I must have been in a poetry frame of mind one day when checking out a used book sale because I came home with four poetry books: The Birds and the Beasts Were There: Animal Poems Selected by William Cole. The illustrations are woodcuts by Helen Siegl. Not as wide a variety as the Oxford Book of Animal Poems (April 7, 2015), but more poems on each animal included.

What a Wonderful Bird the Frog Are: an Assortment of Humorous Poetry and Verse, edited by Myra Cohn Livingston. A rather odd collection, to be sure, but I'll admit to laughing out loud at several entries.

I bought this one for the title: Imagination's Other Place: Poems of Science and Mathematics, compiled by Helen Plotz and illustrated with wood engravings by Clare Leighton. There are many interesting poems, some of which (mostly the math ones) I haven't figured out yet.

This one just made sense for me to buy: Untune the Sky: Poems of Music and the Dance, compiled by Helen Plotz and illustrated with wood engravings by Clare Leighton. While I admire all the poems about instruments, composers, dancers and so on, my favorite is about the piano tuner by Ogden Nash (with rhythm and rhyme). ;-)

And don't forget two poetry books from earlier posts: Stars To-night by Sara Teasdale (August 16, 2014) and Collected Verse of Banjo Patterson (May 27, 2014)

Reading Hermit with Dog