Gaby Morgan

Poems for Happiness

Herausgeber: Morgan, Gaby

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Produktbeschreibung

Discover the many faces of happiness in this inspiring collection of poems, which includes work by some of the world's greatest poets. 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. Poems for Happiness is an uplifting collection that includes beloved classics 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. Alongside these well-known verses are lesser-known gems waiting to be discovered. An inspiring and cheerful volume that celebrates the joy, beauty and resilience of the human spirit through the power of poetry. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MacMillan Collector's Library
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 94mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781035063079
• ISBN-10: 1035063077
• Artikelnr.: 73875918

Autorenporträt

Gaby Morgan is an Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children's Books and has run the children's poetry list for thirty years. She has compiled many bestselling anthologies including Read Me and Laugh: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, Poems from the First World War, Fairy Poems - which was short-listed for the CLPE Award - and the Macmillan Collector's Library poetry series featuring anthologies on Happiness, Nature, Childhood, Travelling and Christmas.

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