Prose Supplement. Includes index of poems and authors.

Explores the world of jungle animals, including hippos, leopards, chimpanzees, in poetic expression. On board pages.

First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as well. Annotation. First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking...

A selection of nonsense verses, each beginning with the phrase "There was an old..." or "There was a young...," with photographic illustrations.

When Old Mother Hubbard discovers that her cupboard is bare, she goes to a series of stores trying to find just the right thing for him, only to find him behaving oddly each time she returns.

A collection of 115 poems for children by a variety of well-known authors with illustrations by nine Caldecott medalists.

Over three editions, The Norton Anthology of Poetry has become the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. A wide and deep quarry of poems from the medieval period to the present, it is a book instructors rely on as a uniquely flexible teaching anthology, and one that students delve into well beyond college. Now, responding to new scholarship, classroom suggestions, and the vitality and diversity of poetry itself, the Fourth Edition...

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book  Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase...

One hundred poems chosen specifically for memorization, a vanishing art. For the most part they are classics in rhyming accentual-syllabic verse. Among them: Kipling's If, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus, immortalized on the Statue of Liberty.