A Child's Anthology of Poetry

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Includes index.
Hiding / Dorothy Aldis -- The creation / Cecil Francis Alexander -- Life doesn't frighten me / Maya Angelou -- Song for a young girl's puberty ceremony / Anonymous -- Song for the sun that disappeared behind the rainclouds / Anonymous -- A visit from Mr. Fox / Anonymous -- Do you carrot all for me? / Anonymous -- Monday's child is fair of face / Anonymous -- Mr. Nobody / Anonymous -- I shall not pass this way again / Anonymous -- Somebody's mother / Anonymous -- The cats of Kilkenny / Anonymous -- Cowboy's lament / Anonymous -- Good sportsmanship / Richard Armour -- Pachycephalosaurus / Richard Armour -- Song form / Amiri Baraka -- It would melt / Matsuo Bashō -- The old pond / Matsuo Bashō -- The frog / Hilaire Belloc -- The witch of Willowby Wood / Rowena Bennett -- The gingerbread man / Rowena Bennett -- The ball poem / John Berryman -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- Cirque d'hiver / Elizabeth Bishop -- Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop -- Piping down the valleys / William Blake -- The shepherd / William Blake -- The tyger / William Blake -- The little black boy / William Blake -- The divine image / William Blake -- Spring equinox / Peter Blue Cloud -- Hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here / Robert Burns -- A tethered horse / Yosa Buson -- I go / Yosa Buson -- That snail / Yosa Buson -- The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- So, we'll go no more a roving / George Gordon, Lord Byron.
The castle in the fire / Mary Jane Carr -- The crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- Father William / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- Little Trotty Wagtail / John Clare -- Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The garden year / Sara Coleridge -- I saw a man pursuing the horizon / Stephen Crane -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Heritage / Countee Cullen -- in just-spring / E.E. Cummings -- Maggie and milly and molly and may / E.E. Cummings -- Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings -- Souvenir of the ancient world / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Looking for poetry / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- The elephant / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Some one / Walter de la Mare -- The ride-by-nights / Walter de la Mare -- The new suit / Nidia Sanabria de Romero -- I met a king this afternoon! / Emily Dickinson -- There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson -- I'm nobody! Who are you? / Emily Dickinson -- "Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- The morns are meeker than they were / Emily Dickinson -- I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson -- A bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson -- Freedom / Wimal Dissanayake -- Hold fast your dreams / Louise Driscoll -- America / Henry Dumas -- Macavity: the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot.
Over the garden wall / Eleanor Farjeon -- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Eugene Field -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- General store / Rachel Field -- Skyscrapers / Rachel Field -- A summer morning / Rachel Field -- Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- Some people / Rachel Field -- Bouquets / Robert Francis -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Dust of snow / Robert Frost -- Mice / Rose Fyleman -- A short story / David Escobar Galindo -- Mr. Lizard is crying / Federico García Lorca -- Silly song / Federico García Lorca -- Plowing: a memory / Hamlin Garland -- I'd love to be a fairy's child / Robert Graves -- The dance / Daniel Halpern -- The reminder / Thomas Hardy -- The man he killed / Thomas Hardy -- The new toy / Thomas Hardy -- The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney -- Scaffolding / Seamus Heaney -- Napoleon / Miroslav Holub -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman -- The sea gypsy / Richard Hovey -- Miss Blues'es child / Langston Hughes -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- My brother Bert / Ted Hughes -- Roger the dog / Ted Hughes -- Abou Ben Adhem / James Henry Leigh Hunt.
Don't worry, spiders / Kobayashi Issa -- Don't kill that fly! / Kobayashi Issa -- Under the evening moon / Kobayashi Issa -- For you fleas too / Kobayashi Issa -- Even with insects / Kobayashi Issa -- Climb Mount Fuji / Kobayashi Issa -- Mosquito at my ear / Kobayashi Issa -- Bats / Randall Jarrell -- Autumn evening / Robinson Jeffers -- Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- Minnows / John Keats -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Mother's nerves / X.J. Kennedy -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- The house with nobody in it / Joyce Kilmer -- Crying / Galway Kinnell -- Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell -- Daybreak / Galway Kinnell -- The way through the woods / Rudyard Kipling -- If ... / Rudyard Kipling -- The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight -- Snake / D.H. Lawrence -- The owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear -- Viewing the waterfall at Mount Lu / Li Po -- The children's hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Sea fever / John Masefield -- In Flanders fields / John McCrae -- Spring in New Hampshire / Claude McKay -- The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee / Mildred Plew Meigs -- How to eat a poem / Eve Merriam -- Fly / W.S. Merwin -- The last one / W.S. Merwin -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz -- The sun / Czeslaw Milosz -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- A jelly-fish / Marianne Moore -- I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore -- Child's song / Sir Thomas Moore -- The minstrel boy / Sir Thomas Moore -- Animal crackers / Christopher Morley -- The plumpuppets / Christopher Morley -- The wonder / Thylias Moss.
Experiment degustatory / Ogden Nash -- The parsnip / Ogden Nash -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash -- The pit ponies / Leslie Norris -- Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes -- The highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- What I tell him / Simon Ortiz -- Try, try again / T.H. Palmer -- Snow is falling / Boris Pasternak -- Exclamation / Octavio Paz -- from The bed book / Sylvia Plath -- Giraffe / Stanley Plumly -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- The bells / Edgar Allan Poe -- Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe -- In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- The little box / Vasko Popa -- The spaghetti nut / Jack Prelutsky -- Homework! Oh, homework! / Jack Prelutsky -- Little Orphant Annie / James Whitcomb Riley -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson --Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The lady and the bear / Theodore Roethke -- The bat / Theodore Roethke -- The sloth / Theodore Roethke -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- The meadow mouse / Theodore Roethke -- The monotony song / Theodore Roethke -- Caterpillar / Christina Rossetti -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti -- Precious stones / Christina Rossetti -- Remember / Christina Rossetti -- What is pink? / Christina Rossetti -- Transformations / Tadeusz Rózewicz -- Ballad of orange and grape / Muriel Rukeyser -- The message of the rain / Norman H. Russell.
Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert Service -- Lobster / Anne Sexton -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sick / Shel Silverstein -- Stone / Charles Simic -- Great infirmities / Charles Simic -- A theory / Charles Simic -- Fork / Charles Simic -- For I will consider my cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- Good and bad children / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The land of story books / Robert Louis Stevenson -- My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Twinkle twinkle little star / Jane Taylor -- The falling star / Sara Teasdale -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The brook / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Songs / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Sweet and low / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- A shooting star / Edith M. Thomas -- The owl / Edward Thomas -- First Thanksgiving of all / Nancy Byrd Turner.
America for me / Henry Van Dyke -- How doth the little busy bee / Isaac Watts -- Chairs in snow / E.B. White -- O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Poem / William Carlos Williams -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- Spring and all / William Carlos Williams -- When I grow up / William Wise -- Choosing shoes / Ffrida Wolfe -- Written in March / William Wordsworth -- My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- Daffodils / William Wordsworth -- The kitten at play / William Wordsworth -- A blessing / James Wright -- Escape / Elinor Wylie -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- To a squirrel at Kyle-Na-No / William Butler Yeats -- The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats -- An Irish airman foresees his death / William Butler Yeats -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats -- Epitaph for a Concord boy / Stanley Young.
The simple pleasures of reading and listening to poetry are unforgettable memories of childhood, and, for young minds, poetry is the gateway to an interest in language and storytelling. By bringing together essential classic children's poems with the best of modern and contemporary international poetry, this book is an introduction to literature and life for the young reader. From Robert Frost to Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein to Emily Dickinson, this collection emphasizes the fun and diversity of poetry, providing readers with a well rounded, inclusive selection of poets. With the guidance of a special advisory board of esteemed poets such as Deborah Digges, Gerald Early, Louise Glick, Jorle Graham, Edward Hirsch, Garrett Hongo, Maxine Kumin, Cynthia MacDonald, William Matthews, Thylias Moss, Ishmael Reed, Sarah Rosenstock, and Mark Strand, the editors have fashioned a volume that encourages parents not to underestimate the ability of their children to understand and absorb the music of the written word. It features artwork by Tom Pohrt, the well known illustrator of Crow and Weasel, and includes favorite poems such as William Blake's "The Tyger" and Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" as well as more recent classics such as Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."

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great poems submitted by rjsjwilliams on July 30, 2015, 1:33pm A lovely anthology of poems from JoyceKilmer and back to Langston Hughes and forward

Terrific collection of poems for older children submitted by willow on August 23, 2015, 4:18pm Sometimes poetry anthologies for children seem to be for quite young children, with lots of fanciful or goofy rhymes; this has more serious offerings, as can be seen from the table of contents (above). The book itself is moderately sized, with an inviting cover. A good collection.

poetry submitted by sandri on August 29, 2018, 7:34pm terrific collection of poems

poetry submitted by maywang on June 26, 2021, 4:42pm children's poetry

Beautiful submitted by Harlowamy on August 28, 2021, 5:03pm Illustrations are lovely and we enjoyed the poetry.