boiled egg / Chocolate, chocolate / Thousand hairy savages / I eat my peas with honey / Accidentally / I raised a great hullabaloo / Twickham tweer / Worm / Pizza / Soliloquy of a tortoise / Mr Pratt / Sneaky Bill / Some People I Know : -- Some people / People / Routine / Daddy fell into the pond / Smart / One misty, moisty morning / Thoughts on talkers / My brother Bert / Grandpapa / Growing old / Grandpa dropped his glasses / Manners / Uncle / Miss Norma Jean Pugh / Godmother / Too many dayes / Little boy and the old man / Tombstone / Air traveler / House-for sale / Jittery Jim / On a bad singer / Doctor Emmanuel / Hog-calling competition / Old Quin queeribus / There was on old man with a beard / Jonathan Bing / Poor old lady / Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty / Solomon Grundy / Mr Kartoffel / Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Sugar lady / Lord Cray / Together / Opposite of two / Sir Smasham uppe / Nonsense! Nonsense!: -- Jabberwocky / Toot! toot! / Higglety, pigglety, pop! / On the ning nang nong / Common cormorant / McIntosh apple / Lobsters and the fiddler crab / Butterfly's ball / Contrary waiter / Whoops! / Way down south / Duel / Owl and the pussy-cat / Hare and the pig / Alligator / Lizard / Serpent / Shark / I had a little pig / Ants at the Olympics / Animal fair / Purple cow / I asked my mother / Algy met a bear / Walrus / Adventures of Isabel / Alligator pie / Beela by the sea / You must never bath in the Irish stew / Did you ever go fishing? / Sensitive, seldom and sad / Josephine / Folk who live in backward town / Father William / Johnnie crack and flossie snail / Snail's dream / Twins / New vestments / Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece / Don't worry if your job is small / Number nine, Penwiper mews / Tender-heartedness / Jimmy Jet and his TV set / Young lady of Lynn / Herbert Glerbett

Alphabet Stew : -- Fly and a flea in a flue / Cow / Tutor / Weather / Two witches / Antonio / Habits of the hippopotamus / Bluffalo / Moses / Puffin / Eletelephony / Mr Bidery's spidery garden / Ptarmigan / Banananananananana / Clickbeetle / Sing me a song of teapots and trumpets / Modern Hiawatha / Misnomer / To be or not to be / Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail / Have you ever seen? / Waiters / Atrocious pun / Wild flowers / J's the jumping jay-walker / Poetry / Lumps / Word / Yak / Feelings about words / Where Goblins Dwell : -- Some one / Ghosts / Something is there / Horseman / Hist whist / What's that? / Green candles / Witch! the witch! / Song of the witches / Owl / Wanted-a witch's cat / Eight witches / Witches' menu / Queen Nefertiti / Colonel Fazackerley / Song of the ogres / Three ghostesses / Darkling elves / Elf and the dormouse / Bogeyman / Troll / Wendigo / Father and mother / Fairies / Great auk's ghost / Pumpkin / Seven ages of elf-hood / Unicorn / How to tell goblins from elves / Little man / Gumble / Slithegadee / Bogus-boo / Wrimples / Ms Whatchamacallit thingamajig / Spangled pandemonium / Creature in the classroom / Dinky / Plumpuppets / Could it have been a shadow? / Land Of Potpourri : -- Happy thought / Our washing machine / Introduction to songs of innocence / No holes marred / Steam shovel / Toaster / Tin frog / Driving to the beach / My nose / From : the bed book / Arithmetic / What is pink? / What is orange? / To be answered in our next issue / Base stealer / What is red? / Who's in / Library / Knockout / Foul shot / Yellow / Football game / Maps / If once you have slept on an island / Train song / Travel / Flight plan / To an aviator / Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket / From a railway carriage / Toad / This little pig built a spaceship / Dreams / Far trek / How strange it is / Paint box / Keep a poem in your pocket / To dark eyes dreaming / Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects -- About the author/illustrator.

Poetry speaks : hear great poets read their work from Tennyson to Plath

The Oxford book of children's verse in America

Good poems

Poetry speaks to children

First book / The quarrel / Letter to Bee / Hurt no living thing / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Wolf / The tiger who wore white gloves / "The adventures of Isabel" / On a flimmering floom you shall ride / El chicle / The dentist and the crocodile / Bear song / Jabberwocky / Sneeze / Mrs. Mitchell's underwear / Okay, brown girl, okay / Vowel owl (Roger) / Magic words / The unwritten / Crayons : a rainbow poem / Gas / Knitted things / Macbeth / Frodo's song in Bree / Eagle poem / The Negro speaks of rivers / I rise, I rise / "The elephant's child" / Alphabet, pt. 1 / John Smith and his son, John Smith / About the teeth of sharks / Dinosaur diets / My sister saw a dinosaur / Joey / Rabbit / At last / Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to His Royal Highness / Balloons / Hide and seek

Every time I climb a tree / The reason I like chocolate / Trips / Mommies / Lineage / Snowmen / Good luck gold / The secret song / Why? / The question / First grade / Crying / Art class / How to paint a donkey / Daddy fell into the pond / Working with mother / A faery song / The unicorn / The lion and the lily / hist whist / The ghost and Jenny Jemima / "The raven" / Edgar Allan Poe -- Sheep party / Jamacian song / Halfway down / Count to ten and we'll be there / opposite poem 4 / opposite poems 7 and 20 / "The tale of Custard the Dragon" / Good hot dogs / Lies, all lies / Which is the best? / Casey at the bat / The testing tree, pt. 1 / Skating in the wind / A poem for Jesse / To P.J. / Valentine / Summer / Winter / The sun has a tail / Knoxville, Tennessee / I am cherry alive / The tyger / Conversation with a mouse / On turning ten / How to stay up late / Flashlight / Maturity / Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Little / Two in bed / Brother / The land of counterpane / "The bed book" / The coming of teddy bears

A call to character : a family treasury : of stories, poems, plays, proverbs, and fables to guide the development of values for you and your children

The story of my life / from The last of the dragons. "The deliverers of their country" / from Frog and toad together. "Dragons and giants" / from Charlotte's web. "Wilbur's escape" / Proverbs -- The underground railroad / Unlearning to not speak / Fifth Chinese daughter / A wrinkle in time

from My left foot. "The letter 'A'" / Mother to son / The man who planted trees / Understood Betsy / Running as a spiritual experience / Some advice to those who will serve time in prison / West with the night / Harriet Tubman is in my blood

Simple gifts / Eleven / The head man : a fable / The world is round / Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Half the people in the world / Tony went to the bodega but he didn't buy anything / Indian boarding school : the runaways / Just like Martin / King Lear / Mam's gone / The censors / The republic of conscience

The secret / Fathers / Metalogue : how much do you know? / The lost prince / The boy who drew cats / You'd better believe him : a fable / Alice in Wonderland / The genius child / Midnight hour encores / Everyone sang / Daybreak in Alabama / In my craft or sullen art / Frederick / from Angelitos negros : a salsa ballet. Prologue / from The pleasantries of the incredible Mulla Nasrudin. "Dry in the rain" / The last of the dragons / from Owl at home. "Tear-water tea" / Six degrees of separation

Pippi Longstocking / Birches / Listening to the music of Arsenio Rodriguez is moving closer to knowledge / The sword of wood / Mary Poppins / The laughter / Lame Deer's vision / How the hat ashes shovel helped Snoo Foo / Metalogue : about games and being serious / Alice in Wonderland / Peter Pan

A little princess / Grandma's cherries / Ramona Quimby, age 8 / Pinocchio / My mother's mother / The last day of a condemned man / Man'Yoshu / Death of a salesman / The return of the Indian / Jane Eyre / My children! my Africa! / Complicity / Joe Hill / The new colossus

Pollyanna / Heidi / The house at Pooh Corner / Little women / from Native American proverbs. Soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears / from Proverbs of Africa. The house of the heart is never full / from When we were very young. "The king's breakfast" / The autobiography of Malcolm X / The trumpet of the swan / The gift of the Magi / The builders / The endless steppe / Ann of Avonlea / A day no pigs would die

The grateful sparrow / One more river / Flowers and freckle cream / The wizard of Oz / Canisy / Rainbow valley / The pioneers / Orange cheeks / Mary Poppins

Fathers / Pinocchio / from Giving birth to Thunder, sleeping with his daughter. "Coyote and the skunk kill game / The emperor's new clothes / Shooting an elephant / The Constitution of the United States : Article I, Section 2 -- The slaves speak -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- The Constitution of the the United Sates, Amendment XIII -- Northanger Abbey / Oliver Twist

Sky diving / All things bright and beautiful / The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / Now that the water presses hard / Catherine, called Birdy / Understood Betsy / The wizard of Oz / The lion and the boar / The Scotty who knew too much / Izzy, willy-nilly / Jaguarandi / Catherine, called Birdy / Katori Maru, October 1920

I hear it was charged against me / Tell all the truth / Peter Pan / John Henry / The candle / Listen for the singing / The diary of Anne Frank / Invisible man / Gospel of Mark, 5 -- My philosophy / Antigone / For poets / Let us now praise famous men / Lincoln's famous beard

A bargain for Frances / Psalm 133 -- from A life of poetry. "The courage of plants--" / [untitled] / [untitled] / from The way of life. "A sound man's heart--" / Among the tribes-- / Book of songs / Smith / Promised land / Hunger / A raisin in the sun / Ojibway prayer -- The hundred dresses / The wisdom of the Jewish sages -- Black beauty / Birmingham, 1963 / I have words to spend / Pig earth / In memory of our cat, Ralph

Fable / The growing / My friend Flicka / Just above my head / To all my wars-- / Isabel / Strong men, riding horses / Not coming too late / I cannot predict / Spoon River anthology / from Local news. "The school plays" / A fairy tale about God and kings / Gospel of Luke, 15 -- How the children stopped the wars / Long walk to freedom

Allegiances / from Elderberry flute song. "Coyote, coyote, please tell me" / Shawno / The human cycle / The frog and the ox / Pictures of the gone world / A childhood story to treasure / What I have lived for / The immense journey / Rascal / The war of the bells / The acorn people / The story of the hungry elephant / Miss Rumphius

The ten principles (abbreviated) from the United Nations' Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959 -- The jacket / The way of life / Birds, beasts, and bat / Twenty and ten / The grapes of wrath / "Race" politics / Ourika / Farewell to Manzanar / Poem / Psalm 15 -- I have a dream

The velveteen rabbit / The magic locket / Love after love / Letters from a man in solitary / Splendor / First memory / More adventures of the great brain / The effect of gamma rays on Man-in-the-Moon marigolds / A tree within / Behold, my brothers / The hunchback of Notre Dame / Song for a banjo dance / Barter / The glove and the lions / The wisdom of the Jewish sages -- The little prince / A wrinkle in time / Frankenstein / The patched pants