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When Sunlight Tiptoes
By Gillian Sze. 2023
Plays: the Drama Magazine for Young People, 1989
By Plays. 1989
1989 issues of Plays, the drama magazine directed to students and educators. Each of these six issues contains eight to…
ten plays divided into two groups--junior and senior high, and middle and lower grades. Issues also include dramatized classics and special features such as a "Curtain Raiser," or a play for Black History Month. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe divine comedy
By Dante Alighieri. 1970
John Ciardi's faithful translation of Dante's classic epic poem in its entirety. Dante describes being lost in a frightening forest,…
meeting the poet Virgil, and being conducted by Virgil through hell ("Inferno"), purgatory ("Purgatorio"), and paradise ("Paradiso")Paul Revere's ride
By Henry Longfellow. 1963
Longfellow revives the excitement of the American Revolution in his ballad of Paul Revere, who races on horseback to warn…
the Colonists that the British are coming by sea. For grades 3-6When we were very young
By A. A Milne. 1961
First written to amuse the author's young son, this companion collection to Now we are six (BR2188) contains poems which…
have become favorites of many children and adults. For grades K-3Now we are six
By A. A Milne. 1961
A collection of nonsense poems about such characters as the proud knight whose armor didn't squeak, and King John, who…
wants a big, red, rubber ball for Christmas. For grades 2-4City of the heart: poems
By Robert Smithdas. 1966
Light metres
By Felicia Lamport. 1982
Collection of witty and lightheartedly satirical poems that poke fun at modern men and women and their troubles. In particular,…
the verses zero in on topics such as politics, dieting, gardening, middle age and other crises, sexual peccadilloes, and tennisThe poet's art
By M. L Rosenthal. 1987
The author, a noted critic, offers a model of humanistic criticism that emphasizes the vulnerability, honesty, and subjectivity of poetry.…
Quotations for illustration are drawn from a wide range of poets including Dante, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and Gary SnyderNew and collected poems
By Richard Wilbur. 1988
Includes the poet's six earlier volumes in their entirety, along with twenty-seven new poems and a cantata written in collaboration…
with the composer William Schuman. This latter poem celebrates the centennial of the Statue of Liberty. The poet's work is characterized by nature themes and a rich imaginationJoyful noise: poems for two voices
By Paul Fleischman. 1988
Vertical poetry
By Roberto Juarroz. 1988
Juarroz's poetry presents contemplations of the world of the mind condensed to the powerful world of the word. English translations…
of these Spanish poems are by Pulitzer Prize winner W.S. MerwinThe ring and the book
By Robert Browning. 1971
In 1860 Robert Browning discovered a book in a secondhand book stall in Florence, documenting a Roman murder trial in…
1698. Around this information he weaves a long narrative poem about Count Guido, the accused; Pompilia, his wife and murder victim; and Pietro and Violante Comparini, parents of Pompilia and also victims of the murderous Guido. The poem describes events from different points of view, varying the guilt or innocence of the charactersI am phoenix: poems for two voices
By Paul Fleischman. 1985
Collected verse of Edgar A. Guest
By Edgar Guest. 1934
The color of Mesabi bones: poems and prose
By John Caddy. 1989
John Caddy is a third-generation native of the Mesabi Range, a string of iron-ore mining towns in Minnesota. Sections of…
this book of poems and prose are entitled "Something for Everyone," "The Marriage of Salamanders," "The Color of Mesabi Bones," "Finding the Snake," "Changeling," "Bracken Time," and "Gyrfalcon." Caddy articulates his bittersweet feelings for the people and the harsh reality of the placeSomething big has been here
By Jack Prelutsky. 1990
A delightful collection of short, witty, zany poems including "The Turkey Shot out of the Oven" (it was stuffed with…
unpopped popcorn), "My Frog Is a Frog" (a hoarse frog with a frog in its throat), and "My Sister Ate an Orange" (and a yellow, a purple, and a blue--crayon). For grades 2-4 and older readersI shall not be moved
By Maya Angelou. 1990
In memoriam, Maud and other poems
By Alfred Tennyson. 1974
"In Memoriam" is a series of poems inspired by the changing moods of the author's regret for his dead friend.…
It describes the gradual transformation of this sorrow into a wider love of God and humanity. "Maud" is a monodrama in which the narrator, a man of morbid temperament, describes significant events in his life. Also includes some of Tennyson's best-known works, such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade."On the pulse of morning
By Maya Angelou. 1993
The inaugural poem created and read by noted African-American poet Maya Angelou for President William Jefferson Clinton on January 20,…
1993. She speaks of a rock, a river, and a tree as symbols of a land once inhabited by now-extinct species. The messages that these symbols deliver through the ages is that each dawn brings new hope, especially the morning whose pulse can be felt on "this fine day." Bestseller