{"product_id":"poems-of-gratitude-isbn-9781101907900","title":"Poems of Gratitude","description":"\u003cb\u003eA unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating thanksgiving in its many forms, secular and spiritual. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For centuries, poets in all cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the people and things of this world. The voices collected here range from Sappho, Horace, and Rumi to Shakespeare and Milton, from Wordsworth, Rilke, Yeats, Rossetti, and Dickinson to Czesław Miłosz, Langston Hughes, Yehuda Amichai, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Maya Angelou, and many more. Poems of Gratitude includes beloved favorites, classics from China and Japan; traditional Navajo, Aztec, Inuit, and Iroquois poems; devotional lyrics drawn from the major religious traditions of the world; poetic tributes to autumn and the harvest season that draw attention to nature’s bounty and poignant beauty as winter approaches; and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The result is a splendidly varied literary feast that honors and affirms the joy in our lives while acknowledging the sorrows and losses that give that joy its keenness. Ingeniously organized in nine sections—Giving Thanks, For Life, For Family, For Love, For Friendship, For Health, For Nature, Reverence, and Thanksgiving—this beautiful volume belongs at every family gathering and dinner party with friends, a fun book to be passed around the table, and an indispensable resource for making toasts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems of Gratitude\u003c\/i\u003e collects more than 160 short poems, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost\u003cbr\u003e • “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e • “Thanks” by W.S. Merwin\u003cbr\u003e • “The Selkirk Grace” by Robert Burns\u003cbr\u003e • “Welcome Morning” by Anne Sexton\u003cbr\u003e • “Thanks in Old Age” by Walt Whitman\u003cbr\u003e • “To My Mother” by Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003e • “O My Friends” by Rainer Maria Rilke\u003cbr\u003e • “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo\u003cbr\u003e • “Prayer” by Maya Angelou\u003cbr\u003e • “Harvest Sunset” by Carl Sandburg\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Everyman'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\u003eContents \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGIVING THANKS \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Hirsch, “Wild Gratitude”\u003cbr\u003eJalal al-Din Rumi, “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty”\u003cbr\u003eJames Wright, “A Blessing” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Butler Yeats, “Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors” \u003cbr\u003eW. S. Merwin, “Thanks” \u003cbr\u003eRobert Burns, “The Selkirk Grace” \u003cbr\u003eNatasha Trethewey, “Invocation, 1926”\u003cbr\u003eYusef Komunyakaa, “Thanks” \u003cbr\u003eAbraham Lincoln, “Letter to Mrs. Bixby”\u003cbr\u003eHenry David Thoreau, “I’m thankful that my life doth not deceive”    \u003cbr\u003ee. e. cummings, from \u003ci\u003eXaipe\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cbr\u003eGeorge Herbert, “Gratefulnesse”\u003cbr\u003eRobert Browning, from \u003ci\u003ePippa Passes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Strand, from “Night Pieces”\u003cbr\u003eLisel Mueller, “Late Hours”\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Carver, “At Least” \u003cbr\u003eAnne Sexton\u003ci\u003e, “\u003c\/i\u003eWelcome Morning” \u003cbr\u003eCharles Reznikoff, “Te Deum” \u003cbr\u003eMary Szybist, “Here, There Are Blueberries”\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, from \u003ci\u003eSonnets from the Portuguese, XLI (#41)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville, “Hearts-of-Gold”\u003cbr\u003eZbigniew Herbert, “Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito”\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman, “Thanks in Old Age” \u003cbr\u003eInuit, Traditional, “Utitia’q’s  Song” \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR LIFE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Oliver, “The Summer Day”\u003cbr\u003eAnna Swir, “Thank You, My Fate” \u003cbr\u003eW. S. Merwin, “For the Anniversary of My Death”\u003cbr\u003eCzeslaw Milosz, “Gift”  \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams, “Pastoral”\u003cbr\u003eEskimo, Traditional, “Into my head rose” \u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Alexander, “Praise Song for the Day”\u003cbr\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay, “God’s World” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Blake, “Eternity” \u003cbr\u003eMarilyn Nelson, “Abba Jacob and Miracles”  \u003cbr\u003eConstantine  P. Cavafy, “Ithaka” \u003cbr\u003eWallace Stevens, “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” \u003cbr\u003eThomas Traherne, “The Salutation” \u003cbr\u003eDerek Walcott, “Love after Love” \u003cbr\u003eRaymond Carver, “Late Fragment”  \u003cbr\u003eAnna Kamienska, “At the Border of Paradise”  \u003cbr\u003eTheodore Roethke, “The Waking”   \u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman, “O Me! O Life!” \u003cbr\u003eKobayashi Issa, “Three Haiku”   \u003cbr\u003eYehuda Amichai, from \u003ci\u003eAutumn, Love, Commercials\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAdrienne Rich, “Tattered Kaddish”  \u003cbr\u003eAdam Zagajewski, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” \u003cbr\u003eDorianne Laux, “Antilamentation”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR FAMILY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge, “A Child’s Evening Prayer” \u003cbr\u003eW. S. Merwin, “Rain Light” \u003cbr\u003eDan Pagis, “Ein Leben”\u003cbr\u003eAnne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Cavendish, “Fulfillment” \u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, “To My Mother” \u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, “To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick”\u003cbr\u003eRobert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” \u003cbr\u003eThomas Lux, “A Little Tooth” \u003cbr\u003eEdward Hirsch, “Special Orders” \u003cbr\u003eCharles Wright, “Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Sky”\u003cbr\u003eW. S. Merwin, “To My Aunt Margie” \u003cbr\u003eLucille Clifton, “Daughters” \u003cbr\u003eTed Kooser, “Father” \u003cbr\u003eWislawa Szymborska, “In Praise of My Sister” \u003cbr\u003eEdward Hirsch, from \u003ci\u003eGabriel \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Walker, “Lineage” \u003cbr\u003eTed Kooser, “Mother”\u003cbr\u003eNikki Giovanni, “Because” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR LOVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Milton, from \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Laurence Dunbar, “Invitation to Love” \u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, “Love Lightly Pleased” \u003cbr\u003eConstantine  P. Cavafy, “The Afternoon Sun” \u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSappho, “Fragment 105(a)”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Clare, “First Love” \u003cbr\u003eThomas Campion, “Rose-Cheeked Laura”\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, from\u003ci\u003e Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIII ( #43\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eAlgernon Charles Swinburne, “The Oblation”\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti, “A Birthday” \u003cbr\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay, “Recuerdo” \u003cbr\u003eThomas Heywood, “Pack, clouds away, and welcome day”\u003cbr\u003eRobert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakesepare, “Sonnet 130” \u003cbr\u003eJames Tate, “The Blue Booby” \u003cb\u003e   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR FRIENDSHIP \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, L’Amitié est l’Amour sans ailes”\u003cbr\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, “O My Friends” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, “Travelling” \u003cbr\u003eEmily Brontë, “Love and Friendship”\u003cbr\u003eAlgernon Charles Swinburne, from “To a Cat”\u003cbr\u003eAztec, Traditional, “Friendship” \u003cbr\u003eHorace, “Ode I.36”\u003cbr\u003eHenry Timrod, “Sonnet: I Thank You” \u003cbr\u003eBen Jonson, “Inviting a Friend to Supper” \u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, “Meat Without Mirth”\u003cbr\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson, “Forbearance” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, “Sonnet 30” \u003cbr\u003eDinah Maria Craik, “Friendship”    \u003cbr\u003eOm-Ui-Gil, “Sitting at Night”\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, “Rest and Be Thankful”\u003cbr\u003eCharles Lamb, “The Old Familiar Faces” \u003cbr\u003ePrimo Levi, “To My Friends” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR HEALTH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePo Chu-I, “Being Visited by a Friend During Illness” \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Hirsch, “Recovery” \u003cbr\u003eFranz Wright, “One Heart”\u003cbr\u003eJane Kenyon, “Otherwise” \u003cbr\u003eCzeslaw Milosz, “A Mistake”  \u003cbr\u003eJohn Milton, “On His Blindness”\u003cbr\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins, “My own heart let me more have pity on”\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Christopher, “After a Long Illness”\u003cbr\u003eEmily Fragos, “After Durer”\u003cbr\u003eJane Hirshfield, “Spell to Be Said After Illness” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOR NATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Dryden, “Of Many Worlds in This World”\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno”\u003cbr\u003eNavajo, “War God’s Horse Song”\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Jammes, “A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys”\u003cbr\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson, “See yonder leafless trees against the sky”\u003cbr\u003eJ. D. McClatchy, “Weeds” \u003cbr\u003eCharles Wright, “The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away”\u003cbr\u003eJoy Harjo, “Eagle Poem” \u003cbr\u003eWendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, “Patience Taught by Nature”\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Arnold, from “Thyrsis”\u003cbr\u003eEdwin Markham, “The Cricket”\u003cbr\u003eRudyard Kipling, “Seal Lullaby”\u003cbr\u003eStephen Crane, “Little Birds of the Night”\u003cbr\u003eMary Oliver, “Wild Geese”\u003cbr\u003eQueen Lili‘uokalani of Hawaii, “Ku’u Pua I Paoakalani”\u003cbr\u003eGary Soto, “Ode to a Day in the Country”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eREVERENCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson, “Father, We Thank Thee” \u003cbr\u003eMaya Angelou, “Prayer” \u003cbr\u003eGhanaian Prayer, “Lord, keep my parents in your love”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Newton, “Amazing Grace”\u003cbr\u003eSt. Francis of Assisi, “Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace”\u003cbr\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”\u003cbr\u003eThe Bible, King James Version, “Psalm 23”\u003cbr\u003eLaozi, from \u003ci\u003eTao Te Ching\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVenerable Dhammananda Bhikkuni, “Buddhist Prayer” \u003cbr\u003eThe Qur’an,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e1:1-7\u003cbr\u003eJewish Prayer, “Shema Koleinu”\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Vedas\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRabindranath Tagore, from\u003ci\u003e “\u003c\/i\u003eGitanjali”\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous, “African Canticle” \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Cowper, “Light Shining Out of Darkness”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Donne, from \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman, “Miracles”\u003cbr\u003eJames Weldon Johnson, “Prayer at Sunrise”\u003cbr\u003eMarina Tsvetaeva, “Bent with worry”\u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes, “Prayer” \u003cbr\u003eHenry Vaughan, “A Vision” \u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson, “Ample make this Bed”\u003cbr\u003eThe Buddha, “Now may every living thing”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHANKSGIVING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIroquois, Traditional, “The Thanksgivings”\u003cbr\u003eX. J. Kennedy, “At the First Thanksgiving”\u003cbr\u003eCampbell McGrath, “What They Ate”\u003cbr\u003ePaul Zimmer, “A Romance for the Wild Turkey”\u003cbr\u003eLydia Maria Child, “The New England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day”\u003cbr\u003eBilly Collins, from “Two Thanksgiving Poems”\u003cbr\u003eShel Silverstein, “Point of View” \u003cbr\u003eHenry Alford, “Harvest Home”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier, “Harvest Hymn”  \u003cbr\u003eCarl Sandburg, “Harvest Sunset”\u003cbr\u003eHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Harvest Moon”\u003cbr\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, “Farewell to the Farm”\u003cbr\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall”\u003cbr\u003eRobert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Keats, “To Autumn”Emily Fragos is an award-winning poet and editor of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthologies \u003ci\u003eThe Great Cat, The Dance, Music's Spell, Art and Artists, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Letters \u003c\/i\u003eby Emily Dickinson. She lives in New York City.Foreword by Emily Fragos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoets have for centuries offered thanks, praise, loving commemoration, devotion, and prayer for the people and the things of this world. Gratitude is a cherishing of what \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e, contrasted with what has been or could be. It is both an emotion and a practice, and it necessarily includes keen awareness of the sorrow and pain that give pleasure its value. The poems collected here express enormous joy in celebrating the beauties and relationships of our lives, but homage is also movingly paid to what is lost, to what is hurt, to what is hard to fathom and accept. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems of Gratitude \u003c\/i\u003eis organized in nine chapters with some unavoidable overlapping: \u003ci\u003eGiving Thanks, For Life, For Family, For Love, For Friendship, For Health, For Nature, Reverence, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThanksgiving\u003c\/i\u003e. The final section contains several perspectives on the American and Canadian holiday of Thanksgiving, but it also features more general tributes to autumn and the harvest, with poems that revel in nature’s bounty and poignant beauty as winter approaches. The concluding poem is one of the most beautiful in the English language: John Keats’s “Ode to Autumn,” where even “the small gnats mourn\/Among the river sallows”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eat summer’s end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy hope is that these honest and heartfelt poems from authors ancient and modern, urban and rural, and from around the world, will deepen your own experience of gratitude. You will no doubt find many of your favorite works herein, but I hope that you will discover many new favorites, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMay we all follow Mary Oliver’s wondrous words in “The Wild Geese” as we heed the “harsh and exciting” sounds of our world and enter fully, peacefully, and compassionately into “the family of things\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e”","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305104593125,"sku":"NP9781101907900","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781101907900.jpg?v=1767734911","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/poems-of-gratitude-isbn-9781101907900","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}