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The best poems ever : a collection of poetry's greatest voices / edited by Edric S. Mesmer.

Other author/creatorMesmer, Edric
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Scholastic, ©2001.
Description74 pages ; 18 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Scholastic classics
Scholastic classics. ^A702523
Contents Blessing the boats / Lucille Clifton -- Author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- When great dogs fight / Melvin B. Tolson -- from To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- Red hat / Gertrude Stein -- Exile's letter / Rihaku (Li Po) -- Untitled ("Not to sigh and to be tender") / Aphra Behn -- In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- Ode to enchanted light / Pablo Neruda -- Life in a love / Robert Browning -- Raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Poet is served her papers / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Night dances / Sylvia Plath -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Which recounts how fantasy contents itself with honorable love / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Untitled ("My life had stood-a loaded gun-") / Emily Dickinson -- Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke -- To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works / Phillis Wheatley -- from Trilogy; the walls do not fall / H.D. -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Tyger / William Blake -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- Road not taken / Robert Frost -- Triple fool / John Donne -- Remembrance / Emily Bronte -- Bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens -- Woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Storytelling / Barbara Guest -- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Travel / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Doubt of future foes / Elizabeth I -- Tenebris / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Sonnet 43 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore -- Poets to come / Walt Whitman.
Abstract Includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Barret Browning and more.
LCCN 2002562505
ISBN0439296749 :
ISBN9780439296748 :
ISBN0439329019 (pbk.)
ISBN9780439329019 (pbk.)

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