Title:
Poetry for young people : American Poetry
ISBN:
9780439721257
9781402705175
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Scholastic, Inc., ©2004
Physical Description:
1 volume : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Reprint: Originally published: New York : Sterling Pub. Co.
"First Scholastic printing, November 2004"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- American names / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Indian names / Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Navajo blanket / May Swenson -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Defence of Fort McHenry / Francis Scott Key -- New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- Portrait VIII -- O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- To an American painter departing for Europe / William Cullen Bryant -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Thayer -- House on the hill / Edward Arlington Robinson -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Great figure / William Carlos Williams -- Amherst train / Emily Dickinson -- Engine / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Virginia / T.S. Eliot -- On the Mississippi / Hamlin Garland -- Harlem Hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- Jazz Fantasia / Carl Sandburg -- America for me / Henry Van Dyke -- America / Claude McKay -- Rockets that reached Saturn / Vachel Lindsay -- Index.
Reading Level:
NP L Lexile
