SHELF: POETRY & SONG
★American Folk Songs for Children. Ruth Crawford Seeger. ill. Barbara Cooney. {in Home, School and Nursery/ A Book for Children, Parents and Teachers} [Oak Publications, 2002]
★Antigone. Sophocles. trans. Richard Emil Braun. [Oxford University Press, 1973]
✦Bells and Grass. Walter de la Mare. ill. Dorothy Lang. [The Viking Press, 1942]
✦Beowulf. trans. Seamus Heaney. {A New Verse Translation} [Bilingual Edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999]
★Beowulf. trans. Frederick Rebsamen. {An Updated Verse Translation} [Harper Perennial, 2004]
✦Beowulf. trans. J.R.R. Tolkien. ed. Christopher Tolkien. {A Translation and Commentary/ Together with Sellic Spell} [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014]
✦Best Loved Poems of the American People, The. ed. Hazel Felleman. [Doubleday, 1936]
✦Book of Psalms for Singing, The. [Crown and Covenant Publications, 2013]
✦De Colores and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children. José-Luis Orozco. ill. Elisa Kleven. [Puffin Books, 1994]
✦Elfin Knight, The. Edmund Spenser. ed. Tony J. Sumpter. {Book II of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen} [Canon Press, 2010]
✦Evangeline. Henry W. Longfellow. {A Tale of Love in Acadie} [Goose Lane Editions, 2004]
✦Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves. Edmund Spenser. ed. Roy Maynard. {Book I of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen} [Canon Press, 1999]
✦Golden Hours. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss. {Heart Hymns of the Christian Life} [Solid Ground Christian Books, 2001]
✦Heap o’ Livin’, A. Edgar A. Guest. [The Reilly & Lee Co., 1916]
✦Inferno, The. Dante Alighieri. trans. Henry W. Longfellow. ill. Gustave Doré. [Barnes and Nobles Classics, 2005]
✦Odyssey, The. Homer. trans. Robert Fagles. [Viking, 1996]
✦Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. T.S. Eliot. ill. Edward Gorey. [Harcourt Brace and Company, 1982]
✦One Hundred and One Famous Poems. ed. Roy J. Cook. {with a Prose Supplement} [The Cable Company, 1929]
✦Oxford Book of American Verse, The. ed. F.O. Matthiessen. [Oxford University Press, 1852]
✦Platero and I. Juan Ramón Jiménez. trans. Eloïse Roach. ill. Jo Alys Downs. [University of Texas Press, 1971]
✦Platero y yo. Juan Ramón Jiménez. ill. Javier Dueñas. [Editorial Gente Nueva, 2010]
✦Platero y yo/ Platero and I. Juan Ramón Jiménez. trans. Myra Cohn Livingstone. trans. Joseph F. Domínguez. ill. Antonio Frasconi. [Clarion Books, 1993]
✦¡Pío Peep! Alma Flor Ada. F. Isabel Campoy. Alice Schertle. ill. Viví Escrivá. {Rimas Tradicionales en Español/ Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes} [HarperCollins Publishers, 2003]
✦Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice, The. Helen Steiner Rice. ed. Viginia J. Ruehlmann. [Revell, 2007]
★Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. ed. Rodger L. Tarr. {Songs of a Housewife} [First Edition, University Press of Florida, 1997.]
★Rules for the Dance. Mary Oliver {A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse} [A Mariner Original, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998]
★Song of Roland, The. trans. Dorthy L. Sayers. [Penguin Books]
✦Sonnets from the Portuguese. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. ill. Fred A. Mayer. [Avenal Books]
✦Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Robert Frost. ill. Susan Jeffers. [Dutton Children’s Books, 1978]
★Up from the Earth. ed. Sylvia Spenser. {A Collection of Garden Poems 1300 B.C.-A.D.1935} [Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935]
✦Verses of Virtue. ed. Elizabeth Beall Phillips. {The Poetry and Prose of Christian Womanhood} [The Vision Forum, Inc., 2007]
•We’ve remodeled our playroom as a home library. Two of the eight beautiful cases are all my own, and I have been arranging and rearranging books since. I love browsing through other people’s shelves, so here you go!—another of my favorites. •
May 27, 2014