100 poems about people / selected by Elinor Parker ; illustrated by Ismar David.

A collection of some of the world's best known and some less familiar poems, all of which tell about people--real and imaginary.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Parker, Elinor, 1906-2001 (Compiler)
David, Ismar (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: New York : T.Y. Crowell, [1955], ©1955.
Subjects:
English poetry.
American poetry.
Poetry > Collections.
Narrative poetry.
Genre:
Collections.
Narrative poetry.
Physical Description:234 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Under Twenty
  • Tired Tim / WALTER DE LA MARE
  • Little Blue-Ribbons / AUSTIN DOBSON
  • Fred / ELEANOR FARJEON
  • The Barefoot Boy / JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
  • Charles Augustus Fortescue / HILAIRE BELLOC
  • Dorothy Q. / OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  • Anne's Book / MARY WEBB
  • My Rival / RUDYARD KIPLING
  • Jane and Eliza / ANN TAYLOR
  • There Was a Little Girl / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
  • My Fair Lady
  • Silvia / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
  • "Three Years She Grew" / "She Was a Phantom of Delight" / WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
  • She Walks in Beauty / LORD BYRON
  • Love in the Valley / GEORGE MEREDITH
  • The Shepherdess / ALICE MEYNELL
  • Laughing Ann / A. P. HERBERT
  • An Epitaph / WALTER DE LA MARE
  • From Life / BRIAN HOOKER
  • A Certain Young Lady / WASHINGTON IRVING
  • Lives in Sunshine
  • The Jolly Old Pedagogue / GEORGE ARNOLD
  • Songs for My Mother / ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH
  • The Village Blacksmith / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
  • Martin / JOYCE KILMER
  • Lucinda Matlock / EDGAR LEE MASTERS
  • There Was a Jolly Miller / ISAAC BICKERSTAFF
  • Lives in Shadow
  • The Solitary Reaper / WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
  • Mariana / ALFRED TENNYSON
  • My Last Duchess / ROBERT BROWNING
  • Miniver Cheevy / Richard Cory EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
  • Gone / CARL SANDBURG
  • The Farmer's Bride / CHARLOTTE MEW
  • We Are Seven / WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
  • To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train / FRANCES CORNFORD
  • "Is My Team Ploughing?" / A. E. HOUSMAN
  • The Solitary-Hearted / HARTLEY COLERIDGE
  • Auld Robin Gray / ANNE BARNARD
  • From the Hills, from the Roads, from the sea
  • The Mountain Woman / DUBOSE HEYWARD
  • A Hill-Woman / JOHN FARRAR
  • An Old Woman of the Roads / PADRAIC COLUM
  • The Vagabonds / JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE
  • Juggling Jerry / GEORGE MEREDITH
  • John Popham / ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN
  • A Dutch Picture / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
  • Captain Stratton's Fancy / JOHN MASEFIELD
  • "All That's Past"
  • Old Grimes / ALBERT GORTON GREENE
  • The Last Leaf / OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  • Old John Henry / JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
  • An Old Man's Winter Night / ROBERT FROST
  • Old Susan / WALTER DE LA MARE
  • Mary O'Brian / J. REDWOOD ANDERSON
  • The Old Lady / HUMBERT WOLFE
  • The Fine Old English Gentleman / ANONYMOUS
  • People from History
  • Caesar Remembers / WILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR
  • Antony to Cleopatra / WILLIAM HAYNES LYTLE
  • Saint John Baptist / WILLIAM DRUMMOND
  • Chaucer / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
  • There Lived a Lady in Milan / WILLIAM ROSE BENET
  • Henry VIII / ELEANOR AND HERBERT FARJEON
  • The Looking-Glass / RUDYARD KIPLING
  • Sir Philip Sidney / ELEANOR AND HERBERT FARJEON
  • On the Death of Marie, Countess of Pembroke / WILLIAM BROWNE
  • Epitaph on Charles II / JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
  • Rob Roy / ELEANOR AND HERBERT FARJEON
  • "I Am Monarch of All I Survey" / WILLIAM COWPER
  • Lincoln, the Man of the People / EDWIN MARKHAM
  • Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight / VACHEL LINDSAY
  • The Queen in Parliament, 1941 / A. P. HERBERT
  • Shakespeare / MATTHEW ARNOLD
  • Farragut / WILLIAM TUCKER MEREDITH
  • From Storybook and Legend
  • The Clerk of Oxenford / GEOFFREY CHAUCER
  • Ruth / THOMAS HOOD
  • Ulysses / Sir Galahad / ALFRED TENNYSON
  • Robinson Crusoe's Story / CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL
  • Don Juan Declaims / JAMES ELROY FLECKER
  • Deirdre / JAMES STEPHENS
  • Meg Merrilies / JOHN KEATS
  • Aladdin and the Jinn / VACHEL LINDSAY
  • Some Strange Characters
  • Captain Jinks / ANONYMOUS
  • The Duke of Plaza-Toro / The Major-General / W. S. GILBERT
  • Father William / LEWIS CARROLL / The Aged Aged Man / LEWIS CARROLL
  • The King of Yvetot / WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
  • The New Vestments / The Akond of Swat / EDWARD LEAR
  • The Sluggard / ISAAC WATTS
  • Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize / OLIVER GOLDSMITH
  • Limericks / ANONYMOUS
  • Clerihews / EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY
  • The Reformation of Godfrey Gore / WILLIAM BRIGHTLY RANDS
  • The Poet Himself
  • Ode on Solitude / ALEXANDER POPE
  • Contentment / OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  • By Way of Preface / EDWARD LEAR
  • There Was a Child Went Forth / WALT WHITMAN
  • On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year / LORD BYRON
  • The Vagabond / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
  • Finis / WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR