| Publication |
USA, Sterling Publishing, 1997.
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| Description |
48pBlue Spine
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| Series |
Poetry for young people
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| Summary/Abstract |
One of America's most celebrated poets, Walt Whitman, is presented in a unique manner in this book. Many of the poems are taken from his collecton 'Leaves of Grass'. Well illustrated.
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| Contents |
ON LAND
Miracles
Song of myself
Sparkles from the wheel
To a locomotive in winter
The ox-tamer
A man's body at auction
I think I could turn and live with animals
AT SEA
Aboard at a ship's hel,
The world below the brine
On the beach at night
Did you read in the seabooks...
AT WAR
Come up from the fields Father
The runaway slave
The artilleryman's vision
O Captain, my Captain!
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
SKY AND COSMOS
A noiseless patient spider
The dalliance of the eagles
When I heard the learn'd astronomer
I tramp a perpetual journey
The spotted hawk swoops by
Index
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| Standard Number |
0806995300 Hb.
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