How to Eat a Poem A Smorgasbord of Tasty and

Seventy lighthearted poems, selected for both popularity and literary quality, cover a wide range of subjects: books, words, imagination, the beauty of the natural world, travel, adventure, play, and, of course, love and friendship. Features an incredible array of poets, from Lewis Carroll and Ernest Lawrence Thayer to Shel Silverstein and Ogden Nash.

MAGIC WORDS: Poems About Poetry, Books, Words, and Imagination

The First Book

1

(1)

Rita Dove

There Is No Frigate Like a Book

2

(1)

Emily Dickinson

from ``Magic Words''

3

(1)

Inuit (Eskimo) passage

Introduction to Poetry

4

(1)

Billy Collins

The Poem

5

(1)

Amy Lowell

Ars Poetica

6

(1)

Archibald MacLeish

How to Eat a Poem

7

(1)

Eve Merriam

Six Words

8

(2)

Lloyd Schwartz

Prickled Pickles Don't Smile

10

(1)

Nikki Giovanni

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

11

(3)

Wallace Stevens

This Is Just to Say

14

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

15

(1)

Kenneth Koch

Today is Very Boring

16

(1)

Jack Prelutsky

The Unwritten

17

(2)

W. S. Merwin

Write, Do Write

19

(1)

Marilyn Chin

MY HEART LEAPS UP: Poems About the Beauty of the Natural World

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold

20

(1)

William Wordsworth

W. D., Don't Fear That Animal

21

(2)

W. D. Snodgrass

Swift Things Are Beautiful

23

(1)

Elizabeth Coatsworth

Summer

24

(1)

Kawabata Bosha

Autumn

24

(1)

Arakida Moritake

Winter

24

(1)

Takarai Kikaku

Spring

24

(1)

Matsuo Basho

Nothing Gold Can Stay

25

(1)

Robert Frost

The Desert Is My Mother

26

(1)

Pat Mora

El desierto es mi madre

27

(1)

Pat Mora

maggie and milly and molly and may

28

(1)

E. E. Cummings

A Jelly-Fish

29

(1)

Marianne Moore

The Eagle

29

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Eagle Poem

30

(1)

Joy Harjo

Considering the Snail

31

(1)

Thom Gunn

The Porcupine

32

(1)

Ogden Nash

The Crocodile

32

(1)

Lewis Carroll

The Tyger

33

(1)

William Blake

Steam Shovel

34

(1)

Charles Malam

Cartoon Physics, part 1

35

(2)

Nick Flynn

The Falling Star

37

(1)

Sara Teasdale

Halley's Comet

38

(2)

Stanley Kunitz

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

40

(1)

Walt Whitman

I THINK OVER AGAIN MY SMALL ADVENTURES: Poems About Travel, Adventure, Sports, and Play

Sick

41

(2)

Shel Silverstein

Travel

43

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Insomnia

44

(1)

Marilyn Nelson

Harlem Night Song

45

(1)

Langston Hughes

The Rider

46

(1)

Naomi Shihab Nye

The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M.

47

(1)

Agha Shahid Ali

First Love

48

(1)

Carl Lindner

Skier

49

(1)

Robert Francis

Skater

50

(1)

Ted Kooser

The Acrobat

51

(1)

Wislawa Szymborska

Baseball

52

(1)

Linda Pastan

Casey at the Bat

53

(3)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer

One Art

56

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

I Think Over Again My Small Adventures

57

(1)

Anonymous

Bed In Summer

58

(1)

Robert Louis Stevenson

from The Bed Book

59

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Summons

60

(1)

Robert Francis

HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS: Poems About Love, Friendship, Sadness, Hope, and Other Emotions

Shirley Said

61

(1)

Dennis Doyle

Oranges

62

(2)

Gary Soto

The Floor and the Ceiling

64

(2)

William Jay Smith

Annabel Lee

66

(2)

Edgar Allan Poe

Sympathy

68

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Ozymandias

69

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spring and Fall

70

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Trees

71

(1)

Walter Dean Myers

With Kit, Age Seven, At the Beach

72

(1)

William Stafford

At the End of the Weekend

73

(1)

Ted Kooser

Little Old Letter

74

(1)

Langston Hughes

from ``I Am a Black Woman''

75

(1)

Mari Evans

homage to my hips

76

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Childhood Morning--Homebush

77

(1)

James McAuley

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

78

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Quintrain

79

(1)

Said 'Aql

Acknowledgments and Permissions

80

(3)

Alphabetical Index of Poets, Titles and First Lines

83

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How to Eat a Poem A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers

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