• From the Foreword by Eugene Schwartz: 
    "This unparalleled collection of poetry for Waldorf practitioners is at once an assemblage of powerful rhythmic exercises, a miniature dictionary/thesaurus of English usage and etymology, a manual of style by its most sensitive and trenchant masters, and an encyclopedic compendium of historical events and evocations of geographical settings (including a number of places that, technically, do not even exist). Read through these carefully selected and artfully categorized poems and you will receive the better part of a Waldorf education."
    "David Kennedy has come to our rescue with  this book."
    "'Camerado!' Walt Whitman tells us in his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, 'This is no book; who touches this touches a man.' In this book, David Kennedy shares with us the currents of sound and meaning that passed between him and his students in the course of his teaching career. His years of experience have helped to make his selection of poems and the order in which they appear a model that may be followed by any teacher wishing to encounter and honor the Word within the Waldorf curriculum. Touch this book, and you will touch and teach each child in your care."
  • Imagination
Fairies and Elves; Dwarfs and Leprachauns; Goblins, Giants and Gypsies; Jumblies and Puk-Wudjies; Rulers of the Desert and Monsters of the Deep; Knights and Ladies; Smugglers and Sailors
  • Sun, Moon, Earth & Stars
Sun and moon poems for all ages, Astronomy, Farming, and Geography including Streams, Rivers, Mountains and States
  • The Seasons
Through the year in verse and rhyme: Autumn, Sukkot, Hallowe'en, Frosty days and nights, Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, New Year, Epiphany, Candlemas, Spring and Summer
  • Saints
St. Michael and the lives of St. George, St. Jerome, St. Francis and St. Martin
  • Fables
Aesop and others in poetry: The Hare, the Tortoise, the Fox, the Lion, the Wolf, the Mouse, the Crow, the Goat, the Oak, the Reed, the Stork, the Peacock, the Butterfly, the Caterpillar, the Spider, the Fly
  • Flowers, Plants & Trees
Daffodils, Flower Elves, Pansies, Snowdrops, Dandelions, Pussy Willows, Ferns, Acorns, Trees of all kinds and more
  • Animals
Ranging from simple verses to poems for middle school including The Blind Men and the Elephant and the Leap of Roushan Beg
  • History
Norse myths, Ancient India with selections from the Rig Veda in Sanskrit and English, Ancient Persia, Ancient Egypt, Old Testament, Ancient Assyria, Ancient Greece with selections in Ancient Greek with pronunciation guide, Ancient Rome, New Testament, The Vikings, Old Norse poetry with pronunciation guide, Beowulf, Arthur, Chaucer with pronunciation guide, America and the Colonies, American Independence, Revolution in Europe and Napoleon, US Civil War, The Native Americans, Human Rights and the 20th Century, Freedom Rediscovered
  • Inspiration
Wordsworth, Goethe, Dickinson, Wilcox, Rossetti, Kipling, Whitman, Henley, O'Shaughnessy, Masefield, Frost, and more
  • Narrative
Poems that tell a story including The Poor Old Lady, This Is the House That Jack Built, The Fisherman and the Flounder, Hiawatha, Lochinvar, Tubal Cain, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Highwayman and more
  • Numbers & Grammar
Numbers, Arithmetic and Geometry; The Alphabet, Sentences, Parts of Speech, Punctuation and Grammar
  • Shakespeare
Selections and soliloquies from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cymbeline, As You Like It, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet and Macbeth