Publisher Annotation: Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat, admiring a heron's beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help whenever possible. The poems follow a seasonal progression, ending with a final poem that imagines where each animal might be on a winter night.

A collection of works by poets from the state of Massachusetts

CONTENTS OF BOOK I. The Three Kings of Cologne 9 A modern version of an old English Chronicle. By Harrison S. Morris. The Three Christmas Masses 47 From the French of Alphonse Daudet. By Harrison S. Morris. A Russian Christmas Party[A] 63 By Count Léon Tolstoi. Two Christmases 103 From the German of Georg Schuster. A Tale of a Turkey 121 By Harrison S. Morris. A Still Christmas[B] 173 By Agnes Repplier. Thrond 193 From the Norwegian...

Who is Happy in Russia? (Russian: Кому на Руси жить хорошо, romanized: Komú na Rusí zhit' horoshó) is an epic four-part poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, which he started publishing in January 1866 in Sovremennik and Otechestvennye Zapiski. Its fourth part, "The Feast for All the World" (1876–1877), remained unfinished. The only full English translation was made in 1917, under the title Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?, by Juliet...

In March, 1914, a volume appeared entitled 'Des Imagistes.' It was a collection of the work of various young poets, presented together as a school. This school has been widely discussed by those interested in new movements in the arts, and has already become a household word. Differences of taste and judgment, however, have arisen among the contributors to that book; growing tendencies are forcing them along different paths. Those of us whose work...

A collection of poetry.

This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life. Composed by Japanese Zen monks who lived from the last quarter of the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth century, these poems represent a portion of the best of the writing called...

This is a Project Gutenberg Edition released 2014. MOST of the verses in this little volume were conceived and written, if not quite finished, at the time of Cronje's surrender at Paardeberg. A certain doubt, however, as to any message of theirs, though modestly set off by a belief in their polemic and literary value, has, I think now, unduly delayed their advent into the crowded world of print; and, though the present juncture of a heralded, but,...

A collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, an American author and poet. Her works include "Poems of Passion and Solitude," which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, "The Worlds and I," was published in 1918, a year before her death. (Source: Wikipedia)