David Thompson Watson McCord (November 15, 1897 in New York City – April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.

He grew up in Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Lincoln High School, and earned three degrees from Harvard University.^[2] His work appeared in Harper's.^[3]

He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.^[1]

• Golden Rose Award
• 1954 Guggenheim Fellow^[4]
• 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
• 1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English
• Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont
• Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London

Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.^[5]

• Oddly Enough. Washburn & Thomas. 1926.
• Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. Illustrator Henry B. Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection. Doubleday. 1948.
• An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
• Odds Without Ends. Little, Brown & Co. 1954.
• Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 978-0-316-55509-8.
• Every Time I Climb A Tree. Little, Brown & Co. 1967.
• All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. ISBN 978-0-440-40376-0.
• The Star in the Pail. Little, Brown and Company. 1975. ISBN 0-316-55515-0.^[5]
• One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977. ISBN 9780316555166.^[5]
• Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.

• The Camp at Lockjaw. Doubleday. 1952.
• In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.

• David McCord, ed. (1945). What Cheer: An anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. New York: Coward-McCann.

• Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1936). Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Harcourt, Brace and company.
• David Lehman; John Brehm, eds. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516251-6.

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