Gaby Morgan

Poems for Happiness

Herausgegeben:Morgan, Gaby;Mitarbeit:Coles, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms - whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, The Reverend Richard Coles.

Poems for Happiness is an inspiring and life-affirming collection that features writing by some of our greatest poets whose work is still widely read today. It includes famous poems such as 'How Do I Love Thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, 'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth and 'Invictus' by W. E. Henley. In addition to these well-known verses, this beautiful volume includes lesser-known poems to discover and enjoy.

Produktdetails

• Macmillan Collector's Library 213
• Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library / Macmillan Publishers International
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 81700, 900200579
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 102mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9781509893812
• ISBN-10: 1509893814
• Artikelnr.: 54663500

Autorenporträt

Ed. Gaby Morgan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Introduction Unit
1: Happy Thought Poem
1: Happy Thought
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
2: Happy the Man
John Dryden Poem
3: New Sights
Anon Poem
4: On a Quiet Conscience
Charles I Poem
5: Leisure
W.H. Davies Poem
6: High Flights
John Gillespie Magee Jr. Poem
7: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
Anon. Poem
8: If
Rudyard Kipling Poem
9: Now May Every Living Thing
Anon. Poem
10: Hurt No Living Thing
Christina Rossetti Poem
11: from Auguries of Innocence
William Blake Poem
12: To Every Thing There Is a Season
Book of Ecclesiastes Poem
13: from Endymion
John Keats Poem
14: Shining Things
Elizabeth Gould Poem
15: The Quiet Life
Alexander Pope Poem
16: Song of Apollo
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem
17: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
Sir Edward Dyer Poem
18: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats Poem
19: Eternity
William Blake Poem
20: A Farewell
Charles Kingsley Poem
21: A Vision
Henry Vaughan Poem
22: Gratefulnesse
George Herbert Poem
23: Thanks in Old Age
Walt Whitman Poem
24: A Little Health
Anon. Unit
2: Glory Be To God For Dappled Things Poem
1: Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem
2: Amazing Grace
John Newton Poem
3: God Be In My Head
Sarum Missal Poem
4: 'Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace'
St Francis of Assisi Poem
5: Miracles
Walt Whitman Poem
6: Father, We Thank Thee
Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem
7: African Canticle
Anon Poem
8: The Thanksgivings
Iroquois, Traditional tr. Harriet Maxwell Converse Poem
9: Harvest Home
Henry Alford Poem
10: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Wallace Willis Poem
11: Desiderata
Max Ehrmann Poem
12: The Iroquois Prayer
Iroquois, Traditional Poem
13: Jewish Prayer
Service of the Orthodox Synagogue for the Festival of Tabernacles Poem
14: from His Pilgrimage
Sir Walter Raleigh Poem
15: When the Heart is Hard
Rabindranath Tagore Poem
16: The Selkirk Grace
Robert Burns Poem
17: Epitaph
Winifred Holtby Unit
3: I Sing of Brooks, of Blossoms, Birds, and Bowers Poem
1: The Argument of His Book
Robert Herrick Poem
2: The Song of Wandering Aengus
W. B. Yeats Poem
3: Spring
William Blake Poem
4: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth Poem
5: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Emily Dickinson Poem
6: The Happy Child
W. H. Davies Poem
7: from Pippa Passes
Robert Browning Poem
8: A Greeting
W. H. Davies Poem
9: February Twilight
Sara Teasdale Poem
10: Adoration
Christopher Smart Poem
11: The Sun Rising
John Donne Poem
12: Sowing
Edward Thomas Poem
13: A Dumb Friend
Christina Rossetti Poem
14: My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth Poem
15: The Throstle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
16: May
Thomas Dekker Poem
17: Moonlight, Summer Moonlight
Emily Brontë Poem
18: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
W. B. Yeats Poem
19: Where the Bee Sucks
William Shakespeare Poem
20: To Make a Prairie
Emily Dickinson Poem
21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare Poem
22: Careless Rambles
John Clare Poem
23: Magna Est Veritas
Coventry Patmore Poem
24: Rest and Be Thankful!
William Wordsworth Poem
24: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
William Wordsworth Poem
25: Moonlit Apples
John Drinkwater Poem
26: Harvest Hymn
John Greenleaf Whittier Poem
27: To Autumn
John Keats Poem
28: Pleasant Sounds
John Clare Poem
29: 'See yonder leafless trees against the sky'
Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem
30: Evening Quatrains
Charles Cotton Poem
31: Ode
Joseph Addison Poem
32: 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free'
William Wordsworth Poem
33: God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins Unit
4: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Poem
1: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Arthur Hugh Clough Poem
2: Freedom
Olive Runner Poem
3: New Every Morning
Susan Coolidge Poem
4: Will
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem
5: Invictus
W. E. Henley Poem
6: Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth and Erlene Stetson Poem
7: This, Too, Shall Pass Away
Lanta Wilson Smith Poem
8: 'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers
Emily Dickinson Poem
9: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries
Walt Whitman Poem
10: Courage
Amelia Earhart Poem
11: The Call
Charlotte Mew Poem
12: A Pebble
James W. Foley Poem
13: from Henry V
William Shakespeare Poem
14: The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus Poem
15: The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln Poem
16: The Star
Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key Poem
17: I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman Poem
18: No Coward Soul Is Mine
Emily Brontë Poem
19: A Summing Up
Charles Mackay Unit
5: Friendship is Love Without his Wings Poem
1: L'Amitié Est L'Amour Sans Ailes
Lord Byron Poem
2: Outwitted
Edwin Markham Poem
3: We Two Boys Together Clinging
Walt Whitman Poem
4: Friendship
Dinah Maria Craik Poem
5: Forbearance
Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem
6: Friendship
Aztec, Traditional Poem
7: Travelling
William Wordsworth Poem
8: Love and Friendship
Emily Brontë Poem
9: New Friends and Old Friends
Joseph Parry Unit
6: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem
1: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W. B. Yeats Poem
2: How Do I Love Thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem
3: Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare Poem
4: Meeting at Night
Robert Browning Poem
5: To a Friend
Amy Lowell Poem
6: A Birthday
Christina Rossetti Poem
7: Upon Julia's Clothes
Robert Herrick Poem
8: Rose
cheeked
Laura Thomas Campion Poem
9: In an Artist's Studio
Christina Rossetti Poem
10: 'It was a lover and his lass'
William Shakespeare Poem
11: Love Lightly Pleased
Robert Herrick Poem
12: Invitation to Love
Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem
13: from Paradise Lost
John Milton Poem
14: Fulfillment
William Cavendish Poem
15: from Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem
16: Camomile Tea
Katherine Mansfield Poem
17: When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Walt Whitman Poem
18: Song
George Peele Poem
19: To Althea, from Prison
Richard Lovelace Poem
20: A Decade
Amy Lowell Unit
7: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Poem
1: The Shape of a Good Greyhound
Anon Poem
2: The Lurcher
William Cowper Poem
3: Dog
Harold Monro Poem
4: The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem
5: A Winter Bluejay
Sara Teasdale Poem
6: from To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem
7: 'Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day'
Thomas Heywood Poem
8: from Jubilate Agno
Christopher Smart Poem
9: Pangur Bán
Anon. tr. Robin Flower Poem
10: The Owl and the Pussycat
Edward Lear Poem
11: Seal Lullaby
Rudyard Kipling Index
ii: Index of Poets Index
iii: Index of Titles Index
iv: Index of First Lines