100 Poems Every Child -and adult- Should Know

This carefully compiled anthology aims to bring Classic Poetry back to your night and coffee tables. It will give you and your families a great excuse to spend quality time together, reading, interpreting, debating, and discovering how magical words can be.

The 100 Poems in this collection are distributed in seven themes:

• Of Life and Love
• Of Earth and Sky
• Of Flora and Fauna
• Of Simple Things
• Of Common People and not so Common Virtues
• Of Real Adventures and not so Real Tales
• Of Faith, Sadness, and Sorrow
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You will find masterpieces from the following famous authors, amongst many others:

Alexander Pope - Charles Dickens - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -Robert Burns - Rudyard Kipling - Felicia Hemans - Lewis Carrol -Alfred Tennyson - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson - Anne Bradstreet - Robert Browning - Eugene Field - Walt Whitman - Sara Teasdale

Please feel free to explore the table of contents. You will find:

• Simple and short poems such as A Word, by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
• Love declarations such as The Maiden, by Sara Teasdale
• Profound messages such as If..., by Rudyard Kipling
• Humorous fantasies such as The Duel, by Eugene Field
• Historical tales such as The Landing of the Pilgrims, by Felicia Hemans
• Adventures with a dose of tragedy such as O Captain My Captain , by Walt Whitman
• Pieces which became popular songs such as Soon May the Wellerman Come, the anonymous New Zealand Folk Song
• ...and 93 more

This is a book of poetry for everyone, disguised as a book for children and young adults. An excuse for adults to buy it for their kids and discover, together, the magic of Classic Poetry. Also great as a gift or to enrich your own collection.