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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.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. This edition includes an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, the Reverend Richard Coles.
Poems for Happiness is an inspiring and life-affirming collection that features writing by some of our greatest…mehr
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.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. This edition includes an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, the Reverend Richard Coles. Poems for Happiness is an inspiring and life-affirming collection that features writing by some of our greatest poets whose work is still widely read today. It includes famous poems 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. In addition to these well-known verses, this beautiful volume includes lesser-known poems to discover and enjoy.
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Autorenporträt
The Reverend Richard Coles is a musician, writer, Church of England priest and co-presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. He read Theology at King's College London, then worked as a curate in Lincolnshire and London before going to Finedon in Northamptonshire, where he is now the vicar. He partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band The Communards, which achieved three top ten hits, including the number one record and bestselling single of 1986, 'Don't Leave Me This Way'. His books include Bringing in the Sheaves and Lives of the Improbable Saints. He lives in the Vicarage at Finedon with his civil partner and four dachshunds.
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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 Wandering Aengus W. B. Yeats Poem 3: Spring William Blake Poem 4: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth Poem 5: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose Emily Dickinson Poem 6: The Happy Child W. H. Davies Poem 7: from Pippa Passes Robert Browning Poem 8: A Greeting W. H. Davies Poem 9: February Twilight Sara Teasdale Poem 10: Adoration Christopher Smart Poem 11: The Sun Rising John Donne Poem 12: Sowing Edward Thomas Poem 13: A Dumb Friend Christina Rossetti Poem 14: My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth Poem 15: The Throstle Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem 16: May Thomas Dekker Poem 17: Moonlight, Summer Moonlight Emily Brontë Poem 18: The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats Poem 19: Where the Bee Sucks William Shakespeare Poem 20: To Make a Prairie Emily Dickinson Poem 21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Poem 22: Careless Rambles John Clare Poem 23: Magna Est Veritas Coventry Patmore Poem 24: Rest and Be Thankful! William Wordsworth Poem 24: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 William Wordsworth Poem 25: Moonlit Apples John Drinkwater Poem 26: Harvest Hymn John Greenleaf Whittier Poem 27: To Autumn John Keats Poem 28: Pleasant Sounds John Clare Poem 29: 'See yonder leafless trees against the sky' Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem 30: Evening Quatrains Charles Cotton Poem 31: Ode Joseph Addison Poem 32: 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free' William Wordsworth Poem 33: God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins Unit 4: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Poem 1: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Arthur Hugh Clough Poem 2: Freedom Olive Runner Poem 3: New Every Morning Susan Coolidge Poem 4: Will Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem 5: Invictus W. E. Henley Poem 6: Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth and Erlene Stetson Poem 7: This, Too, Shall Pass Away Lanta Wilson Smith Poem 8: 'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers Emily Dickinson Poem 9: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries Walt Whitman Poem 10: Courage Amelia Earhart Poem 11: The Call Charlotte Mew Poem 12: A Pebble James W. Foley Poem 13: from Henry V William Shakespeare Poem 14: The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Poem 15: The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln Poem 16: The Star Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key Poem 17: I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman Poem 18: No Coward Soul Is Mine Emily Brontë Poem 19: A Summing Up Charles Mackay Unit 5: Friendship is Love Without his Wings Poem 1: L'Amitié Est L'Amour Sans Ailes Lord Byron Poem 2: Outwitted Edwin Markham Poem 3: We Two Boys Together Clinging Walt Whitman Poem 4: Friendship Dinah Maria Craik Poem 5: Forbearance Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem 6: Friendship Aztec, Traditional Poem 7: Travelling William Wordsworth Poem 8: Love and Friendship Emily Brontë Poem 9: New Friends and Old Friends Joseph Parry Unit 6: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem 1: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats Poem 2: How Do I Love Thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem 3: Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Poem 4: Meeting at Night Robert Browning Poem 5: To a Friend Amy Lowell Poem 6: A Birthday Christina Rossetti Poem 7: Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick Poem 8: Rose cheeked Laura Thomas Campion Poem 9: In an Artist's Studio Christina Rossetti Poem 10: 'It was a lover and his lass' William Shakespeare Poem 11: Love Lightly Pleased Robert Herrick Poem 12: Invitation to Love Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem 13: from Paradise Lost John Milton Poem 14: Fulfillment William Cavendish Poem 15: from Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem 16: Camomile Tea Katherine Mansfield Poem 17: When I Heard at the Close of the Day Walt Whitman Poem 18: Song George Peele Poem 19: To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace Poem 20: A Decade Amy Lowell Unit 7: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Poem 1: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Anon Poem 2: The Lurcher William Cowper Poem 3: Dog Harold Monro Poem 4: The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem 5: A Winter Bluejay Sara Teasdale Poem 6: from To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem 7: 'Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day' Thomas Heywood Poem 8: from Jubilate Agno Christopher Smart Poem 9: Pangur Bán Anon. tr. Robin Flower Poem 10: The Owl and the Pussycat Edward Lear Poem 11: Seal Lullaby Rudyard Kipling Index ii: Index of Poets Index iii: Index of Titles Index iv: Index of First Lines
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 Wandering Aengus W. B. Yeats Poem 3: Spring William Blake Poem 4: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth Poem 5: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose Emily Dickinson Poem 6: The Happy Child W. H. Davies Poem 7: from Pippa Passes Robert Browning Poem 8: A Greeting W. H. Davies Poem 9: February Twilight Sara Teasdale Poem 10: Adoration Christopher Smart Poem 11: The Sun Rising John Donne Poem 12: Sowing Edward Thomas Poem 13: A Dumb Friend Christina Rossetti Poem 14: My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth Poem 15: The Throstle Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem 16: May Thomas Dekker Poem 17: Moonlight, Summer Moonlight Emily Brontë Poem 18: The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats Poem 19: Where the Bee Sucks William Shakespeare Poem 20: To Make a Prairie Emily Dickinson Poem 21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Poem 22: Careless Rambles John Clare Poem 23: Magna Est Veritas Coventry Patmore Poem 24: Rest and Be Thankful! William Wordsworth Poem 24: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 William Wordsworth Poem 25: Moonlit Apples John Drinkwater Poem 26: Harvest Hymn John Greenleaf Whittier Poem 27: To Autumn John Keats Poem 28: Pleasant Sounds John Clare Poem 29: 'See yonder leafless trees against the sky' Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem 30: Evening Quatrains Charles Cotton Poem 31: Ode Joseph Addison Poem 32: 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free' William Wordsworth Poem 33: God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins Unit 4: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Poem 1: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Arthur Hugh Clough Poem 2: Freedom Olive Runner Poem 3: New Every Morning Susan Coolidge Poem 4: Will Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem 5: Invictus W. E. Henley Poem 6: Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth and Erlene Stetson Poem 7: This, Too, Shall Pass Away Lanta Wilson Smith Poem 8: 'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers Emily Dickinson Poem 9: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries Walt Whitman Poem 10: Courage Amelia Earhart Poem 11: The Call Charlotte Mew Poem 12: A Pebble James W. Foley Poem 13: from Henry V William Shakespeare Poem 14: The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Poem 15: The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln Poem 16: The Star Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key Poem 17: I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman Poem 18: No Coward Soul Is Mine Emily Brontë Poem 19: A Summing Up Charles Mackay Unit 5: Friendship is Love Without his Wings Poem 1: L'Amitié Est L'Amour Sans Ailes Lord Byron Poem 2: Outwitted Edwin Markham Poem 3: We Two Boys Together Clinging Walt Whitman Poem 4: Friendship Dinah Maria Craik Poem 5: Forbearance Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem 6: Friendship Aztec, Traditional Poem 7: Travelling William Wordsworth Poem 8: Love and Friendship Emily Brontë Poem 9: New Friends and Old Friends Joseph Parry Unit 6: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem 1: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats Poem 2: How Do I Love Thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem 3: Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Poem 4: Meeting at Night Robert Browning Poem 5: To a Friend Amy Lowell Poem 6: A Birthday Christina Rossetti Poem 7: Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick Poem 8: Rose cheeked Laura Thomas Campion Poem 9: In an Artist's Studio Christina Rossetti Poem 10: 'It was a lover and his lass' William Shakespeare Poem 11: Love Lightly Pleased Robert Herrick Poem 12: Invitation to Love Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem 13: from Paradise Lost John Milton Poem 14: Fulfillment William Cavendish Poem 15: from Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem 16: Camomile Tea Katherine Mansfield Poem 17: When I Heard at the Close of the Day Walt Whitman Poem 18: Song George Peele Poem 19: To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace Poem 20: A Decade Amy Lowell Unit 7: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Poem 1: The Shape of a Good Greyhound Anon Poem 2: The Lurcher William Cowper Poem 3: Dog Harold Monro Poem 4: The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem 5: A Winter Bluejay Sara Teasdale Poem 6: from To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem 7: 'Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day' Thomas Heywood Poem 8: from Jubilate Agno Christopher Smart Poem 9: Pangur Bán Anon. tr. Robin Flower Poem 10: The Owl and the Pussycat Edward Lear Poem 11: Seal Lullaby Rudyard Kipling Index ii: Index of Poets Index iii: Index of Titles Index iv: Index of First Lines
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