101 famous poems / [editor], Roy J. Cook.

One hundred one famous poems (other title)
One hundred and one famous poems (running title)

Cook, Roy J. (Roy Jay), 1873- (Added Author).

Summary:

A compilation of well-known poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, etc. Also contains a selection of prose, including the Gettysburg Address, the Ten Commandments, the Declaration of Independence, and a speech by Patrick Henry.

Record details

Physical Description: 185 pages : facsimile, portraits ; 22 cm
Publisher: Chicago : Contemporary Books, [1997?]
Copyright: [1997?], c1958

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Builders -- Opportunity -- Out to old Aunt Mary's -- Each and all -- Rhodora -- Charge of the Light Brigade -- Night has a thousand eyes -- House by the side of the road -- I have a rendezvous with death -- In Flanders field -- Moonlight -- O Captain! my Captain! -- Chambered nautilus -- Christmas everywhere -- Little boy blue -- Daffodils -- June -- Ode to the west wind -- Snowstorm -- To a skylark -- Hiawatha's childhood -- Happy warrior -- Ann Rutledge -- Grass -- Not in vain -- Sheridan's ride -- Present crisis.

Be strong -- Columbus -- Trees -- Spires of Oxford (as seen from the train) -- Recessional -- Cloud -- How did you die? -- Wolsey's farewell to His Greatness (from Henry VIII) -- Blessed damozel -- America for me -- Requiem -- Gods of the copybook headings -- Mercy (from The merchant of Venice) -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight -- Man with the hoe -- Duel -- Song of the Chattahoochee -- Ode on intimations of immortality -- Sonnet : The world is too much with us -- Letter to a young friend.

Childe Harold's farewell to England -- God save the flag -- Raven -- Highwayman -- Psalm of life -- For a' that and a' that -- Jest 'fore Christmas -- Gradatim -- Barefoot boy -- Polonius' advice to Laertes (from Hamlet) -- Flag goes by -- Things that are excellent -- Concord hymn -- Keep a-goin' -- Life sculpture -- Choir invisible -- Marmion and Douglas -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Heart of the tree -- Crossing the bar -- Soliloquy from "Hamlet" -- She was a phantom of delight -- Spider and the fly : a fable.

Deacon's masterpiece, or, The one-hoss shay -- Building of the ship -- Solitude -- Knee-deep in June -- Waiting -- Paul Revere's ride -- That time of year -- Plant a tree -- About Ben Adhem -- Bells -- Elegy written in a country church-yard -- Cuddle doon -- Sonnet on his blindness -- Thanatopsis -- Children's hour -- Invictus -- Sea fever -- Horatius -- Each in his own tongue -- Eternal goodness -- Summum bonum -- If -- Day is done -- Love of country (from The lay of the last minstrel) -- Nobility -- Minuet.

Maud Muller -- Night before Christmas -- Home -- My Kate -- Lincoln, the man of the people -- On the building of Springfield -- Mending wall -- Fool's prayer -- To a waterfowl -- I shall not pass this way again : a symphony -- Apostrophe to the ocean -- Renascence -- Epilogue to Asolando -- Envoi -- Gettysburg address -- Letter to Mrs. Bixby -- Ten commandments -- Magna charta -- War inevitable, March, 1775 -- Declaration of independence.