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Contents
INTRODUCTION
GROWING UP
I Want to Know by John Drinkwater
There Was a Little Girl by H.W. Long fellow
Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear’ by George MacDonald
The Leader by Roger McGough
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lost Doll by Charles Kingsley
Infant Joy by William Blake
Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field
Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg
maggie and milly and molly and may by ee cummings
Little Brother’s Secret by Katherine Mansfield
Homework! Oh, Homework! by Jack Prelutsky
Love Between Brothers and Sisters by Isaac Watts
The Pleiades by Amy Lowell
The Children’s Hour by H.W. Longfellow
The First Tooth by Charles and Mary Lamb
It Was Long Ago by Eleanor Farjeon
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
All the World’s a Stage by William Shakespeare
Brother and Sister by Lewis Carroll
HUMOUR AND NONSENSE
The Song of Mr Toad by Kenneth Grahame
Old Mother Hubbard by Sarah Catherine Martin
The King’s Breakfast by A.A. Milne
Too Many Daves by Dr Seuss
Poetry Jump-Up by John Agard
Down Vith Children! By Roald Dahl
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
What is an Epigram’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poor Old Lady by Anon
To a Friend in Search of Rural Seclusion by Christopher Logue
Dear Mum by Brian Patten
Talking Turkeys!! by Benjamin Zephaniah
Macavity the Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot
Amelia Mixed the Mustard by A.E. Housman
There Was an Old Man on the Border by Edward Lear
The Dong with a Luminous Nose by Edward Lear
Sir Humphry Davy by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Kenneth by Wendy Cope
True Wit and A Couplet by Alexander Pope
Fish’s Night Song by Christian Morgenstern
A Calligramme by Guillaume Apollinaire
On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan
The Duel by Eugene Field
Humpty Dumpty’s Recitation by Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
TELL ME A TALE
Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death by Hilaire Belloc
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
The Little Dog’s Day by Rupert Brooke
A Smuggler’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson
The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies by Anon
A Visit from St Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
Sweet Polly Oliver by Anon
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Hunter Trials by John Betjeman
The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
Lochnivar by Sir Walter Scott
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Hat by Carol Ann Duffy
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
MAGIC
The Little Elf-man by John Kendrick Bangs
Silver by Walter de la Mare
The Fairies by William Allingham
Over Hill, Over Dale by William Shakespeare
Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble by William Shakespeare
The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold
Sabrina Fair by John Milton
The Elf Singing by William Allingham
The Fly-Away Horse by Eugene Field
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE
Us Two by A.A. Milne
Rainbows by Kahlil Gibran
An Old English Riddle by Anon
The Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear
The Girl with Many Eyes by Tim Burton
The Arrow and the Song by H.W. Longfellow
Sally in Our Alley by Henry Carey
Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats
Friendship by Elizabeth Jennings
Bright Star! by John Keats
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Song: Why So Pale and Wan’ by Sir John Suckling
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
How Do I Love Thee’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Love by George Herbert
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
The Chilterns by Rupert Brooke
We’ll Go No More A-Roving by George Gordon, Lord Byron
ANIMALS, NATURE AND SEASONS
Ducks’ Ditty by Kenneth Grahame
Mary’s Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale
Pussy can sit by the fire and sing by Rudyard Kipling
The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Snow Flakes by Emily Dickinson
The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
The African Lion by A.E. Housman
The Cricket by Kobayashi Issa
Amulet by Ted Hughes
The Donkey by G.K. Chesterton
The Lamb by William Blake
The Tyger by William Blake
The Rainbow by Christina Rossetti
Sea Fever by John Masefield
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Boy’s Song by James Hogg
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
The Trees by Philip Larkin
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
Trees by Sara Coleridge
WAR, HISTORY AND DEATH
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November by Anon
Here Dead We Lie by A.E. Housman
An Epitaph by John Dryden
Rhyme to Remember Kings and Queens by Anon
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans
Does It Matter? by Siegfried Sassoon
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
St Crispian’s Day by William Shakespeare
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
An Incident of the French Camp by Robert Browning
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey
Jerusalem by William Blake
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Eve of Waterloo by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
Requiescat by Matthew Arnold
Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LESSONS FOR LIFE
Little Things by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Our Saviour’s Golden Rule by Isaac Watts
The Frog by Hilaire Belloc
The Way through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
Timothy Winters by Charles Causley
‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
If by Rudyard Kipling
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley
Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
Up-hill by Christina Rossetti
Invictus by W.E. Henley
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Humility by Robert Herrick
Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
BEDTIME
Hush Little Baby by Anon
The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Star by Jane Taylor
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
The Race to Get to Sleep by Brian Patten
A Child’s Evening Prayer by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Crescent Moon by Amy Lowell
Escape at Bedtime by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sweet and Low by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Night Mail by W.H. Auden
POEMS FOR POSSIBILITIES
POETIC TERMS
INDEXES
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