"This is an original collection of best-loved American poems and songs, the first published in large print. It is divided into five sections: Childrens Poems and Rhymes, Story Poems and Ballads, Patriotic Poems and Songs, Love Poems, and Songs of Self and Nature. Children Poems includes such childhood favorites as Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore, The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Being Brave at Night by Edgar Guest. Story poems include Paul Revere's Ride and The Wreck of the Hesparus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert W. Service to Casey at the Bat. Patriotic Poems and Songs range from The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key to When Johnny Comes Marching Home to Over There by George M. Cohan, and include beloved songs like America, 'Tis of Thee and America the Beautiful as well as Battle Hymn of the Republic and Walt Whitman's tributes to Abraham Lincoln, O Captain! My Captain! and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Love Poems include Give All to Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson, I Had No Time to Hate by Emily Dickinson and Love Is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Songs of Self and Nature include Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and 10 of Emily Dickinson s best-known poems. This is a must-have collection that will delight both poetry lovers and nostalgic readers. It includes an introduction by the editor and indexes of titles and first lines."-- Provided by publisher.