100 Great Poems for Girls
100 Great Poems for Girls

Author: Celia Johnson

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2011-04-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780446563840

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Reading any great poem for the first time is always a thrilling discovery, even if it's only four lines long, and this collection brings together some of the best ever to read, memorize, or recite. Girls of all ages will enjoy reading poems catered specifically to them, whether it means envisioning adventures with princesses and witches, or laughing at the antics of mischievous little girls. The book is divided into eight sections: Nature, Imagination, Love & Friendship, Inspiration, Animals, Nursery Rhymes, Limericks & Tongue Twisters, and Fun & Nonsense. 100 GREAT POEMS FOR GIRLS is a perfect introduction for those encountering poetry for the first time, but readers who grew up with poems will also cherish this treasury of classics.

100 Great Poems for Boys
100 Great Poems for Boys

Author: Leslie Pockell

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2011-04-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780446563826

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Reading any great poem for the first time is always a thrilling discovery, even if it's only four lines long, and this collection brings together some of the best ever to read, memorize, or recite. Boys of all ages will enjoy reading poems catered specifically to them, whether it means discovering great heroes and dangerous animals, or simply laughing at pure nonsense and hilarious rhymes. The book is divided into seven sections: Animals, Fun to Read Aloud, Battlefields and Heroes, Things to Think About, Limericks, Tongue Twisters, Just for Laughs. 100 BEST POEMS FOR BOYS is a perfect introduction for those encountering poetry for the first time, but readers who grew up with poems will also cherish this treasury of classics.

Falling Hard
Falling Hard

Author: Betsy Franco

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2008-12-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780763634377

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A collection of one hundred love poems written by teens.

Committed to Memory
Committed to Memory

Author: John Hollander

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781573226462

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A collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particulary intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them.

100 Best Poems of All Time
100 Best Poems of All Time

Author: Leslie M. Pockell

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780613510608

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This compact volume features the greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written. The authors are each represented by one of his or her best-known and best-loved works. Each poem is introduced by a brief head note which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's significance.

100 GREATEST WEDDING POEMS AND READINGS
100 GREATEST WEDDING POEMS AND READINGS

Author: Richard Happer

Publisher: JonesCat Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 095624288X

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It can be tricky to find the perfect words to celebrate your perfect day. You may want a poem for your wedding to celebrate love, friendship, commitment, joy, family, togetherness or any one of a thousand other emotions in a few beautiful words – it’s no easy task. Luckily the world’s greatest poets, whose business Love is, have found myriad wonderful ways to express the inexpressible. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Dickinson, Donne, Yeats, Keats, Burns, Lawrence, Tennyson, Whitman, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Rossetti, Donne and more – here are the very best of their most moving, yearning, happy and exciting odes to Love and Marriage. We’ve included biblical and non-religious readings as well as poems. All the famous ones are in here (yes, including the reading from Love, Actually!), and many more little-known, fresh and quirky selections. Which one will you choose for your perfect day? Which will be your partner’s favourite? Read them to each other and find out together…

Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems
Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems

Author: Jennifer Fox

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1449423930

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Discover how a little poetry can lift your spirits and inspire your life, with selections from Yeats, Byron, Poe, Dickinson, and other greats. Including William Blake’s “The Tyger,” Emily Dickinson’s “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers,” William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much with Us,” John Keats’s “A Thing of Beauty” (from “Endymion”), and ninety-six more, this collection of classic poems allows you to spend a few moments each day with timeless verses. Escape the noise and experience a taste of Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Butler Yeats, Emily Bronte, Amy Lowell, Christina Rossetti, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Sara Teasdale, Lord Byron, and many more.

100 Best-Loved Poems
100 Best-Loved Poems

Author: Philip Smith

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-04

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0486110273

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"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.

The 100 Best African American Poems
The 100 Best African American Poems

Author: Nikki Giovanni

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1402221118

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Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.