Lives


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Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council




America the Beautiful and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from America the Beautiful and Other Poems IS there no ivy greener than the rest, N o amaranth from shadowy isles Elysian, That we may lay upon thy snow-heaped breast, Year of the Vision? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Pamphlets and Reprints


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I, Too, Sing America


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A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.




My Letter to the World and Other Poems


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Presents illustrated versions of well-known poems written by one of America's most renowned poets.




101 Great American Poems


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Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.




A Book of American Literature


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The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems


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Originally published as: Mountain interval. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1916.




The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes


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Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.