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Caroline Kennedy has chosen a rich variety of Kennedy family favorite poems to include in this priceless collection. With thoughtful personal introductions written by Caroline herself, and beautiful new original artwork by award-winning artist, Jon J Muth, this collection is sure to become a family favorite for years to come.

Caroline Kennedy is the author and editor of twelve New York Times bestselling books on American history, politics and poetry. She is also an attorney and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017, and the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Kennedy is active in the efforts to improve New York City public schools and serves as President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Introduction

Caroline Kennedy

About Me

The Early Morning

12

(1)

Hilaire Belloc

Me

13

(1)

Walter de la Mare

First Fig

14

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Second Fig

14

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

This Is Just to Say

15

(1)

William Carlos Williams

To P.J. (2 yrs. old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)

16

(1)

Sonia Sanchez

The Reason I Like Chocolate

17

(1)

Nikki Giovanni

Michael Is Afraid of the Storm

18

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

``Hope'' Is the Thing with Feathers

19

(1)

Emily Dickinson

I May, I Might, I Must

19

(1)

Marianne Moore

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

20

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Has My Heart Gone to Sleep?

21

(1)

Antonio Machado

The Road Not Taken

22

(1)

Robert Frost

Psalm 23: 1--6

23

(3)

Holy Bible

That's So Silly!

There Was an Old Man of West Dumpet

26

(1)

Edward Lear

There Was an Old Man of Blackheath

26

(1)

Anonymous

The Little Man Who Wasn't There

27

(1)

William Hughes Mearns

Moses

28

(1)

Anonymous

Happiness

29

(1)

A. A. Milne

``Amelia Mixed the Mustard''

30

(1)

A. E. Housman

Careless Willie

30

(1)

Anonymous

To a Fellow Poet

30

(1)

Joseph Brodsky

Daddy Fell Into the Pond

31

(1)

Alfred Noyes

The People Upstairs

32

(1)

Ogden Nash

from Falling in Love Is Like Owning a Dog

33

(1)

Taylor Mali

Today Is Very Boring

34

(1)

Jack Prelutsky

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

35

(2)

Wallace Stevens

Some Opposites

37

(3)

Richard Wilbur

Animals

Epigram: Engraved on the Collar of a Dog

40

(1)

Alexander Pope

Roger the Dog

40

(1)

Ted Hughes

The Song of the Mischievous Dog

41

(1)

Dylan Thomas

The Porcupine

42

(1)

Ogden Nash

The Sloth

42

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Peacockfeather

43

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ode to the Goose

43

(1)

Luo Binwang

Mr. Mistoffelees

44

(2)

T. S. Eliot

An Old Silent Pond

46

(1)

Basho

Farewell! Like a Bee

46

(1)

Basho

The Frog

47

(1)

Hilaire Belloc

The Little Turtle

48

(1)

Vachel Lindsay

Little Trotty Wagtail

49

(1)

John Clare

``Hurt No Living Thing''

50

(1)

Christina Rossetti

The Last Word of a Bluebird As Told to a Child

51

(1)

Robert Frost

Saint Francis and the Sow

52

(1)

Galway Kinnell

The Crocodile

53

(1)

Lewis Carroll

The Tyger

54

(2)

William Blake

Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack

56

(1)

Rudyard Kipling

Buffalo Dusk

57

(1)

Carl Sandburg

Elephant

58

(1)

Anonymous

The Eagle

59

(3)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Seasons

Ecclesiastes 3:1--8

62

(1)

Holy Bible

April Rain Song

63

(1)

Langston Hughes

in Just-

64

(2)

E. E. Cummings

Pippa's Song

66

(1)

Robert Browning

The Pasture

67

(1)

Robert Frost

The Daffodils

68

(3)

William Wordsworth

Ariel's Song

71

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Rose Family

71

(1)

Robert Frost

``And What Is So Rare As a Day in June?''

72

(2)

James Russell Lowell

``Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?''

74

(1)

William Shakespeare

Who Has Seen the Wind?

75

(1)

Christina Rossetti

These are the days when Birds come back

76

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Thoughts

78

(2)

Jacqueline Bouvier

Something Told the Wild Geese

80

(1)

Rachel Field

from Ode to a Pair of Socks

81

(1)

Pablo Neruda

Snow in the Suburbs

82

(3)

Thomas Hardy

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

85

(1)

Robert Frost

A Visit from St. Nicholas

86

(2)

Clement Clarke Moore

little tree

88

(1)

E. E. Cummings

Iroquois Prayer

89

(3)

Anonymous

The Seashore

Sea Joy

92

(1)

Jacqueline Bouvier

maggie and milly and molly and may

93

(1)

E. E. Cummings

Sea Shell

94

(1)

Amy Lowell

``Full Fathom Five'' from The Tempest, Act I, sc.i

94

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Octopus

95

(1)

Ogden Nash

The Mock Turtle's Song

96

(1)

Lewis Carroll

A Jelly-Fish

97

(1)

Marianne Moore

Seashell

97

(1)

Federico Garcia Lorca

The Fish

98

(2)

Elizabeth Bishop

Sea-Fever

100

(5)

John Masefield

Adventure

The Swing

105

(1)

Robert Louis Stevenson

This Is the Key

106

(1)

Anonymous

A Fairy in Armor

107

(1)

Joseph Rodman Drake

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

108

(2)

Edward Lear

Good Hotdogs

110

(2)

Sandra Cisneros

The Red Wheelbarrow

112

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Afternoon on a Hill

113

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Goblin Feet

114

(2)

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Song of Wandering Aengus

116

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Scaffolding

117

(1)

Seamus Heaney

from Song of the Open Road

118

(1)

Walt Whitman

The Rider

119

(1)

Naomi Shihab Nye

``Do not be afraid of no''

120

(2)

Gwendolyn Brooks

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

122

(1)

Walt Whitman

Harlem Night Song

123

(4)

Langston Hughes

Bedtime

Bed in Summer

127

(1)

Robert Louis Stevenson

``Sweet and Low''

128

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Silver

129

(1)

Walter de la Mare

If You'll Only Go to Sleep

130

(1)

Gabriela Mistral

from The Bed Book

131

(1)

Sylvia Plath

The Plumpuppets

132

(1)

Christopher Morley

Dream Variations

133

(1)

Langston Hughes

The Moon

134

(1)

Jorge Luis Borges

from Imagine Angels

134

(1)

Guillaume Apollinaire

Keep a Poem in Your Pocket

135

(1)

Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm

136

(2)

Wallace Stevens

Foreign Poems in Their Original Languages

138

(2)

Index of First Lines

140

(2)

Acknowledgments

142

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A Family of Poems

A Family of Poems

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