Come through the door (poems about life): Speech to the young: speech to the progress-toward / Gwendolyn Brooks -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- from Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5 / William Shakespeare -- Dream deferred / Langston Hughes -- Song / Cynthia Zarin -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Shiloh / Herman Melville -- Road not taken / Robert Frost -- I'm a rumble of jumbles (wordplay poems): "I saw Esau sawing wood" / Anonymous -- Word / Emily Dickinson -- Weather / Anonymous -- Beautiful soup / Lewis Carroll -- Player piano / John Updike -- in Just /E. E. Cummings -- Analysis of baseball / May Swenson -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Tapping / Jayne Cortez -- Like a you or a me (poems of family and friends): Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- maggie and milly and molly and may / E.E. Cummings -- Louder than a clap of thunder / Jack Prelutsky -- Lesson in manners / John Ciardi -- My mother's eyes / Marjorie Agosin -- Where have you gone / Mari Evans -- from In my father's house / George Barlow -- It's windy there and rather weird (humorous poems): My feet / Gelett Burgess -- Purple cow / Gelett Burgess -- Riddles / Anonymous -- Germ / Ogden Nash -- My love for you / Traditional -- Limericks / Anonymous -- Dinky / Theodore Roethke -- Long-leg Lou and Short-leg Sue / Shel Silverstein -- Sing to the sun (the natural world): Song / Ashley Bryan -- Sun-dial / Adelaide Crapsey -- November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- Duck / Ogden Nash -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Voices that beautify the earth / Cherokee -- Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton -- Dusk / Paul Fleischman -- Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Delight song of the Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday -- Zanzibar and Timbuktu and Lollipagowe (wisdom and wonder): What are heavy / Christina Rossetti -- O to be a dragon / Marianne Moore -- Jewel / James Wright -- from A birthday / Christina Rossetti -- I saw a peacock / Traditional -- Word woman / Patricia Hubbell -- Naming of cats / T.S. Eliot -- Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Casabianca / Felicia Hemans.
Summary:
A collection of poems on different subjects and in different styles, that lend themselves to memorization.
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