Fleming Community Library

Presents twelve poems celebrating Christmas, covering subjects of interest to children, such as making a Christmas list, performing in the school assembly, and cutting down a tree for the holiday.

A chronological arrangement of the 500 greatest poems in English- -the poems most frequently included in authorlogies in the 9th edition of The Columbia Granger's index to poetry. With a succinct biographical sketch of each poet and brief comments on each poem.

Presents over one thousand poems by nineteenth-century Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley.

A collection of poems about dragons, including "I'm an Amiable Dragon," "If You Don't Believe in Dragons," and "A Dragon Is in My Computer."

Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects--our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power, and art's ability to give shape to human lives--echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry's most...

All four Small Poemsbooks in one volume plus fourteen new poems "every bit as worthy as their predecessors" (The Horn Book)

This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys: passing a simple blade of grass on the sidewalk, the freedom of peeing outdoors late at night, or the way a hand-built ceramic mug feels when it's full of warm tea on a chilly morning. It's a catalog and a compendium that examines the complicated experience of being all too human and interacting with a complex, confounding,...

Offers a collection of witty, emotional, and direct poems by the popular and critically acclaimed poet, including selections from his four previous collections and new works such as "Man Listening to a Disc," about headphones.

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

Thirty-nine selected tales and poems, with essays on the life and the works of Longfellow.