O Frabjous Day: Poetry for Holidays and Special Occasions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689500769 ISBN 13: 9780689500763

Publisher: Atheneum, 1977

Synopsis

Reflections of the past and the present are contained in more than one hundred poems commemorating joyous holidays, days of sorrow, birthdays of important figures, and other special occasions

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My Stars by Abraham Ibn Ezra
The Wounded Cupid. Song by Anacreon
Shepherdess Valentine, Sels. by Francis Andrews
Birthday Gifts by Herbert Henry Asquith
Song For The Newborn by Mary Austin
Christmas 1959 by Gerald William Barrax
For Malcolm: After Mecca by Gerald William Barrax
Resolution by Edmund Joseph Berrigan
Independence Day by Wendell Berry
Machabees 1, Sels. by Bible
A Psalm Of Praise by Bible
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
Little Catkins by Alexander (aleksandr) Alexandrovich Blok
Unto My Valentine by Margery Brewes
Harvest Song by Joseph Campbell
I Will Go With My Father A-ploughing by Joseph Campbell
Piyyut For Rosh Hashana by Chaim Guri
Death Of Dr. King by Sam Cornish
Saturday's Child by Countee Cullen
Fireworks by Babette Deutsch
Birthday Of But A Single Pang by Emily Dickinson
Hail, Bishop Valentine, Whose Day This Is by John Donne
Incantation To Oedipus by John Dryden
The Cultivation Of Christmas Trees by Thomas Stearns Eliot
For The Coming Year by Peter Everwine
Aardvark by Julia Fields
Lincoln: 2 by John Gould Fletcher
The Birthday by Robert Frost
A Soldier by Robert Frost
To A Young Wretch by Robert Frost
Birth by Amir Gilboa
Voices Of Heroes by Horace Gregory
Easter by Robert Herrick
Thanksgiving by Robert Herrick
A Thanksgiving To God [for His House] by Robert Herrick
To His Mistress by Robert Herrick
A True Lent by Robert Herrick
The Assassination by Robert Silliman Hillyer
Easter Communion by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Resurrection by Frank Horne
Easter Hymn by Alfred Edward Housman
Spring Thoughts by Jan Huang-fu
New Year's [or, Year] Song by Edward James Hughes
Lincoln Monument: Washington by James Langston Hughes
Around Thanksgiving by Rolfe Humphries
Gunner by Randall Jarrell
What Our Dame Bids Us To Do by Ben Jonson
Down In Dallas by X. J. Kennedy
Edgar's Story, Sels. by X. J. Kennedy
Crawl, Laugh by Kobayashi Issa
Oraga Haru, Sels. by Kobayashi Issa
Person After Person by Kobayashi Issa
Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
Conversation With Washington by Myra Cohn Livingston
Halloween by Myra Cohn Livingston
A Valentine For A Lady by Lucilius
Brave New World by Archibald Macleish
The Young Dead Soldiers by Archibald Macleish
Assassination by Haki R. Madhubuti
Log Cabin by Edwin Markham
Spoon River Anthology: Anne Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters
Perambulator Poem by David Mccord
Another Year Come by William Stanley Merwin
Twilight's Last Gleaming by Arthur W. Monks
Thanksgiving by John N. Morris
Columbus by Ogden Nash
Ballad Of The Goodly Fere by Ezra Pound
New Year's, Sels. by Charles Reznikoff
Asssassination Poems by John Ridland
The Light Year by John Ridland
The Last Supper by Rainer Maria Rilke
Pieta by Rainer Maria Rilke
Calvary by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Karma by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Good Friday (1) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Valentines To My Mother: 1880 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
And Of Columbus by Carl Sandburg
Fourth Of July Night by Carl Sandburg
Good Morning America, Sels. by Carl Sandburg
Mysterious Biography by Carl Sandburg
Washington Monument By Night by Carl Sandburg
Columbus by Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller
Easter Sunday by Sedulius Scottus
The Bird Of Dawning [or, Christmas, Or The Nativity] by William Shakespeare
Saint Valentine's Day by William Shakespeare
Thrice The Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by William Shakespeare
Epitaph by Karl Shapiro
Prayer For The Great Family; After A Mohawk Prayer by Gary Snyder
The Discovery; Sonnet by John Collings Squire
The Death Of A Soldier by Wallace Stevens
My Valentine by Robert Louis Stevenson
On The Birth Of His Son by Su Shih
To The Veterans Of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Genevieve Taggard
Chains, My Good Lord: In Your Raised Brows I Read by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 106 by Alfred Tennyson
Christening-day Wishes For My God-child Grace Lane Berkley by Robert P. Tristan Coffin
On New Year's Eve by Ts'uei T'u
Allhallow's Eve And Halloween by Anonymous
Booth Killed Lincoln by Anonymous
The Cherry Tree Carol (1) by Anonymous
Coventry Carol by Anonymous
The Holly And The Ivy by Anonymous
Jolly Soldier by Anonymous
A Maiden That Is Makeless by Anonymous
Mount Vernon by Anonymous
New Year's Water by Anonymous
Washington by Anonymous
Patriotic Poem by Diane Wakoski
His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
Yom Kippur: Fasting by Ruth Whitman
President Lincoln's Burial Hymn by Walt Whitman
A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Gray And Dim by Walt Whitman
Washington's Monument, February, 1885 by Walt Whitman
A Christmas Hymn by Richard Wilbur
Trala Trala Trala La-le-la by William Carlos Williams
The Magi by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689500769
• ISBN 13: 9780689500763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205
• Editor: Livingston Myra Cohn