The Poet's Craft

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World Book Company, 1935 - 338 pages
Poems are presented by format different formats such as rhythm and emotion, metrical measures, pattern and stanza, etc.

Contents

THE POST CAPTAIN Charles Edward Carryl
5
ROBIN HOOD John Keats
19
THE RAILWAY TRAIN Emily Dickinson
33
THE SONG OF THE SHIRT
42
ROBINSON CRUSOES STORY
48
LESSONS FOR A
56
FIREFLY SONG
63
MY LOST YOUTH
71
IVE GOT A DOG Ethel Kelley
184
BONNY GEORGE CAMPBELL An Old Ballad
190
WORD MUSIC
197
FOUR LITTLE FOXES Lew Sarett
204
SONG IN THE SONGLESS George Meredith
210
THE BEETLE James Whitcomb Riley
216
ELLEN MCJONES ABERDEEN W S Gilbert
219
PICTURES IN POETRY
225

CORONACH
77
IRREGULAR RHYTHMS
81
THE LEADER The Bible
87
EVERY DAY Felix Mendelssohn
93
THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS Leigh Hunt
99
IN SCHOOL DAYS John Greenleaf Whittier
105
RHYME
111
THE KNIGHTS TOAST Attributed to Sir Walter Scott
117
PATRIOTISM Sir Walter Scott
119
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE Charles Wolfe
127
SEAWEED Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
137
THE MODERN MAJORGENERAL W S Gilbert
143
JIM BLUDSO OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE John Hay
149
THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES Charles Lamb
155
A RED RED ROSE Robert Burns
166
CHANGE AND RECURRENCE
169
EILEEN AROON Gerald Griffin
175
TO A BLACK DOG BEREAVED Elizabeth Coatsworth
232
YULETIDE FIRES An Old Song
238
WHEN YOU GO TO FAIRYLAND Anonymous
244
SILVER Walter de la Mare
252
FORBEARANCE Ralph Waldo Emerson
258
THE BOOK William Drummond
259
INVICTUS William Ernest Henley
266
THE KINDS OF POETRY
273
GIVE ALL TO LOVE Ralph Waldo Emerson
279
JONATHAN BING B Curtis Brown
285
THE BELLMAN Robert Herrick
294
EPITAPH William Browne
296
MY HEART LEAPS UP William Wordsworth
308
SOME POSSIBLE SUBJECTS FOR VERSE
325
INDEX OF AUTHORS
335
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