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.

Over 250 poems of light English verse including satire, nonsense verse, epigrams, and limericks by 80 authors from Shakespeare to modern times.

Chinese Whispers is the British name of a game called Telephone in America. According to a certain "Professor Hoffmann" in his book Drawing Room Amusements (1879), "the participants are arranged in a circle, and the first player whispers a story or message to the next player, and so on round the circle. The original story is then compared with the final version, which has often changed beyond recognition." "Chinese Whispers" is also the superb title...

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.

"Begins in 1250 and represents the full range of English non-dramatic verse over the next seven centuries"--from publisher's description.

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.