Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
"Les Voiliers" by Henri Matisse, 1906
Poetry for Young People (Excellent series from Sterling Publishing)
- 1564-1616 William Shakespeare by David Scott Kastan
- 1757-1827 William Blake by John Maynard
- 1770-1850 William Wordsworth by Dr. Alan Liu
- 1807-1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Francis Schoonmaker
- 1809-1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson by John Maynard
- 1809-1849 Edgar Allan Poe by Brad Bagert
- 1812-1888 Edward Lear by Edward Mendelson
- 1812-1889 Robert Browning by Eileen Gillooly
- 1819-1892 Walt Whitman by Jonathan Levin
- 1830-1886 Emily Dickinson by Francis Schoonmaker Bolin
- 1832-1898 Lewis Carroll by Edward Mendelson
- 1850-1894 Robert Louis Stevenson by Frances Schoonmaker
- 1865-1936 Rudyard Kipling by Eileen Gillooly
- 1865-1939 William Butler Yeats by Jonathan Allison
- 1874-1963 Robert Frost by Gary D. Schmidt
- 1878-1967 Carl Sandburg by Francis Schoonmaker Bolin
- 1879-1955 Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio
- 1883-1963 William Carlos Williams by Christopher MacGowan
- 1892-1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay by Francis Schoonmaker
- 1902-1967 Langston Hughes by David Roessel
- 1928-0000 Maya Angelou by Edwin Graves Wilson, Ph.D.
- Poetry for Young People: The Seasons by John N. Serio
- Poetry for Young People: Animal Poems by John Hollander
- Poetry for Young People: American Poetry by John Hollander
Poetic Form
- A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms by Paul B. Janeczko, Chris Raschka
- Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem From the Inside Out by Ralph Fletcher
- Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky
- The Power of Poems: Teaching the Joy of Writing Poetry by Margriet Ruurs
- Poetry Lessons: Everything You Need by Kathy A. Perfect
- Poetry Writing Handbook: Definitions, Examples, Lessons by Greta Lipson and Judy Mitchell
The Sermon of St. Francis by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
0 comments Posted by Kristine at 8/06/2010 10:02:00 AM
Up soared the lark into the air,
A shaft of song, a winged prayer,
As if a soul, released from pain,
Were flying back to heaven again.
St. Francis heard; it was to him
An emblem of the Seraphim;
The upward motion of the fire,
The light, the heat, the heart's desire.
Around Assisi's convent gate
The birds, God's poor who cannot wait,
From moor and mere and darksome wood
Came flocking for their dole of food.
"O brother birds," St. Francis said,
"Ye come to me and ask for bread,
But not with bread alone to-day
Shall ye be fed and sent away.
"Ye shall be fed, ye happy birds,
With manna of celestial words;
Not mine, though mine they seem to be,
Not mine, though they be spoken through
me
"O, doubly are ye bound to praise
The great Creator in your lays;
He giveth you your plumes of down,
Your crimson hoods, your cloaks of brown.
"He giveth you your wings to fly
And breathe a purer air on high,
And careth for you everywhere,
Who for yourselves so little care!"
With flutter of swift wings and songs
Together rose the feathered throngs,
And singing scattered far apart;
Deep peace was in St. Francis' heart
He knew not if the brotherhood
His homily had understood;
He only knew that to one ear
The meaning of his words was clear.
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