{"product_id":"little-poems-isbn-9780593536308","title":"Little Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Sappho and Li Bai to Sandra Cisneros and Ocean Vuong: a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems from around the world and through the ages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lovely pocket-sized volume.... I read it cover to cover, speeding through the centuries.\" —Elisa Gabbert, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShort poems have been popular for centuries, from the famous fragments of Sappho in ancient Greece to the traditional haiku of Japan, from the Imagist poems of Ezra Pound and H. D. to the witty couplets of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash, from lyrical gems by Shakespeare and Rumi to modern classics by W. H. Auden and Margaret Atwood. This collection brings together brief poems—defined as fewer than fourteen lines—from a wide range of poetic traditions. Together they make for enjoyable reading and easy memorizing and provide a wealth of appropriate lines ready-made to copy into a card or an email.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor any poetry lover—and anyone short on reading time—\u003ci\u003eLittle Poems\u003c\/i\u003e offers a generous supply of verses that surprise, amuse, move, and delight. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003ci\u003eForeword \u003c\/i\u003eby Michael Hennessy\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEARLY POETS OF GREECE, ROME, AND CHINA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SAPPHO Be Kind to Me \u003cbr\u003e SAPPHO It’s No Use\u003cbr\u003e SAPPHO Tonight I’ve Watched \u003cbr\u003e SAPPHO You May Forget But\u003cbr\u003e ANACREON Wreath \u003cbr\u003e ANACREON On Drinking .\u003cbr\u003e PRAXILLA Adonis in the Underworld \u003cbr\u003e PRAXILLA Seek Love among the Brave \u003cbr\u003e ANYTE The Cock Shall Crow No More \u003cbr\u003e ANYTE Elm Tree \u003cbr\u003e CATULLUS Poem 70 \u003cbr\u003e CATULLUS Poem 85\u003cbr\u003e CATULLUS Poem 92\u003cbr\u003e CATULLUS Poem 101\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS (CHINESE) Meeting in the Road \u003cbr\u003e EMPEROR WUTI On the Death of Li Fuje¯n\u003cbr\u003e MARTIAL Epigram 10.47\u003cbr\u003e MARTIAL Epigram 10.61\u003cbr\u003e MARTIAL Epigram 5.9 \u003cbr\u003e MARTIAL Epigram 9.33\u003cbr\u003e MARTIAL Epigram 6.12 \u003cbr\u003e MARTIAL Epigram 6.57 \u003cbr\u003e PHILIP OF THESSALONICA A Gardener \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS (CHINESE) Plucking the Rushes \u003cbr\u003e JULIAN THE EGYPTIAN Two Epigrams \u003cbr\u003e LI BAI Thoughts in the Silent Night\u003cbr\u003e LI BAI Taking Leave of a Friend \u003cbr\u003e WANG WEI Deer Enclosure\u003cbr\u003e WANG WEI Thinking of My Brothers \u003cbr\u003e DU FU Travelling Northward \u003cbr\u003e DU FU Sunset \u003cbr\u003e BAI JUYI Spring Grasses \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN POETS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS From \u003ci\u003eThe Triads of Ireland \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS The Viking Terror\u003cbr\u003e HANSHAN Two Songs of Cold Mountain \u003cbr\u003e LU YOU Evening in the Village\u003cbr\u003e ARNAUT DANIEL Alba \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Cuckoo Song\u003cbr\u003e RUMI Yesterday I Went to Him Full of Dismay\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Fowls in the Frith\u003cbr\u003e CHRISTINE DE PIZAN Rondeau\u003cbr\u003e GEOFFREY CHAUCER Roundel: Welcome Summer \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Thirty Days Has November \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS I Am of Ireland\u003cbr\u003e ARAKIDA MORITAKE Fallen Flower\u003cbr\u003e ARAKIDA MORITAKE Summer Night\u003cbr\u003e PIERRE DE RONSARD A Shepherd Prays to the God Pan\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Western Wind \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Hey Nonny No \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS Two Madrigals \u003cbr\u003e EDMUND SPENSER Shipwreck \u003cbr\u003e SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A Ditty\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ariel’s Song \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Full Fathom Five\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Mistress Mine\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred \u003cbr\u003e THOMAS DEKKER Golden Slumbers\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JOHN DONNE A Burnt Ship\u003cbr\u003e JOHN DONNE No Man Is an Island\u003cbr\u003e BEN JONSON The Kiss\u003cbr\u003e BEN JONSON On My First Son \u003cbr\u003e JOHN FLETCHER Care-Charming Sleep \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT HERRICK Upon Julia’s Clothes \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT HERRICK On Julia’s Breath \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT HERRICK Upon a Child\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT HERRICK Upon Prue, His Maid \u003cbr\u003e GEORGE HERBERT Bitter-Sweet\u003cbr\u003e JOHN MILTON Song on May Morning\u003cbr\u003e ANNE BRADSTREET To My Dear and Loving Husband\u003cbr\u003e RICHARD CRASHAW To the Infant Martyrs \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD CRASHAW Upon the Infant Martyrs \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD LOVELACE To Lucasta, Going to the Wars\u003cbr\u003e JOHN DRYDEN Song Sung by Aerial Spirits \u003cbr\u003e MATSUO BASH¯O Four Haiku \u003cbr\u003e ANNE FINCH On Myself\u003cbr\u003e JONATHAN SWIFT From \u003ci\u003eVerses Made for Fruit-Women \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ALEXANDER POPE Upon a Girl of Seven Years Old \u003cbr\u003e FUKUDA CHIYONI Four Haiku\u003cbr\u003e YOSA BUSON Four Haiku \u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS From \u003ci\u003eTommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Wayfarer’s Night Song\u003cbr\u003e JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE All Things the Gods Bestow \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThree Epigrams\u003c\/i\u003e: Sir Henry Wotton \u003cbr\u003e John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester\u003cbr\u003e Alexander Pope \u003cbr\u003e PHILLIS WHEATLEY On Being Brought from Africa to America \u003cbr\u003e KOBAYASHI ISSA Four Haiku \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT BURNS The Ploughman’s Life \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT BURNS Anna, Thy Charms\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE Infant Joy \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE Infant Sorrow \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE Eternity \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE The Sick Rose\u003cbr\u003e ANONYMOUS From \u003ci\u003eMother Goose’s Melody\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNINETEENTH-CENTURY POETS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My Heart Leaps Up\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal \u003cbr\u003e DOROTHY WORDSWORTH From \u003ci\u003eJournal Written at Grasmere \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Answer to a Child’s Question \u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE On Donne’s Poetry\u003cbr\u003e LEIGH HUNT Jenny Kissed Me \u003cbr\u003e GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON So We’ll Go No More A Roving \u003cbr\u003e PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Music, When Soft Voices Die \u003cbr\u003e PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To the Moon \u003cbr\u003e JOHN CLARE Birds’ Nests \u003cbr\u003e JOHN CLARE The Beanfield\u003cbr\u003e JOHN KEATS This Living Hand \u003cbr\u003e JOHN KEATS I Had a Dove\u003cbr\u003e ALEXANDER PUSHKIN I Loved You \u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Best \u003cbr\u003e ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Eagle \u003cbr\u003e ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Flower in the Crannied Wall \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT BROWNING Meeting at Night \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT BROWNING Parting at Morning\u003cbr\u003e EMILY BRONTË Love and Friendship \u003cbr\u003e LEWIS CARROLL How Doth the Little Crocodile\u003cbr\u003e LEWIS CARROLL The Owl and the Panther \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwo Limericks\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e Cosmo Monkhouse \u003cbr\u003e Edward Lear\u003cbr\u003e HERMAN MELVILLE Monody\u003cbr\u003e WALT WHITMAN A Noiseless Patient Spider \u003cbr\u003e WALT WHITMAN A Glimpse\u003cbr\u003e WALT WHITMAN To Old Age\u003cbr\u003e EMILY DICKINSON I’m Nobody\u003cbr\u003e EMILY DICKINSON Wild Nights\u003cbr\u003e EMILY DICKINSON After Great Pain\u003cbr\u003e CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Sleeping at Last \u003cbr\u003e GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Pied Beauty\u003cbr\u003e PAUL VERLAINE Tantalized \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Requiem \u003cbr\u003e STEPHEN CRANE Many Red Devils Ran from My Heart \u003cbr\u003e STEPHEN CRANE In the Desert\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMODERN POETS: EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS HARDY At Tea \u003cbr\u003e A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of Trees \u003cbr\u003e A. E. HOUSMAN He Would Not Stay for Me \u003cbr\u003e RABINDRANATH TAGORE Who Are You, Reader? \u003cbr\u003e RABINDRANATH TAGORE Logic \u003cbr\u003e CONSTANTINE CAVAFY Ionic\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A Drinking Song \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No\u003cbr\u003e PAUL VALÉRY In the Sun\u003cbr\u003e RUDYARD KIPLING Seal Lullaby \u003cbr\u003e MASAOKA SHIKI Four Haiku \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT FROST Nothing Gold Can Stay \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT FROST Fire and Ice\u003cbr\u003e AMY LOWELL Opal\u003cbr\u003e AMY LOWELL A Decade\u003cbr\u003e RAINER MARIA RILKE The Panther\u003cbr\u003e ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Two Cinquains \u003cbr\u003e CARL SANDBURG Fog \u003cbr\u003e CARL SANDBURG Choose\u003cbr\u003e CARL SANDBURG Grass\u003cbr\u003e WALLACE STEVENS Life Is Motion\u003cbr\u003e WALLACE STEVENS Anecdote of the Jar\u003cbr\u003e WALLACE STEVENS Of Mere Being \u003cbr\u003e ALICE CORBIN HENDERSON Humoresque \u003cbr\u003e GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Mirror \u003cbr\u003e JAMES JOYCE A Flower Given to My Daughter\u003cbr\u003e JAMES JOYCE From \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e: Found Poems \u003cbr\u003e KAHLIL GIBRAN The Fox \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Red Wheelbarrow \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This Is Just to Say \u003cbr\u003e E. E. CUMMINGS l(a \u003cbr\u003e D. H. LAWRENCE Green \u003cbr\u003e D. H. LAWRENCE The Gazelle Calf \u003cbr\u003e EZRA POUND In a Station of the Metro \u003cbr\u003e EZRA POUND Alba\u003cbr\u003e EZRA POUND The Bath Tub\u003cbr\u003e H. D. Heat \u003cbr\u003e MARIANNE MOORE To a Snail \u003cbr\u003e MARIANNE MOORE O To Be a Dragon \u003cbr\u003e T. S. ELIOT From \u003ci\u003ePreludes \u003c\/i\u003e1 \u003cbr\u003e GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Morning \u003cbr\u003e GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Soldiers \u003cbr\u003e BORIS PASTERNAK Hops \u003cbr\u003e ANNA AKHMATOVA The Pillow Hot\u003cbr\u003e CLAUDE MCKAY The Tropics in New York \u003cbr\u003e EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY First Fig\u003cbr\u003e EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Second Fig\u003cbr\u003e DOROTHY PARKER Résumé\u003cbr\u003e JEAN TOOMER Reapers\u003cbr\u003e FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA From \u003ci\u003eNight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Farewell \u003cbr\u003e COUNTEE CULLEN Incident\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMODERN POETS: MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JORGE LUIS BORGES The Moon \u003cbr\u003e LANGSTON HUGHES Harlem \u003cbr\u003e LANGSTON HUGHES Poem (\u003ci\u003eTo F. S.\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cbr\u003e LANGSTON HUGHES Suicide Note \u003cbr\u003e OGDEN NASH Reflections on Ice-Breaking \u003cbr\u003e OGDEN NASH The Lama \u003cbr\u003e STEVIE SMITH Not Waving but Drowning \u003cbr\u003e LORINE NIEDECKER Poet’s Work \u003cbr\u003e LORINE NEIDECKER A Monster Owl\u003cbr\u003e LORINE NIEDECKER March\u003cbr\u003e PABLO NERUDA Octopi\u003cbr\u003e KENNETH REXROTH From the Persian (1) \u003cbr\u003e KENNETH REXROTH From the Persian (2) \u003cbr\u003e W. H. AUDEN That Night When Joy Began\u003cbr\u003e W. H. AUDEN Epitaph on a Tyrant \u003cbr\u003e W. H. AUDEN August 1968 \u003cbr\u003e W. H. AUDEN From \u003ci\u003eShorts \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwo Limericks\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e Dixon Merritt \u003cbr\u003e A. H. R. Buller \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD WRIGHT Four Haiku \u003cbr\u003e THEODORE ROETHKE Child on Top of a Greenhouse \u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH BISHOP Casabianca\u003cbr\u003e RANDALL JARRELL The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner \u003cbr\u003e OCTAVIO PAZ The Street \u003cbr\u003e GWENDOLYN BROOKS We Real Cool\u003cbr\u003e JACK KEROUAC Four Haiku\u003cbr\u003e PHILIP LARKIN Days\u003cbr\u003e PHILIP LARKIN This Be the Verse\u003cbr\u003e PHILIP LARKIN Cut Grass \u003cbr\u003e ALLEN GINSBERG Blessed Be the Muses\u003cbr\u003e ALLEN GINSBERG Fourth Floor, Dawn\u003cbr\u003e FRANK O’HARA Animals\u003cbr\u003e MOLLY HOLDEN The Fields for Miles\u003cbr\u003e JAMES WRIGHT Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio\u003cbr\u003e SYLVIA PLATH Metaphors \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCONTEMPORARY POETS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LISEL MUELLER Small Poem about the Hounds and the Hares \u003cbr\u003e A. R. AMMONS Clarifications\u003cbr\u003e A. R. AMMONS Salute \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT CREELEY I Know a Man \u003cbr\u003e CHARLES TOMLINSON Frost\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES TOMLINSON In December\u003cbr\u003e JOHN HOLLANDER Macrodot\u003cbr\u003e ADRIENNE RICH In the Evening\u003cbr\u003e TED HUGHES Snails \u003cbr\u003e SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Toucan \u003cbr\u003e SIR DEREK WALCOTT The Fist \u003cbr\u003e JOHN UPDIKE Youth’s Progress \u003cbr\u003e N. SCOTT MOMADAY The Snow Mare\u003cbr\u003e VÁCLAV HAVEL Alienation\u003cbr\u003e LUCILLE CLIFTON Homage to My Hair\u003cbr\u003e JIM HARRISON Oriole \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL S. HARPER American History\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES SIMIC On This Very Street in Belgrade \u003cbr\u003e CHARLES SIMIC Watermelons \u003cbr\u003e MARGARET ATWOOD You Fit into Me\u003cbr\u003e MARGARET ATWOOD Last Year I Abstained \u003cbr\u003e SEAMUS HEANEY Mother of the Groom \u003cbr\u003e TED KOOSER Floater \u003cbr\u003e JAMES WELCH The Man from Washington \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL ONDAATJE Biography \u003cbr\u003e WENDY COPE The Orange\u003cbr\u003e WENDY COPE Valentine \u003cbr\u003e WENDY COPE Another Unfortunate Choice \u003cbr\u003e RITA DOVE Geometry \u003cbr\u003e ALBERTO RÍOS Immigrant Centuries\u003cbr\u003e GARY SOTO From \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of San Joaquin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MONIZA ALVI Rural Scene \u003cbr\u003e LORNA DEE CERVANTES The Body as Braille \u003cbr\u003e SANDRA CISNEROS From \u003ci\u003eThe Rodrigo Poems \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CAROL ANN DUFFY Strange Place \u003cbr\u003e CATHY SONG April Moon \u003cbr\u003e KATHLEEN PEIRCE Begging the Question \u003cbr\u003e LIYOUNG LEE Eating Together \u003cbr\u003e STEVE WILSON Of April \u003cbr\u003e SIMON ARMITAGE Homework \u003cbr\u003e SHERMAN ALEXIE “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” \u003cbr\u003e PATRICK PHILLIPS Having a Fight with You \u003cbr\u003e CECILY PARKS Conversation between Fox and Field \u003cbr\u003e LUISA MURADYAN Crane \u003cbr\u003e CLEMONCE HEARD School-to-Prison Pants \u003cbr\u003e DANEZ SMITH little prayer\u003cbr\u003e OCEAN VUONG Torso of Air\"A lovely pocket-sized volume.... I read it cover to cover, speeding through the centuries.\" —Elisa Gabbert, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eMICHAEL HENNESSY is professor emeritus of English at Texas State University. He has read, studied, taught, and written about poetry for more than forty years. He lives in Chicago. FOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of us experience literature for the first time in the form of a “little poem.” Long before we’ve tasted our first solid food, we’ve heard a soothing lullaby spoken or sung by a parent, and before we can walk, we have already begun to accumulate a storehouse of nursery rhymes. The sounds and rhythms of those little poems are embedded in memory, and we pass them down to the next next generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But little poems range far beyond the nursery.  Nearly all poets in all ages have written them.  Even John Milton, author of the epic-length \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost,\u003c\/i\u003e wrote a poem ten lines long.  Milton’s contemporary Robert Herrick, on the other hand, created many little poems, making them his signature genre.  The same holds true for poets across time: those who favored longer forms occasionally wrote brief songs.  And others—ancient Greek epigram writers, Japanese haiku poets, and modern writers like William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, and Dorothy Parker—often favored brevity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What exactly qualifies as a “little poem”?  There is no consensus, but the Italian word “sonetto,” source of the English word “sonnet,” means “little song,” suggesting that fourteen lines may be a rule of thumb.  But in this book, even a sonnet would be “long.”  All the poems I have included—almost 300 of them, by 175 different authors—are under fourteen lines.  Most range from two lines to twelve.  A few have thirteen lines—just shy of a sonnet.  Poets have been writing such poems for thousands of years, starting in the ancient world and continuing to the present day.  The earliest work in this book is by the Greek poet Sappho, who lived in the seventh century BCE; the most recent is by poets still active in the 2020s, such as Carol Ann Duffy, Danez Smith, and Ocean Vuong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What do little poems have in common besides their brevity?  Probably not a great deal—except for their astonishing variety. Many are highly accessible on first reading, almost tweet-like.  Others invite contemplation: they call us back to re-read and ponder their lines.  Despite their brevity, however, little poems can do most of what longer poems can do: tell a story; paint a picture; evoke an emotion; argue a point; make us laugh or cry.  They can be serious or sarcastic, somber or silly, disturbing or comforting.  And like all poems, they invite us to see the world with new eyes and to hear it with new ears. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems in this book do all those things.  And their chronological arrangement highlights their diversity in surprising ways.  The first section, for example, includes a mournful poem by first-century BCE Chinese Emperor Wu-ti about the death of his beloved mistress.  But this poem stands in close proximity to two others by the Roman poet Martial making fun of people with bad hairpieces.  Other sections likewise include juxtapositions that I hope will broaden conceptions of what poetry is and what it can do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the second section, works by Chaucer and Shakespeare inhabit the same space as the earliest written English version of the well-known children’s mnemonic “Thirty Days Has November.”  And at the end of the section, readers will find a Thomas Dekker poem that Paul McCartney adapted 370 years later for the Beatles song “Golden Slumbers.”  The next section, too, contains many “serious” poems by such major seventeenth- and eighteenth-century figures as Basho, Goethe, and Blake, but the section also offers lighter fare: Mother Goose nursery rhymes, a sharp-tongued political epigram by John Wilcox, and two “verses for fruit-sellers” by Jonathan Swift.  Likewise, the selection of nineteenth-century writing includes moving love poems by Alexander Pushkin and John Keats, but these classic pieces share space with a page of limericks and Emily Dickinson’s playfully profound “I’m nobody! Who are you?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Modern and contemporary poets, who are amply represented in the final three sections of the book, demonstrate even more vividly the large arena that little poems  occupy.  Powerful poems about love are matched by comic poems on the same topic by contemporary British poet Wendy Cope.  There is also a touching lullaby by Rudyard Kipling; a poem by W. H. Auden about the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; a word-play rhyme by Shel Silverstein; and haiku by Masaoka Shiki, Richard Wright, and Jack Kerouac.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My hope is that readers will find this eclectic mix of little poems as rewarding to read as it was for me to gather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Michael Hennessy","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305527070949,"sku":"NP9780593536308","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593536308.jpg?v=1767731555","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/little-poems-isbn-9780593536308","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}