Favourite Poems : Over 120 classic poems to inspire, comfort and delight
2017
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An anthology of classic poems that is perfect for bedside reading, accompanied by charming illustrations by Jane Robbins. From Chaucer to Carroll, Shakespeare to Shelley, enjoy the work of favourite British poets, plus a few American entries, in this gorgeous anthology by the National Trust. From Renaissance writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Romantics like Lord Byron, and Modernists such as T S Eliot, explore poems from a variety of poets from all ages. Also included in this selection are poets who are connected to National Trust properties such as Vita Sackville-West who lived at Sissinghurst, and Thomas Hardy, whose cottage is looked after by the National Trust, Rudyard Kipling from his property at Bateman's, and even Beatrix Potter from her beloved Hill Top in the Lake District. The poems in this book are organized by themes to make it easy to find a poem that can console or amuse, or for special occasions like readings at christenings and weddings. For example; 'Velvet Footsteps' celebrates our animal friends; 'The Glimmering Landscape' illustrates the beauty of the English green isle; 'Along the Sand' explores smuggler's coves and the moods of the sea; and 'The Noise of Battle' recalls classic war poems. Any poetry fan will be delighted with this collection.
Main title:
Favourite Poems : Over 120 classic poems to inspire, comfort and delight / edited by Jane McMorland Hunter ; illustrated by Jane Robbins.
Author:
Hunter, Jane McMorland, editorRobbins, Jane, illustrator
Imprint:
London : National Trust Books, 2017.©2017
Collation:
216 pages : colour illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Life: "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may" -- Anon, Monday's child -- Laurence Binyon, The little dancers -- Anon, Boys and girls -- D. H. Lawrence, Piano -- William Blake, The schoolboy, from songs of experience -- William Wordsworth, Skating in the evening, from the prelude -- Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill -- Robert Herrick, To my dear and loving husband -- Thomas Love Peacock, Love and age -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, So, we'll go no more a roving -- W. B. Yeats, When you are old -- Love: "The life that I have is yours" -- Christopher Marlowe, The passionate shepherd to his love -- John Clare, First love -- Andrew Marvell, To his coy mistress -- Robert Graves, Love without hope -- Edna St Vincent Millay, Sonnet XXX -- Sir Philip Sidney, Charita, from the Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia -- William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet XLIII, from Sonnets from the Portuguese -- Leo Marks, The life that I have -- William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI -- John Keats, Sonnet -- Alfred Lord Tennyson, June Bracken and Heather -- Philip Larkin, An Arundel Tomb -- Loss: "With a wistful eye" -- Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop -- Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, XXVII, from In Memorium A. H. H. -- Katherine, Lady Dyer, Sir William Dyer -- Christina Rossetti, Song -- Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night -- John Donne, A valediction forbidding morning -- W. H. Auden, Stop the clocks, from Twelve Songs -- Christina Rosseti, Remember -- Mary Elizabeth Frye, Do not stand at my grave and weep -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Crossing the bar -- The Seasons: "Dancing in the breeze" -- Thomas Hardy, Weathers -- A. E. Housman, II, from A Shropshire Lad -- Rupert Brooke, The lilac is in bloom, from The old vicarage, Grantchester -- William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud -- Robert Browning, Home thoughts from abroad -- Edward Thomas, Haymaking -- John Keats, To Autumn -- Laurence Binyon, The burning of the leaves -- Thomas Hood, No! -- Robert Frost, Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening -- Edward Thomas, Thaw -- The Garden and the countryside: "The glimmering landscape" -- Walter de la Mare, Silver -- Gerard Manly Hopkins, Pied beauty -- Rudyard Kipling, The glory of the garden -- Beatrix Potter, The guinea pig's garden -- Andrew Marvell, The garden -- Vita Sackville-West, The garden -- Thomas Hardy, Domicilium -- Thomas Gray, Elegy written in a country churchyard -- Edward Thomas, Adlestrop -- Izaak Walton, The angler's wish -- Charlotte Mew, In the fields -- W. B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree -- Beasts and birds: "Velvet footsteps" -- Vita Sackville-West, Leopards at Knole -- William Blake, The Tyger, from Songs of experience -- Vernon Watkins, Foal -- T. S. Eliot, Macavity: The mystery cat -- Alexander Pope, Epigram -- Edward Lear, The owl and the pussycat -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark -- Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven -- John Keats, Ode to a nightingale -- The Sea: "Along the sand" -- Emily Dickinson, Exultation is the going -- William Shakespeare, Ariel's Song, from The Tempest -- Seamus Heaney, Glanmore Sonnets: VII -- John Masefield, Cargoes -- Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV -- Rudyard Kipling, A smuggler's song -- Robert Frost, Neither out fa5r, nor in deep -- Stevie Smith, Not waving drowning -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Casabianca -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach -- Journeys: "I travelled among unknown men" -- Geoffrey Chaucer, The general prologue, from The Canterbury Tales -- Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman -- John Davidson, London -- John Masefield, Sea-fever -- William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge -- T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi -- Robert Frost, The road not taken -- William Wordsworth, I travelled among unknown men -- Walter de la Mare, The Listeners -- Thomas Hardy, The Roman Road -- G. K. Chesterton, The Rolling English Road -- Rudyard Kipling, The way through the woods -- War: "The noise of battle" -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade -- Siegfried Sassoon, The General -- Rupert Brooke, 1914: V The Soldier -- Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est -- Ivor Gurney, Toasts and memories -- Wilfred Owen, Anthem for doomed youth -- John McCrae, In Flanders Fields -- Laurence Binyon, For the fallen -- John Gillespie Magee, High flight (An airman's ecstasy) -- Old favourites: "Green and pleasant land" -- W. H. Auden, If I could tell you -- William Blake, Jerusalem, from Milton -- Rudyard Kipling, If - -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at midnight -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias -- John Milton, Sonnet -- Emily Dickinson, If I can stop one heart from breaking -- Gerard Manly Hopkins, Inversnaid -- Leigh Hunt, About Ben Adhem -- William Morris, A garden by the sea -- John Keats, Ode to a Grecian urn -- W. H. Davies, Leisure -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude -- Louis MacNeice, The sunlight on the garden -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The lady of Shalott -- George Meredith, The woods of Westermain -- R. S. Thomas, The bright field -- William Wordsworth, My heart leaps up -- Thomas Hood, I remember -- William Morris, The Earthly Paradise -- Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan -- John Keates, La Belle Dame sans Merci; A Ballad -- Anon, Traditional Gaelic blessing -- W. B. Yeats, He wishes for the cloths of heaven.
ISBN:
9781911358213 (paperback)
Dewey class:
821.008
Language:
English
BRN:
348441
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 821.008 FAV | Available |