From the Publisher: In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here,...

The arrangement of the poems, in eight sections, is intended to show the general development of Keats as a poet, while at the same time grouping, as far as possible, those poems that are related to one another in form or in theme. Excerpts from the letters of Keats are distributed throughout the text where they are pertinent.

"One of Lear's most famous five-line poems receives full illustrative treatment to whet young readers' appetites for adventures in rhyme"-- Provided by publisher.

A selection of poems that include the author's early, rhyming works in "Love, Poems and Others" (1913) through the free verse found in "Birds, Beasts and Flowers" (1923).

"A contemporary master of the nursery tale brings her unique imagination to a beloved classic. First published in 1924-two years before Winnie-the-Pooh-A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young is among the most familiar and cherished works in children's literature. A whimsical celebration of childhood, Milne wrote the collection for his three-year-old son, and the poems have been read and sung to children for decades since. Now, Rosemary Wells brings...

The Pied Piper piped the village free of rats and when the villagers refused to pay him for the service he piped away their children too.

Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets' takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world-calling in Dolly's impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy. These poems remind us to be better and to do better, to subvert Dolly cliché, and they encourage us to weave Dolly metaphor into our own family lore. Within these pages, Dolly takes the stage and the dinner...