A Family of Poems

by Kennedy, Caroline; Muth, Jon J.

• ISBN13: 9780786851119
• ISBN10: 0786851112
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Summary

Caroline Kennedy has chosen a rich variety of Kennedy family favorite poems to include in this priceless collection. With thoughtful personal introductions written by Caroline herself, and beautiful new original artwork by award-winning artist, Jon J Muth, this collection is sure to become a family favorite for years to come.

Author Biography

Caroline Kennedy is the author and editor of twelve New York Times bestselling books on American history, politics and poetry. She is also an attorney and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017, and the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Kennedy is active in the efforts to improve New York City public schools and serves as President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Caroline Kennedy
About Me
The Early Morning	12	(1)
Hilaire Belloc
Me	13	(1)
Walter de la Mare
First Fig	14	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig	14	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
This Is Just to Say	15	(1)
William Carlos Williams
To P.J. (2 yrs. old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)	16	(1)
Sonia Sanchez
The Reason I Like Chocolate	17	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Michael Is Afraid of the Storm	18	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
``Hope'' Is the Thing with Feathers	19	(1)
Emily Dickinson
I May, I Might, I Must	19	(1)
Marianne Moore
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	20	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Has My Heart Gone to Sleep?	21	(1)
Antonio Machado
The Road Not Taken	22	(1)
Robert Frost
Psalm 23: 1--6	23	(3)
Holy Bible
That's So Silly!
There Was an Old Man of West Dumpet	26	(1)
Edward Lear
There Was an Old Man of Blackheath	26	(1)
Anonymous
The Little Man Who Wasn't There	27	(1)
William Hughes Mearns
Moses	28	(1)
Anonymous
Happiness	29	(1)
A. A. Milne
``Amelia Mixed the Mustard''	30	(1)
A. E. Housman
Careless Willie	30	(1)
Anonymous
To a Fellow Poet	30	(1)
Joseph Brodsky
Daddy Fell Into the Pond	31	(1)
Alfred Noyes
The People Upstairs	32	(1)
Ogden Nash
from Falling in Love Is Like Owning a Dog	33	(1)
Taylor Mali
Today Is Very Boring	34	(1)
Jack Prelutsky
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	35	(2)
Wallace Stevens
Some Opposites	37	(3)
Richard Wilbur
Animals
Epigram: Engraved on the Collar of a Dog	40	(1)
Alexander Pope
Roger the Dog	40	(1)
Ted Hughes
The Song of the Mischievous Dog	41	(1)
Dylan Thomas
The Porcupine	42	(1)
Ogden Nash
The Sloth	42	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Peacockfeather	43	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ode to the Goose	43	(1)
Luo Binwang
Mr. Mistoffelees	44	(2)
T. S. Eliot
An Old Silent Pond	46	(1)
Basho
Farewell! Like a Bee	46	(1)
Basho
The Frog	47	(1)
Hilaire Belloc
The Little Turtle	48	(1)
Vachel Lindsay
Little Trotty Wagtail	49	(1)
John Clare
``Hurt No Living Thing''	50	(1)
Christina Rossetti
The Last Word of a Bluebird As Told to a Child	51	(1)
Robert Frost
Saint Francis and the Sow	52	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Crocodile	53	(1)
Lewis Carroll
The Tyger	54	(2)
William Blake
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack	56	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Buffalo Dusk	57	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Elephant	58	(1)
Anonymous
The Eagle	59	(3)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Seasons
Ecclesiastes 3:1--8	62	(1)
Holy Bible
April Rain Song	63	(1)
Langston Hughes
in Just-	64	(2)
E. E. Cummings
Pippa's Song	66	(1)
Robert Browning
The Pasture	67	(1)
Robert Frost
The Daffodils	68	(3)
William Wordsworth
Ariel's Song	71	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Rose Family	71	(1)
Robert Frost
``And What Is So Rare As a Day in June?''	72	(2)
James Russell Lowell
``Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?''	74	(1)
William Shakespeare
Who Has Seen the Wind?	75	(1)
Christina Rossetti
These are the days when Birds come back	76	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Thoughts	78	(2)
Jacqueline Bouvier
Something Told the Wild Geese	80	(1)
Rachel Field
from Ode to a Pair of Socks	81	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Snow in the Suburbs	82	(3)
Thomas Hardy
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	85	(1)
Robert Frost
A Visit from St. Nicholas	86	(2)
Clement Clarke Moore
little tree	88	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Iroquois Prayer	89	(3)
Anonymous
The Seashore
Sea Joy	92	(1)
Jacqueline Bouvier
maggie and milly and molly and may	93	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Sea Shell	94	(1)
Amy Lowell
``Full Fathom Five'' from The Tempest, Act I, sc.i	94	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Octopus	95	(1)
Ogden Nash
The Mock Turtle's Song	96	(1)
Lewis Carroll
A Jelly-Fish	97	(1)
Marianne Moore
Seashell	97	(1)
Federico Garcia Lorca
The Fish	98	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Sea-Fever	100	(5)
John Masefield
Adventure
The Swing	105	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
This Is the Key	106	(1)
Anonymous
A Fairy in Armor	107	(1)
Joseph Rodman Drake
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	108	(2)
Edward Lear
Good Hotdogs	110	(2)
Sandra Cisneros
The Red Wheelbarrow	112	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Afternoon on a Hill	113	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Goblin Feet	114	(2)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Song of Wandering Aengus	116	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Scaffolding	117	(1)
Seamus Heaney
from Song of the Open Road	118	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Rider	119	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
``Do not be afraid of no''	120	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	122	(1)
Walt Whitman
Harlem Night Song	123	(4)
Langston Hughes
Bedtime
Bed in Summer	127	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
``Sweet and Low''	128	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Silver	129	(1)
Walter de la Mare
If You'll Only Go to Sleep	130	(1)
Gabriela Mistral
from The Bed Book	131	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Plumpuppets	132	(1)
Christopher Morley
Dream Variations	133	(1)
Langston Hughes
The Moon	134	(1)
Jorge Luis Borges
from Imagine Angels	134	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
Keep a Poem in Your Pocket	135	(1)
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm	136	(2)
Wallace Stevens
Foreign Poems in Their Original Languages	138	(2)
Index of First Lines	140	(2)
Acknowledgments	142