Publisher's Synopsis
This is a book of poetry for everyone, and not a -only- aimed at children, as the title might suggest. It is an excuse for adults to buy it for their entire family and discover, together, the magic of Classic Poetry. Also great as a gift or to enrich your own collection.
This carefully compiled anthology aims to bring Classic Poetry back to your night and coffee tables. It will give you and your families a great excuse to spend quality time together, reading, interpreting, debating, and discovering how magical words can be.
The 100 Poems in this collection are distributed in seven themes:
- Of Life and Love
- Of Earth and Sky
- Of Flora and Fauna
- Of Simple Things
- Of Common People and not so Common Virtues
- Of Real Adventures and not so Real Tales
- Of Faith, Sadness, and Sorrow
You will find masterpieces from the following famous authors, amongst many others:
Alexander Pope - Charles Dickens - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -Robert Burns - Rudyard Kipling - Felicia Hemans - Lewis Carrol -Alfred Tennyson - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson - Anne Bradstreet - Robert Browning - Eugene Field - Walt Whitman - Sara Teasdale
Please feel free to explore the table of contents. You will find:
- Simple and short poems such as A Word, by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
- Love declarations such as The Maiden, by Sara Teasdale
- Profound messages such as If..., by Rudyard Kipling
- Humorous fantasies such as The Duel, by Eugene Field
- Historical tales such as The Landing of the Pilgrims, by Felicia Hemans
- Adventures with a dose of tragedy such as O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman
- Pieces which became popular songs such as Soon May the Wellerman Come, the anonymous New Zealand Folk Song
- ...and 93 more!
