Poems for Happiness

Produktbeschreibung

Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms - whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Poems for Happiness features an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, the Reverend Richard Coles.

This inspiring and life-affirming collection features writing by some of our greatest poets whose work is still widely read today. It includes famous poems such as 'How Do I Love Thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, 'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth and 'Invictus' by W. E. Henley. In addition to these well-known verses, this beautiful volume includes lesser-known poems to discover and enjoy. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Happy Thought Poem - 1: Happy Thought -
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 2: Happy the Man - John Dryden Poem - 3: New
Sights - Anon Poem - 4: On a Quiet Conscience - Charles I Poem - 5: Leisure -
W.H. Davies Poem - 6: High Flights - John Gillespie Magee Jr. Poem - 7: May the
Road Rise Up to Meet You - Anon. Poem - 8: If - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 9: Now
May Every Living Thing - Anon. Poem - 10: Hurt No Living Thing - Christina
Rossetti Poem - 11: from Auguries of Innocence - William Blake Poem - 12: To
Every Thing There Is a Season - Book of Ecclesiastes Poem - 13: from Endymion -
John Keats Poem - 14: Shining Things - Elizabeth Gould Poem - 15: The Quiet Life
- Alexander Pope Poem - 16: Song of Apollo - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 17: My
Mind to Me a Kingdom Is - Sir Edward Dyer Poem - 18: On First Looking into
Chapman's Homer - John Keats Poem - 19: Eternity - William Blake Poem - 20: A
Farewell - Charles Kingsley Poem - 21: A Vision - Henry Vaughan Poem - 22:
Gratefulnesse - George Herbert Poem - 23: Thanks in Old Age - Walt Whitman Poem
- 24: A Little Health - Anon. Unit - 2: Glory Be To God For Dappled Things Poem
- 1: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 2: Amazing Grace - John Newton
Poem - 3: God Be In My Head - Sarum Missal Poem - 4: 'Lord, make me an
instrument of Thy peace' - St Francis of Assisi Poem - 5: Miracles - Walt
Whitman Poem - 6: Father, We Thank Thee - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 7: African
Canticle - Anon Poem - 8: The Thanksgivings - Iroquois, Traditional tr. Harriet
Maxwell Converse Poem - 9: Harvest Home - Henry Alford Poem - 10: Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot - Wallace Willis Poem - 11: Desiderata - Max Ehrmann Poem - 12:
The Iroquois Prayer - Iroquois, Traditional Poem - 13: Jewish Prayer - Service
of the Orthodox Synagogue for the Festival of Tabernacles Poem - 14: from His
Pilgrimage - Sir Walter Raleigh Poem - 15: When the Heart is Hard - Rabindranath
Tagore Poem - 16: The Selkirk Grace - Robert Burns Poem - 17: Epitaph - Winifred
Holtby Unit - 3: I Sing of Brooks, of Blossoms, Birds, and Bowers Poem - 1: The
Argument of His Book - Robert Herrick Poem - 2: The Song of Wandering Aengus -
W. B. Yeats Poem - 3: Spring - William Blake Poem - 4: I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud - William Wordsworth Poem - 5: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose - Emily
Dickinson Poem - 6: The Happy Child - W. H. Davies Poem - 7: from Pippa Passes -
Robert Browning Poem - 8: A Greeting - W. H. Davies Poem - 9: February Twilight
- Sara Teasdale Poem - 10: Adoration - Christopher Smart Poem - 11: The Sun
Rising - John Donne Poem - 12: Sowing - Edward Thomas Poem - 13: A Dumb Friend -
Christina Rossetti Poem - 14: My Heart Leaps Up - William Wordsworth Poem - 15:
The Throstle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 16: May - Thomas Dekker Poem - 17:
Moonlight, Summer Moonlight - Emily Brontë Poem - 18: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- W. B. Yeats Poem - 19: Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare Poem - 20: To
Make a Prairie - Emily Dickinson Poem - 21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream -
William Shakespeare Poem - 22: Careless Rambles - John Clare Poem - 23: Magna
Est Veritas - Coventry Patmore Poem - 24: Rest and Be Thankful! - William
Wordsworth Poem - 24: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 -
William Wordsworth Poem - 25: Moonlit Apples - John Drinkwater Poem - 26:
Harvest Hymn - John Greenleaf Whittier Poem - 27: To Autumn - John Keats Poem -
28: Pleasant Sounds - John Clare Poem - 29: 'See yonder leafless trees against
the sky' - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 30: Evening Quatrains - Charles Cotton
Poem - 31: Ode - Joseph Addison Poem - 32: 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and
free' - William Wordsworth Poem - 33: God's Grandeur - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Unit - 4: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Poem - 1: Say Not the Struggle
Nought Availeth - Arthur Hugh Clough Poem - 2: Freedom - Olive Runner Poem - 3:
New Every Morning - Susan Coolidge Poem - 4: Will - Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem -
5: Invictus - W. E. Henley Poem - 6: Ain't I a Woman? - Sojourner Truth and
Erlene Stetson Poem - 7: This, Too, Shall Pass Away - Lanta Wilson Smith Poem -
8: 'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers - Emily Dickinson Poem - 9: Shut Not Your
Doors to Me, Proud Libraries - Walt Whitman Poem - 10: Courage - Amelia Earhart
Poem - 11: The Call - Charlotte Mew Poem - 12: A Pebble - James W. Foley Poem -
13: from Henry V - William Shakespeare Poem - 14: The New Colossus - Emma
Lazarus Poem - 15: The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln Poem - 16: The
Star-Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key Poem - 17: I Hear America Singing -
Walt Whitman Poem - 18: No Coward Soul Is Mine - Emily Brontë Poem - 19: A
Summing Up - Charles Mackay Unit - 5: Friendship is Love Without his Wings Poem
- 1: L'Amitié Est L'Amour Sans Ailes - Lord Byron Poem - 2: Outwitted - Edwin
Markham Poem - 3: We Two Boys Together Clinging - Walt Whitman Poem - 4:
Friendship - Dinah Maria Craik Poem - 5: Forbearance - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem
- 6: Friendship - Aztec, Traditional Poem - 7: Travelling - William Wordsworth
Poem - 8: Love and Friendship - Emily Brontë Poem - 9: New Friends and Old
Friends - Joseph Parry Unit - 6: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem - 1: He
Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - W. B. Yeats Poem - 2: How Do I Love Thee? -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem - 3: Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare Poem - 4:
Meeting at Night - Robert Browning Poem - 5: To a Friend - Amy Lowell Poem - 6:
A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Poem - 7: Upon Julia's Clothes - Robert Herrick
Poem - 8: Rose- cheeked - Laura Thomas Campion Poem - 9: In an Artist's Studio -
Christina Rossetti Poem - 10: 'It was a lover and his lass' - William
Shakespeare Poem - 11: Love Lightly Pleased - Robert Herrick Poem - 12:
Invitation to Love - Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 13: from Paradise Lost - John
Milton Poem - 14: Fulfillment - William Cavendish Poem - 15: from Sonnets from
the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem - 16: Camomile Tea - Katherine
Mansfield Poem - 17: When I Heard at the Close of the Day - Walt Whitman Poem -
18: Song - George Peele Poem - 19: To Althea, from Prison - Richard Lovelace
Poem - 20: A Decade - Amy Lowell Unit - 7: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Poem -
1: The Shape of a Good Greyhound - Anon Poem - 2: The Lurcher - William Cowper
Poem - 3: Dog - Harold Monro Poem - 4: The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem - 5: A Winter Bluejay - Sara Teasdale Poem - 6: from To a Skylark - Percy
Bysshe Shelley Poem - 7: 'Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day' - Thomas Heywood
Poem - 8: from Jubilate Agno - Christopher Smart Poem - 9: Pangur Bßn - Anon.
tr. Robin Flower Poem - 10: The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear Poem - 11:
Seal Lullaby - Rudyard Kipling Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of
Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines 

Autoreninfo

Gaby Morgan is an Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children's Books and has run the children's poetry list for thirty years. She has compiled many bestselling anthologies including Read Me and Laugh: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, Poems from the First World War, Fairy Poems - which was short-listed for the CLPE Award - and the Macmillan Collector's Library poetry series featuring anthologies on Happiness, Nature, Childhood, Travelling and Christmas.
The Reverend Richard Coles is a musician, writer, Church of England priest and co-presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. He read Theology at King's College London, then worked as a curate in Lincolnshire and London before going to
Finedon in Northamptonshire, where he is now the vicar. He partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band The Communards, which achieved three top ten hits, including the number one record and bestselling single of 1986, 'Don't Leave Me This Way'. His books include Bringing in the Sheaves and Lives of the Improbable Saints. He lives in the Vicarage at Finedon with his civil partner and four dachshunds.