Reflections on a gift of watermelon pickle... : and other modern verse /
A collection of 114 modern poems chosen for their appeal to young people
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New York :
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard,
[©1966] 1967
New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard [c1966] 1967 New York, Lothrop, Lee Shepard Co., [c1966] 1967 New York : 1967 |
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Table of Contents:
- A Coney Island Life / James L. Weil
- Carmel Point / Margaret Phyllis MacSweeney
- Forgive My Guilt / Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- The Term / William Carlos Williams
- Sonic Boom / John Updike
- Hey Diddle Diddle / Paul Dehn
- Little Miss Muffet / Paul Dehn
- Earth / Oliver Herford
- Earth / John Hall Wheelock
- Southbound on the Freeway / May Swenson
- Fueled / Marcie Hans
- Unsatisfied Yearning / Richard Kendall Munkittrick
- Puppy / Robert L. Tyler
- Sunning / James S. Tippett
- Elegy for Jog / John Ciardi
- Catalogue / Rosalie Moore
- Poem / William Carlos Williams
- On a Night of Snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth
- For a Dead Kitten / Sara Henderson Hay
- Oz. / Eve Merriam
- April / Marcia Masters
- in Just / E. E. Cummings
- The Child's Morning / Winfield Townley Scott
- Four Little Foxes / Lew Sarett
- Four Ducks on a Pond / William Allingham
- Counting-Out Rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay
- April / Yvor Winters
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- Central Park Tourney / Mildred Weston
- August from My Desk / Roland Flint
- Kansas Boy / Ruth Lechlitner
- Wonder Wander / Lenore Kandel
- Reflections Dental / Phyllis McGinley
- The Microscope / Maxine Kumin
- Child on Top of a Greenhouse / Theodore Roethke
- Loneliness / Brooks Jenkins
- Indians / John Fandel
- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg
- Husbands and Wives / Miriam Hershenson
- This Is Just to Say / William Carlos Williams
- The Ne'er-Do-Well / Arthur M. Sampley
- Meditatio / Ezra Pound
- Summons / Robert Francis
- Ancient History / Arthur Guiterman
- On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness / Arthur Guiterman
- Dust / Sydney King Russell
- Rebecca / Hilaire Belloc
- Bones / Walter de la Mare
- Overheard on a Saltmarsh
- Harold Monro
- Resume / Dorothy Parker
- Lost / Carl Sandburg
- Fifteen / William Stafford
- Interlude III / Karl Shapiro
- War / Dan Roth
- Too Blue / Langston Hughes
- From Two Jazz Poems / Carl W. Hines, Jr.
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- How to Eat a Poem / Eve Merriam
- Unfolding Bud / Naoshi Koriyama
- Gone Forever / Barriss Mills
- Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway / Gregory Corso
- To Look at Any Thing / John Moffitt
- Absolutes / Gustave Keyser
- The Crows / Leah Bodine Drake
- Crows / David McCord
- Some Brown Sparrows / Bruce Fearing
- Swallows / Thomas Hornsby Ferril
- Seal / William Jay Smith
- Boy with Frogs / Sy Kahn
- Giraffes / Sy Kahn
- Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo / John Ciardi
- The Bat / Ruth Herschberger
- The Bat / Theodore Roethke
- Deer Hunt / Judson Jerome
- Steam Shovel / Charles Malam
- The Toaster / William Jay Smith
- On Watching the Construction of a Skyscraper / Burton Raffel
- Apartment House / Gerald Raftery
- The Builders / Sara Henderson Hay
- Transcontinent / Donald Hall
- Advice to Travelers / Walker Gibson
- Crossing / Philip Booth
- Crossing Kansas by Train / Donald Justice
- African Sunrise / Gertrude May Lutz
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- Preparation / Robert Francis
- Rodeo / Edward Lueders
- Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity / John Tobias
- Swift Things Are Beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Fortune / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Fish Story / Richard Armour
- Angler's Choice / H.J. Gottlieb
- The Fisher / Lyle Glazier
- Hunting Song / Donald Finkel
- The Trap / William Beyer
- Fireworks / Babette Deutsch
- The Garden Hose / Beatrice Janosco
- Lullaby / Robert Hillyer
- The Base Stealer / Robert Francis
- Foul Shot / Edwin A. Hoey
- Millions of Strawberries / Genevieve Taggard
- Cheers / Eve Merriam
- The Forecast / Dan Jaffe
- Mother's Biscuits / Freda Quenneville
- Two Lives and Others / Winfield Townley Scott
- The Pheasant / Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- November Day / Eleanor Averitt
- Grey Goose
- Wild Goose / Curtis Heath
- Fall / Sally Andresen
- Valentine / Donald Hall
- Oregon Winter / Jeanne McGahey
- The Stump / Donald Hall
- Twin Lakes Hunter / A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- Dreams / Langston Hughes
- Legacy / Christopher Morley
- A Patch of Old Snow / Robert Frost
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