The Lion Children's Treasury of Classic Verse is an invitation to explore the wonderful heritage of poetry. Here are memorable and moving word pictures of the world around us - the birds and the animals, and the changing moods of the season. Here are delightful insights into people and their relationships, their joys and their worries. Here are the reflections of those who have sought to understand life's mysteries: their observations, their doubts and their expressions of faith

Includes poetry from John Donne, George Herbert, John Milton, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift, William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Clare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and many more.
 
The selection demonstrates the significant part that Christian imagery has played in English literature. Beautiful line illustrations by Hannah Firmin throughout make this book a delight to browse.
 
Size: 236mm x 278mm x 16mm
Hardback
No. pages: 96