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The best-loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / [selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy].

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994 (Author). Kennedy, Caroline, 1957- (Added Author).

Summary:

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. Once you can express yourself, she wrote, you can tell the world what you want from it. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mothers favorite poems by such renowned authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, and Robert Frost. The book also includes a poem written by Jacqueline Kennedy and is illustrated with photographs of the Kennedy clan. This is a wonderful volume for reading aloud or by yourself and a meaningful gift or keepsake for

Record details

ISBN: 0786868090
ISBN: 9780786868094
ISBN: 1401302483
ISBN: 9781401302481
Physical Description: xii, 180 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : Hyperion, 2001.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

America: America, the beautiful -- For John F. Kennedy his inauguration -- Gift outright -- Paul Revere's ride -- I hear America singing -- Let America be America again -- Brown river, smile -- First poems: First fig -- Second fig -- Fog -- At the ancient pond -- How reluctantly -- Land of counterpane -- Swing -- Bed in summer -- Teddy bear's picnic -- Three ponies -- Yak -- Grizzly bear -- Elephant -- Little turtle -- Dogs and weather -- Little trotty wagtail -- Owl and the pussy-cat -- Crocodile -- Fireflies in the garden -- Rose Family -- Who has seen the wind? -- Tarantella -- Sherwood -- Annabel Lee -- Some keep the Sabbath going to church -- Hope is the thing with feathers -- Mother to son -- Red wheelbarrow -- Psalm 23 -- Luke 2:1-14 -- Visit from St. Nicholas.

Adventure: Skye boat song -- Cargoes -- Sea-fever -- Hunting-song of the Seeonee pack -- Tableau -- Merry-go-round -- Road not taken -- Song -- Richard III, I, i, 1-13 -- Henry V, IV, iii, 40-67 (St. Crispin's Day speech) -- Isles of Greece -- Ulysses -- Ithaca -- Escape: Flowers -- Behind Stowe -- In just -- Pasture -- Portrait by a neighbour -- Song of wandering Aengus -- Lake isle of Innisfree -- Odyssey, Box IX -- Tempest, V, i, 104-110 (Ariel's song) -- I taste a liquor never brewed -- These are the days when birds come back -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening -- Kubla Khan -- Dawn -- Sailing to Byzantium -- Of mere being.

Romance and love: Song of Solomon 2:8-16 -- Paradise lost, book IV, 639-658 -- Romeo and Juliet, III, ii, 17-31 -- Sonnet XVIII -- Sonnet XXIX -- Sonnet CXVI -- Bargain -- Passionate shepherd to his love -- Her reply -- She walks in beauty -- Dr. Faustus, Scene XIII -- Hill -- Vase of perfume -- When a beggar beholds you -- Somewhere I have never travelled, glady beyond -- For C.K. at his christening -- Prayer in spring -- Corinthians 13:1-13 -- Reflection: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 -- Prayer for peace -- Sonnet on his blindness -- Death, be not proud -- Ozymandias -- His pilgrimage -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Antigone, Ode I -- Agamemnon, Act I -- Olympian ode II -- Magpies in Picardy -- Aftermath -- Second coming -- Choose something like a star -- One art -- Negro speaks of rivers -- Acquainted with the night -- Truly great -- For a poet -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven -- Matthew 5:1-10 -- In her own words: Essay -- Sea joy -- Thoughts -- Meanwhile in Massachusetts.