Favorite poems celebrating the finest things in life--love, faith, family, country, and the beauty of nature.-- Features more than 100 poets, including William Blake, Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and other familiar greats.-- Newly updated. Now includes contemporary voices such as Seamus Heaney, Anne Carson, Czeslaw Milosz, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Raymond Carver.

Includes indexes.