Akron Public Library

An illustrated collection of over 350 English and American poems, about animals, people, famous events, the seasons, and Christmas, and including nonsense verse, inspirational lines, and wisdom in rhyme.

Presents Shakespeare's sonnets and major long poems, each with text notes on facing pages, and includes critical commentary, and a key to famous lines.

A collection of poems, including "Mrs. Bhattarchaya's Chapati Zap Machine," "The Snake and the Apple," and "Freak Cat-flea."

Features 32 works -- among them "The Convent Threshold," "Up-hill," "Cousin Kate," "Winter: My Secret," "Maude Clare," and celebrated title poem

For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.

Eleven poems for children, including The hayloft, Windy nights, The land of counterpane, Pirate story, and Foreign lands.

Presents selects of Robert Browning's poems, including "The Pied Piper of Hamlin", "My Last Duchess", "Old pictures in Florence", "Prospice", and others.

The poems you most fondly remember available in large print.

A collection of verses that introduce such farm animals as chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep.

In the poems in this collection, Rudyard Kipling evokes stirring images and creates archetyples of British character at the height of the British Empire. Filled with character study, dramatic incidents and rousing language, the poems delineate the time, place, and ethos of British ascendancy as surely as a novel or history, yet they possess a timelessness and universality that lifts them above the purely temporal.