«The Best of Poetry — A Young Person's Book of Evergreen Verse» by Elsinore Books

There are 200 poems to explore in this collection—poems about love, and war; songs of the sea; tales of magic and adventure; rhythmic rhapsodies; nonsense verse; descriptions of the world (and the creatures in it), and of the seasons, and the soul.

Many of the poems here will be familiar to you already. We have ransacked the common treasure hoard of “classics”, collecting those best-known, and best-loved masterpieces that have long stood the test of time. But we have also explored further beneath the mountain, and unearthed some rarer gems.

You may enter the collection through the front door if you wish; the very first poem provides a key. But do not feel compelled to proceed directly forward. Those readers who best explore a collection of verse, do so as though in possession of map which, while appearing to guide their footsteps, is revealed on closer inspection to be a perfect and absolute blank.

This book is organized thematically, with 10 poems for each of the following 20 themes: 1) Magic and Wonder2) Animalia: Mammals3) Animalia: Birds4) Animalia: Creep, Crawl, and Fly5) Love and Friendship6) War and Conflict7) The Natural World8) Life and Inspiration9) Sadness and Remembrance10) Journeys and Adventures11) Tales and Songs12) Songs of the Sea13) Reflecting on Things14) Humour and Curiosities15) Nonsense16) Miniatures17) Stars, Moon, and Night18) Sleep, Dreams, and Lullabies19) The Year Round; Spring and Summer20) The Year Round; Autumn and Winter

Included are masterpieces by Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sara Teasdale, William Blake, Byron, Robert Frost and many other outstanding poets. Please view the preview of this book for a full listing.

At Elsinore Books we pride ourselves on creating beautiful Kindle Books, and devote great attention to formatting, and ease of navigation. This book contains a cleanly-styled contents page that permits easy movement between the poems. We regularly update the formatting of our books, to ensure they will always remain perfectly accessible on all Kindle models.

This book is part of the Best of Poetry series, which also includes:The Best of Poetry: Thoughts that Breathe and Words that BurnThe Best of Poetry: Shakespeare, Muse of Fire