Best Remembered Poems

by Martin Gardner (Editor)

Overview

The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley's homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486116402
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	05/22/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	777 KB

About the Author

Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination. Martin Gardner: A Remembrance The worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005. To those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. Den Hartog in engineering, Martin's advice and editorial suggestions in the formative 1950s helped to define the Dover publishing program and give it the point of view which — despite many changes, new directions, and the consequences of evolution — continues to be operative today. In the Author's Own Words:"Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs." "A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" — Martin Gardner

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONELIZABETH AKERS ALLENRock Me to SleepMATTHEW ARNOLDDover BeachWILLIAM BLAKEThe TygerFRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLONThe Night Has a Thousand EyesROBERT BROWNINGPippa's SongMeeting at NightWILLIAM CULLEN BRYANTThanatopsisGELETT BURGESSThe Purple CowROBERT BURNSTo a MouseIs There for Honest Poverty'"GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON"She Walks in beautyThe Destruction of SennacheribBLISS CARMANA Vagabond SongLEWIS CARROLLJabberwockyARTHUR CHAPMANOut Where the West BeginsSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEKubla KhanSTEPHEN CRANEA Man Said to the Universe'EMILY DICKINSONI Never Saw a Moor'If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking'There Is No Frigate Like a Book'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKEThe American FlagRALPH WALDO EMERSONConcord HymnEUGENE FIELDLittle Boy Blue"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"The DuelSAM WALTER FOSSThe House by the Side of the RoadROBERT FROSTMending WallFire and IceStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningTHOMAS GRAYElegy Written in a Country ChurchyardEDGAR GUESTHomeIt Couldn't Be DoneSARAH JOSEPHA HALEMary's LambFELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANSCasabiancaThe Landing of the Pilgrim FathersWILLIAM ERNEST HENLEYInvictusOLIVER WENDELL HOLMESOld IronsidesThe Last LeafThe Deacon's MasterpieceTHOMAS HOODThe Song of the ShirtThe Bridge of SighsRICHARD HOVEYTh Sea GypsyJULIA WARD HOWEBattle Hymn of the RepublicLEIGH HUNTAbou Ben AdhemJenny Kiss'd MeJOHN KEATSOn First Looking into Chapman's HomerLa Belle Dame sans MerciOde on a Grecian UrnOde to a NightingaleJOYCE KILMERTreesRUDYARD KIPLINGRecessionalMandalayDanny DeeverIf-TommyBootsGunga DinL'Envoi ('When Earth's last picture is painted')EDWARD LEARThe Owl and the Pussy-CatHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe Day Is DoneA Psalm of LifePaul Revere's RideThe Village BlacksmithThe Wreck of the HesperusThe Arrow and the SongThe Children's HourExcelsiorThere Was a Little GirlJOHN MCCRAEIn Flanders FieldsEDWIN MARKHAMThe Man with the HoeJOHN MASEFIELDSea FeverCargoesHUGHES MEARNSAntigonishEDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAYRenascenceEuclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare'First FigJOAQUIN MILLERColumbusCLEMENT CLARKE MOOREA Visit from St. NicholasGEORGE POPE MORRIS"Woodman, Spare That Tree!"ALFRED NOYESThe HighwaymanThe Barrel-OrganJOHN HOWARD PAYNE"Home, Sweet Home"EDGAR ALLAN POEThe RavenAnnabel LeeTo HelenThe BellsADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERThe Lost ChordJAMES WHITCOMB RILEYThe Old Swimmin'-HoleAn Old Sweetheart of MineLittle Orphant AnnieWhen the Frost Is on the PunkinCARL SANDBURGChicagoFogJOHN GODFREY SAXEThe Blind Men and the ElephantALAN SEEGERI Have a Rendezvous with DeathROBERT SERVICEThe Shooting of Dan McGrewThe Cremation of Sam McGeePERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYTo a SkylarkOzymandiasLANGDON SMITHEvolutionROBERT SOUTHEYThe Battle of BlenheimROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONRequiemBed in SummerHappy ThoughtJANE TAYLORThe Star"ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON"The Charge of the Light BrigadeCrossing the Bar"Break, Break, Break'"Flower in the Crannied Wall'ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYERCasey at the BatROSE HARTWICK THORPECurfew Must Not Ring TonightWALT WHITMANOh Captain! My Captain!When I Heard the Learn'd AstronomerJOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIERThe Barefoot BoyMaud MullerELLA WHEELER WILCOXSolitudeThe Winds of FateSAMUEL WOODWORTHThe Old Oaken BucketWILLIAM WORDSWORTHI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sep. 3, 1802"The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon'"It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free'"Alphabetical List of TitlesAlphabetical List of First Lines