Poems of Gratitude (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

A unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating thanksgiving in its many forms, secular and spiritual. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. For centuries, poets in all cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the people and things of this world. The voices collected here range from Sappho, Horace, and Rumi to Shakespeare and Milton, from Wordsworth, Rilke, Yeats, Rossetti, and Dickinson to Czesaw Miosz, Langston Hughes, Yehuda Amichai, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Maya Angelou, and many more. Poems of Gratitude includes beloved favorites, classics from China and Japan; traditional Navajo, Aztec, Inuit, and Iroquois poems; devotional lyrics drawn from the major religious traditions of the world; poetic tributes to autumn and the harvest season that draw attention to natures bounty and poignant beauty as winter approaches; and more. The result is a splendidly varied literary feast that honors and affirms the joy in our lives while acknowledging the sorrows and losses that give that joy its keenness. Ingeniously organized in nine sectionsGiving Thanks, For Life, For Family, For Love, For Friendship, For Health, For Nature, Reverence, and Thanksgivingthis beautiful volume belongs at every family gathering and dinner party with friends, a fun book to be passed around the table, and an indispensable resource for making toasts. Poems of Gratitude collects more than 160 short poems, including: Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Thanks by W.S. Merwin The Selkirk Grace by Robert Burns Welcome Morning by Anne Sexton Thanks in Old Age by Walt Whitman To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe O My Friends by Rainer Maria Rilke Eagle Poem by Joy Harjo Prayer by Maya Angelou Harvest Sunset by Carl Sandburg Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.