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The Oxford book of children's verse in America
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- Summary
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A collection of American poems written for children or traditionally enjoyed by children, by such authors as Longfellow, Poe, Eugene Field, Langston Hughes, Dr. Seuss, and Jack Prelutsky.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Donald Hall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990
- ©1985
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 319 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780199763320, 0199763321, 9780190281748, 019028174X, 0195035399
- Includes indexes.
- Companion volume to: The Oxford book of children's verse.
- Intro -- Contents -- The Bay Psalm Book -- Psalm 23 -- Psalm 121 -- MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH, 1631-1705 -- from The Day of Doom -- The New England Primer -- Alphabets -- John Rogers' Exhortation to His Children -- PHILIP FRENEAU, 1752-1832 -- Columbus to Ferdinand -- CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE, 1779-1863 -- A Visit from St. Nicholas -- ELIZA LEE FOLLEN, 1787-1860 -- The Good Moolly Cow -- The Three Little Kittens -- SARAH JOSEPHA HALE, 1788-1879 -- Mary's Lamb -- The Mole and the Eagle -- HANNAH F. GOULD, 1789-1865 -- The Dying Child's Request -- The Spider -- LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, 1791-1865 -- Indian Names -- Request of a Dying Child -- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, 1794-1878 -- The Death of the Flowers -- Robert of Lincoln -- CAROLINE GILMAN, 1794-1888 -- Anna Playing in a Graveyard -- The Boat -- The Dead Sister -- ANNA MARIA WELLS, 1795-1868 -- The Cow-Boy's Song -- The Little Maid -- LYDIA MARIA CHILD, 1802-1880 -- The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882 -- Fable -- EMMA C. EMBURY, 1806-1863 -- The Pilgrim -- N. P. WILLIS, 1806-1867 -- Ambition -- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882 -- The Children's Hour -- Excelsior -- Paul Revere's Ride -- A Psalm of Life -- The Village Blacksmith -- The Wreck of the Hesperus -- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892 -- Barbara Frietchie -- The Barefoot Boy -- In School-Days -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894 -- The Deacon's Masterpiece -- The Height of the Ridiculous -- EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-1849 -- Annabel Lee -- The Bells -- The Raven -- C. P. CRANCH, 1813-1892 -- The Bear and the Squirrels -- An Old Cat's Confessions -- JOHN GODFREY SAXE, 1816-1887 -- The Blind Men and the Elephant -- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891 -- The Fountain -- Hob Gobbling's Song -- WALT WHITMAN, 1819-1892 -- O Captain! My Captain! -- ALICE CARY, 1820-1871 -- November
- To Mother Fairie -- PHOEBE CARY, 1824-1871 -- A Legend of the Northland -- LUCY LARCOM, 1824-1893 -- The Brown Thrush -- Dumpy Ducky -- In the Tree-Top -- Spring Whistles -- The Volunteer's Thanksgiving -- ROSE TERRY COOKE, 1827-1892 -- The Snow-Filled Nest -- JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, 1827-1916 -- Darius Greene and His Flying-Machine -- EMILY DICKINSON, 1830-1886 -- A bird came down the walk -- I like to see it lap the miles -- I'm nobody, who are you? -- The morns are meeker than they were -- A narrow fellow in the grass -- There is no frigate like a book -- To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee -- Will there really be a morning? -- HELEN HUNT JACKSON, 1830-1885 -- Grab-bag -- September -- MARY MAPES DODGE, 1831-1905 -- The Letters at School -- Poor Crow! -- That's What We'd Do -- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, 1832-1888 -- Our Little Ghost -- ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN, 1832-1911 -- Rock Me to Sleep -- A Toad -- SUSAN COOLIDGE (SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY), 1835-1905 -- Charlotte Brontë -- Edenhall -- NATHANIEL GRAHAM SHEPHERD, 1835-1869 -- Calling the Roll -- HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, 1835-1921 -- The Fossil Raindrops -- CELIA THAXTER, 1835-1894 -- The Sandpiper -- Jack Frost -- The Cruise of the Mystery -- CLARA DOTY BATES, 1838-1895 -- At Grandfather's -- Gray Thrums -- PALMER COX, 1840-1924 -- The Brownies' Celebration -- The Lazy Pussy -- The Mouse's Lullaby -- CHARLES E. CARRYL, 1841-1920 -- The Camel's Complaint -- The Walloping Window-blind -- MARIAN DOUGLAS (ANNIE DOUGLAS GREEN ROBINSON), 1842-1913 -- Ant-Hills -- The Snow-Man -- SARAH ORNE JEWETT, 1849-1909 -- A Country Boy in Winter -- JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, 1849-1916 -- The Days Gone By -- Little Orphant Annie -- The Nine Little Goblins -- The Raggedy Man -- ELIZABETH T. CORBETT, fl. 1878 -- A Misspelled Tail -- A Tail of the See -- Three Wise Old Women -- ANONYMOUS -- What Became of Them?
- Two Little Kittens -- Poor Old Lady -- SYDNEY DAYRE (MRS. COCHRAN), fl. 1881 -- A Lesson for Mama -- Grandma's Lost Balance -- EUGENE FIELD, 1850-1895 -- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod -- The Duel -- Little Boy Blue -- LAURA E. RICHARDS, 1850-1943 -- Alibazan -- Antonio -- Eletelephony -- The King of the Hobbledygoblins -- The Mermaidens -- The Mouse -- The Owl, the Eel and the Warming-pan -- Punkydoodle and Jollapin -- Why Does It Snow? -- JOHN BROWNJOHN (CHARLES REMINGTON TALBOT), 1851-1891 -- The School-Master and the Truants -- MARY E. WELKINS FREEMAN, 1852-1930 -- Blue-eyed Mary -- Marm Grayson's Guests -- The Ostrich Is a Silly Bird -- A Pretty Ambition -- R. K. MUNKITTRICK, 1853-1911 -- Molasses River -- Old King Cabbage -- The Redingote and the Vamoose -- The Song of the Owl -- EDITH M. THOMAS, 1854-1925 -- The Cricket Kept the House -- Mrs. Kriss Kringle -- LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE, 1856-1935 -- A Christmas Folk-Song -- A Little Song of Life -- A Street Scene -- TUDOR JENKS, 1857-1922 -- An Accommodating Lion -- Hard To Bear -- HAMLIN GARLAND, 1860-1940 -- Prairie Fires -- A Dakota Wheat-field -- FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN, 1860-1916 -- Baseball -- Blossoms -- ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE, 1861-1937 -- The Cooky-Nut Trees -- The Dancing Bear -- JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, 1862-1922 -- The Dreadful Fate of Naughty Nate -- The Hired Man's Way -- If -- The Little Elf -- AMOS R. WELLS, 1862-1933 -- The Ambitious Ant -- The Considerate Crocodile -- CAROLYN WELLS, 1862-1942 -- from A Baker's Dozen of Wild Beasts -- A Marvel -- Puzzled -- OLIVER HERFORD, 1863-1935 -- The Crocodile -- A Bunny Romance -- The Musical Lion -- KATHARINE PYLE, 1863-1938 -- August -- The Circus Parade -- Clever Peter and the Ogress -- The Toys Talk of the World -- Waking -- from The Wonder Clock -- ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER, 1863-1940 -- Casey at the Bat -- JOHN BENNETT, 1865-1956 -- A Tiger Tale
- GELETT BURGESS, 1866-1951 -- I Wish That My Room Had a Floor -- A Low Trick -- The Purple Cow -- Table Manners -- ARTHUR GUITERMAN, 1871-1943 -- Ancient History -- Habits of the Hippopotamus -- On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness -- GUY WETMORE CARRYL, 1873-1904 -- The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet -- The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven -- ROBERT FROST, 1874-1963 -- The Rose Family -- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -- GERTRUDE STEIN, 1874-1946 -- I Am Rose -- CARL SANDBURG, 1878-1967 -- Buffalo Dusk -- Fog -- Sea-Wash -- Soup -- Splinter -- VACHEL LINDSAY, 1879-1931 -- Factory Windows Are Always Broken -- The Flower-Fed Buffaloes -- The King of Yellow Butterflies -- The Little Turtle -- The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky -- The Mysterious Cat -- SARA TEASDALE, 1884-1933 -- The Falling Star -- February Twilight -- Full Moon: Santa Barbara -- ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS, 1886-1941 -- The Hens -- Milking Time -- The Rabbit -- The Woodpecker -- T. S. ELIOT, 1888-1965 -- Macavity: The Mystery Cat -- Growltiger's Last Stand -- Gus: The Theatre Cat -- EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, 1892-1950 -- Afternoon on a Hill -- Portrait by a Neighbor -- Travel -- MORRIS BISHOP, 1893-1973 -- How To Treat Elves -- ELIZABETH COATSWORTH, 1893- -- The Bad Kittens -- Daniel Webster's Horses -- The Mouse -- No Shop Does the Bird Use -- On a Night of Snow -- Song of the Rabbits Outside the Tavern -- The Storm -- This Is the Hay That No Man Planted -- Nosegay -- RACHEL FIELD, 1894-1942 -- A Circus Garland -- Something Told the Wild Geese -- DAVID MCCORD, 1897- -- Books Fall Open -- Cocoon -- Singular Indeed -- The Walnut Tree -- When I Was Christened -- STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT, 1898-1943 and ROSEMARY BENÉT, 1898-1962 -- Peregrine White and Virginia Dare -- John Quincy Adams -- LANGSTON HUGHES, 1902-1967 -- April Rain Song -- Ennui -- Hope -- Mother to Son
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers -- OGDEN NASH, 1902-1971 -- Adventures of Isabel -- The Panther -- The Purist -- The Tale of Custard the Dragon -- The Termite -- COUNTEE CULLEN, 1903-1946 -- Incident -- The Unknown Color -- DR. SEUSS ( THEODORE GEISEL ), 1904- -- Too Many Daves -- PHYLLIS MCGINLEY, 1905-1978 -- The Adversary -- Triolet Against Sisters -- SARA HENDERSON HAY, 1906- -- Interview -- THEODORE ROETHKE, 1908-1963 -- Dinky -- The Bat -- The Donkey -- The Cow -- The Sloth -- MARGARET WISE BROWN, 1910-1952 -- The Secret Song -- RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965 -- Bats -- The Chipmunk's Day -- JOHN CIARDI, 1916- -- The Man Who Sang the Sillies -- About the Teeth of Sharks -- Captain Spud and His First Mate, Spade -- On Learning To Adjust to Things -- EVE MERRIAM, 1916- -- Catch a Little Rhyme -- WILLIAM JAY SMITH, 1918- -- Crocodile -- The Floor and the Ceiling -- MAY SWENSON, 1919- -- Cardinal Ideograms -- Living Tenderly -- RICHARD WILBUR, 1921- -- Some Opposites -- X. J. KENNEDY, 1929- -- Mingled Yarns -- One Winter Night in August -- The Whales off Wales -- MARY ANN HOBERMAN, 1930- -- Cockroach -- Combinations -- The Folk Who Live in Backward Town -- SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 1932- -- Clarence -- The Dirtiest Man in the World -- Jimmy Jet and His TV Set -- One Inch Tall -- Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out -- JOHN UPDIKE, 1932- -- May -- August -- NANCY WILLARD, 1936- -- Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way -- The King of Cats Sends a Postcard to His Wife -- JACK PRELUTSKY, 1940- -- The Ghoul -- The Pancake Collector -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Index of First Lines and Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y