Best Remembered PoemsMartin Gardner Courier Corporation, 2012 M06 19 - 240 pages The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley’s homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." |
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... never read a book. (What poems would they call “best remembered,” I wonder?) I have made no effort to conduct a survey. Indeed, I cannot imagine how any survey could with reasonable accuracy confirm or disconfirm my list. It goes ...
... never read a book. (What poems would they call “best remembered,” I wonder?) I have made no effort to conduct a survey. Indeed, I cannot imagine how any survey could with reasonable accuracy confirm or disconfirm my list. It goes ...
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... My hope is that readers will enjoy rereading their favorites, and that here and there one may encounter a gem he or she has never seen before. ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN (1832–1911) ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN was literary editor.
... My hope is that readers will enjoy rereading their favorites, and that here and there one may encounter a gem he or she has never seen before. ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN (1832–1911) ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN was literary editor.
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... dream. Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace, With your light lashes just sweeping my face, Never hereafter to wake or to weep— Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822– 1888) SON OF the headmaster of Rugby,
... dream. Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace, With your light lashes just sweeping my face, Never hereafter to wake or to weep— Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822– 1888) SON OF the headmaster of Rugby,
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... never, till that moment, heard of Blake, and the poem affected me so much that I became dizzy and had to lean against the wall. The Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame ...
... never, till that moment, heard of Blake, and the poem affected me so much that I became dizzy and had to lean against the wall. The Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame ...
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... as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg that never is ignified... He may rank (Griswold says so) first bard of your nation, There's no doubt that he stands in supreme iceolation; Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on, But.
... as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg that never is ignified... He may rank (Griswold says so) first bard of your nation, There's no doubt that he stands in supreme iceolation; Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on, But.
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