Great Poems: A Wide Selection of Favorite Poems to Suit Everyone

By Kate Miles and Cleo Qian

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842365762
• ISBN13: 9781842365762
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 1.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

`Life, believe, is not a dream, ..'

This beautiful collection of poetry holds a special place in my heart. Some three hundred poems, in a wonderfully illustrated, durably bound book made for browsing, reading and sharing memories. Various headings are used to organise the poems: `Love', which naturally includes some poetry by Lord Byron; William Shakespeare's `Sonnet 18'; and 'The Rose of Sharon' from The Song of Songs. `Events', which includes `The Night Before Christmas' by Clement Clark Moore; `I Sing of Brooks' by Robert Herrick; and `The Oxen' by Thomas Hardy. `Distant Lands': encompassing `Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley; `Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; and `The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke. Other categories include poems about Home and Work, about War and Heroism, Animals (`The Dalliance of the Eagles' by Walt Whitman; `To a Butterfly' by William Wordsworth; and `The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' by Edward Lear). There are Children's Poems, and entries under Wit and Humour including: `I always eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. They do taste kind of funny But it keeps them on my knife.' There are many more poems as well. The opening lines of this particular poem, by Charlotte Bronte, caught my attention: 'Life, believe, is not a dream, So dark as sages say; Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day; Sometimes there are clouds of gloom, But these are transient all; If the shower will make the roses bloom, Oh, why lament its fall?' I recommend this particular collection to those who enjoy eclectic anthologies of poetry. Jennifer Cameron-Smith