A flock of words : an anthology of poetry for children and others

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Yuan, Mei, 1716-1798 (Added Author).

Summary: An anthology of poems from many countries and many periods of history.

Record details

Physical Description: xxii, 328 pages ; 22 cm.
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Edition: [First American edition].
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1970]
Copyright: [©1969]

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from Lady feeding the cats / Douglas Stewart -- The silkworms / Douglas Stewart -- As he lay dying / Randolph Stow -- Casual lines / Su Shih -- Riding at daybreak / Sun Yun Feng -- Spring / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- from Poems of solitary delights / Tachibana Akemi -- Baby's world / Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- from Paper boats / Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- The rainy day / Sir Rabindranath Tagore -- Against the broad sky / Takahama Kyoshi -- In the old man's eyes / Takahama Kyoshi -- On far hills / Takahama Kyoshi -- The snake fled / Takahama Kyoshi -- Winter withering / Tan Taigi -- Adlestrop / Edward Thomas -- Lights out / Edward Thomas -- Thaw / Edward Thomas -- A blackbird singing / R.S. Thomas -- Death of a peasant / R.S. Thomas -- Farm child / R.S. Thomas -- Silent, but / Tsuboi Shigeji -- South wind / Tu Fu -- A trout leaps high / Uejima Onitsura -- Mosquito / John Updike -- Telephone poles / John Updike -- The shower / Henry Vaughan -- from The Georgics / Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil -- Au jardin des plantes / John Wain -- The noisy cricket / Watanabe Suiha -- The collier / Vernon Watkins -- Miracles / Walt Whitman -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- The yachts / William Carlos Williams -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- from Resolution and independence / William Wordsworth -- from The prelude / William Wordsworth -- A blessing / James Wright -- Legend / Judith Wright -- The cicadas / Judith Wright -- The cap and bells / William Butler Yeats -- The cat and the moon / William Butler Yeats -- The hawk / William Butler Yeats -- from The land of heart's desire / William Butler Yeats -- The three hermits / William Butler Yeats -- The wild swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats -- When you are old / William Butler Yeats -- Envy / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Schoolmaster/ Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- The companion/ Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Scampering over saucers / Yosa Buson -- Mist / Andrew Young -- By chance I walk / Yuan Mei -- Chopsticks / Yuan Mei -- Standing at the foot of the steps at night / Yuan Mei --