Poems of Youth, Vintage Middle School Poetry School Book, 1928

A charming 1928 school poetry reader, Poems of Youth: Verse for Junior High Schools, edited by Alice Cecilia Cooper and illustrated by Samuel B. Wylie.

Published by Ginn and Company, this well-loved hardcover gathers a wide range of classic and contemporary verse chosen to engage young readers through strong narrative interest, imagination, and rhythm.

The selections reflect themes such as childhood, nature, work, adventure, seasons, and patriotism, featuring well-known poets including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and many others.

This copy shows notable wear with fraying and loss along the spine, softening at the corners, scattered pencil marks, and age-toning throughout, all signs of a long classroom life that add to its vintage character!