| Description |
256 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Hierusalem, my happy home / Anonymous -- Edward, Edward / Anonymous -- Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous -- Brave Lord Willoughby / Anonymous -- The old hundredth / William Kethe,d. 1608? -- Agincourt / Michael Drayton, 1564-1631 -- All the world's a stage / William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- John of gaunt speaks / William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Henry V before Agincourt / William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Mark Antony addresses the mob / William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Jack and Joan / Thomas Campion, 1567-1620 -- In plague time / Thomas Nashe, 1567-1601 -- The character of a happy life / Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639 -- In westminister abbey / Francis Beaumont, 1584-1616 -- Death the leveler / James Shirley, 1596-1666 -- On his blindness / John Milton, 1608-1674 -- To be a pilgrim / John Bunyan, 1622-1688 -- Alexander's feast / John Dryden, 1631-1700 -- Happy the man / John Dryden, 1631-1700 -- Veni, creator spirtus / John Dryden, 1631-1700 -- The boyne water/ Anonymous -- The spacious firmament on high / Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 -- O God, our help in ages past / Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 -- When I survey the wondrous cross / Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 -- Rule, Britannia / James Thomson, 1700-1748 -- Jesu, lover of my soul / Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 -- Prologue to 'a word to the wise' / Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray, 1716-1771 -- Sound, sound the clarion / T.O. Mordaunt, 1730-1809 -- The royal George / William Cowper, 1731-1800 -- Boadicea / William Cowper, 1731-1800 -- Rock of ages / A.M. Toplady, 1740-1778 -- The arethusa / Prince Hoare, 1755-1834 -- The tiger / William Blake, 1757-1827 -- Jerusalem / William Blake, 1757-1827 -- Auguries of innocence / William Blake, 1757-1827 -- Scots wha hae / Robert Burns, 1759-1796 -- For a' that / Robert Burns, 1759-1796 -- A wish / Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855 -- Alexander's feast / John Dryden, 1631-1700 -- Happy the man / John Dryden, 1631-1700 -- Veni, creator spiritus / John Dryden, 1631-1700 -- The boyne water / Anonymous -- The spacious firmament on high / Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 -- Oh God, our help is ages past / Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 -- When I survey the wondrous cross / Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 -- Rule Britannia / James Thomson, 1700-1748 -- Jesus, lover of my soul / Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 -- Prologue to 'a word to the wise' / Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray, 1716-1771 -- Sound, sound the clarion / T.O. Mordaunt, 1730-1809 -- The royal George / William Cowper, 1731-1800 -- Boadicea / William Cowper, 1731-1800 -- Rock of ages / A.M. Toplady, 1740-1778 -- The arethusa / Prince Hoare, 1755-1834 -- The tiger / William Blake, 1757-1827 -- Jerusalem / William Blake, 1757-1827 -- Auguries of innocence / William Blake, 1757-1827 -- Scots wha hae / Robert Burns, 1759-1796 -- For a' that / Robert Burns, 1759-1796 -- A wish / Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855 -- A boy's song / James Hogg, 1770-1835 -- The world is to much with us / William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 -- Milton! / William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 -- We must be free or die / William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 -- Upon Westminster bridge / William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 -- The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 -- The patriot / Sir Walter Scott, 1774-1832 -- Pibroch / Sir Walter Scott, 1774-1832 -- The battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey, 1774-1843 -- The old familiar faces / Charles Lamb, 1775-1843 -- I strove with none / W.S. Landor, 1775-1864 -- The battle of the Baltic / Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844 -- Lord Ullin's daughter / Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844 -- The soldier's dream / Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844 -- Hohenlinden / Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844 -- Ye mariners of England / Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844 -- Canadian boat-song / John Galt, 1779-1839 (attrib) -- The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key, 1779-1843 -- The harp that once through Tara's halls / Thomas Moore, 1779-1852 -- Greenland's icy mountains / Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 -- A sea-song / Allan Cunningham, 1784-1842 -- About Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859 -- The war song of Dinas Vawr / Thomas Love Peacock, 1785-1866 -- The destruction of sennacherib / Lord Byron, 1788-1824 -- The Isles of Greece / Lord Byron, 1788-1824 -- We'll go no more a roving / Lord Byron, 1788-1824 -- The burial of Sir John Moore after corunna / Charles Wolfe, 1791-1823 -- New every morning / John Keble, 1792-1866 -- Ozymandias / P.B. Shelley, 1792-1822 -- The homes of England / Felicia D. Hemans, 1793-1835 -- The graves of a household / Felicia D. Hemans, 1793-1835 -- Abide with me / H.F. Lyte, 1793-1847 -- The song of the shirt / Thomas Hood, 1799-1845 -- The bridge of sighs / Thomas Hood, 1799-1845 -- I remember, I remember / Thomas Hood, 1799-1845 -- Horatius / Lord Macaulay, 1800-1859 -- The armada / Lord Macaulay, 1800-1859 -- A jacobite's epitaph / Lord Macaulay, 1800-1859 -- Lead, kindly light / Cardinal Newman, 1801-1890 -- The song of the western men / Robert S. Hawker, 1803-1857 -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 -- The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 -- The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 -- Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 -- My lost youth / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 -- The slave's dream / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier, 1809-1883 -- The rubìyt̀ of Omar Khayym̀ / Edward Fitzgerald, 1809-1883 -- The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 -- A ballad of the fleet / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 -- Ring out, wild bells / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 -- Home thoughts from abroad / Robert Browning, 1812-1889 -- Home thoughts from the sea / Robert Browning, 1812-1889 -- How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning, 1812-1889 -- Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning, 1812-1889 -- We plough the fields / Jane M. Campbell, 1817-1878 -- The old stoic / Emily Bront,͡ 1818-1848 -- O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 -- The three fishers / Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 -- Ode to the north-east wind / Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 -- The sands of dee / Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 -- Young and old / Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 -- Say not the struggle naught availeth / A.H. Clough, 1819-1861 -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 -- Once to every man and nation / James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 -- The wearing of the green / Dion Boucicault, 1821-1890 -- City of God / S. Johnson, 1822-1882 -- The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888 -- Heraclitus / W.J. Cory, 1823-1892 -- The two captains / W.J. Cory, 1823-1892 -- All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander, 1823-1895 -- Eternal father, strong to save / William Whiting, 1825-1878 -- The day thou gavest / John Ellerton, 1826-1893 -- Marching through Georgia / H.C. Work, 1832-1884 -- Onward, Christian soldiers / Sabine Barling-Gould, 1834-1924 -- Through the night of doubt and sorrow / Sabine Barling-Gould, 1834-1924 -- Is life worth living / Alfred Austin, 1835-1913 -- As with gladness men of old / W. Chatterton Dix, 1837-1898 -- The garden of Proserpine / A.C. Swinburne, 1837-1909 -- The runnable stag / John Davidson, 1837-1909 -- A ballade of the armada / Austin Dobson, 1840-1921 -- The old squire / Wilfrid S. Blunt, 1840-1922 -- God is working his purpose out / A.C. Ainger, 1841-1919 -- Ode / Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 1844-1881 -- Invictus / W.E. Henley, 1849-1903 -- Requiem / R.L. Stevenson, 1850-1894 -- The kingdom of God / Francis Thompson, 1859-1907 -- 1887 / A.E. Housman, 1859-1936 -- The recruit / A.E |
|
Housman, 1859-1936 -- Drake's drum / Sir Henry Newbolt, 1862-1938 -- Admirals all / Sir Henry Newbolt, 1862-1938 -- He fell among thieves / Sir Henry Newbolt, 1862-1938 -- Vita ̐Lampada / Sir Henry Newbolt, 1862-1938 -- Ireland, Ireland / Sir Henry Newbolt, 1862-1938 -- Land of hope and glory / A.C. Benson, 1862-1925 -- Easter 1916 / W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939 -- The lake isle of innisfree / W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939 -- The ballad of east and west / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- Recessional / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- For all we have and are / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- Danny Deever / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- Tommy / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- Boots / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- The winners / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- If / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- The Gods of the copybook headings / Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 -- Ha'nacker mill / Hilaire Belloc, 1870-1953 -- In flanders field / John Mccrea, 1872-1918 -- The donkey / G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 -- Elegy in a country churchyard / G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 -- Lepanto / G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 -- The secret people / G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 -- Cargoes / John Masefield, 1878-1967 -- Sea-fever / John Masefield, 1878-1967 -- The golden journey to Samarkand / James Elroy Flecker, 1884-1915 -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke, 1887-1915 -- Rendezvous / Alan Seeger, 1888-1916 -- Into battle / Julian Grenfell, 1888-1915 <U+000d><U+000a><U+000d><U+000a> |
| Summary |
A collection of old favorites; poems that sound well and go well when spoken in a declamatory style |
| Analysis |
Poetry in English, 1066-1945 Anthologies. For recitation |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Index |
| Subject |
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.
|
|
American poetry.
|
|
English poetry.
|
|
Photograms.
|
|
Photography, Artistic.
|
|
Recitations.
|
|
American poetry.
|
| Author |
Amis, Kingsley.
|
| LC no. |
79301880 |
| ISBN |
0571112870 |
|
0571113397 (paperback) |
|
