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Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Book
More day to dawn; the story of Thoreau of Concord,
Lee, Harry, 1873-
by Harry Lee, with a foreword by Brooks Atkinson.
1941
More day to dawn; the story of Thoreau of Concord,
2012.
1st ed.
A young boy spends the day with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond.
Book
Holt,
9780805091373
Book
If you spent a day with Thoreau at Walden Pond
Burleigh, Robert.
Minor, Wendell, illustrator.
Robert Burleigh ; illustrations by Wendell Minor.
2012
If you spent a day with Thoreau at Walden Pond
University of Massachusetts Press,
9781558495760
Book
More day to dawn : Thoreau's Walden for the twenty-first century
Walden.
Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert, 1959-
Walls, Laura Dassow.
edited by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and Laura Dassow Walls.
2007
More day to dawn : Thoreau's Walden for the twenty-first century
1985.
Contains 658 poems not longer than thirteen lines and written since the thirteenth century.
Book
Oxford University Press,
9780192141354
9780192820730
Book
The Oxford book of short poems
'Fowls in the frith' -- 'Lord, Thou Clèpedest me' -- 'When I see on Rood' -- 'Why have you no ruth?' -- Roundel ('Now welcome, summer') from The Parliament of Fowls -- Unto Adam, His Own Scrivèyn -- Roundel ('Since I from Love escapèd am') from Merciless Beauty -- 'I shall say what inordinate love is' -- 'Onmes gentes plaudite!' -- 'Blessed Mary' -- 'Peace maketh plenty' -- 'Hail, Queen of Heaven' -- 'I have been a foster' -- 'Western wind' -- 'Though ye suppose' -- 'Madam, withouten many words' -- 'Who hath heard' -- 'The enemy of life' -- 'Sighs are my food' -- 'Lux, my fair falcon' -- 'Throughout the world' -- The Spouse to the Younglings -- 'Thou sleepest fast' -- To an Old Gentlewoman that Painted Her Face -- 'The lowest trees have tops' -- Epigram ('Were I a king') -- To His Son -- 'What is our life?' -- 'Even such is time' -- 'Sleep, baby mine, Desire' -- 'Like those sick folks' -- 'Whenas man's life' -- Bathsabe's Song ('Hot sun, cool fire') from David and Bethsabe -- Bridal Song ('Now, Sleep, bind fast') from The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn -- 'Thyrsis, sleepest thou?' -- 'A sparrow-hawk proud' -- 'Thule' -- 'My love in her attire' -- 'Since first I saw your face' -- 'Love me not' -- 'Sweet, let me go!' -- 'He that hath no mistress' -- 'Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire' -- To His Wife, for Striking Her Dog -- Song ('O mistress mine') from Twelfth Night -- Song ('When daffodils begin to peer') from The Winter's Tale -- song ('Jog on, jog on') from The Winter's Tale -- Song ('Full fathom five') from The Tempest -- Song ('The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I') from The Tempest -- Song ('Where the bee sucks') from The Tempest -- A Remembrance of My Friend Mr. Thomas Morley -- 'Happy were he' -- 'Happy were he' -- De Puero Balbutiente -- 'Fair summer droops' -- 'When thou must home' -- 'Never weather-beaten sail' 'Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air' -- 'Thus I resolve' -- 'Sleep, angry beauty' -- Think'st thou to seduce me then' -- Song ('In a maiden-time professed') from The Witch -- Melancholy Conceit -- Song ('Care-charming sleep') from The Tragedy of Valentinian --
Discontents in Devon -- Dreams -- Impossibilities, to His Friend -- Upon Himself -- The Coming of Good Luck -- The Silken Snake -- To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon -- Upon Her Feet -- His Prayer to Ben Jonson -- To Fortune -- Lovers, How They Come and Part -- Upon Julia's Clothes -- Kisses Loathsome -- To His Book -- His Desire -- No Coming to God without Christ -- Of Common Devotion -- On Zacchaeus -- On Change of Weathers-- Sic Vita -- Sonnet ("Go, thou that vainly') -- Song ('We'll, placed in Love's triumphant chariot high') from The Humorous Lovers -- Love's Epitaph -- Sin -- Church Music -- Church Lock and Key -- Trinity Sunday -- Bitter-Sweet -- A Wreath -- Lips and Eyes -- A Lady's Prayer to Cupid -- Song to the Masquers ('Why do you dwell so long in clouds') from The Triumph of Peace -- Fie on Love -- On a Young Man and an Old Man -- On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snow -- Occasioned by Seeing a Walk of Bay Trees -- In Praise of Fidelia -- In Obitum Ben. Jons. -- 'Come from thy palace' from The Conceited Pedlar -- A Song ('Music, thou queen of souls') -- 'From witty men and mad' -- Song ('The lark now leaves his watery nest') -- Song ('Where did you borrow that last sigh') from The Lost Lady -- To One Married to an Old Man -- To Chloris, Upon a Favour Received -- Nymph's Song ('Let us use it whilst we may') from Il Pastor Fido -- Song ('O'er the smooth enamelled green') from Arcades -- To My Nephew, J.B. -- On the Miracle of Multiplied Loaves -- To the Infant Martyrs -- On the Miracle of Loaves -- On the Blessed Virgin's Bashfulness -- On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody -- On Himself, Upon Hearing What Was His Sentence -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- Seeing her Dancing -- Preface to the Progress of Learning -- One Desiring me to Read, but Slept It Out, Wakening -- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars -- Song ('In mine own monument I lie') -- The Dream -- 'The proud Egyptian queen' -- Invocation of Silence -- The Eclipse -- Soul and Body -- Of the Theme of Love -- Song ('Distil not poison in mine ears') -- Song of the Shepherd Boy from The Pilgrim's Progress -- Upon the Snail -- Song ("'Tis true our life is but a long dis-ease") -- Mercury's Song ('Fair Iris I love') from Amphitryon -- Momus' Song to Mars ('Thy sword within the scabbard keep') from The Secular Masque -- Chorus to the Gods ('all, all of a piece throughout') from The Secular Masque -- Meditation 8 -- Christian Ethics -- Nudus Redibo -- On Dorinda -- Ever Present -- The Old Man's Complaint -- A Thought on Human Life.
Song ('Kind lovers, love on') from Calisto -- To --- ('Let those with cost') -- To My More than Meritorious Wife -- Grecian Kindness -- Song ('Leave this gaudy gilded stage') -- A Rodomontade on His Cruel Mistress -- A Catch ('If all be true') -- The Choice -- To Her Lover's Complaint -- Song ('Ladies, though to your conquering eyes') from The comical revenge -- On Myself -- A Song ('The nymph in vain') -- To His False Mistress -- Phillis's Resolution -- Les Estreines -- Adriani Morientis ad Animam Suam -- The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus -- Democritus and Heraclitus -- A Letter to the Honourable Lady, Miss Margaret Cavendish-Holles-Harley -- The Insatiable Priest -- 'Impatient with desire' -- Cloe -- Shall I Repine? -- Song ('See, see, she wakes') -- Song ('Pious Selinda') -- Lesbia -- Song ('False though she be') -- Fancy -- Trim's Song: The Fair Kitchen-Maid from The Funeral -- 'If it be true' -- Jealousy -- Song ('Can love be controlled by advice?') from The Beggar's Opera -- Song ('Before the barn-door crowing') from The Beggar's Opera -- Song('Think of dress in every light') from Achilles -- Written on a Window -- Modesty -- On Dullness -- On a Lady Who p-ssed at the Tragedy of Cato -- Upon a Girl of Seven Years Old -- A Hymn, Written in Windsor Forest -- Inscriptio -- Epigram ('When other ladies to the shades go down') -- To Mr. C, St. James's Place, London, October 22nd -- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I Gave to His Royal Highness -- On the Benefactions in the Late Frost, 1740 -- The Lady's Resolve -- The Monument -- On the Setting Up Mr Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey -- Upon an Ingenious Friend, Over-Vain -- Song ('Man's a poor deluded bubble') -- Ad Coelum -- On the Death of Squire Christopher, a Remarkably Fat Sportsman -- Lines Written on a Window at The Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow -- Tophet -- Ode: Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 -- Sonnet ('When Phoebe formed a wanton smile') -- 'O Memory, thou fond deceiver' from The Captivity -- A Comparison -- A Moral Tetrastich: from the Persian -- 'If wishing for the mystic joys of love' -- My Birthday -- 'The Angel that presided' -- Infant Joy -- Infant Sorrow -- The Clod and the Pebble -- The Sick Rose -- Eternity -- 'Mock on, mock on' -- 'an old maid early' -- The Question Answered -- 'Great things are done' -- To the Accuser Who Is the God of this World -- Grace at Kirkudbright -- 'Twa bonny lads' -- On a Dog of Lord Eglinton's -- Parental Recollections -- 'Says Tweed to Till' -- 'Oh, England' -- 'As I walked by my self' -- 'I saw a peacock' -- 'How many miles to Babylon?' -- 'My mother said'.
'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' -- 'My heart leaps up' -- To a Child: Written in Her Album -- 'Look no thou' -- 'Youth! thou wear'st to manhood now' -- A Sunset -- Time, Real and Imaginary: An Allegory -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua -- Phantom -- On Imitation -- The Soldier's Wife: Dactylics -- 'Had we two met' -- Dirce -- Plays -- 'Ireland never was contented' -- 'Death stands above me' -- Venetian Air -- An Argument: To Any Phillis or Chloe -- Song ('When the heart's feeling') -- To Miss ---('With woman's form') -- To --- --- ('When I loved you') -- Beneath the Cypress Shade -- 'So we'll go no more a-roving' -- 'I would to Heaven' -- 'Remember thee! remember thee! -- Answer to ---'s Professions of Affection -- 'They say that Hope is happiness' -- A song ('Widow bird sate mourning') -- The Waning Moon -- Lines to a Reviewer -- To --- ('Music, when soft voices die') -- Field Path -- Lines Written on a Very Boisterous Day in may, 1844 -- Solitude -- Fragment ('Language has not the power') -- Birds' Nests -- 'This Living hand' -- Song ('Strew not earth') from The Second Brother -- Letters -- Days -- Character -- Quatrain: Poet -- Water -- Limits -- The Best -- All's Well -- 'From sorrow sorrow yet is born' -- The Eagle -- A Dedication -- 'I stood on a tower in the wet' -- 'Somebody being a nobody' -- Frater Ave Atque Vale -- Home Thoughts from the Sea -- Meeting at Night -- Parting at Morning -- Among the Rocks from James Lee's Wife -- 'When I vexed you' from Ferishtah's Fancies -- To Edward FitzGerald -- Appearances -- Bad Dreams -- 'Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird' -- 'Each more melodious note I hear' -- On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon -- 'For though the eaves were rabbeted' -- 'They made me erect and lone' -- Fall, leaves, fall -- Darkness -- 'To spend uncounted years of pain' -- Sixty-Eighth Birthday -- Monody -- Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century -- In the Pauper's Turnip-Field -- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? -- Sometimes With One I Love -- Reconciliation -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- The Last Invocation -- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats -- Old War-Dreams -- A Clear Midnight -- To the Pending Year -- Destiny -- 'Below the surface-stream' -- Heraclitus -- A Mill -- The Revelation -- The Spirit's Epochs -- Constancy Rewarded -- Magna Est Veritas -- Aspecta Medusa -- Memory -- 'I like a look of agony' -- 'I'm Nobody!' -- 'They say that time assuages' -- 'It dropped so low' -- 'I stepped from plank to plank' -- 'The stimulus beyond the grave' -- 'We miss a kinsman more' -- 'It sounded as if the streets were running' -- 'Drowning is not so pitiful' -- 'My life closed twice before its close' -- What Would I Give? -- The Last Wish -- The Power of Interval -- 'I Look Into My Glass' -- A Thunderstorm in Town -- The Peace-Offering -- The Pink Frock -- On Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic) -- The Nettles -- The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House -- The Lodging-House Fuchsias.
Heaven-Haven: A Nun takes the Veil -- Pied Beauty -- Peace -- 'How looks the night?' -- 'Repeat that, repeat' -- 'Not of all my eyes see' -- 'She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes' -- The Rainbow -- Triolet ('When first we met') -- April 1885 -- 'I am the Way' -- The Rainy Summer -- Maternity -- 'I am a hunchback' -- On a Wife -- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes -- Symphony in Yellow -- At Lord's -- Heaven and Hell -- The End of It -- Eight o'Clock -- 'The night is freezing fast' -- 'The fairies break their dances' -- Revolution -- 'Stars, I have seen them fall' -- 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry' -- 'Half-way, for one commandment broken' -- The Nurse's Lament -- 'We never said farewell' -- 'I saw a stable' -- Miniature -- 'Look, you have cast out Love!' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Lisped') -- 'There is a tide' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Kidnapped') -- A Dead Statesman from Epitaphs of War -- All Things Can Tempt Me -- Paudeen -- The Cold Heaven -- A Coat -- A Thought from Propertius -- Death -- Spilt Milk -- The Choice -- Consolation -- The Great Day -- Maquillage -- At The Cavour -- Isolation -- Venice -- Epigram ('Because I am idolatrous') -- Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam -- Outcast -- Beside the Bed -- An Old Story -- Exit -- The Early Morning -- Discovery -- The False Heart -- 'In the desert' -- 'A god in wrath' -- 'A man said' -- On a Island -- Dread -- I Am the Poet Davies, William -- The Villain -- D is for Dog -- All in June -- The Bells of Heaven -- 'Reason has moons' -- Sidera Cadentia: On the Death of Queen Victoria -- Arrogance -- The Spotted Flycatcher -- The Owl -- Crazed -- 'Sir, say no more' -- Elegy in a Country Churchyard -- Ecclesiates -- In Neglect -- A Patch of Old Snow -- The Cow in Apple-Time -- The Line-Gang -- Dust of Snow -- Fireflies in the Garden -- The Armful -- Were I in Trouble -- A Mood Apart -- 'She had a name' -- Cock-Crow -- Thaw -- Tall Nettles -- 'By the ford' -- Cool Tombs -- The Leaden-Eyed -- What the Moon Saw -- Factory Windows Are Always Broken -- Anecdote of the Jar -- The Death of a Soldier -- Men Made Out of Words -- The Hounds -- A Glass of Beer -- The Embankment (The Fantasia of a Fallen Gentleman on a Cold, Bitter Night) -- Conversion -- A Sort of a Song -- The Hard Listener -- No Coward's Song -- Gift to a Jade -- Soul's Liberty -- Interior -- Let No Charitable Hope -- Cold-Blooded Creatures -- Piano -- I Am Like a Rose -- Glory -- What Would You Fight For? -- To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned -- Intimates -- In Teesdale -- A Dead Mole -- Ba Cottage -- The Garden: En robe de parade. Samain -- The Lake Isle -- Childhood -- All Souls' Night -- 'Blighters' -- Base Details -- The General -- Everyone Sang -- 'In me, past, present, future meet' -- Ave Caesar -- Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind -- Bells of Grey Crystal -- Poetry -- A Face -- I May, I Might, I Must -- A Jellyfish -- Cousin Nancy.
Emily Hardcastle, Spinster -- After War -- On the Night -- The Escape -- Moments -- Never May the Fruit Be Plucked -- To a Young Poet -- The True Encounter -- One of the Principal Causes of War -- Arms and the Boy -- Be Frugal -- 'Buffalo Bill's' -- 'may my heart always' -- 'no time ago' -- 'Me up at does' -- Good Appetite -- Flying Crooked -- At First Sight -- On Dwelling -- The Beach -- Cat-Goddesses -- In Her Only Way -- She Is No Liar -- In Perspective -- Departure -- Black Tambourine -- Pitcher -- Fishing Boats in Martigues -- No Mean City -- Postscript to a Pettiness -- The Murderer -- The Lads of the Village -- Love Me! -- Lady 'Rogue' Singleton -- Where Are the War Poets? -- For a Lamb -- She and I -- The Compassionate Fool -- Forgive Me, Sire -- Shepherdess -- The Temptations of Saint Anthony -- The Adversary -- Trinity Place -- Leave Them Alone -- Old Triton Time -- Gnome -- Death of King George V -- Remorse -- Let It Go -- Snow -- The Ear -- Night Club -- Precursors -- Figure of Eight -- Gare du Midi -- Epitaph on a Tyrant -- 'Base words are uttered' 'Behold the manly mesomorph' -- At the Party -- August1968 -- The Bed -- Old Florist -- Dolor -- Night Crow -- Wish for a Young Wife -- Words -- War-Time -- The Lovers -- The Stone Gentleman -- The Double Autumn -- Things to Come -- Entreaty -- Stars and Planets -- Casabiance -- In Innocence -- 'I had gone broke' -- Interview with Doctor Drink -- During a Bombardment by V-Weapons -- Memorial Poem: N.S. 1888-1949 -- The Hittites -- The Wind in the Tree -- 'The village coddled in the valley' -- Epitaph for the Poet -- 'Not in the poet' -- Ire -- 'On no work of words' -- Twenty-Four Years -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- A War -- Well Water -- Fox -- He Resigns -- KingDavid Dances -- Weather Ear -- Invasion Summer -- Money -- Easter -- Portrait -- Families -- Plea -- Ending -- A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter -- Lady Ralegh's Lament -- American Primitive -- Faith and Works.
Iambic Feet Considered as Honorable Scars -- The Monuments of Hiroshima -- Development -- An Old Picture -- A Negro Cemetery Next to a White One -- The Death of God -- Casting -- O Sheriffs -- King Lot's Envoys -- Epistemology -- Parable -- Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning -- Mind -- The Proof -- Avarice -- Home Is So Sad -- Water -- Days -- As Bad as a Mile -- Memories of Verdun -- I Know a Man -- Answers -- A Renewal -- In a Parlor Containing a Table -- When the War Is Over -- To My Daughter -- Nude Descending a Staircase -- Last Child: for Daniel -- Cat and Mouse -- Thistles -- Full Moon and Little Frieda -- Water -- Praying -- Frog Autumn -- Barren Woman -- Riddle -- Upon Shaving Off One's Beard -- A Birthday Poem: for Rachel -- Sous-Entendu -- The Demolition -- Mother of the Groom -- Tractatus: for Aidan Higgins.
Kavanagh, P. J. (Patrick Joseph), 1931-
Michie, James.
Anonymous (13th and 14th centuries) / Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) / Anonymous (15th and early 16th centuries) / John Skelton (1460?-1529) / Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) / William Baldwin (c.1515-1563) / Anonymous (c.1550) / George Turbervile (1540?-1610) / Sir Edward Dyer (c.1545-1607) / Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) / Sir Walter Ralegh (1552?-1618) / Sir Philip Sidney (1554- 1586) / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628) / George Peele (1558?-1597) / George Chapman (1559?-1634) / Anonymous (printed 1599-1610) / Sir John Harington (1561-1612) / William Shakespeare(1564-1616) / John Davies of Hereford (1566-1601) / Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1566-1601) / Thomas Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1566-1601) / Thomas Bastard (1566-1618) / Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) / Thomas Campion (1567-1620) / Thomas Middleton (1570?-1627) / Samuel Rowland (1570?-1630?) / The Faithful Shepherdess -- John Fletcher with Francis Beaumont (1584-
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) / Francis Quarles (1592-1644) / Henry King (1592-1669) / William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676) / George Herbert (1593-1633) / Thomas Carew (1595-1639) / James Shirley (1596-1666) / Edward May (fl. 1633) / William Strode (1602-1645) / Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland (1602-1665) / Thomas Randolph (1605-1635) / Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) / Sir William Berkeley (1606?-1677) / Edmund Waller (1606-1687) / Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666) / John Milton (1608-1674) / Clement Barksdale (1609-1687) / Richard Crashaw (1612?-1649) / James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650) / Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) / Robert Heath (fl. 1650) / Sir John Denham (1615-1669) / George Daniel (1616-1657) / Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) / Sir Edward Sherburne (1618-1702) / Richard Flecknoe (?-1678) / Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624-1674) / John Hall (1627-1656) / John Bunyan (1628-1688) / Katherine Philips (1631-1664) / John Dryden (1631-1700) / Philip Pain (?-1666) / Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) / Thomas Flatman (1637-1688) / Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706) / Philip Ayres (1638-1712) / Anonymous (late 17th century)
John Crowne (1640?-1703?) / Thomas Rymer (1641-1713) / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) / Henry Aldrich (1647-1710) / Nahum Tate (1652-1715) / Jane Barker (fl. 1688) / Sir George Etherege (1653-1691) / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661?-1720) / William Walsh (1663-1708) / Matthew Prior (1664-1721) / George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1667-1735) / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) / William Congreve (1670-1729) / Jonathan Smedley (1671-1729?) / Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) / Esther Johnson (1681-1728) / John Gay (1685-1732) / Aaron Hill (1685-1750) / Alexander Pope (1688-1744) / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) / Samuel Wesley (1691-1739) / Anonymous (attr. Samuel Wesley) / Thomas Fitzgerald (1695?-1752) / Robert Dodsley (1703-1764) / William Pattison (1706-1727) / John Wigson (c.1711-?) / William Shenstone (1714-1763) / Thomas Gray (1716-1771) / William Collins (1721-1759) / Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) / William Cowper (1731-1800) / Sir William Jones (1746-1794) / Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) / George Crabbe (1754-1832) / William Blake (1757-1827) / Robert Burns (1759-1796) / Mary Lamb (1765-1847) with Charles Lamb/ Anonymous (?-19th century)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) / Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 91772-1834) / Robert Southey (1774-1843) / Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) / Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) / George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) / John Clare (1793-1864) / John Keats (1795-1821) / Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1849) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) / John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) / Robert Browning (1812-1889) / Henry Thoreau (1817-1862) / Emily Brontë (1818-1848) / Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) / James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) / Herman Melville (1819-1891) / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) / Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) / William Cory (1823-1892) / William Allingham (1824-1889) / Coventry Patmore (1825-1896) / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) / Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) / Edward Bulwer, Earl of Lytton (1831-1891) / John Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835-1895) / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) / Robert Bridges (1844-1930) / Alice Meynell (1847-1922) / Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) / Francis Coutts (1852-1923) / Francis William Bourdillon (1952-1921) / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) / Francis Thompson (1859-1907) / A.E. Housman (1859-1936) / Mary Coleridge (1861-1907) / Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) / W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) / Arthur Symons (1865-1945) / Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) / George Russell (AE) (1867-1935) / Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) / Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) / J.M. Synge (1871-1909) / W.H. Davies (1871-1940) / Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962) / Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) / Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) / G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) / Robert Frost (1874-1963) / Edward Thomas (1878-1917) / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) / Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) / John Freeman (1880-1929) / James Stephens (1882-1950) / T.E. Hulme (1883-1917) / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) / James Elroy Flecker (1884-1916) / Anna Wickham (1884-1947) / Sir John Squire (1884-1958) / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) / Andrew Young (1885-1971) / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) / Frances Cornford (1886-1960) / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) / Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) / Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) / Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978) / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) / Richard Church (1893-1972) / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) / Mark van Doren (1894-1972) / Robert Graves (1895- ) / Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) / Hart Crane (1899-1932) / Robert Francis (1901- ) / Roy Campbell1902-1957) / Patrick MacDonogh (1902-1961) / A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) / Stevie Smith (1902-1971) / C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) / Richard Eberhart (1904-1953) / Norman Cameron (1905-1953) / Phyllis Mcginley (1905-1978) / Patrick Kavanagh (1906-1967) / Vernon Watkins (1906-1967) / Samuel Beckett (1906- ) / John Betjeman (1906-1984) / William Empson (1906-1984) / Louis Macneice (1907-1963) / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) / A.D. Hope (1907- ) / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) / W.R. Rodgers (1909-1969) / James Reeves (1909-1978) / Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) / Norman MacCaig (1910- ) / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) / J.V. Cunningham (1911- ) / Roy Fuller (1912- ) / F.T. Prince (1912- ) / George Barker (1913- ) / R.S. Thomas (1913- ) / Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) / Clifford Dyment (1914-1971) / John Berryman (1914-1972) / Norman Nicholson (1914-1982) / Laurie Lee (1914- ) / C.H. Sisson (1914- ) / Judith Wright (1915- ) / Thomas Blackburn (1916-1977) / John Ciardi (1916- ) / Gavin Ewart (1916- ) / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) / William Jay Smith (1918- ) / Muriel Spark (1918- )
William Meredith (1919- ) / D.J. Enright (1920- ) / Howard Nemerov (1920- ) / Drummond Allison (1921-1943) / Richard Wilbur (1921- ) / Anthony Hecht (1922- ) / Philip Larkin(1922- ) / Alan Dugan (1923- ) / Robert Creeley (1926- ) / Elizabeth Jennings (1926- ) / James Merrill (1926- ) / Galway Kinnell (1927- ) / W.S. Merwin (1927- ) / James Michie (1927- ) / X.J. Kennedy (1929- ) / Ted Hughes (1930- ) / P.J. Kavanagh (1931- ) / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) / Adrian Mitchell (1932- ) / John Updike (1932- ) / James Simmons (1933- ) / Anne Stevenson(1933- ) / Seamus Heaney (1939- ) / Derek Mahon (1941- )
chosen and edited by P.J. Kavanagh and James Michie.
1985
The Oxford book of short poems
c2003.
1st ed.
From Publishers Weekly: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-L
Book
Hyperion,
9780786869183
Book
A patriot's handbook : songs, poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love
The flag : The star-spangled banner/ Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814 ; The pledge of allegiance, 1892 ; The battle cry of freedom / Visions of America : A model of Christian charity / Portraits of Americans : Yankee Doodle, 1755 ; Letters from an American farmer / Rule Of law : The Constitution of the United States, 1787 ; The Constitutional Convention, speech at the conclusion of its deliberations, September 17, 1787
Freedom : The Declaration of Independence / Freedom of speech and of the press : Statement at trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 / Freedom of religion : Amazing grace / Right to be let alone : Statement against the writs of assistance, Boston, 1761 / Equality : Letter to John Adam, March 31, 1776 / The individual : Simple gifts
War and peace : Speech after defeat by the Virginia militia, 1774 / Work, opportunity, and invention :-- The new colossus / This land is your land
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.
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A patriot's handbook : songs, poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love
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