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The one hundred best love poems of all time
Par Leslie Pockell. 2003
This collection, which follows The One Hundred Best Poems of All Time (BR 13554), contains verses of romance, passion, and…
reminiscence from the early classical period to the present. Includes Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" and works by Rumi, Sylvia Plath, and John Donne--each prefaced by the editor. 2003After That: Poems
Par Lorna Crozier. 2023
From Lorna Crozier, the poet that Ursula Le Guin called a “truth teller” and “visionary,” comes this new collection of…
soul-stirring poems that follow the death of a loved one.After That is a book written from the dark hollow we fall into when we lose those we love. Lorna Crozier’s sure poetry finds the words to engage with the grief that comes from the death of her partner, the writer Patrick Lane, whom she’d lived with for forty years, many of them tumultuous. With grace and precision, she illuminates sorrow. The light the poems cast travels far enough to reach anyone who has experienced loss. These pages engage us with many familiar yet magical things—not only paper wasps, but their libraries; not only herons, but their role as aging monks. Crozier takes us through the domestic and natural worlds into the cagey and metaphysical place we call the beyond. Without offering false comfort, the poems turn over our own grief so that we can catch a glimpse of the new life inside us again.Anthology of familiar poems grouped by themes such as youth, life, romance, friendship, character, prayer, nature, sorrow, growing old, and…
reflections. Includes writings by the Brownings, Donne, Frost, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth. 1996Elizabeth Barrett Browning: selected poems
Par Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1995
Representative selection of work by the nineteenth-century English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). Includes "The Cry of the Children" lamenting…
child labor in Britain, "Sonnets from the Portuguese" about her love for poet Robert Browning, and excerpts from "Aurora Leigh," which was an 1857 bestseller. 1995Complete poems
Par Edgar Allan Poe. 1992
Selected poems
Par W. B Yeats. 1992
Poems by the first Irishman to win the Nobel prize in literature (1923). Selections are from the first half of…
Yeats's career--from his earliest published works through 1914. Includes ballads, lyrical poems, and such favorite narratives as "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and "The Old Age of Queen Maeve." 1992Poetry by heart: a child's book of poems to remember
Par Elizabeth Attenborough. 2001
More than one hundred poems worth learning "by heart" to keep forever. Poets include such old favorites as William Shakespeare,…
William Blake, and Emily Dickinson, as well as popular moderns Roald Dahl, Judith Viorst, Mary Ann Hoberman, and Jack Prelutsky. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2001Becoming Joe DiMaggio
Par Maria Testa. 2002
Narrative poem tells the story of an Italian grandfather and his American grandson who listen to the New York Yankees…
baseball games on the radio. Uncontracted braille. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2002Selected poems
Par Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1992
A selection of Henry Longfellow's (1807-1882) best-loved poetry. Among the shorter lyric poems are "The Village Blacksmith," "The Children's Hour,"…
and "Paul Revere's Ride." Includes two complete narrative poems: "Evangeline" and "The Courtship of Miles Standish." 1992Nativity poems
Par Joseph Brodsky. 2001
A sequence of eighteen Christmas poems written, one a year, by this Russian-American poet who was both a Nobel laureate…
and a U.S. Poet Laureate. Also contains an interview with Brodsky. The poems are presented in Russian and English. 2001Repair
Par C. K Williams. 1999
A collection of thirty-eight poems about love, death, and forgiveness. In "King" the author explores his feelings at a 1968…
memorial service for Martin Luther King Jr. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 1999The same sea
Par Amos Oz. 2001
Israeli novelist combines prose and poetry to explore themes of love and loss, desire and memory. A young man sets…
out on a spiritual journey towards Tibet. He leaves behind his girlfriend, who moves in temporarily with his widowed father, awakening many pent-up emotions. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2001In interviews with eleven poets, Moyers probes the experiences and creative processes that led to particular poems by each of…
them. The poets are Stanley Kunitz, Coleman Barks, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mark Doty, Deborah Garrison, Jane Hirshfield, Kurtis Lamkin, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Paul Muldoon, Marge Piercy, and Robert Pinsky. 1999Cawdor, a long poem ; and, Medea, after Euripides (A New Directions paperbook, NDP293)
Par Robinson Jeffers. 1928
Cawdor is a verse narrative, first published in 1928, that tells of a widower whose new young wife falls in…
love with his son. Medea is a verse adaptation of Euripides' drama about humiliation and revenge brought on by divorce. Some violence. 1946The better angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War
Par Roy Morris. 2000
Portrait of the patriotic poet who succored the wounded in Washington, D.C., area hospitals during the Civil War. Discusses Whitman's…
principles, states of mind, and companions, and explores how his wartime experiences affected his poetry, particularly "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." 2000Like the first anthology, Americans' Favorite Poems (RC 50000, BR 12771), this one includes poems selected by Favorite Poem Project…
participants with their comments. In addition, the editors chose some personal favorites and arranged the work into thematic sections. 2002Walt Whitman: a biography
Par Milton Meltzer. 2002
A profile of the nineteenth-century American poet whose life is presented in the context of his times, and who is…
profoundly affected by the Civil War. Includes excerpts from his major work, Leaves of Grass (BR 08420). For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2002Leaves of grass
Par Walt Whitman. 1993
The last compilation of the poet's major work published during his lifetime, with the poems presented as he wished them…
preserved. Originally published in 1855, Leaves of Grass was continually revised and augmented. This complete edition includes Whitman's elegy to President Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." 1892A light in the attic
Par Shel Silverstein. 1981
A fat collection of poems that range from exhilarating nonsense to tender sadness. Includes "How Not to Have to Dry…
the Dishes," "Prayer of the Selfish Child," "Adventures of a Frisbee," and "Hiccup Cure." For grades 4-7 to share with younger children and adultsIntroduces forty poets with informal statements about their relationships with written or spoken words when they were young; also presents…
at least one work by each. Includes Marvin Bell, Rita Dove, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Kumin, Li-Young Lee, Gerald Stern, Alice Walker, and Robley Wilson. For grades 6-9 and older readers