An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.

An old English rhyme names all the animals a farm boy feeds on his daily rounds.

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written...

Presents a selection of the author's illustrated poems featuring fairies, flowers, and the summer.

Presents a facsimile reproduction of eighteenth-century poet William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" a satire on religion and morality, including twenty-seven color plates.

Presents humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and...

A kindly fairy uses her purchases only for a short time, then releases them for their own good or the good of others.

Nineteen poems by Robert Browning include "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," "Fra Lippo Lippi," and "Love among the Ruins."