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Straight On Till Morning: Poems of the Imaginary World

Helen Hill & Agnes Perkins & Alethea Helbig

First published 1977
Publisher Thomas Y. Crowell
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Ted Lewin
Pages x+150
Price $8.95
ISBN 0690013035

  • First printing per full number line.
  • The copyright is of 1977.
  • Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whideside.
  • Price is printed of front flap of dust jacket.
  • Cover artwork continues on back cover.
  • "A collection of nearly one hundred poems by modern English and American poets; childrens poetry" - summary stated on copyright page.
  • A table of contents appears on unnumbered page [v].
  • Only genre poems included in this entry.
  • Appending Biographies of the Poets on pages 131-144, and indexes of poets, of titles, and of First Lines on pages 145-147.
  • Acknowledgments on pages 148-150.
  • Data from Archive.org copy.

Page Title Author(s) Type
2 Halfway Down A. A. Milne Poem
8 The Turn of the Road James Stephens Poem
12 The Small Theodore Roethke Poem
14 Invocation Louis MacNeice Poem
16 The Paint Box E. V. Rieu Poem
17 Lighthearted William William Carlos Williams Poem
18 Unicorn William Jay Smith Poem
29 Rebels from Fairy Tales Hyacinthe Hill Poem
31 Warning to Children Robert Graves Poem
38 A Lady Comes to an Inn Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
40 My Sister Jane Ted Hughes Poem
42 Tony the Turtle E. V. Rieu Poem
43 A Trueblue Gentleman Kenneth Patchen Poem
44 The Haughty Snail-King Vachel Lindsay Poem
45 The Lady and the Bear Theodore Roethke Poem
47 Self-portrait, As a Bear Donald Hall Poem
48 Alligator on the Escalator Eve Merriam Poem
50 The Two Witches Robert Graves Poem
51 Old Ben Golliday Mark Van Doren Poem
52 Jim Jay Walter de la Mare Poem
59 The Witch's Cat Ian Serraillier Poem
60 who knows if the moon's e. e. cummings Poem
61 The Hatch Norma Farber Poem
63 Flight of the Roller-Coaster Raymond Souster Poem
64 The Pinwheel's Song John Ciardi Poem
68 Laly, Laly Mark Van Doren Poem
69 Green Candles Humbert Wolfe Poem
70 Mistletoe Walter de la Mare Poem
72 Ghost Boy Mark Van Doren Poem
73 The Green Train E. V. Rieu Poem
74 Long Distance William Stafford Poem
75 Shadow-Bride J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
76 The Horn James Reeves Poem
77 Middle Ages Siegfried Sassoon Poem
78 The Beast Theodore Roethke Poem
82 hist whist e. e. cummings Poem
84 The Man from the Woods John Ciardi Poem
88 In the Orchard James Stephens Poem
89 The Bear Who Came to Dinner Adrien Stoutenburg Poem
90 Nightmare of Mouse Robert Penn Warren Poem
91 The Magical Mouse Kenneth Patchen Poem
92 Where Two O'Clock Came From Kenneth Patchen Poem
93 Overheard on a Saltmarsh Harold Monro Poem
94 The Mewlips J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
98 Bee! I'm expecting you! Emily Dickinson Poem
99 The Last Words of a Bluebird Robert Frost Poem
104 The Flattered Flying Fish E. V. Rieu Poem
106 Little Fan James Reeves Poem
108 Rat Riddles Carl Sandburg Poem
109 The Telephone Robert Frost Poem
110 Needles and Pins Mark Van Doren Poem
114 The Hare and the Tortoise Ian Serraillier Poem
117 Death of the Cat Ian Serraillier Poem
119 The Wooing Frog James Reeves Poem
120 After Ever Happily Ian Serraillier Poem
121 The Stone Troll J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
129 Legend Judith Wright Poem
vii Foreword (Straight On Till Morning: Poems of the Imaginary World) Helen Hill & Agnes Perkins & Alethea Helbig Essay