[1963, ©1944]
An extraordinary book, which will delight some readers, as its cynicism--or realism--will offend others.
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Macmillan
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Spoon River anthology.
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.
Woodcuts by John Ross and Clare Romano Ross.
1963
1944
Spoon River anthology.
c1955.
Topics range from the creation of the universe to a delicate medical operation in poetry that is not always reverent or serious.
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Crowell,
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Imagination's other place : poems of science and mathematics
Auguries of innocence / William Blake -- a Vision / Henry Vaughan -- Atom from atom / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- God's first creature was light / Winifred Welles -- the Tortoise in eternity / Elinor Wylie -- the God of galaxies / Mark Van Doren -- Once a child / Emily Dickinson -- tMy father's watch / John Ciardi -- the Dim and ptolemaic man / John Peale Bishop -- a Different speech / Louise Townsend Nicholl -- Go fly a saucer / David McCord -- Ode to the Hayden Planetarium / Arthur Guiterman -- For the conjunction of two planets / Adrienne Cecile Rich -- the Pleiades / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Ursa major / James Kirkup -- Wealth / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ark of the covenant / Louise Townsend Nicholl -- Revolution / A.E. housman -- the Motion of the earth / Norman Nicholson -- Shells / Kathleen Raine -- Low-anchored cloud / Henry Thoreau -- To a snow-flake / Francis Thompson -- Weather words / David McCord -- Physical geography / Louise Townsend Nicholl -- Continents end / Robinson Jeffers -- Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish -- Science in God / Robert Herrick -- the Wheel / Sully-Prudhomme -- Apostrophic notes from the new-world physics / E.B. White -- Four quartz crystal clocks / Marianne Moore -- the Naked world / Sully-Prudhomme -- the Laboratory midnight / Reuel Denney -- Mathematics for the gift of tongues / Anna Hempstead Branch -- Tulips / Padraic Colum -- To think that two and two are four / A.E. Housman -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- Euclid / Vachel Lindsay -- the Starfish / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- the Icossphere / Marianne Moore -- Plane geometry / Emma Rounds -- the Point the line the surface and sphere / Clude Bragdon -- Entropy / Theodore Spencer -- the Force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas -- Message from home / Kathleen Raine -- If they spoke / Mark Van Doren -- Cold-blooded creatures / Elinor Wylie -- Innate helium / Robert Frost -- the Masked shrew / Isabella Gardner -- Our little kinsmen / Emily Dickinson -- the Spider / Robert P.Tristram Coffin -- Variation on a sentence / Louise Bogn -- the Dinosaur / Bert Leston Taylor -- At woodward's gardens / Robert Frost -- Metropolitan nightmare / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Non amo te / Martial -- Funeral reflections / Ogden Nash -- Men say they know many things / Henry Thoreau -- Man is but a castaway / Clarence Day -- Remember through the telescope extend / George Dillon -- Epilogue / Herman Melville -- Progress / David McCord -- It rolls on / Morris Bishop -- What am I life? / John Masefield -- the Dunce / Walter de la Mare -- a Man said to the universe / Stephen Crane -- Heredity / Thomas Hardy -- With a daisy / Emily Dickinson -- the Shape of the heart / Louise Townsend Nicholl -- Surgeons must be very careful / Emily Dickinson -- Thanksgiving for the body / Thomas Traherne -- X-ray / Leonora Speyer -- the Staff of Aesculapius / Marianne Moore -- the Scared order / May Sarton -- Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton -- Newton / William Wordsworth -- Sir Humphry Davy / E.C. Bentley -- the Fiftieth birthday of Agassiz / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- a Farewell to Agassiz / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- William Jones / Edgar Lee Masters -- Lines to Dr.Ditmars / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- a Welcome to Dr.Benjamin Apthorp Gould / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Richard Tolman's universe / Leonard Bacon -- the Star-splitter / Robert Frost -- Mr.Attila / Carl Sandburg -- Homage to the philosopher / Babette Deutsch -- Einstein(1929) / Archibald MacLeish -- the Gift to be simple / Howard Moss -- In the evening / Thomas Hardy -- the Master / C.G.L. -- Heart specialist / Elias Lieberman -- Lines written after the discovery by the author of the germ of yellow fever / Ronald Ross -- a Correct compassion / James Kirkup.
Plotz, Helen
compiled by Helen Plotz; Illustrated with wood engravings by Clara Leighton.
1955
Imagination's other place : poems of science and mathematics
[1970, ©1969]
[1st American ed.].
An anthology of poems from many countries and many periods of history.
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Harcourt, Brace & World,
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A flock of words : an anthology of poetry for children and others
The collegiate angels / from Odes of the months / from Dover beach / Deep in earth's opaque mirror / Elegy for J.F.K. / Leaning out over / O what is that sound / On this island / Postscript / from Dreams of a summer night / Sonnet of fishes / To my mother / from The book of Thel / The school boy / Cormorants / Now winter nights enlarge / from At the grave of John Clare / from The Canterbury tales / On my short sightedness / The little cart / The face of the dragonfly / Spring rain / Butterflies / Adieu / from November / Sheep in winter / from Snow storm / The dying child / The thrush's nest / To a primrose / Winter in the fens / Charles / Precision / The poplar field / All in green went my love riding / Little tree / Nobody loses all the time / Spring is like a perhaps hand / Even before His Majesty / Such is Holland / Poor bird / A narrow fellow in the grass / Because I could not stop for death / Omen / Cat in the long grass / from Holy sonnet V / Holy sonnet VII / from The fire of London / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / The line gang / The span of life / from The nightfishing / Flying crooked / Lollocks / Warning to children / Blackie, the electric rembrandt' / Considering the snail / At the railway station, Upway / Proud songsters / Saint Francis and the birds / Turkeys observed / A charm against toothache / The history of the flood / The starling / Song / The poem of ten ones' / A boy's head / A history lesson/ from The odyssey / Binsey poplars / Hurrahing in harvest / Pied beauty / Repeat that, repeat / The condle indoors / Loveliest of trees / The hermit / My sister Jane / View of a pig / Wind / How to catch tiddlers / The garden of a London house / from In parenthesis / Perfect / Advice to a knight / A storm in childhood / Chamber music (XXXV) / Chamber music (I) / from Fifteen poems of my heart / Disturbed, the cat / Judging from the pictures / Now the man has a child / Sheltering from the rain / The chicken wants / With his apology / Snow melting / from Lamia / Sonnet to sleep / Late summer / A correct compassion / Japanese children / Waiting / Rain on Castle Island / Bimbo's pome / I could eat it / Red sky in the morning / Sleeping, waking / Stop, don't swat the fly / The snow thaws / Under the willow / Where can he be going / The cuckoo / A heavy cart rumbles / The north ship / A snowy day in school / Bare almond trees / Kangaroo / The rainbow / April rise / Christmas landscape / In the mountains on a summer day / An enjoyable evening in the village ... / The odyssey of a snail / The herdboy / Fourteen ways of touching the Peter / The wasps' nest / Fetching cows / Autobiography / from Le morte Darthur / from The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / On Eastnor knoll / The unending sky / Cow / Our father / Nothing in the voice of the cicada / On a bare branch / For a junior school poetry book / Navajo children, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona / On his blindness / from Samson agonistes / Silence / And other poems / Night song of the fish / Merlin / I've seen everything / The wind blows grey / Spring the sweet spring / Then settle, frost / Anthem for doomed youth / The parable of the old man and the young / The ruined city / Christmas star / The zoo / The gunpowder plot / Child / Getting up early on a spring morning / Pruning trees / Ode on solitude / from Windsor Forest / Ancient music / And the days are not full enough / Doria / Image from D'Orleans / The faun / The dunce / To paint the portrait of a bird / Alleyway / My body in the walls captived / The panther / Flowers / from Phrases / The bridges / Carol / My papa's waltz / The bat / Arithmetic / Blossom themes / Child Margaret / Circles / Fog / Little girl, be careful what you say / Old deep sing song / Psalm of those who go forth ... / River moons / Stars, songs, faces / from The witnesses / The dug out / from Autumn / Gunpowder plot / After ever happily / from A midsummer night's dream / from Romeo andJuliet / from The tempest / from The tragedy of King Lear / Boats at night / Auto wreck / Hot cake / The redwoods / The King of China's daughter / from The sleeping beauty / To Mistress Isabel Pennell / Somewhere around Christmas / from Burning / In freezing winter night / The burning babe / Season / Telephone conversation / My parents / Travelling through the dark / The shell
From Lady feeding the cats / The silkworms / As he lay dying / Casual lines / Riding at daybreak / Spring / from Poems of solitary delights / Baby's world / from Paper boats / The rainy day / Against the broad sky / In the old man's eyes / On far hills / The snake fled / Winter withering / Adlestrop / Lights out / Thaw / A blackbird singing / Death of a peasant / Farm child / Silent, but / South wind / A trout leaps high / Mosquito / Telephone poles / The shower / from The Georgics / Au jardin des plantes / The noisy cricket / The collier / Miracles / The red wheelbarrow / The yachts / This is just to say / A slumber did my spirit seal / from Resolution and independence / from The prelude / A blessing / Legend / The cicadas / The cap and bells / The cat and the moon / The hawk / from The land of heart's desire / The three hermits / The wild swans at Coole / When you are old / Envy / Schoolmaster/ The companion/ Scampering over saucers / Mist / By chance I walk / Chopsticks / Standing at the foot of the steps at night
Mackay, David, 1920- compiler.
Rafael Alberti -- Aneirin -- Matthew Arnold -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- George Barker -- George Barker -- George Barker -- William Blake -- William Blake -- John Blight -- Thomas Campion -- Charles Causley -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Prem Chaya -- Ch'en Tzu-Lung -- Chisoku -- Chiyo-Ni -- Chu Miao Tuan -- John Clare -- John Clare -- John Clare -- John Clare -- John Clare -- John Clare -- John Clare -- John Clare -- Leonard Clark -- Peter Collenette -- William Cowper -- Edward Estlin Cummings -- Edward Estlin Cummings -- Edward Estlin Cummings -- Edward Estlin Cummings -- Dansui -- Petrus Augustus de Genestet -- Walter de la Mare -- Emily Dickinson -- Emily Dickinson -- Birago Diop -- Alan Dixon -- John Donne -- John Donne -- John Dryden -- Robert Frost -- Robert Frost -- Robert Frost -- W.S. Graham -- Robert Graves -- Robert Graves -- Robert Graves -- Thom Gunn -- Thom Gunn -- Thomas Hardy -- Thomas Hardy -- Seamus Heaney -- Seamus Heaney -- John Heath-Stubbs -- John Heath-Stubbs -- John Heath-Stubbs -- Henry VIII -- Ho P'ei Yu -- Miroslav Holub -- Miroslav Holub -- Homer -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Alfred Edward Housman -- Hsu Pen -- Ted Hughes -- Ted Hughes -- Ted Hughes -- Brian Jones -- Brian Jones -- David Jones -- Glyn Jones -- T. Harri Jones -- T. Harri Jones -- James Joyce -- James Joyce -- Juan Chi -- Senryu Karai -- Senryu Karai -- Senryu Karai -- Senryu Karai -- Senryu Karai -- Senryu Karai -- Gyodai Kato -- John Keats -- John Keats -- Yuji Kinoshita -- James Kirkup -- James Kirkup -- James Kirkup -- Kitahara Hakushu -- Paul Klee -- Kobayashi Issa -- Kobayashi Issa -- Kobayashi Issa -- Kobayashi Issa -- Kobayashi Issa -- Kobayashi Issa -- Kobayashi Issa -- Kodo -- Kuroyanagi Shoha -- Philip Larkin -- David Herbert Lawrence -- David Herbert Lawrence -- David Herbert Lawrence -- David Herbert Lawrence -- Laurie Lee -- Laurie Lee -- Li Po -- Lin Ho Ching -- Federico Garcia Lorca -- Lu Yu -- George MacBeth -- George MacBeth -- Norman MacCaig -- Louis MacNeice -- Sir Thomas Malory -- Christopher Marlowe -- John Masefield -- John Masefield -- Harold Massingham -- Ray Mathew -- Matsuo Basho -- Matsuo Basho -- Christopher Middleton -- Christopher Middleton -- John MIlton -- John MIlton -- Marianne Moore -- R.S. Morgan -- Christian Morgenstern -- Edwin Muir -- Naito Joso -- Naito Meisetsu -- Thomas Nashe -- Otomo Oemaru -- Wilfred Owen -- Wilfred Owen -- Pao Chao -- Boris Pasternak -- Boris Pasternak -- Sir Edward Philips -- Sylvia Plath -- Po Chu-I -- Po Chu-I -- Alexander Pope -- Alexander Pope -- Ezra Pound -- Ezra Pound -- Ezra Pound -- Ezra Pound -- Ezra Pound -- Jacques Prevert -- Jacques Prevert -- Salvatore Quasimodo -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud -- Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud -- Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud -- W.R. Rodgers -- Theodore Roethke -- Theodore Roethke -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Carl Sandburg -- Clive Sansom -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Vernon Scanneli -- Vernon Scanneli -- Ian Serraillier -- William Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- Edward Shanks -- Karl Shapiro -- Shu Hsi -- Louis Simpson -- Edith Sitwell -- Edith Sitwell -- John Skelton -- John Smith -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Southwell -- Robert Southwell -- Wole Soyinka -- Wole Soyinka -- Stephen Spender -- William Stafford -- James Stephens.
Douglas Stewart -- Douglas Stewart -- Randolph Stow -- Su Shih -- Sun Yun Feng -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Tachibana Akemi -- Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- Takahama Kyoshi -- Takahama Kyoshi -- Takahama Kyoshi -- Takahama Kyoshi -- Tan Taigi -- Edward Thomas -- Edward Thomas -- Edward Thomas -- R.S. Thomas -- R.S. Thomas -- R.S. Thomas -- Tsuboi Shigeji -- Tu Fu -- Uejima Onitsura -- John Updike -- John Updike -- Henry Vaughan -- Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil -- John Wain -- Watanabe Suiha -- Vernon Watkins -- Walt Whitman -- William Carlos Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth -- James Wright -- Judith Wright -- Judith Wright -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Yosa Buson -- Andrew Young -- Yuan Mei -- Yuan Mei -- Yuan Mei.
Collected, introduced, and annotated by David Mackay ; preface by Benjamin DeMott. Drawings by Margery Gill.
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A flock of words : an anthology of poetry for children and others
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