Preface -- Nursery Rhymes and Poems from Mother Goose: Little Jack Horner / Wee Willie Winkie / There Was a Crooked Man / Three Men in a Tub / Old King Cole / Hey Diddle Diddle / Little Miss Muffet / Peter Piper / One Misty, Moisty Morning -- Poems About Nature: About Robert Frost / The Pasture -- About Robert Louis Stevenson / Windy Nights -- Who Has Seen the Wind? -- About Christina Rossetti / Clouds -- About Edna St. Vincent Millay / Afternoon on a Hill -- About William Butler Yeats / The Lake Isle of Innisfree -- About Carl Sandburg / Theme in Yellow -- Fog -- About Emily Dickinson / To Make a Prairie -- I Send Two Sunsets -- About E.E. Cummings / In Just -- Little Tree -- Wild Ride #1: About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Paul Revere's Ride -- All-American Poems: About Walt Whitman / I Hear America Singing -- About Ernest Thayer / Casey at the Bat -- Unusual Companions: The Bean-Stalk -- About John Kendrick Bangs / The Little Elf -- The Song of the Wandering Aengus -- Poems That Take Flight: The Eagle -- About Rachel Field / Something Told the Wild Geese -- The Swing -- Inspiration: About Edgar A. Guest / It Couldn't Be Done -- Wild Ride #2: About Alfred, Lord Tennyson / The Charge of the Light Brigade -- Sensible Nonsense: About A.A. Milne / Jonathan Jo -- The King's Breakfast -- About Vachel Lindsay / The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky -- About Edward Lear / The Pobble Who Has No Toes -- Bedtime and Dreamtime: Bed in Summer -- About Thomas Hood / In the Summer When I Go to Bed -- About Eugene Field / Wynken, Blynken, And Nod -- About Leigh Hunt / Abou Ben Adhem -- Conclusion.
Summary:
Poems can sweep us away to fantasy lands or long-ago times, or show us everyday people and creatures in a whole new light. In this new recording, master storyteller Jim Weiss introduces children to the magic of poetry, performing 40 classic poems, and providing brief introductions to the poets, including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, and many more.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.