The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

8 best books like The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow): Sabine's Notebook, Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888, Rent, A Child's Garden of Verses, The Family Under the Bridge, The Dream Songs, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, Sam the Minuteman

Sabine's Notebook
AuthorNick Bantock
ISBN0811801802
Griffin

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me--then I will come to you.

Sabine

Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover that Griffin had created to soothe his loneliness....
AuthorErnest Lawrence Thayer
ISBN1929766009
"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather...
Rent
AuthorJonathan Larson
ISBN0688154379
In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds.Rent has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway and taken America by storm. Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize...
A Child's Garden of Verses
AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
ISBN0689823827
Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson...
The Family Under the Bridge
AuthorNatalie Savage Carlson
ISBN0064402509
This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them.
But the children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one, even if the friend...
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374530661
This edition combines The Dream Songs, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs. Of The Dream Songs, A. Alvarez wrote in The Observer, "A major achievement. He has written an elegy on his...
AuthorFrank O'Hara
ISBN0520201663
Frank O’Hara

Why I Am Not a Painter

I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up....
Sam the Minuteman
AuthorNathaniel Benchley
ISBN0064441075
"Get your gun!" Sam's father said. "The British soldiers are coming this way!" Sam's father was a Minuteman. Sam was ready in a minute.Father and son rushed to the village green. Other Minutemen were already there. Through the long night they waited and waited. Then, at dawn, the soldiers came!

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