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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Introduction
NATURE
THE RAINBOW: William Wordsworth
DAFFODILS: William Wordsworth
THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS: George Gordon, Lord Byron
TO A SKYLARK: Percy Bysshe Shelley
TO AUTUMN: John Keats
ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET: John Keats
LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY: Anne Brontë
THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN: Andrew Marvell
ON A DROP OF DEW: Andrew Marvell
THE HUMBLE BEE: Ralph Waldo Emerson
RHODORA: Ralph Waldo Emerson
EUCLID: Vachel Lindsay
DRYING THEIR WINGS: Vachel Lindsay
A NOISELESS, PATIENT SPIDER: Walt Whitman
WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN’D ASTRONOMER: Walt Whitman
THE YEAR’S AT THE SPRING: Robert Browning
AMONG THE ROCKS: Robert Browning
THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS: William Butler Yeats
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE: William Butler Yeats
DAWN REVISITED: Rita Dove
POEM IN PRAISE OF THE SUN: Attributed to the Pharaoh Akhnaten
SEA FEVER: John Masefield
UNHARVESTED: Robert Frost
ROSE POGONIAS: Robert Frost
TUMBLING-HAIR: E. E. Cummings
WHO ARE YOU,LITTLE I: E. E. Cummings
SOME TREES: John Ashbery
THE PRUNED TREE: Howard Moss
HIDDEN JOYS: Laman Blanchard
NONSENSE
I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOD: The Editors of MAD Magazine
THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE OR THE WONDERFUL ONE-HOSS SHAY: Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS: Oliver Wendell Holmes
JABBERWOCKY: Lewis Carroll
BEAUTIFUL SOUP: Lewis Carroll
THE SORCERER’S SONG: W. S. Gilbert
I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL: W. S. Gilbert
THE JUMBLIES: Edward Lear
THE POBBLE WHO HAS NO TOES: Edward Lear
WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD: Eugene Field
THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE: Eugene Field
GUS: THE THEATRE CAT: T. S. Eliot
THE OLD GUMBIE CAT: T. S. Eliot
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS: Shel Silverstein
MELINDA MAE: Shel Silverstein
THE ADVENTURES OF ISABEL: Ogden Nash
MULGA BILL’S BICYCLE: Banjo Paterson
THE MAN FROM IRONBARK: Banjo Paterson
THE CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE: Robert Service
THE SHOOTING OF DAN MCGREW: Robert Service
RECITAL: John Updike
SPIRITUALITY
“HOPE” IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS: Emily Dickinson
THE DAISY FOLLOWS SOFT THE SUN: Emily Dickinson
ODE TO JOY: Friedrich Schiller
DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY: Bobby McFerrin
I SHALL PAINT MY NAILS RED: Carole Satyamurti
GOD’S GRANDEUR: Gerard Manley Hopkins
PIED BEAUTY: Gerard Manley Hopkins
PSALM 104: Attributed to King David
THE SONG OF SONGS: Attributed to King Solomon
PARADISE ENOW from the adaptation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Edward Fitzgerald
A PSALM OF LIFE: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
TO THE RIVER CHARLES: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
THE DONKEY: G. K. Chesterton
MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH (ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL): Cecil Frances Alexander
ABOU BEN ADHEM: Leigh Hunt
AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: Leigh Hunt
SWEET CONTENT: Thomas Dekker
THE LAMB: William Blake
LAUGHING SONG: William Blake
THANATOPSIS: William Cullen Bryant
DEATH BE NOT PROUD: John Donne
PEACE: George Herbert
THE FLOWER: George Herbert
INVICTUS: William Ernest Henley
THE BELLS: Edgar Allan Poe
WONDER: Thomas Traherne
A HOPE CAROL: Christina Rossetti
UP-HILL: Christina Rossetti
DESIDERATA: Max Ehrmann
A PRAYER: Max Ehrmann
THE HUMAN CONNECTION
INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER: Ben Jonson
THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE: W. M. Thackeray
THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD: Sam Walter Foss
HULLO: Sam Walter Foss
HOME: Edgar Guest
TAKE HOME A SMILE: Edgar Guest
BLOCK CITY: Robert Louis Stevenson
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS: Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE THOUSANDTH MAN: Rudyard Kipling
IF: Rudyard Kipling
MERRY LITTLE MINUET: Sheldon Harnick
RECUERDO: Edna St. Vincent Millay
AFTERNOON ON A HILL: Edna St. Vincent Millay
IN PRAISE OF DIVERSITY: Phyllis McGinley
FILLING STATION: Elizabeth Bishop
THE RITES FOR COUSIN VIT: Gwendolyn Brooks
CORNERS ON THE CURVING SKY: Anonymous
HOME, SWEET HOME: John Howard Payne
BEAUTIFUL RIVER: Robert Lowry
KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE: Traditional
Acknowledgments
Also Edited by Leslie Pockell
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