An anthology of poems on many different topics by a variety of authors--past and present.

Twelve easy-to-read poems about festive holiday traditions.

An old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.

A narrative poem chronicling the life of the Civil War president.

Twenty-one poems celebrate and chronicle the actions of real-life persons (and one dog) who have performed heroic acts in service of others.

Not the lamb or the goat or the mule or the dove was born on the first Christmas long ago, but a special child was.

"Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Murder in the Cathedral." --Publisher's...