Chidren's Classic Poetry Collection

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Tuly
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Chidren's Classic Poetry Collection

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I'm on a quest to collect titles of children's classic poetry collections and not just Mother Goose, Prelutsky and Silverstein collections of poetry ( not that they are bad ). Here are some of the ones we have and love their selections.

1. The Looking Glass Book of Verse (1959) - compiled by Janet Adam Smith
2. A Family of Poems - My Favorite Poetry for Children (2005) - compiled by Caroline Kennedy
3. My Poetry Book an Anthology of Modern Verse for Boys and Girls (1972) - compiled by Huffard, Carlisle and Ferris
4. Sing a Song of Popcorn (1988) - compiled by Schenk de Regniers, Moore, White and Carr
5. America in Poetry (1988) - compiled by Charles Sullivan
6. An Anthology of World Poetry (1934) - compiled by Mark Van Doren
7. Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages (2001) - compiled by Harold Bloom
8. Poems for Children - A Delightful Collection for Boys and Girls (1993) - compiled by Kate James
9. A Child's Garden of Verses (1989 - this is our edition) by Robert Louis Stevensen
10. Aesop's Fables (1990 - this is our edition) - compiled by Ash and Higton
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Re: Chidren's Classic Poetry Collection

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Silver Pennies - A Collection of Modern Poems for Boys and Girls
by Blanche Jennings Thompson pub. by the MacMillan Company, 1935

Here's a sample:
The House With Nobody In It

Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track
I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.
I suppose I've passed it a hundred times, but I always stop for a minute
And look at the house, the tragic house, the house with nobody in it.

I never have seen a haunted house, but I hear there are such things;
That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings.
I know this house isn't haunted, and I wish it were, I do;
For it wouldn't be so lonely if it had a ghost or two.

This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen panes of glass,
And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the grass.
It needs new paint and shingles, and the vines should be trimmed and tied;
But what it needs the most of all is some people living inside.

If I had a lot of money and all my debts were paid
I'd put a gang of men to work with brush and saw and spade.
I'd buy that place and fix it up the way it used to be
And I'd find some people who wanted a home and give it to them free.

Now, a new house standing empty, with staring window and door,
Looks idle, perhaps, and foolish, like a hat on its block in the store.
But there's nothing mournful about it; it cannot be sad and lone
For the lack of something within it that it has never known.

But a house that has done what a house should do,
a house that has sheltered life,
That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife,
A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and held up his stumbling feet,
Is the saddest sight, when it's left alone, that ever your eyes could meet.

So whenever I go to Suffern along the Erie track
I never go by the empty house without stopping and looking back,
Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen apart,
For I can't help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken heart.
Joyce Kilmer
"Music's golden tongue flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor."
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