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Tables of Contents for The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Caroline Kennedy
AMERICA
Introduction
3
4
Caroline Kennedy
America, The Beautiful
7
2
Katherine Lee Bates
For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration
9
3
Robert Frost
The Gift Outright
12
1
Robert Frost
Paul Revere's Ride'
13
5
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I Hear America Singing
18
1
Walt Whitman
Let America Be America Again
19
4
Langston Hughes
Brown River, Smile
23
8
Jean Toomer
FIRST POEMS
Introduction
31
2
Caroline Kennedy
First Fig
33
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig
33
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fog
34
1
Carl Sandburg
At the Ancient Pond
35
1
Basho
How Reluctantly
35
1
Basho
The Land of Counterpane
36
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swing
37
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bed in Summer
38
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
Teddy Bear's Picnic
39
2
Jimmy Kennedy
Three Ponies
41
1
Arthur Guiterman
The Yak
42
1
Theodore Roethke
Grizzly Bear
43
1
Mary Austin
The Elephant
44
1
Hilaire Belloc
The Little Turtle
45
1
Vachel Lindsay
Dogs and Weather
46
1
Winifred Welles
Little Trotty Wagtail
47
1
John Clare
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
48
2
Edward Lear
The Crocodile
50
1
Lewis Carroll
Fireflies in the Garden
51
1
Robert Frost
The Rose Family
52
1
Robert Frost
Who Has Seen the Wind?
53
1
Christina Rossetti
Tarantella
54
2
Hilaire Belloc
Sherwood
56
3
Alfred Noyes
Annabel Lee
59
2
Edgar Allan Poe
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church
61
1
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
62
1
Emily Dickinson
Mother to Son
63
1
Longston Hughes
The Red Wheelbarrow
64
1
William Carlos Williams
Psalm 23
65
1
Luke 2: 1--14
66
1
A Visit from St. Nicholas
67
4
Clement Clarke Moore
ADVENTURE
Introduction
71
2
Caroline Kennedy
Skye Boat Song
73
2
Cargoes
75
1
John Masefield
Sea-Fever
76
1
John Masefield
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
77
1
Rudyard Kipling
Tableau
78
1
Countee Cullen
Merry-Go-Round
79
1
Langston Hughes
The Road Not Taken
80
1
Robert Frost
Song
81
1
John Donne
Richard III, I, i, 1--13
82
1
William Shakespeare
Henry V, IV, iii, 40--67 (St. Crispin's Day Speech)
83
1
William Shakespeare
The Isles of Greece
84
4
George Cordon, Lord Byron
Ulysses
88
3
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ithaca
91
4
Constantine P. Cavafy
ESCAPE
Introduction
95
2
Caroline Kennedy
The Flowers
97
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
Behind Stowe
98
1
Elizabeth Bishop
In Just
99
1
E. E. Cummings
The Pasture
100
1
Robert Frost
Portrait By A Neighbour
101
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Song of Wandering Aengus
102
1
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
103
1
William Butler Yeats
The Odyssey, Book IX
104
1
Homer
The Tempest, V, i, 104--110 (Ariel's Song)
105
1
William Shakespeare
I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
106
1
Emily Dickinson
These Are the Days When Birds Come Back
107
1
Emily Dickinson
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
108
1
Robert Frost
Kubla Khan
109
2
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Dawn
111
1
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium
112
2
William Butler Yeats
Of Mere Being
114
3
Wallace Stevens
ROMANCE AND LOVE
Introduction
117
2
Caroline Kennedy
The Song of Solomon 2: 8--16
119
1
Paradise Lost, Book IV, 639--658
120
1
John Milton
Romeo and Juliet, III, ii, 17--31
121
1
William Shakespeare
Sonnet XVIII
122
1
William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXIX
123
1
William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXVI
124
1
William Shakespeare
The Bargain
125
1
Sir Philip Sidney
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
126
1
Christopher Marlowe
Her Reply
127
1
Sir Walter Raleigh
She Walks in Beauty
128
1
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Dr. Faustus, Scene XIII
129
1
Christopher Marlowe
The Hill
130
1
Rupert Brooke
The Vase of Perfume
131
1
Chang Wu-chien
When A Beggar Beholds You
132
1
Anonymous
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond
133
1
E. E. Cummings
For C. K. At His Christening
134
1
Daniel Lawrence Kelleher
A Prayer in Spring
135
1
Robert Frost
Corinthians 13: 1--13
136
3
REFLECTION
Introduction
139
1
Caroline Kennedy
Ecclesiastes 3: 1--8
140
1
Prayer For Peace
141
1
St. Francis of Assisi
Sonnet on His Blindness
142
1
John Milton
Death, Be Not Proud
143
1
John Donne
Ozymandias
144
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
His Pilgrimage
145
1
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ode on a Grecian Urn
146
2
John Keats
Antigone, Ode I
148
1
Sophocles
Agamemnon, Act I
149
1
Aeschylus
Olympian Ode II
150
1
Pindar
Magpies in Picardy
151
2
T. P. Cameron Wilson
Aftermath
153
2
Siegfried Sassoon
The Second Coming
155
1
William Butler Yeats
Choose Something Like a Star
156
1
Robert Frost
One Art
157
1
Elizabeth Bishop
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
158
1
Langston Hughes
Acquainted with the Night
159
1
Robert Frost
The Truly Great
160
1
Stephen Spender
For A Poet
161
1
Countee Cullen
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
162
1
William Butler Yeats
Matthew 5:1--10
163
4
IN HER OWN WORDS
Introduction
167
1
Caroline Kennedy
Essay
168
1
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Sea Joy
169
1
Jacqueline Bouvier
Thoughts
170
2
Jacqueline Bouvier
Meanwhile in Massachusetts
172
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy