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The Best-loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Cover Image Book Book

The Best-loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994 (Added Author). Kennedy, Caroline, 1957- (Added Author).

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Caroline Kennedy presents more than one hundred poems that were important to her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, by writers ranging from Robert Frost to St. Francis of Assisi, and also includes three poems by the former first lady herself.

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  • ISBN: 0786868090
  • Physical Description: xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Hyperion, 2001.

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Foreword xi
Caroline Kennedy
AMERICA
Introduction
3(4)
Caroline Kennedy
America, The Beautiful
7(2)
Katherine Lee Bates
For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration
9(3)
Robert Frost
The Gift Outright
12(1)
Robert Frost
Paul Revere's Ride'
13(5)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I Hear America Singing
18(1)
Walt Whitman
Let America Be America Again
19(4)
Langston Hughes
Brown River, Smile
23(8)
Jean Toomer
FIRST POEMS
Introduction
31(2)
Caroline Kennedy
First Fig
33(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig
33(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fog
34(1)
Carl Sandburg
At the Ancient Pond
35(1)
Basho
How Reluctantly
35(1)
Basho
The Land of Counterpane
36(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swing
37(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bed in Summer
38(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Teddy Bear's Picnic
39(2)
Jimmy Kennedy
Three Ponies
41(1)
Arthur Guiterman
The Yak
42(1)
Theodore Roethke
Grizzly Bear
43(1)
Mary Austin
The Elephant
44(1)
Hilaire Belloc
The Little Turtle
45(1)
Vachel Lindsay
Dogs and Weather
46(1)
Winifred Welles
Little Trotty Wagtail
47(1)
John Clare
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
48(2)
Edward Lear
The Crocodile
50(1)
Lewis Carroll
Fireflies in the Garden
51(1)
Robert Frost
The Rose Family
52(1)
Robert Frost
Who Has Seen the Wind?
53(1)
Christina Rossetti
Tarantella
54(2)
Hilaire Belloc
Sherwood
56(3)
Alfred Noyes
Annabel Lee
59(2)
Edgar Allan Poe
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church
61(1)
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
62(1)
Emily Dickinson
Mother to Son
63(1)
Longston Hughes
The Red Wheelbarrow
64(1)
William Carlos Williams
Psalm 23
65(1)
Luke 2: 1--14
66(1)
A Visit from St. Nicholas
67(4)
Clement Clarke Moore
ADVENTURE
Introduction
71(2)
Caroline Kennedy
Skye Boat Song
73(2)
Cargoes
75(1)
John Masefield
Sea-Fever
76(1)
John Masefield
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
77(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Tableau
78(1)
Countee Cullen
Merry-Go-Round
79(1)
Langston Hughes
The Road Not Taken
80(1)
Robert Frost
Song
81(1)
John Donne
Richard III, I, i, 1--13
82(1)
William Shakespeare
Henry V, IV, iii, 40--67 (St. Crispin's Day Speech)
83(1)
William Shakespeare
The Isles of Greece
84(4)
George Cordon, Lord Byron
Ulysses
88(3)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ithaca
91(4)
Constantine P. Cavafy
ESCAPE
Introduction
95(2)
Caroline Kennedy
The Flowers
97(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Behind Stowe
98(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
In Just
99(1)
E. E. Cummings
The Pasture
100(1)
Robert Frost
Portrait By A Neighbour
101(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Song of Wandering Aengus
102(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
103(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Odyssey, Book IX
104(1)
Homer
The Tempest, V, i, 104--110 (Ariel's Song)
105(1)
William Shakespeare
I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
106(1)
Emily Dickinson
These Are the Days When Birds Come Back
107(1)
Emily Dickinson
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
108(1)
Robert Frost
Kubla Khan
109(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Dawn
111(1)
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium
112(2)
William Butler Yeats
Of Mere Being
114(3)
Wallace Stevens
ROMANCE AND LOVE
Introduction
117(2)
Caroline Kennedy
The Song of Solomon 2: 8--16
119(1)
Paradise Lost, Book IV, 639--658
120(1)
John Milton
Romeo and Juliet, III, ii, 17--31
121(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet XVIII
122(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXIX
123(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXVI
124(1)
William Shakespeare
The Bargain
125(1)
Sir Philip Sidney
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
126(1)
Christopher Marlowe
Her Reply
127(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh
She Walks in Beauty
128(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Dr. Faustus, Scene XIII
129(1)
Christopher Marlowe
The Hill
130(1)
Rupert Brooke
The Vase of Perfume
131(1)
Chang Wu-chien
When A Beggar Beholds You
132(1)
Anonymous
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond
133(1)
E. E. Cummings
For C. K. At His Christening
134(1)
Daniel Lawrence Kelleher
A Prayer in Spring
135(1)
Robert Frost
Corinthians 13: 1--13
136(3)
REFLECTION
Introduction
139(1)
Caroline Kennedy
Ecclesiastes 3: 1--8
140(1)
Prayer For Peace
141(1)
St. Francis of Assisi
Sonnet on His Blindness
142(1)
John Milton
Death, Be Not Proud
143(1)
John Donne
Ozymandias
144(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
His Pilgrimage
145(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ode on a Grecian Urn
146(2)
John Keats
Antigone, Ode I
148(1)
Sophocles
Agamemnon, Act I
149(1)
Aeschylus
Olympian Ode II
150(1)
Pindar
Magpies in Picardy
151(2)
T. P. Cameron Wilson
Aftermath
153(2)
Siegfried Sassoon
The Second Coming
155(1)
William Butler Yeats
Choose Something Like a Star
156(1)
Robert Frost
One Art
157(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
158(1)
Langston Hughes
Acquainted with the Night
159(1)
Robert Frost
The Truly Great
160(1)
Stephen Spender
For A Poet
161(1)
Countee Cullen
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
162(1)
William Butler Yeats
Matthew 5:1--10
163(4)
IN HER OWN WORDS
Introduction
167(1)
Caroline Kennedy
Essay
168(1)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Sea Joy
169(1)
Jacqueline Bouvier
Thoughts
170(2)
Jacqueline Bouvier
Meanwhile in Massachusetts
172
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

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