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Discover the many faces of happiness in this inspiring collection of poems, which includes work by some of the world's greatest poets.
Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness, and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms – whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature.
Poems for Happiness is an uplifting collection that includes beloved classics such as 'How Do I Love Thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, 'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth and 'Invictus' by W. E. Henley. Alongside these well-known verses are lesser-known gems waiting to be discovered. An inspiring and cheerful volume that celebrates the joy, beauty and resilience of the human spirit through the power of poetry.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest the Reverend Richard Coles. An uplifting collection of poetry about happiness with an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, The Reverend Richard Coles. Gaby Morgan is an Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children's Books and has run the children's poetry list for thirty years. She has compiled many bestselling anthologies including Read Me and Laugh: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, Poems from the First World War, Fairy Poems – which was short-listed for the CLPE Award – and the Macmillan Collector's Library poetry series featuring anthologies on Happiness, Nature, Childhood, Travelling and Christmas. Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Happy Thought Poem - 1: Happy Thought - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 2: Happy the Man - John Dryden Poem - 3: New Sights - Anon Poem - 4: On a Quiet Conscience - Charles I Poem - 5: Leisure - W.H. Davies Poem - 6: High Flights - John Gillespie Magee Jr. Poem - 7: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You - Anon. Poem - 8: If - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 9: Now May Every Living Thing - Anon. Poem - 10: Hurt No Living Thing - Christina Rossetti Poem - 11: from Auguries of Innocence - William Blake Poem - 12: To Every Thing There Is a Season - Book of Ecclesiastes Poem - 13: from Endymion - John Keats Poem - 14: Shining Things - Elizabeth Gould Poem - 15: The Quiet Life - Alexander Pope Poem - 16: Song of Apollo - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 17: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is - Sir Edward Dyer Poem - 18: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - John Keats Poem - 19: Eternity - William Blake Poem - 20: A Farewell - Charles Kingsley Poem - 21: A Vision - Henry Vaughan Poem - 22: Gratefulnesse - George Herbert Poem - 23: Thanks in Old Age - Walt Whitman Poem - 24: A Little Health - Anon. Unit - 2: Glory Be To God For Dappled Things Poem - 1: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 2: Amazing Grace - John Newton Poem - 3: God Be In My Head - Sarum Missal Poem - 4: 'Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace' - St Francis of Assisi Poem - 5: Miracles - Walt Whitman Poem - 6: Father, We Thank Thee - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 7: African Canticle - Anon Poem - 8: The Thanksgivings - Iroquois, Traditional tr. Harriet Maxwell Converse Poem - 9: Harvest Home - Henry Alford Poem - 10: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Wallace Willis Poem - 11: Desiderata - Max Ehrmann Poem - 12: The Iroquois Prayer - Iroquois, Traditional Poem - 13: Jewish Prayer - Service of the Orthodox Synagogue for the Festival of Tabernacles Poem - 14: from His Pilgrimage - Sir Walter Raleigh Poem - 15: When the Heart is Hard - Rabindranath Tagore Poem - 16: The Selkirk Grace - Robert Burns Poem - 17: Epitaph - Winifred Holtby Unit - 3: I Sing of Brooks, of Blossoms, Birds, and Bowers Poem - 1: The Argument of His Book - Robert Herrick Poem - 2: The Song of Wande
Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness, and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms – whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature.
Poems for Happiness is an uplifting collection that includes beloved classics such as 'How Do I Love Thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, 'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth and 'Invictus' by W. E. Henley. Alongside these well-known verses are lesser-known gems waiting to be discovered. An inspiring and cheerful volume that celebrates the joy, beauty and resilience of the human spirit through the power of poetry.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest the Reverend Richard Coles. An uplifting collection of poetry about happiness with an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, The Reverend Richard Coles. Gaby Morgan is an Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children's Books and has run the children's poetry list for thirty years. She has compiled many bestselling anthologies including Read Me and Laugh: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, Poems from the First World War, Fairy Poems – which was short-listed for the CLPE Award – and the Macmillan Collector's Library poetry series featuring anthologies on Happiness, Nature, Childhood, Travelling and Christmas. Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Happy Thought Poem - 1: Happy Thought - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 2: Happy the Man - John Dryden Poem - 3: New Sights - Anon Poem - 4: On a Quiet Conscience - Charles I Poem - 5: Leisure - W.H. Davies Poem - 6: High Flights - John Gillespie Magee Jr. Poem - 7: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You - Anon. Poem - 8: If - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 9: Now May Every Living Thing - Anon. Poem - 10: Hurt No Living Thing - Christina Rossetti Poem - 11: from Auguries of Innocence - William Blake Poem - 12: To Every Thing There Is a Season - Book of Ecclesiastes Poem - 13: from Endymion - John Keats Poem - 14: Shining Things - Elizabeth Gould Poem - 15: The Quiet Life - Alexander Pope Poem - 16: Song of Apollo - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 17: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is - Sir Edward Dyer Poem - 18: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - John Keats Poem - 19: Eternity - William Blake Poem - 20: A Farewell - Charles Kingsley Poem - 21: A Vision - Henry Vaughan Poem - 22: Gratefulnesse - George Herbert Poem - 23: Thanks in Old Age - Walt Whitman Poem - 24: A Little Health - Anon. Unit - 2: Glory Be To God For Dappled Things Poem - 1: Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 2: Amazing Grace - John Newton Poem - 3: God Be In My Head - Sarum Missal Poem - 4: 'Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace' - St Francis of Assisi Poem - 5: Miracles - Walt Whitman Poem - 6: Father, We Thank Thee - Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 7: African Canticle - Anon Poem - 8: The Thanksgivings - Iroquois, Traditional tr. Harriet Maxwell Converse Poem - 9: Harvest Home - Henry Alford Poem - 10: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Wallace Willis Poem - 11: Desiderata - Max Ehrmann Poem - 12: The Iroquois Prayer - Iroquois, Traditional Poem - 13: Jewish Prayer - Service of the Orthodox Synagogue for the Festival of Tabernacles Poem - 14: from His Pilgrimage - Sir Walter Raleigh Poem - 15: When the Heart is Hard - Rabindranath Tagore Poem - 16: The Selkirk Grace - Robert Burns Poem - 17: Epitaph - Winifred Holtby Unit - 3: I Sing of Brooks, of Blossoms, Birds, and Bowers Poem - 1: The Argument of His Book - Robert Herrick Poem - 2: The Song of Wande