The Golden Journey: Poems for Young PeopleLouise Bogan, William Jay Smith Reilly & Lee, 1965 - 275 pages "Fresh, delightful, and perennially new" poems written in English but in many distant lands and selected for the enjoyment of discriminating readers by two outstanding poets. Selections range from Rabindranath Tagore to Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins to Elinor Wylie. |
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Page 41
... sweet violets , Half of primroses . CHRISTINA ROSSETTI LAUGHING SONG When the green woods laugh with the voice of ... sweet round mouth sing " Ha , Ha , He ! " When the painted birds laugh in the shade , When our table with cherries and ...
... sweet violets , Half of primroses . CHRISTINA ROSSETTI LAUGHING SONG When the green woods laugh with the voice of ... sweet round mouth sing " Ha , Ha , He ! " When the painted birds laugh in the shade , When our table with cherries and ...
Page 53
... Sweet sweet sweet But resign this land at the end , resign it To its true owner , the tough one , the sea - gull . The palaver is finished . T. S. ELIOT FERN HILL Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting ...
... Sweet sweet sweet But resign this land at the end , resign it To its true owner , the tough one , the sea - gull . The palaver is finished . T. S. ELIOT FERN HILL Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting ...
Page 128
... sweet and fair she seems to be . Tell her that's young , And shuns to have her graces spied , That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide , Thou must have uncommended died . Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ...
... sweet and fair she seems to be . Tell her that's young , And shuns to have her graces spied , That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide , Thou must have uncommended died . Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ...
Contents
BIRDS BEASTS AND FLOWERS | 61 |
THEY WENT TO SEA IN A SIEVENonsense Verses | 143 |
ALL THATS PAST | 195 |
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A. A. Milne beautiful Belloc best fits bird blow boy's chamber door cold Collected Poems Crack and Flossie dance dark dream Dylan Thomas ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS eyes fish fits a little Flossie Snail flowers Golden Journey gone grass hear heart hills James Stephens Johnnie Crack lamb land laugh LĂ©onie Adams light long thoughts look Macmillan Company merry Minnaloushe moon morning mysterious cat Nevermore night Noroway pale Poems by William poems reprinted poetry RALPH HODGSON Reprinted by permission rhymes riding ROBERT FROST roses round sail ship Sieve silver sing sleep song soup stare stars sweet T. S. Eliot thee Theodore Roethke things thoughts of youth trees W. B. YEATS W. H. Auden walk Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams William Jay Smith wind wind's wings wood X. J. Kennedy yellow youth are long