The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children
| Book | The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |
| Illustrator | Thomas Bewick, Ernest H. Shepard, S.G. Hulme Beaman |
| Contributing Writer | A. E. Housman, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anonymous, Anthony Thwaite, Ben Jonson, Brian Patten, Celia Thaxter, Ch'eng Hsaio, Charles Causley, Charles Dibdin, Christina Rossetti, Christopher Smart, Colley Cibber, Coventry Patmore, Dave Goulder, David McCord, Donald Justice, E.V. Rieu, Edith Sitwell, Edward Lear, Edward Thomas, Edwin Muir, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Jennings, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Frances Cornford, G. K. Chesterton, Lord Byron, George Herbert, Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Carey, Henry Vaughan, Hilaire Belloc, Hugh Peters, Ivor Gurney, James D. Rubadiri, James Elroy Flecker, James Hogg, James Reeves, James Whitcomb Riley, John Clare, John Crowe Ransom, John Donne, John Dryden, John Keats, John Masefield, John Milton, John O'Keeffe, John Oldham, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Kojo Gyinaye Kyei, Langston Hughes, Laura E. Richards, Lewis Carroll, Louis MacNeice, Louise Bogan, Marjory Fleming, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Norman MacCaig, Ogden Nash, Oliver Goldsmith, Padraic Colum, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peter Abrahams, Philip Larkin, Richard Corbet, Richard Wilbur, Robert Bridges, Robert Browning, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Robert Hayden, Robert Herrick, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Southwell, Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seamus Heaney, Shu Hsi, Sir John Beaumont, John Betjeman, Sir John Suckling, Noël Coward, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Walter A. Raleigh, Sir Walter Scott, Stephen Vincent Benét, Sydney Carter, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Brown, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, Vachel Lindsay, William Butler Yeats, W. H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Walter de la Mare, Walter Savage Landor, Wilfred Owen, William Johnson Cory, William Blake, William Cowper, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Plomer, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare |
| Printed and Bound by | Mohndruck Graphische Betriebe GmbH |
| Translated by | Arthur Waley, A. C. Jordan, Robin Flower, Ulli Beier, Frances Cornford, Esther Polianowsky Salaman, Helen Waddell |
| Imprint | Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf |
| Distributed by/Director of Distribution | Random House, Inc. |
| Series | Everyman's Library Children's Classics |
| Book Design by | Barbara de Wilde, Carol Devine Carson, Peter B. Willberg |
| Compiled by | Gillian Avery |
| Copyright Holder | David Campbell Publishers Ltd. |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York; Toronto |
| Copyright | 1994 |
| Pages / Font | 379 pages |
| ISBN 10 | 0-679-43634-0 |
| Chapters | Preface Rhymes and Nonsense Anonymous: Gray Goose Anonymous: The Boatman Anonymous: I Had a Little Castle Anonymous: The Bellman's Song Anonymous: The Owl Ben Jonson: A Catch Anonymous: The Man in the Wilderness Anonymous: I'll Bark against the Dog-Star Anonymous: The Merry Bells of London Anonymous: Upon Paul's Steeple Anonymous: Trip upon Trenchers Anonymous: A Man of Words Anonymous: White Bird Featherless Anonymous: The Key of the Kingdom Anonymous: The Frog and Mouse Anonymous: Three Young Rats Anonymous: The Fox's Raid Anonymous: The Drunkard and the Pig Anonymous: Black Sheep Anonymous: Sisters Anonymous: There Was a Monkey William Makepeace Thackeray: A Tragic Story Lewis Carroll: The Three Badgers Edward Lear: The Table and the Chair Laura Richards: The Owl and the Eel and the Warming-Pan Edward Lear: Calico Pie James Whitcomb Riley: Craqueodoom Anonymous: The Foolish Boy Anonymous: I Sometimes Think Anonymous: The Common Cormorant Vachel Lindsay: Two Old Crows Anonymous: Clementine Anonymous: The Eddystone Light The Year and Its Seasons Ogden Nash: It's Never Fair Weather Anonymous: A New Year Carol Shu Hsi trans. Arthur Waley: Hot Cake William Shakespeare: Winter John Keats: From The Eve of St Agnes Robert Bridges: London Snow Thomas Hardy: Birds at Winter Nightfall Thomas Hardy: Winter in Durnover Field Robert Graves: Star-Talk Walter de la Mare: The Scarecrow Robert Herrick: Ceremonies for Candlemass Eve Charles Causley: At Candlemass Ivor Gurney: When March Blows William Shakespeare: Spring Thomas Hardy: Weathers John Clare: Spring Christopher Smart: Mirth William Wordsworth: A Summer's Day Emily Dickinson: Answer July Robert Frost: The Oven Bird Ch'eng Hsaio trans. Arthur Waley: Satire on Paying Calls in August Seamus Heaney: Blackberry-Picking Emily Dickinson: The Wind Began to Rock the Grass John Keats: To Autumn Ted Hughes: The Harvest Moon Sylvia Plath: Mushrooms Sir John Betjeman: Harvest Hymn Dave Goulder: The Long and Lonely Winter John Clare: Autumn Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the Wind Begins to Rise Frances Cornford: Acrostic for Guy Fawkes Night Robert Southwell: New Prince, New Pomp Robert Herrick: Ceremonies for Christmas George Herbert: Christmas Journeys and Places Anonymous: The Shepherd Boy's Carol T. S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi Robert Hayden: From Runagate, Runagate James D. Rubadiri: Stanley Meets Mutesa Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken Edward Thomas: The Green Roads Alfred, Lord Tennyson: From The Lady of Shalott Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through the Woods G. K. Chesterton: The Rolling English Road James Elroy Flecker: The Old Ships Emily Dickinson: I Like to See it Lap the Miles W. H. Auden: Night Mail Edward Thomas: Adlestrop Frances Cornford: Travelling Home Stephen Vincent Benet: American Names Robert Louis Stevenson: In the Highlands Elizabeth Bishop: The Map Edward Thomas: If I Should Ever by Chance Edward Thomas: What Shall I Give? Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge T. S. Eliot: Landscapes Spells, Magic and Mystery James Reeves: Spells Anonymous: I Have Four Sisters Beyond the Sea William Shakespeare: Ariel's Songs William Shakespeare: Fairy Songs William Shakespeare: Puck's Epilogue John Donne: Song Sir Walter Scott: Lucy Ashton's Song Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan Walter de la Mare: Song of the Mad Prince William Shakespeare: Witches' Song Ben Jonson: The Witches' Charms Robert Louis Stevenson: Windy Nights Christina Rossetti: From Goblin Market W. B. Yeats: The Stolen Child Anonymous: Two Corpus Christi Carols Anonymous from the Xhosa trans. A. C. Jordan: Thou Great God Strange Tales Anonymous: There was a Lady all Skin and Bone Anonymous: The Wife of Usher's Well Anonymous: Strange Company James Hogg: Kilmeny Returns from the Land of the Spirits John Masefield: The Rider at the Gate Charles Causley: Miller's End Elizabeth Jennings: The Secret Brother Brian Patten: You'd Better Believe Him Robert Hayden: A Road in Kentucky James Whitcomb Riley: Little Orphan Annie Music and Dancing William Shakespeare: How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps John Milton: From Comus John Dryden: From A Song for St Cecilia's Day Percy Bysshe Shelley: Hymn of Pan Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls Lewis Carroll: The Mock Turtle's Song W. B. Yeats: The Fiddler of Dooney Kojo Gyinaye Kyei: The Talking Drums Langston Hughes: Danse Africaine Hilaire Belloc: Tarantella Edith Sitwell: Polka Sydney Carter: Lord of the Dance Battles, Soldiers and Patriots James Elroy Flecker: War Song of the Saracens George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib Sir Walter Scott: Pibroch of Donuil Dhu Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay: A Jacobite's Epitaph Robert Browning: The Patriot Rudyard Kipling: A St Helena Lullaby George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Eve of Waterloo George Gordon, Lord Byron: Napoleon's Farewell Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain! Rudyard Kipling: Tommy Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth Rudyard Kipling: Epitaphs on the War: The Coward Wilfred Owen: Disabled Birds and Beasts Anonymous: The Cuckoo is a Merry Bird Anonymous: Cuckoo, Cuckoo Anonymous: Sweet Suffolk Owl Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Owl John Clare: Autumn Birds Celia Thaxter: The Sandpiper David McCord: Crows Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle Emily Dickinson: The Spider John Clare: The Vixen John Clare: Hares at Play Anthony Thwaite: Hedgehog Oliver Goldsmith: An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Alexander Pope: Epigram on the Collar of a Dog Norman MacCaig: Praise of a Collie Thomas Gray: Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Anonymous from the Gaelic trans. Robin Flower: Pangur Bán W. B. Yeats: The Cat and the Moon T. S. Eliot: The Naming of Cats William Cowper: Epitaph on a Hare Anonymous: Epitaph on a Dormouse Marjory Fleming: Sonnet to a Monkey Hilaire Belloc: The Frog Hilaire Belloc: The Python Rudyard Kipling: Road-Song of the Bandar-Log William Blake: The Tyger Anonymous: Two Yoruba Poems trans. Ulli Beier Anonymous: Dick Turpin's Ride on Black Bess Philip Larkin: At Grass Philip Larkin: First Sight G. K. Chesterton: The Donkey Richard Wilbur: Francis Jammes: A Prayer to go to Paradise with the Donkeys Walt Whitman: The Ox-Tamer Thomas Hardy: The Oxen Charles Causley: Carol of Birds, Beasts and Men Childhood and Youth Ogden Nash: It is indeed Spinach Ogden Nash: Children's Party Sir John Betjeman: Indoor Games near Newbury Sir John Betjeman: Hunter Trials Anonymous from the Yoruba trans. Ulli Beier: Praise of a Child Robert Herrick: To his Saviour, a Child William Blake: The Echoing Green William Blake: Laughing Song Thom Gunn: Baby Song Anonymous from the Yoruba trans. Ulli Beier: Yoruba Lullabies Thomas Dekker: Lullaby Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov trans. Cornford and Salaman: Cossack Lullaby Richard Corbet: To his Son, Vincent Corbet Hugh Peters: Wishes for his Daughter Louis MacNeice: Autobiography Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortti: Palm Leaves of Childhood Peter Abrahams: Me, Colored Frances Cornford: Childhood Richard Wilbur: Boy at the Window Anthony Thwaite: White Snow David McCord: The Game Anonymous: The Birched Schoolboy William Blake: The Schoolboy Robert Frost: Birches Sir Noel Coward: The Boy Actor Anonymous: A Daughter's Song Ogden Nash: Daddy's Home, See You To-morrow John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls Charles Causley: Who? Robert Herrick: Epitaph upon a Child that Died Donald Justice: On the Death of Friends in Childhood Some People William Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Man Anonymous: The Bonnie Earl of Moray Rudyard Kipling: The Looking-Glass Ben Jonson: Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy Colley Cibber: The Blind Boy John O'Keeffe: The Little Plough-Boy Oliver Goldsmith: The Village Schoolmaster William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper Langston Hughes: Negro Padraic Colum: An Old Woman of the Roads Langston Hughes: Aunt Sue's Stories Gwendolyn Brooks: The Ballad of Rudolph Reed Edward Lear: Self-Portrait of Edward Lear W. H. Auden: Edward Lear William Plomer: A Victorian Album Hilaire Belloc: Peter Goole, who Ruined his Father and Mother by his Extravagance E. V. Rieu: Sir Smasham Uppe Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Epigram on a Singer Frances Cornford: Post-Bore Triolet Sir Walter A. Raleigh: Wishes of an Elderly Man John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Impromptu on Charles II Walter Savage Landor: The Georges Thomas Brown: Lines to the Head of his College Seamus Heaney: Follower Love and Lovers' Tales Anonymous: Bridal Morning Anonymous: Western Wind Anonymous from the Latin trans. Helen Waddell: Down from the Brances Anonymous: I Know Where I'm Going Anonymous: The Water is Wide Anonymous: The Cambric Shirt Henry Carey: Sally in Our Alley Robert Louis Stevenson: Romance Louise Bogan: The Crossed Apple William Shakespeare: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old Sir Philip Sidney: My True Love Hath My Heart Anonymous: Hynd Horn Anonymous: The Gay Goshawk Ezra Pound: The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Charles Dibdin: The Lady's Diary Sir Walter Scott: Lochinvar Edith Sitwell: The Little Ghost who Died for Love Anonymous: Frankie and Johnny Lewis Carroll: The King-Fisher's Song Laura Richards: Antonio Sir John Suckling: Who so Pale and Wan? Last Things Anonymous: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Sir Thomas Browne: Evening Hymn William Blake: Night William Shakespeare: Wolsey's Farewell John Milton: On his Blindness John Keats: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be Percy Bysshe Shelley: From Adonais Sir Walter Scott: Proud Maisie Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias William Wordsworth: On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802 A. E. Housman: On Wenlock Edge William Shakespeare: Dirge for Fidele Christina Rossetti: Remember Robert Louis Stevenson: Requiem Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I Climb the Hill William (Johnson) Cory: Heraclitus William Wordsworth: One Christmas-Time Coventry Patmore: A London Fête Emily Dickinson: Because I could Not Stop For Death Sir John Beaumont: To my dear Son, Gervase Beaumont John Oldham: A Quiet Soul John Crowe Ransom: Janet Waking Edwin Muir: The Child Dying Thomas Hardy: Afterwards Thomas Hardy: The Garden Seat Robert Frost: In a Disused Graveyard William Shakespeare: Prospero's Farewell to his Magic William Shakespeare: Macbeth on Lady Macbeth's Death Henry Vaughan: Peace James Elroy Flecker: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence Acknowledgments Notes Index of Authors and Titles Index of First Lines |
| Notes | Printed and bound in Germany |
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