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firefightrix's review
5.0
Childhood treasure that was lost through multiple moves. I am replacing this as soon as possible.
elisabethjordan's review
4.0
After a year and a half of slowly going through this collection, I am proud to say that I finally finished it!!! This collection has been through a lot with me, and it is all the more special seeing as my Memaw gave me this collection from my Papaws office last year while I was staying with her during a big covid time. It was initially very special to me for this reason, but has only gotten more so as I’ve been since inspired by many of the poems in here. I’ve written songs, responses, letters, and more to many of these poems. One of the reasons that reading this collection took over a year was that I would read one or two and then get inspired to create something of my own. It was fantastic for that.
As I was not very well read in poetry of any kind, this was a great jumping off point so that I could find people that I like so I can delve more into their work later. Of course, this entire collection was full of some of the best known American poetry, so most of it was technically superb, but I realized that many of my favorites came from, for example, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The range of poetry in this collection is very alluring, and I’m glad to have been able to read this. I do have one MAJOR issue with this collection, which I will discuss further down. First, I wanted to insert the running list of my favorite poems from this collection:
Poems I like from
The Best Loved Poems of the American People:
Said the rose (George h miles)
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (Thomas Moore)
Ad Finem
I Love You (Both by Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
An old sweetheart of mine (James whitcomb riley)
Walk slowly (Adelaide love)
In a rose garden (John Bennett)
If you but knew (unknown)
Will you love me when I’m old (unknown)
You and I (Henry Alford)
He and she (sir Edwin Arnold)
You kissed me (Josephine slocum hunt)
I want you (Arthur L. Gillom) (this one and the last one paired together is especially lovely)
Song (Gerald griffin)
The Unknown (E. O. Laughlin)
Quiet Waters (Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff)
The want of you (Ivan Leonard Wright)
New friends and old friends (Joseph Parry)
Tell him so (unknown)
Be the best of whatever you know (Douglas Malloch)
The house by the side of the road (Sam Walter Foss)
Crowded ways of life (Walter S. Gresham)
[Gresham poem is response to Foss. they go together]
Do it now (Berton Braley)
Then laugh (Bertha Adams Backus)
Don’t quit (Unknown)
The Day Is Done (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
All to myself (Wilbur Dick Nesbit)
Watch yourself go by (Strickland Gillilan)
A song from Sylvan (Louise Imogen Guiney)
Breautiful things (Ellen P. Allerton)
Fate (Susan Marr Spalding)
The Last Hymn (Marianne Farningham)
Christmas day in the workhouse (George R. Sims)
Annie and Willie’s Prayer (Sophia P. Snow)
Over the hill to the poor-house (Will M. Carleton)
Down and Out (Clarence Leonard Hay)
Music in Camp (John R. Thompson)
The Raven (Edgar Allen Poe)
The legend of the organ-builder (Julia C.R. Dorr
The hell-bound train (unknown)
The owl and the fox (unknown)
Give me three grains of corn, mother (Amelia Blandford Edwards)
La belle dame sans merci (John Keats)
Out there somewhere (Henry Herbert Knibbs)
The Weaver (William H. Burleigh)
The Old Oaken Bucket (Samuel woodworth)
Tragedy (Jill Spargur)
From my arm-chair (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Lullaby town (John Irving diller)
A visit from St. Nicholas (clement Clarke moore) *santa is a miniature elf and that is how he goes down the chimney
As I was not very well read in poetry of any kind, this was a great jumping off point so that I could find people that I like so I can delve more into their work later. Of course, this entire collection was full of some of the best known American poetry, so most of it was technically superb, but I realized that many of my favorites came from, for example, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The range of poetry in this collection is very alluring, and I’m glad to have been able to read this. I do have one MAJOR issue with this collection, which I will discuss further down. First, I wanted to insert the running list of my favorite poems from this collection:
Poems I like from
The Best Loved Poems of the American People:
Said the rose (George h miles)
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (Thomas Moore)
Ad Finem
I Love You (Both by Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
An old sweetheart of mine (James whitcomb riley)
Walk slowly (Adelaide love)
In a rose garden (John Bennett)
If you but knew (unknown)
Will you love me when I’m old (unknown)
You and I (Henry Alford)
He and she (sir Edwin Arnold)
You kissed me (Josephine slocum hunt)
I want you (Arthur L. Gillom) (this one and the last one paired together is especially lovely)
Song (Gerald griffin)
The Unknown (E. O. Laughlin)
Quiet Waters (Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff)
The want of you (Ivan Leonard Wright)
New friends and old friends (Joseph Parry)
Tell him so (unknown)
Be the best of whatever you know (Douglas Malloch)
The house by the side of the road (Sam Walter Foss)
Crowded ways of life (Walter S. Gresham)
[Gresham poem is response to Foss. they go together]
Do it now (Berton Braley)
Then laugh (Bertha Adams Backus)
Don’t quit (Unknown)
The Day Is Done (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
All to myself (Wilbur Dick Nesbit)
Watch yourself go by (Strickland Gillilan)
A song from Sylvan (Louise Imogen Guiney)
Breautiful things (Ellen P. Allerton)
Fate (Susan Marr Spalding)
The Last Hymn (Marianne Farningham)
Christmas day in the workhouse (George R. Sims)
Annie and Willie’s Prayer (Sophia P. Snow)
Over the hill to the poor-house (Will M. Carleton)
Down and Out (Clarence Leonard Hay)
Music in Camp (John R. Thompson)
The Raven (Edgar Allen Poe)
The legend of the organ-builder (Julia C.R. Dorr
The hell-bound train (unknown)
The owl and the fox (unknown)
Give me three grains of corn, mother (Amelia Blandford Edwards)
La belle dame sans merci (John Keats)
Out there somewhere (Henry Herbert Knibbs)
The Weaver (William H. Burleigh)
The Old Oaken Bucket (Samuel woodworth)
Tragedy (Jill Spargur)
From my arm-chair (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Lullaby town (John Irving diller)
A visit from St. Nicholas (clement Clarke moore) *santa is a miniature elf and that is how he goes down the chimney
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