Discover the power of imagination in an inspiring journey through time that brings history, mathematics, social studies, science, language, and geography to life. Readers will experience poetry like never before as it opens doors to ancient cultures, faraway places, the seasons and rhythms of the year, and the wonder of plants, animals, and nature. The Waldorf Book of Poetry includes more than 425 poems by classic and modern poets in a comprehensive collection that reveals the power of imagination in a wide variety of subjects. Teachers will find a perfect poem for every class, parents will discover old favorites and new treasures to share with their children, and poetry lovers will delight in this indispensable collection.

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• 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