Download or read book Poems to Learn by Heart written by Caroline Kennedy and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this companion to her New York Times best-selling collection A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has hand-selected more than a hundred of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization. Some are joyful. Some are sad. Some are funny and lighthearted. Many offer layers of meaning that reveal themselves only after the poem has been studied so closely as to be learned by heart. In issuing the challenge to memorize great poetry, Caroline Kennedy invites us to a deeply enriching experience. For as she reminds us, “If we learn poems by heart, not only do we have their wisdom to draw on, we also gain confidence, knowledge and understanding that no one can take away.” Illustrated with gorgeous, original watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J Muth , this is truly a book for all ages, and one that families will share again and again. Caroline’s thoughtful introductions shed light on the many ways we can appreciate poetry, and the special tradition of memorizing and reciting poetry that she celebrates within her own family.

Download or read book Songs of Gaia written by Julie Tara and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our world today, there is a yearning to connect to beauty; a rising tide of sensitivity and awareness of the immense difficulties we are facing; a need to find a sense of redemption. Poetry offers this. It opens the window to paradox, giving voice to both the souls grief and its longing for the ecstatic. Julie Taras poetry falls in the tradition of the mystical poets who, through the magic of words, open the eyeand the soulto the awareness of the infinite; of timelessness; of presence. To enter into Songs of Gaia is to enter into a world where the desert wind becomes a wild womans breath; where the rivers youve drunk deeply from become the blood of the Mothers veins, and where the sound of your beating heart becomes the rhythm of the very universe in which you live.

Download or read book Thorned Heart written by Mery Indira D. Quezada and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time to Grow, the third volume of the history of the Racine Dominican Sisters, tells the congregation's story from 1901 to 1964. After briefly recapturing the tumultuous development of the community while headed by Mother Hyacintha Oberbrunner from after the death of Mother Thomasina Ginker until the election of Sister Emily Acker in 1901, the book chronicles the period leading up to the Second Vatican Council and the changes already being set in motion before the congregational elections of 1964. Illustrations depict the lives of ordinary sisters as they struggled to observe the many regulations and customs handed down from a previous monastic era while carrying out their teaching ministry.

Download or read book Heart to Heart written by Jan Greenberg and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of poems by Americans writing about American art in the twentieth century, including such writers as Nancy Willard, Jane Yolen, and X.J. Kennedy.

Download or read book War Time Poems and Heart Songs written by Isabella B. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems from the Heart written by Eugene Johnson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Song Poet written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.

Download or read book The Heart Is Strange written by John Berryman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new selection of John Berryman's work, in honor of the poet's centenary"--

Download or read book Within and Without written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems from the Heart written by Barbara Vaughn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK ‘’POEMS FROM THE HEART’’ IS A BOOK WRITTEN SOLELY TO ENCOURAGE, INSPIRE, AND ENLIGHTEN THE HEARTS OF ALL THAT HAS JOURNEYED THROUGH LIFE OVERCOMING ODDS, WHETHERING STORM AFTER STORM, AND EVEN FACING PERSONAL LOSS OR CHALLENGES IN LIFE. THIS BOOK CONSISTS OF A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL POEMS WRITTEN FROM 1970-2012. I LIKE TO SAY ON A VERY PERSONAL NOTE THAT I’VE FELT LED BY THE SPIRIT AT EACH LINE PLACED ON PAPER. I PERCEIVED THIS CRAFT MANY YEARS AGO AS MORE THAN JUST A TALENT FOR THE GAME, BUT MORE A GIFT FROM GOD THAT I LOVE TO IMPART TO MY FELLOW READERS. AND THUS, I FEEL BLESSED TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THIS BOOK WITH HOPES THAT IT COULD CAPTIVATE HEARTS AND MOTIVATE THEM TO LIVE THEIR LIVES MORE FAITHFULLY,AND, LOVE AND TREAT OTHERS AS WELL AS CAN BE. THIS IS SOME OF THE MESSAGES THAT ONE WILL HOPEFULLY GET FROM THIS BOOK. AS WELL AS, NO MATTER HOW BLEAK IT CAN BECOME IN ONE’S LIFE, THERE IS ALWAY’S HOPE, EVEN IN THE MOST DISMAL HOURS. THIS BOOK IS ONE THAT WILL BE SURE TO TOUCH SOMEONE’S HEART.

Download or read book The Poems and Prose Sketches of James Whitcomb Riley written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems from the Heart written by Robin Penman Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POEMS FROM THE HEART When you walk with the one you love for fifty years and more A lifetime is locked in the memory’s store, Some of the difficult things you shared before, And the tender things you shared with the one whom you adore. Looking back over all the passing years, at all the joys and fears You recognize that underneath you both are God’s everlasting arms, That have carried you, and kept you both from everlasting harms. Such love, long lived, is a precious thing That makes the humble heart dance and sing.

Download or read book Songs and Poems from 1819 to 1879 written by James Robinson Planché and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Poems written by Pablo Neruda and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

Download or read book Carrying the Songs written by Moya Cannon and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrying the Songs explores what is lost to time and change, and what endures and is transformed: languages and landscapes, artefacts and songs, carried through a lifetime, across oceans, across centuries. A long-forgotten Gaelic word surfaces from childhood and is reanimated by use; a tiny Stone Age carving speaks across millennia of a shared human impulse to create. At the heart of this collection is migration, the rhythm that draws together the natural and the human worlds. Luminous and precise, Moya Cannon's poetry resonates like remembered songs. Included with the new poems in Carrying the Songs is a generous selection of the poems from Moya Cannon's much-praised earlier collections, Oar and The Parchment Boat.

Download or read book Heart Songs written by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Winner, ANA/Cadbury Prize, 2009, Heart Songs, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbos first collection of poems, reveals the hidden poetic mind of a writer who had previously worked extensively and excelled as a novelist. At one level. the poems read like the products of a souls just out of a certain prison. They break the barriers of the unity of thought that governs the writing of a novel, as Adimora-Ezeigbo is at home with subjects as varies as power, love, culture, gender, philosophy and crime in this collection.