| Edition |
2001
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| Publication |
Great Britain, Walker Books, 1998.
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| Description |
160pOrange Spine
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| Series |
The Walker Book of
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| Summary/Abstract |
This book contains over eighty of the most memorable poems written in the English language. The poets represented range from William Shakespeare to Carl Sandburg, Edward Lear to Emily Dickinson, Banjo Paterson to W.B. Yeats. With lively biographical sketches and fascinating notes, this is indeed a classic collection.
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| Contents |
William Shakespeare
William Blake
Nurse' song
The tyger
William Wordsworth
Skating
Westminster Bridge
The sun has long been set
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
Lord Byron
The destruction of Sennarib
P.B. Shelley
Ozymandias
John Clare
Clock-a-clay
John Keats
La belle dame sans merci
Thomas Hardy
The song of the shirt
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
from 'Child Labour "
The ways of love
H.W. Longfellow
The slave's dream
Paul Revere's rid
Edgar Allan Poe
The bells
Eldorado
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sweet and low
The eagle
Break, break, break
The splendour falls
Edward Lear
Calico pie
The jumblies
Robert Browning
My last duchess
Emily Bronte
"High waving ....
"Tis moonlight ...
Walt Whitman
I hear America singing
Mannahatta
Miracles
O Captain my captain
Emily Dickinson
A bird came down the walk
A slash of blue
I'm nobody
A word is dead
The wind begun to knead the grass
Christina Rossetti
"Who has seen the wind?"
"Remember me when I am gone away"
Lewis Carroll
The mock turtle's song
"How doth the little crocodile"
Jabberwocky
Iroquois prayer
Swing low, sweet chariot
Thomas Hardy
Snow in the suburbs
Throwing a tree
At the railway station, upway
R.L. Stevenson
A good play
Block city
From a railway carriage
Where go the boats
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
Banjo Patterson
Waltzing Matilda
Mulga Bill's bicycle
Rudyard Kipling
A smuggler's songs
The deep-sea cables
The way through the woods
William Butler Yeats
The song of wandering Aengus
An Irish ariman forsees his death
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
The Lake Isle of Winnifree
Henry Lawson
Reedy river
Hilaire Beloc
Tarantella
Walter de la Mare
Silver
The listeners
Five eyes
Robert Frost
The road not taken
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
The pasture
Edward Thomas
Addlestrop
Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic
Skyscraper
John Masefield
Cargoes
Siegfried Sassoon
The general
T.S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The fawn
Travek
Langsotn hughes
Dream variations
Mother to son
Final Curve
Judith Wright
Full moon rhyme
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| Standard Number |
9780744582642 Pb.
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