Poetry for the restless heart : classic poems of nature, love, life and laughter / editors: Dr B Sally Rimkeit and Dr Gillian Claridge ; wood engravings: E. Mervyn Taylor.
POEMS OF NATURE -- ̀Hope' is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- A snail / Masaoka Shiki -- 'Nature' is what we see / Emily Dickinson -- Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- A noiseless, patient spider / Walt Whitman -- The eagle / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- The Australian sunrise / James Lister Cuthbertson -- The bush / James Lister Cuthbertson -- A toadstool comes up in a night / Christina Rossetti -- For Esca / Lizzie Gilchrist -- To a Lady with an unruly dog / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Four trees -- upon a solitary acre / Emily Dickinson -- I wandered lonely as a cloud (Daffodils) / William Wordsworth -- POEMS OF LOVE AND LIFE -- Flowers, dear Flowers, farewell! / Louisa May Alcott -- Secret flowers / Katherine Mansfield -- Deep mists of longing blur the land / Christopher John Brennan -- Wild nights / Emily Dickinson -- The angel that presided o'er my birth / William Blake -- My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth -- He wishes for the cloths of Heaven / William Butler Yeats -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare -- Because she would ask me why I loved her / Christopher John Brennan -- My river runs to thee / Emily Dickinson -- Romance / Edgar Allan Poe -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- POEMS OF LAUGHTER -- Daisy's song / John Keats -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Butterfly laughter / Katherine Mansfield -- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare -- Comic relief / Lizzie Gilchrist -- Not cricket / Lizzie Gilchrist -- Laughing song / William Blake -- A child / Arthur Henry Adams -- Lightly come or lightly go / James Joyce -- Letters from Japanese kids / Johanna Aitchison.
Summary:
"This Dovetale Press selection of classic poetry encourages people living with dementia to enjoy reading alone or in groups. The poems are chosen to excite or soothe the restless heart by engaging the reader in themes of nature, love, life or laughter. It is illustrated with wood engravings by E Mervyn Taylor."--Publisher information.
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