101 Famous Poems

#SchoolSpirit #Poems This book of poems has been in print since 1916. I have fond memories of it from grade school, a teacher selected it to expose kids to poetry, see if they were interested in exploring more. I don‘t think it‘s ever been out of print, most libraries have at least an e book copy. It‘s also in the Internet Archive.

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Eggs I think I would LOVE this🥰 1mo

Leftcoastzen @Eggs it‘s a sweet little volume , many different covers available since it has been reprinted often. 1mo

BarbaraJean I have three different editions of this! My mom had the same edition as this picture, and I read it so often in jr. high and high school that she eventually bought me my own copy. Twice—because she forgot she‘d already bought one for me! She passed away two years ago and now I have all three—can‘t bear to part with any of them. 1mo

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Eggs Stacked! 1mo

Eggs @BarbaraJean What a bittersweet memory😌 1mo

Leftcoastzen @BarbaraJean yes , I saw your post , lovely and instantly brought back my memories of this wonderful volume. 1mo

BarbaraJean It really is such a wonderful collection—there‘s a reason it‘s been in print for over 100 years!! 1mo

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BarbaraJean

101 Famous Poems | Roy Jay Cook

I have three copies of this poetry collection—thanks to my mother. I used to pore over her copy (top right) for hours when I was in elementary school/jr. high. She eventually got me a copy of my own (the one at the bottom of the be-ribboned book stack). She later bought me another copy (top left), forgetting she‘d already gotten me one! My mom passed away two years ago, and now I have all three—it‘s difficult to part with any! #SundayFunday

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LeahBergen That‘s lovely! 🥰 6mo

Leftcoastzen I used to have the paperback years ago, wonder what happened to it ? I don‘t purge very often. 6mo

BookmarkTavern That is so sweet! What a lovely thing to remember your mother by. Thank you for sharing! 6mo

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BarbaraJean

One Hundred and One Famous Poems | Roy Jay Cook

Do you ever get a poem in your head the way you get a song in your head? Tonight it‘s “Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and oddly enough, it‘s because today‘s #LOTRchapteraday mentioned Gil-galad. Stay with me here. 😆 Whenever Gil-galad is mentioned, I think of that scrap of Tolkien‘s poetry:
“Gil-galad was an Elven king
Of him the harpers sadly sing
The last whose realm was fair and free
Between the mountains and the sea…”
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BarbaraJean The two poems have the same rhyme scheme & meter, the beginning of Renascence has that reference to mountains and a bay and there‘s the mountains & the sea in the Gil-galad poem—so one led me to the other. I memorized whole chunks of Renascence when I was in junior high (because a character in a book I was reading memorized it & I wanted to as well!). Those lines have been running through my head all night and I‘m not mad about it. 1y

BarbaraJean “I would I were alive again / To kiss the fingers of the rain / To drink into my eyes the shine / Of every slanting silver line…” (edited) 1y

LiteraryinPA I relate to having snippets of memorized poems sometimes take hold. 💗 1y

Lunakay Every spring I remember a certain poem by Hugo von Hofmannstahl and it gets stuck until I look up the parts that I keep forgetting. It's a seasonal thing😆 1y

JazzFeathers That is so amazing, And l love the snippets you posted. 1y

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BarbaraJean

101 Famous Poems | Roy Jay Cook

I always used to steal my mom‘s copy of this book of #famous poems... so she finally bought me my own copy. I later used it in this book stack, which was my ring bearer “pillow” at my wedding. I can‘t bring myself to disassemble it!
#readingresolutions

Jess7

MrBook #NiceStack! That's gorgeous! 7y

TheBookgeekFrau What a cute idea for a ring bearer pillow! 7y

daniwithtea That‘s beautiful!!! 7y

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mom2bugnbee This is a brilliant idea! 7y

BarbaraJean @MrBook @daniwithtea Thank you! @C.Perone @mom2bugnbee I thought so, but my poor nephew who had to hold a stack of books for the whole ceremony had a different opinion! That‘s the main thing he remembers about my wedding: “The books got sooooo heavy!!!” 7y

TheBookgeekFrau 😄 7y

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