Record details

• ISBN: 003005849X
• ISBN: 9780030058493
• ISBN: 0870994360
• ISBN: 9780870994364
• ISBN: 0805001441
• ISBN: 9780805001440
• Physical Description: 112 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : [1985]
• Copyright: ©1985

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Hymn to the sun: Hymn to the sun / Fang people -- Poems to the sun / Ancient Egypt -- Song for the sun that disappeared behind the rainclouds / Khoikhoin people -- Five ghost songs / Ambo people -- Beauteous one / Ancient Egypt -- Here are no people song / Navaho Indians -- Song of the flood / Navaho Indians -- Approach of the storm / Chippewa Indians -- House song to the east /Navaho Indians -- Come unto these yellow sands: Come unto these yellow sands / William Shakespeare -- Spring, the sweet spring / Thomas Nashe -- Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare -- How marigolds came yellow / Robert Herick -- How violets came blue / Robert Herrick -- Argument of his book / Robert Herrick -- Daffodils / Robert Herrick -- Locust tree in flower / William Carlos Williams -- Spring / William Blake -- Another Sarah / Anne Porter -- We like March / Emily Dickinson -- I think nk / James Schuyler -- Spring / Reed bye -- All the pretty little horses: All the pretty little horses -- Lullaby / Akan people -- Song of parents who want to wake up their son / Kwakiutl Indians -- Puva, puva, puva / Hopi Indians -- Lully, lulla: Song of kuk-ook, the bad boy / Eskim Mistress Isabel Pennell / John Skelton -- Cottager to her infant / Dorothy Wordsworth -- Minnie and Winnie / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- From a childhood / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Silly song / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Miss blues'es child / Langston Hughes -- Kirsten / Ted Berrigan -- Poem for Shane on her brother's birthday / Donald T. Sanders -- Autobiographia literaria / Frank O'Hara -- Come live with me and be my love: Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Although I conquer all the earth / Ancient India -- River-merchant's wife: A letter / Ezra pound (after Li Po) -- Oath of friendship -- Sonnet / Dante Alighieri -- Phillida and Coridon / Nicholas Breton -- It was a lover and his lass / William Shakespeare -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- A ternary of littles, upon a pipkin of jelly sent to a lady / Robert Herrick -- I have lived and I have loved -- Greensleeves -- Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Birthday / Christina Rossetti -- To an isle in the water / William Butler Yeats -- Letter / Alfred; Lord Tennyson -- Oh, when I was in love with you / A. E. Housman -- Hops / Boris Pasternak -- I want to say your name Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Sunday / James Schuyler -- Juke box love song / Langston Hughes -- Song / Frank O'Hara -- When the green woods laugi: When the green woods laugh / William Blake -- Koocoo -- If all the world were paper -- Nut tree: Meet-on-the-road -- Bingo -- I'll sail upon the dog-star / Thomas Durfey -- Humpty Dumpty's recitation / Lewis Carroll -- Big rock candy mountains / American folksong -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Owl and the pussy -- "I am cherry alive," the little girl sang / Delmore Schwartz -- Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Today / Frank O'Hara -- Rabbit as king of the ghosts: Rabbit as king of the ghosts / Wallace Stevens -- Magnificent bull / Dinka people -- Ground-squirrel song / Navaho Indians -- I sing for the animals / Teton Sioux Indians -- War god's horse song / Navaho Indians -- I stood in the Maytime meadows: From the unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke / To ride -- Paul Eluard / White horse -- D. H. Lawrence / Engraved on the collar of a dog, which to his royal highness -- Alexander Pope -- Here's a little mouse / E. E. Cummings -- Autumn cove / Li Po -- Tyger / William Blake -- Fallow deer at the lonely house / Thomas Hardy -- Poem / William Carlos Williams / From jubilate agno -- Christopher Smart / Owl -- Hopi Indians -- Wild goose, wild goose / Issa -- Cat and the moon / William Butler Teats -- Meditations of a parrot / John Ashbery -- Peacock / D. H. Lawrence -- Butterfly / D. H. Lawrence -- They look/like newlyweds / Ryota -- Where the bee sucks / William Shakespeare -- Grasshoppers / John Clare -- Bee! I'm expecting you! / Emily Dickinson -- Spider / Basho -- On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats -- Three animals / Ron Padgett -- Pig / Paul Eluard -- Little fish / D. H. Lawrence -- How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- From elephant / Pablo Neruda -- Elephant / Yoruba people -- World's wanderers: World's wanderers / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Still night thoughts / Li Po -- Spring night in lo-yang-hearing a flute / Li Po -- They say you're staying in a mountain temple / Tu Fu -- Thinking of east mountain / Li Po -- Viewing the waterfall at Mount Lu / Li Po -- So, we'll go no more a-roving / Lord Byron -- To the moon / Giacomo Leopardi -- To the moon / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Waiting both / Thomas Hardy -- Moon rises / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Silver / Walter De La Mare -- Heaven / George Herbert -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth -- From to a skylark / William Wordsworth -- Wind took up the northern things / Emily Dickinson -- Sensation / Arthur Rimbaud -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert frost -- Waking / Theodore Roethke -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- For the moment: For the moment / Pierre Reverdy -- I've just come up / Joso -- Well, let's go / Basho -- First cold rain / Basho -- May rains -- On the temple bell / Buson -- No one spoke / Ryota -- Beside the road / Basho -- How cool it feels / Basho -- One person / Issa -- From song of myself / Walt Whitman -- To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams -- Cuckoo / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- Song / James Schuyler -- In a train / Robert Bly -- Pasture / Robert Frost -- Some good things to be said for the iron age / Gary Snyder -- Chocolate milk / Ron Padgett -- Ballad of the morning streets -- Amiri Baraka -- Song form / Amiri Baraka -- Convalescence / Noel Coward -- Wind is blowing west / Joseph Ceravolo -- Sleeping on the ceiling: Sleeping on the ceiling -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Dawn / Arthur Rimbaud -- Who is the east? / Emily Dickinson -- Most beautiful / Guido Gozzano -- Song of wandering aengus /William Butler Yeats -- Ose, oh pure contradiction / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- Great figure / William Carlos Williams -- From free union / Andre Breton -- Bavarian gentians / D. H. Lawrence -- From liberty / Paul Eluard -- Mr. Lizard is crying / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Narcolepsy / Maureen Owen -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Canticle /David Shapiro -- Tender buttons: From tender buttons -- Gertrude Stein -- Heart crown and mirror / Guillaume Apollinaire / Vowels / Arthur Rimbaud -- It's raining / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Ploughing on Sunday / Wallace Stevens -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Up into the silence the green / E. E. Cummings -- Sporting goods / Philippe Soupault -- Thinnest shadow / John Ashbery -- Poem / Frank O'Hara -- True account of talking to the sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara -- -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index of Authors and Titles -- Index of First Lines.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Children's poetry.
Art > Juvenile literature.
Simmons, Martha, Donor.
Poetry > Collections > Juvenile literature.
Poetry > Juvenile collections.
Poetry > Collections.

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Art.