The Pocket Book of Popular Verse

the long version

Poetry of, by, and for the people. The greatest patrons of poetry have been and still are the common people. They are the ones who discover the poems whose rhythm and words run through their memories and roll off their tongues from generation to generation, Here in this volume are many of the best of those poems that are so familiar to the man in the street, the farmer, the student, the aged person in his rocking chair...--goodreads