Janeczko, Paul B. editor.

Jones, Richard, 1977- illustrator.

by Charles Ghigna -- by J. Patrick Lewis -- by Elaine Magliaro -- by Allan Wolf -- by Marilyn Singer -- by Christina Rossetti -- by Calef Brown -- by Monica Shannon -- by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- by Karla Kuskin -- by Douglas Florian -- by Irene Latham -- by Marjorie Maddox -- by Kwame Alexander -- by April Halprin Wayland -- by Anna E. Jordan -- by Robert Louis Stevenson -- by Margarita Engle -- by Irene Latham -- by Allan Wolf -- by Ralph Fletcher -- by Elaine Magliaro -- by Charles Waters -- by Marilyn Singer -- by Anna E. Jordan -- by Douglas Florian -- by Martin Gardner -- by Nikki Grimes -- by Steve Withrow -- by Helen Frost -- by Pat Mora -- by Irene Latham -- by April Halprin Wayland.

selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Richard Jones.

Lithgow, John, 1945-

Matthew Arnold -- W. H. Auden -- John Berryman -- Elizabeth Bishop -- William Blake -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Robert Burns -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Lewis Carroll -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Hart Crane -- E. E. Cummings -- Emily Dickinson -- John Donne -- T. S. Eliot -- Robert Frost -- William S. Gilbert -- Allen Ginsberg -- Robert Herrick -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- A. E. Housman -- Langston Hughes -- Randall Jarrell -- Ben Jonson -- John Keats -- Philip Larkin -- Edward Lear -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Robert Lowell -- Andrew Marvell -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Marianne Moore -- Ogden Nash -- Dorothy Parker -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Ezra Pound -- Christina Rossetti -- Carl Sandburg -- William Shakespeare -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Edmund Spenser -- Gertrude Stein -- Wallace Stevens -- Dylan Thomas -- Walt Whitman -- William Carlos Williams -- William Wordsworth -- William Butler Yeats.

[selected by] John Lithgow.

Hollander, John.

Elizabeth Bishop -- John Donne -- John Keats -- Emma Lazarus -- George Meredith -- John Milton / Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom -- William Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- William Wordsworth -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Walt Whitman -- William Carlos Williams -- WIlliam Wordsworth -- Thomas Wyatt -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats --Counsels: April mortality / Leonie Adams -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 / Anonymous -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Edward Fitzgerald -- George Herbert -- Robert Herrick -- A.E. Housman -- Rudyard Kipling -- Christina Rossetti -- Dylan Thomas -- Edmund Waller -- Elinor Wylie -- William Butler Yeats.

Anonymous -- Robert Browning -- Lewis Carroll -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- E.E. Cummings -- Robert Frost -- Thomas Gray -- Thomas Hardy -- John Keats -- Edward Lear -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Christina Rossetti -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- William Shakespeare -- Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Edward Thomas -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Matthew Arnold -- Emily Bronte -- William Cullen Bryant -- George G.N., Lord Byron -- Emily Dickinson -- Emily Dickinson -- Robert Frost -- Robert Frost -- Spring pools / Robert Frost -- Thomas Hardy -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- John Keats -- Walter Savage Landor -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Herman Melville -- Edwin Muir -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Stevie Smith -- Trumbull Stickney -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Walt Whitman.

edited, with an introduction, by John Hollander.

Bloom, Harold.

Edmund Spenser -- Walter Ralegh -- Philip Sidney -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- John Donne -- Ben Jonson -- Robert Herrick -- George Herbert -- James Shirley -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- John Dryden -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Samuel Johnson -- William Cowper -- William Blake -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walter Savage Landor -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Edward Fitzgerald -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Robert Browning -- Emily Jane Brontë -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Matthew Arnold -- George Meredith -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Christina Rossetti -- Emily Dickinson -- William Morris -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Thomas Hardy -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Robert Bridges -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Oscar Wilde -- A.E. Housman -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- Lionel Johnson -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Charlotte Mew -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Adelaide Crapsey -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- D.H. Lawrence -- Elinor Wylie -- Robinson Jeffers -- T.S. Eliot -- Conrad Aiken -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Samuel Greenberg -- Wilfred Owen -- Louise Bogan -- John Brooks Wheelwright -- Hart Crane -- Stevie Smith -- Robert Penn Warren -- William Empson -- W.H. Auden -- Louis MacNiece -- Theodore Roethke -- James Agee -- Robert Fitzgerald -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Jean Garrigue -- F.T. Prince -- Robert Hayden -- Delmore Schwartz -- R.S. Thomas -- May Swenson -- Dylan Thomas -- John Berryman -- Randall Jarrell -- Robert Lowell -- W.S. Graham -- Amy Clampitt -- Keith Douglas -- Anthony Hecht -- Kenneth Koch -- A.R. Ammons -- James Merrill -- James Wright -- Vicki Hearne -- Agha Shahid Ali.

edited with commentaries by Harold Bloom.

Kennedy, Caroline.

Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-

by Caroline Kennedy -- Rita Dove -- Gertrude Stein ; Delmore Schwartz ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Galway Kinnell ; Edward Lear ; Langston Hughes ; Gary Soto ; anonymous ; Edgar Albert Guest ; Langston Hughes ; Stephen Crane ; William Shakespeare ; Robert Frost ; Rudyard Kipling ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Octavio Paz ;

A.A. Milne ; Mary Ann Hoberman ; Lewis Carroll ; Jeff Moss ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Ogden Nash ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Dudley Randall ; Elizabeth Bishop --

Emily Dickinson ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; William Blake ; Countee Cullen ; DreamYard Prep Slam Team ; William Butler Yeats ; Langston Hughes ; James Wright ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Saint Paul ; Henry van Dyke ; Janet S. Wong --

John Kendrick Bangs ; Rose Fyleman ; Robert Graves ; Walter de la Mare ; Penny Trzynka ; Florence Parry Heide ; Ben Jonson ; W.H. Auden ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

American folk rhyme ; anonymous ; Edward Lear ; Edward Lear ; Neal Levin ; Lewis Carroll ; Jack Prelutsky ; Katharine Pyle ; John Ciardi ; Richard Wilbur ; Ogden Nash --

Edward Anthony ; Samuel Beckett ; Shel Silverstein ; Jane Yolen ; Matthew M. Fredericks ; Janet S. Wong ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; E.E. Cummings --

Robert Frost ; Galway Kinnell ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Nikki Giovanni ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Linda Sue Park ; Nikki Grimes ; Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; Grantland Rice ; John Updike --

Archilochos ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; William Shakespeare ; Herman Melville ; Abraham Lincoln ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Pfc. C.G. Tiggas ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Billy Rose ; Martin Niemöller ; Seamus Heaney ; Gerard Manley Hopkins --

William Blake ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Christina Rossetti ; Robert Frost ; Emily Dickinson ; Amiri Baraka ; E.E. Cummings ; from the Navajo ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; William Shakespeare ; Wallace Stevens ; Wallace Stevens ; William Carlos Williams ; Ovid ; William Brighty Rands -- Geoffrey Chaucer ; Sir Walter Scott ; Robert Service ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Eve Merriam.

Caroline Kennedy ; paintings by Jon J Muth.

Harrison, Michael, 1939-

Stuart-Clark, Christopher.

Valerie Worth -- Richard Edwards -- Shel Silverstein -- Alastair Reid -- Gareth Owen -- Russell Hoban -- Jack Prelutsky -- Phoebe Hesketh -- Brian Morse -- Hal Summers -- Kathleen Raine -- Walter de la Mare -- Robert Graves -- Sylvia Plath -- Judith Nicholls -- John Heath-Stubbs -- George Barker -- Siegfried Sassoon.

Elizabeth Jennings -- Ian Serraillier -- W.H. Davies -- Thom Gunn -- Theodore Roethke -- Rachel Field -- John Agard -- Gillian Clarke -- Alan Brownjohn -- Edwin Brock -- James Stephens -- E.V. Rieu -- Ted Hughes -- Jenny Joseph -- William Carlos Williams -- Roy Campbell -- Edwin Muir -- G.K. Chesterton -- Norman MacCaig -- Vachel Lindsay -- Jon Silkin.

Fleur Adcock -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Roy Fuller -- David McCord -- Ogden Nash -- Michael Rosen -- Berlie Doherty -- Allan Ahlberg -- Barrie Wade -- Jackie Kay -- Brian Lee -- Wendy Cope -- Maya Angelou -- John Mole -- A.E. Housman -- Dylan Thomas -- Charles Causley -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Stephen Spender -- George Mackay Brown -- Liz Lochhead -- Anna Adams -- Frances Cornford -- Edward Lucie-Smith -- Seamus Heaney -- Tony Harrison -- D.H. Lawrence -- Brian Jones -- Judith Wright -- C. Day Lewis.

Roger McGough -- Edwin Morgan -- Matthew Sweeney -- Michael Baldwin -- Simon Armitage -- Douglas Dunn -- Kit Wright -- T.E. Hulme -- Gerda Mayer -- Stevie Smith -- Paul Muldoon -- Laurence Binyon -- W.H. Auden -- R.S. Thomas -- U.A. Fanthorpe -- Iain Crichton Smith -- Mervyn Peake -- Ted Walker -- Craig Raine.

Libby Houston -- e.e. cummings -- Langston Hughes -- Sara Teasdale -- Laurie Lee -- Derek Walcott -- Andrew Young -- Edmund Blunden -- Carl Sandburg -- A.A. Milne -- Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Robert Bridges -- N.M. Bodecker -- Philip Gross -- May Swenson -- George MacBeth -- T.S. Eliot -- Ken Smith -- Zaro Weil -- Robert Frost -- Norman Nicholson -- James Elroy Flecker -- John Masefield -- James Reeves -- James Berry.

Thomas Hardy -- Patricia Beer -- Rupert Brooke -- Ian Hamilton -- Rudyard Kipling -- Edward Thomas -- Wilfred Owen -- Henry Reed -- Keith Douglas -- Peter Porter -- James Kirkup -- Adrian Mitchell -- Helen Dunmore -- Alan Ross -- Jon Stallworthy -- James Fenton -- Louis MacNeice.

Charlotte Mew -- Ezra Pound -- Grace Nichols -- Brian Patten -- Max Fatchen -- Mick Gowar -- Adrian Henri -- John Betjeman -- Hilaire Belloc -- Robert Lowell -- Vernon Scannell -- Carol Ann Duffy -- Alfred Noyes -- Philip Larken -- W.B. Yeats -- Sheenagh Pugh.

[compiled by] Michael Harrison & Christopher Stuart-Clark.

Prelutsky, Jack.

Lobel, Arnold, illustrator.

William Blake -- Cecil Frances Alexander -- Anonymous -- Mary Britton Miller -- A M Sullivan -- Kate Greenaway -- Christina Rossetti -- Lew Sarett -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Christina Rossetti -- Sara Coleridge -- Walter Crane -- Hilda Conkling -- Gene Baro -- John Richard Moreland -- William D Sargent -- James Reeves -- Barbara Kunz Loots -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Christina Rossetti -- Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Charlotte Zolotow -- Lillian Morrison -- Polly Chase Boyden -- Dennis Lee -- Amy Lowell -- Anonymous -- Lilian Moore -- May Justus -- Elizabeth-Ellen Long -- David McCord -- Elizabeth Coatsworth -- A A Milne -- Marie Louise Allen -- N M Bodecker -- Robert Frost -- Walter de la Mare -- James Stephens -- Vachel Lindsay -- Jane Taylor -- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Walter de la Mare -- G Orr Clark -- Sara Coleridge -- Anonymous -- John Updike -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- Nancy Byrd Turner -- Lilian Moore -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Shel Silverstein -- Charles G D Roberts -- Nancy Byrd Turner -- Kathryn Worth -- Sara Teasdale -- Susan M Schmeltz -- Frances Frost -- Dorothy Aldis -- Phyllis McGinley -- Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Anonymous -- Aileen Fisher -- Marchette Chute -- Walter R Brooks -- Joyce Kilmer -- Bobbi Katz -- Aileen Fisher -- Karla Kuskin -- N M Bodecker -- Charlotte Zolotow -- Anonymous -- Mable Watts -- Frank Asch -- Rose Burgunder -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Maurice Sendak -- John Updike -- Arthur Guiterman -- Dorothy Brown Thompson -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- Rowena Bastin Bennett -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- Ivy O Eastwick -- L Maria Child -- Aileen Fisher -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Langston Hughes -- Oliver Herford -- Aileen Fisher -- David McCord -- Clement Clarke Moore -- Stanley Kunitz -- Rose Fyleman -- Randall Jarrell -- William Butler Yeats -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- J J Bell -- Theodore Roethke -- Frank Jacobs -- Theodore Roethke -- Alan Brownjohn -- Charles Edward Carryl -- Carl Sandburg -- Jack Prelutsky -- Lenore M Link -- JRR Tolkien -- Georgia Roberts Durston -- Edna Becker -- Lew Sarett -- Jane Yolen -- E V Rieu -- Gail Kredenser -- Jack Prelutsky -- William Jay Smith -- Gretchen Kreps -- William Jay Smith -- Rachel Field -- Anonymous -- Lord Byron -- Conrad Aiken -- Walter R Brooks -- Herbert Asquith -- Babette Deutsch -- Ogden Nash -- Ted Hughes -- Irene McLeod -- James S Tippett -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Anonymous -- Anonymous -- William Brighty Rands -- Anonymous -- Anonymous -- Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Mary Britton Miller -- James Stephens -- John Becker -- Richard Shaw -- Lilian Moore -- Christina Rossetti -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Karla Kuskin -- Valerie Worth -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Walter R Brooks -- Dorothy Aldis -- Roland Young -- Anonymous -- Marjorie Barrows -- Norma Farber -- Else Holmelund Minarik -- Kaye Starbird -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Robert Frost -- Christina Rossetti -- Ian Serraillier -- Joan Walsh Anglund -- Anonymous -- James Whitcomb Riley -- E V Rieu -- Jack Prelutsky -- Lord Alfred Douglas -- Dahlov Ipcar -- Alice B Campbell -- John Gardner -- J J Bell -- Gail Kredenser -- Byrd Baylor -- Hilaire Belloc -- Lewis Carroll -- Bobbi Katz -- John Travers Moore -- Michael Flanders -- Arthur Guiterman -- Anna Bird Stewart -- Ogden Nash -- Kenneth Grahame -- Richard Digance -- Humbert Wolfe -- Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Frances Frost -- Witter Bynner -- Rachel Field -- Lord Alfred Douglas -- Frances Frost -- Hilaire Belloc -- Russell Hoban -- Alfred Tennyson -- Lillian Morrison -- Mabel Watts -- Mary Elizabeth Counselman -- Marci Ridlon -- Eve Merriam -- Bobbi Katz -- Arnold Spilka -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Leland B Jacobs -- Eve Merriam -- Frank Asch -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Ogden Nash -- Judith Thurman -- Virginia Schonborg -- Patricia Hubbell -- Mary Britton Miller -- Lilian Moore -- Lois Lenski -- Virginia Schonborg -- Frances Park -- Carl Sandburg -- Frank Asch -- Marci Ridlon -- Langston Hughes -- Rachel Field -- Irene Thompson -- Langston Hughes -- Claudia Lewis -- Mary Britton Miller -- Lilian Moore -- Felice Holman -- Dick Dorrance.

Shel Silverstein -- Edward Anthony -- Anonymous -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Anonymous -- Arnold Spilka -- Clyde Watson -- William Jay Smith -- Anonymous -- Anonymous -- Miriam Chaikin -- Arnold Spilka -- Charles Henry Ross -- Dennis Lee -- Clyde Watson -- Nina Payne -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- E V Rieu -- John Ciardi -- Gelett Burgess -- Charles Henry Ross -- Nina Payne -- William Cole -- Norah Smaridge -- Heinrich Hoffman -- Kaye Starbird -- Walter de la Mare -- Kaye Starbird -- Dennis Lee -- Marci Ridlon -- Leland B Jacobs -- May Justus -- Kathleen Fraser -- Dennis Lee -- Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Jack Prelutsky -- Anonymous -- Phyllis McGinley -- E E Cummings -- Kathleen Fraser -- Kaye Starbird -- Martin Gardner -- Stacy Jo Crossen and Natalie Anne Covell -- Judith Viorst -- Lewis Carroll -- Eve Merriam -- Pauline Clarke -- Walter de la Mare -- Anonymous -- Gertrude Stein -- Karla Kuskin -- David McCord -- Nikki Giovanni -- Mary O'Neill -- Dorothy Aldis -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Margaret Hillert -- Bonnie Nims -- Osage Indian -- Robert Frost -- Felice Holman -- Laurence Alma-Tadema -- Kathleen Fraser -- Margaret Hillert -- Lillian Morrison -- Felice Holman -- Nikki Giovanni -- Karama Fufuka -- Ruth Krauss -- Harry Behn -- R C Scriven -- Dorothy Aldis -- Russell Hoban -- Arnold Spilka -- Jean Conder Soule -- Dr Seuss -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- Delmore Schwartz -- Arnold Spilka -- Karla Kuskin -- Emily Dickinson -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Michael Patrick Hearn -- Valine Hobbs -- Marchette Chute -- X J Kennedy -- N M Bodecker -- Lilian Moore -- Judith Viorst -- A E Housman -- John Ciardi -- Judith Viorst -- Charles and Mary Lamb -- Roy Fuller -- Christopher Morley -- X J Kennedy -- Karama Fufuka -- Marci Ridlon -- Felice Holman -- John Ciardi -- Edward Anthony -- X J Kennedy -- Karla Kuskin -- Bobbi Katz -- Martin Gardner -- John Ciardi -- Felice Holman -- John Travers Moore -- Nancy Dingman Watson -- Jane Yolen -- Russell Hoban -- Louella Dunann -- Michael Rosen -- John T Alexander -- Karla Kuskin -- Dorothy Brown Thompson -- Eve Merriam -- Arnold Adoff -- William Carlos Williams -- Anonymous -- Lewis Carroll -- Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr -- John Ciardi -- Russell Hoban -- Shel Silverstein -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Ogden Nash -- Leland B Jacobs -- Nina Payne -- Bobbi Katz -- William Wise -- Fay Maschler -- Arnold Adoff -- Spike Milligan -- Anonymous -- Maxine W Kumin -- Anonymous -- Jack Prelutsky -- Ralph Bergengren -- Ogden Nash -- E V Rieu -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- William Cole -- Rachel Field -- Charlotte Zolotow -- Arthur Guiterman -- Alfred Noyes -- Shel Silverstein -- Anonymous -- Walter R Brooks -- Ted Hughes -- Harry Graham -- Rose Henderson -- Leroy R Jackson -- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer -- Harry Graham -- Mary O'Neill -- Phyllis B Morden -- Dr Seuss -- Shel Silverstein -- Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr -- Lillian Morrison -- Leonard Clark -- William Jay Smith -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- James Reeves -- Morris Bishop -- Nancy Byrd Turner -- Edward Lear -- Beatrice Curtis Brown -- Anonymous -- Anonymous -- Anonymous -- James Reeves -- Roald Dahl -- Frank Asch -- Edward Gorey -- Paul Engle -- Richard Wilbur -- E V Rieu -- Lewis Carroll -- Anonymous -- Samuel Goodrich -- Spike Milligan -- Christopher Isherwood -- Steven Kroll -- Frederick J Forster -- William Roscoe -- Edgar Parker -- Anonymous -- Anonymous -- Eugene Field -- Edward Lear -- L J Bridgman -- Mary Macdonald -- Theodore Roethke -- Theodore Roethke -- J J Bell -- Anonymous -- Richard Digance -- Anonymous -- Gelett Burgess -- Anonymous -- Anonymous -- Michael Flanders -- Ogden Nash -- Dennis Lee -- Leroy R Jackson -- Spike Milligan -- Anonymous -- Mervyn Peake -- Alexander Resnikoff -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Lewis Carroll -- Dylan Thomas -- Oliver Herford -- Henry S Leigh -- Edward Lear -- Jack Prelutsky -- Anonymous -- Edward Gorey -- Harry Graham -- Shel Silverstein -- Anonymous -- Jack Prelutsky.

Anonymous -- Jack Prelutsky -- Carolyn Wells -- Anonymous -- Alexander Resnikoff -- Laura E Richards -- Arthur Guiterman -- Jane Yolen -- Anonymous -- Robert Williams Wood -- Laura E Richards -- David McCord -- Anonymous -- William Cole -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- N M Bodecker -- George A Strong -- Eve Merriam -- Anonymous -- Jack Prelutsky -- Anonymous -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Anonymous -- Peter Newell -- Phyllis McGinley -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Judith Thurman -- Emily Dickinson -- Jack Prelutsky -- Mary O'Neill -- Walter del la Mare -- Harry Behn -- Lilian Moore -- Walter de la Mare -- e e Cummings -- Florence Parry Heide -- Humbert Wolfe -- Eleanor Farjeon -- William Shakespeare -- Sylvia Read -- Shelagh McGee -- B J Lee -- Sonja Nikolay -- Anonymous -- Charles Causley -- W H Auden -- Anonymous -- Jack Prelutsky -- Oliver Herford -- Jack Prelutsky -- Jack Prelutsky -- Ogden Nash -- X J Kennedy -- William Allingham -- Ralph Hodgson -- Robert Graves -- Rachel Field -- William Jay Smith -- Monica Shannon -- Hughes Mearns -- Michael Dugan -- Shel Silverstein -- James Reeves -- Jack Prelutsky -- Miriam Chaikin -- Palmer Brown -- Jack Prelutsky -- Theodore Roethke -- Christopher Morley -- Monica Shannon -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Patricia Hubbell -- William Blake -- Suzanne Douglass -- Charles Malam -- William Jay Smith -- Russell Hoban -- Joanna Cole -- Dorothy Aldis -- Sylvia Plath -- Carl Sandburg -- Christina Rossetti -- Mary O'Neill -- Anonymous -- Robert Francis -- Mary O'Neill -- Elizabeth Fleming -- Barbara A Huff -- Lillian Morrison -- Edwin A Hoey -- David McCord -- Alice Van Eck -- Dorothy Brown Thompson -- Rachel Field -- Diane Siebert -- Edna St Vincent Millay -- Jane Merchant -- Daniel Whitehead Hicky -- Patricia Hubbell -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Robert S Oliver -- Frederick Winsor -- Langston Hughes -- June Brady -- Claudia Lewis -- E V Rieu -- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder --

selected and introduced by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by Arnold Lobel.

Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-

George Frederick Root, c. 1861 ; The flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett, c. 1900 ; You're a grand old flag / George M. Cohan, 1906 ; West Virginia state board of education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) ; Flags / Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944 ; The Mike Christian story / John McCain, 1971 ; Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) ; U.S. blues / Grateful Dead, 1973 ; God bless the USA / Lee Greenwood, 1984 -- John Winthrop, 1630 ; Farewell address, September 19, 1796 / George Washington ; First inaugural address, March 4, 1801 / Thomas Jefferson ; Dedication of the Bunker Hill monument, June 17, 1825 / Daniel Webster ; The ship of state / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849 ; The strenuous life, April 10, 1899 / Theodore Roosevelt ; Let America be America again / Langston Hughes, 1936 ; Second inaugural address, January 20, 1937 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; Inaugural address, January 20, 1961 / John F. Kennedy ; The times they are a-changin' / Bob Dylan, c. 1963 ; First words spoken by a man on the moon, July 20, 1969 ; Farewell address, January 11, 1989 / Ronald Reagan -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, 1782 ; Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 ; Democracy / Henry Adams, 1880 ; The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde, 1891 ; Dangers of the dress suit in politics / George Washington Plunkitt, 1905 ; Take me out to the ball game / Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908 ; On being an American / H.L. Mencken, 1922 ; As regards patriotism / Mark Twain, c. 1900 ; I like Americans / Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1924 ; The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 ; American names / Stephen Vincent Benét, 1927 ; The 42nd parallel / John Dos Passos, 1930 ; You're the top / Cole Porter, 1934 ; The story of a novel / Thomas Wolfe, 1936 ; Hollywood / Truman Capote, 1950 ; The last gentleman / Walker Percy, 1966 ; How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa, 1987 ; A country and a conundrum / Anna Quindlen, 2002 -- Benjamin Franklin ; Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) ; Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau, 1849 ; First inaugural address, March 4, 1861 / Abraham Lincoln ; The United States of America v. Susan B Anthony, 1873 ; To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee, 1960 ; Letter from Birmingham city jail, April 16, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Special message to the Congress: the American promise, March 15, 1965 / Lyndon B. Johnson ; Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968) ; Opening statement to the House judiciary committee, proceedings on impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 / Barbara Jordan ; Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974 / Gerald R. Ford ; Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000).

Thomas Jefferson, 1776 ; But, Mister Adams (from the Broadway musical 1776) / Sherman Edwards, 1964 ; America / Samuel Francis Smith, 1832 ; If I had a country, I should be a patriot, September 24, 1847 / Frederick Douglass ; Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 / Annie Davis ; Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893 ; Freedom / E.B. White, July 1940 ; As freedom is a breakfastfood / E.E. Cummings, 1940 ; State of the Union address, January 6, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; Address at "I am an American" day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 / Judge Learned Hand ; I've got the light of freedom / Pete Seeger ; Address to students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 / Ronald Reagan -- Andrew Hamilton ; Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) ; Remarks to the Senate in support of a declaration of conscience, June 1, 1950 / Margaret Chase Smith ; New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) -- John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza) ; Speech against missionaries' efforts to baptize members of the Seneca tribe, 1805 / Chief Red Jacket ; Speech to the greater Houston ministerial association, September 12, 1960 / John F. Kennedy ; Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) ; Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 122 S. Ct. 2460 (2002) -- James Otis ; Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) ; Planned parenthood of southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) -- Abigail Adams ; Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 / John Adams ; Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Seneca Falls convention, 1848 ; Ain't I a woman?, May 1851 / Sojourner Truth ; Lift every voice and sing, 1900 / James Weldon Johnson ; Speech in Congress on women's rights and wartime service, January 10, 1918 / Jeannette Rankin ; Incident / Countee Cullen, 1925 ; Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes, 1942 ; Can a woman ever be president of the United States? / Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935 ; Brown v. Board of education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) ; The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall 1957 / Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960 ; Televised address to the nation, June 11, 1963 / John F. Kennedy ; Address at the march on Washington, August 28, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; The feminine mystique, 1963 / Betty Friedan ; The special plight and the role of the black woman, May 7, 1971 / Fannie Lou Hamer ; Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973) ; Statement on Americans with disabilities act, May 9, 1989 / Edward M. Kennedy ; Address to the fourth UN world conference on women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 / Hillary Rodham Clinton ; Remarks on affirmative action, July 19, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton ; Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194 (1999) -- Joseph Brackett, 1848 ; Self-reliance, 1841 / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Walden, 1854 / Henry David Thoreau ; Songs of the sacred mysteries / Sioux, 1869 ; The sorrow songs (from The the souls of black folk) / W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903 ; The road not taken / Robert Frost, 1916 ; Invisible man / Ralph Ellison, 1947 ; Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 / William Faulkner ; Letter to the House committee on un-American activities, and reply (from Scoundrel Time), 1952 / Lillian Hellman ; Day of affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 / Robert F. Kennedy ; The drum major instinct, February 4, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; In search of our mother's gardens / Alice Walker, 1974.

Chief Logan ; Speech to the second Virginia convention, March 23, 1775 / Patrick Henry ; Common sense, February 14, 1776 / Thomas Paine ; Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863 ; The Monroe doctrine, 1823 ; The battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe, 1861 ; Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville, April 1862 ; Final emancipation proclamation, January 1, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln ; Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln ; Second inaugural address, March 4, 1865 / Abraham Lincoln ; Memoirs / Ulysses S. Grant, 1885-1886 ; Surrender to the U.S. army, 1877 / Chief Joseph ; The Marines' song, 1891 ; Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane, 1899 ; The Caisson song / Edmund L. Gruber, 1907 ; War message to Congress, April 2, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson ; Over there / George M. Cohan, 1917 ; The unknown soldier / Billy Rose ; September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden, 1941 ; War message to Congress, December 8, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; The gift outright / Robert Frost, 1942 ; Martial Cadenza / Wallace Stevens, 1954 ; The great crusade, June 6, 1944 / Dwight D. Eisenhower ; On the atomic bomb, 1945 / H. Robert Oppenheimer ; The fateful decision, 1948 / Albert Einstein ; Address to the nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 / Harry S. Truman ; Farewell address, January 17, 1961 / Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Blowin' in the wind / Bob Dylan, 1962 ; Commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963 / John F. Kennedy ; Vietnam veterans against the war / John Kerry, 1971 ; Born in the U.S.A. / Bruce Springsteen, 1984 ; On the rainy river (from The things they carried), 1990 / Tim O'Brien ; Remarks upon returning from the People's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 / Richard M. Nixon ; Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton ; Address on terrorism before a Joint meeting of Congress, September 20, 2001 / George W. Bush ; Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 / Jimmy Carter -- Emma Lazarus, 1883 ; Explusion of the immigrants, c. 1884 / Huang Zunxian ; I hear America singing / Walt Whitman, 1891 ; I've been working on the railroad ; Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 / Wilbur Wright ; Speech at the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, July 22, 1905 / Florence Kelley ; The jungle / Upton Sinclair, 1906 ; Ellis Island / Henry James, 1907 ; Barrio boy, 1971 / Ernesto Galarza ; My life and work, 1922 / Henry Ford ; They won't think, 1921 / Thomas Alva Edison ; Happy days are here again / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929 ; Brother, can you spare a dime? / E.Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932 ; First inaugural address, March 4, 1933 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) ; Grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck, 1939 ; Death of a salesman, 1949 / Arthur Miller ; The kitchen debate, Moscow, 1959 / Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev ; Ellis Island interview, March 22, 1991 / Manny Steen ; King Leer, 1950 / Groucho Marx ; Coal miner's daughter / Loretta Lynn, 1970 ; Choosing a dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen, 1971 / Mario Puzo ; Recapturing America's moral vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 / Robert F. Kennedy ; Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 / Cesar Chavez ; My hometown / Bruce Springsteen, 1984 ; POPism, 1975 / Andy Warhol ; Speech to the Democratic convention, August 12, 1980 / Edward M. Kennedy ; Homeless children speak, 1986 / David Bright ; Speech at the Republican convention, August 18, 1988 / George Bush ; The joy luck club / Amy Tan, 1989 ; The education of an American, September 21, 2001 / Arnold Schwarzenegger ; Capitalizing on the "cognitive niche", 1999 / Bill Gates ; God bless America / Irving Berlin, 1938 ; The Thanksgivings / Iroquois, 1891 ; Twelfth song of the thunder / Navajo, 1887 ; Oh! Susanna / Stephen Foster, 1848 ; Old cotton fields at home / Huddie Ledbetter, 1936 ; Light in August / William Faulkner, 1932 ; Let us now praise famous men / James Agee, 1941 ; Florida / Elizabeth Bishop, 1946 ; The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain, 1884 ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost, 1923 ; Moby-Dick / Herman Melville, 1851 ; The sidewalks of New York / James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor, 1894 ; New York, New York / Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977 ; Jazz / Toni Morrison, 1992 ; Chicago / Carl Sandburg, 1916 ; The significance of the frontier in American history, 1893 / Frederick Jackson Turner ; The ballad of Davy Crockett / George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954 ; O pioneers! / Willa Cather, 1913 ; Response to the breakup of their reservation, 1903 / Northern Utes ; Home on the range / David Guion, 1930 ; The old Chisholm trail, c. 1880 ; The mud below / Annie Proulx, 1999 ; Oklahoma / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943 ; I left my heart in San Fransciso / George C. Cory, Jr. and Douglass Cross, 1954 ; Sunset / Jack Kerouac, 1960 ; Surfin' U.S.A. / Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963 ; Los Angeles notebook / Joan Didion, 1966 ; Big yellow taxi / Joni Mitchell, 1970 ; The wilderness letter / Wallace Stegner, 1960 ; America / Paul Simon, 1968 ; America, the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates, 1893 -- Woody Guthrie, 1940.

selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.

Hall, Donald, 1928-2018

edited by Donald Hall.

Alexander, Kwame, author.

Colderley, Chris author.

Wentworth, Marjory, 1958- author.

Holmes, Ekua, illustrator.

Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth ; illustrated Ekua Holmes.

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