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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Seitenzahl: 576
- Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 53mm
- Gewicht: 834g
- ISBN-13: 9781509860548
- ISBN-10: 1509860541
- Artikelnr.: 48604310
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Seitenzahl: 576
- Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 53mm
- Gewicht: 834g
- ISBN-13: 9781509860548
- ISBN-10: 1509860541
- Artikelnr.: 48604310
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
Allie Esiri, described in a Tatler profile as 'a poetry powerhouse', is a former English stage, film, and television actress, now a writer. Her iF Poems app was launched to great acclaim and was the Apple Editors' Choice All Time Favourite app. Her books include iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility and The Love Book. Her collection A Poem for Every Night of the Year was a phenomenal success with rave reviews and her follow-up collection A Poem for Every Day of the Year is just as thoughtful and inspiring. Allie also organizes and hosts live poetry events and is on the advisory board for the Cheltenham Festival. A thousand people attended her event at the National Theatre! Zanna Goldhawk creates her illustrations from her seaside cottage in Cornwall. She takes huge inspiration from nature and animals, and has a mild obsession with colour and pattern (and coffee). Zanna studied illustration at the University of Gloucestershire, where she started her illustrated gifts and stationery business Papio Press with her husband. Now she splits her time between designing beautiful products and illustrating gorgeous books.
Introduction
i: Introduction Unit
1: January Chapter
1: Promise
Jackie Kay Chapter
2: Infant Joy
William Blake Chapter
3: Poem for a New Year
Matt Goodfellow Chapter
4: Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain
A. A. Milne Chapter
5: from Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare Chapter
6: The Three Kings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Dawn
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
8: Life
Charlotte Brontë Chapter
9: The Pulley
George Herbert Chapter
10: Letter to N. Y.
Elizabeth Bishop Chapter
11: Dust of Snow
Robert Frost Chapter
12: Occasional Poem
Jacqueline Woodson Chapter
13: The Midnight Skaters
Roger McGough Chapter
14: To Science
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
15: from I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapter
16: The Burial of Sir John Moore
Charles Wolfe Chapter
17: from Elegy on Captain Cook
Anna Seward Chapter
18: January
William Carlos Williams Chapter
19: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Emily Dickinson Chapter
20: Days
Philip Larkin Chapter
21: A Colossal Glossary
Paul Muldoon Chapter
22: Human Family
Maya Angelou Chapter
23: The Distance
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
24: Friendship
Cole Porter Chapter
25: To a Mouse
Robert Burns Chapter
26: Ballad of the Totems
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Chapter
27: First They Came for the Jews
Martin Niemöller Chapter
28: Yonder See the Morning Blink
A. E. Housman Chapter
29: from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare Chapter
30: Rain
Spike Milligan Chapter
31: Peas
Anon. Unit
2: February Chapter
1: Days
Tony Mitton Chapter
2: from February
John Clare Chapter
3: A Giant Firefly
Kobayashi Issa Chapter
4: All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
J. R. R. Tolkien Chapter
5: Spellbound
Emily Brontë Chapter
6: A Riddle
Jonathan Swift Chapter
7: A Winter Bluejay
Sara Teasdale Chapter
8: An Unusual Cat
Poem
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: It Was Long Ago
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
10: Colouring In
Jan Dean Chapter
11: The Missile
Michael Leunig Chapter
12: Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson Chapter
13: Shrove Tuesday
Celia Warren Chapter
14: Valentine
Wendy Cope Chapter
15: All You Need Is Love
John Lennon and Paul McCartney Chapter
16: Lettuce Marry
Anon. Chapter
17: It's No Use
Sappho Chapter
18: from The Great Lover
Rupert Brooke Chapter
19: Rainbow
John Agard Chapter
20: A Summing Up
Charles Mackay Chapter
21: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Anon. Chapter
22: The Little Mute Boy
Federico García Lorca Chapter
23: There Is No Frigate Like a Book
Emily Dickinson Chapter
24: She Was Poor, But She Was Honest
Billy Bennett Chapter
25: First Sight
Philip Larkin Chapter
26: The Poetry Grand National
Roger Stevens Chapter
27: Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter
28: In Tenebris
Ford Madox Ford Chapter
29: My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth Unit
3: March Chapter
1: from Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas Chapter
2: The Bright Field
R. S. Thomas Chapter
3: Extinct
Mandy Coe Chapter
4: Holi
Chrissie Gittins Chapter
5: The River in March
Ted Hughes Chapter
6: Young Lambs
John Clare Chapter
7: To My Sister
William Wordsworth Chapter
8: Warning
Jenny Joseph Chapter
9: The Battle of the Sexes
Liz Brownlee Chapter
10: Remember
Christina Rossetti Chapter
11: Mothering Sunday
George Hare Leonard Chapter
12: Human Affection
Stevie Smith Chapter
13: Here Comes the Sun
George Harrison Chapter
14: Green Rain
Mary Webb Chapter
15: To Daffodils
Robert Herrick Chapter
16: Go and Catch a Falling Star
John Donne Chapter
17: Ich Am of Irlaunde
Anon. Chapter
18: Meeting at Night
Robert Browning Chapter
19: Historical Associations
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
20: A Morning Song
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
21: Spring
Christina Rossetti Chapter
22: Spring
William Blake Chapter
23: Sonnet 98
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: The Frog and the Nightingale
Vikram Seth Chapter
25: Today
Billy Collins Chapter
26: I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood Chapter
27: Ballad of the Bread Man
Charles Causley Chapter
28: I Watched a Blackbird
Thomas Hardy Chapter
29: Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
A. E. Housman Chapter
30: The Cherry
Tree Carol
Anon. Chapter
31: Easter Day
Oscar Wilde Unit
4: April Chapter
1: April Fool
Louis MacNeice Chapter
2: The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll Chapter
3: The Jumblies
Edward Lear Chapter
4: Who Killed Cock Robin?
Anon. Chapter
5: First Word (After Helen Keller)
Rachel Rooney Chapter
6: The People of the Eastern Ice
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
7: from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter
8: Home
Thoughts from Abroad
Robert Browning Chapter
9: The Ballad of Semmerwater
William Watson Chapter
10: Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep
Mary Elizabeth Frye Chapter
11: In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Dear Yuri
Brian Moses Chapter
13: The Song of Wandering Aengus
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: The Woods and Banks
W. H. Davies Chapter
15: Ode to the Loss of the Titanic
Geoffrey Hill Chapter
16: Will Ye No Come Back Again?
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne Chapter
17: from The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot Chapter
18: Waste Land Limericks
Wendy Cope Chapter
19: Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter
20: I Had a Dove
John Keats Chapter
21: from The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Rupert Brooke Chapter
22: The Woodspurge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chapter
23: from Richard II
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: Incident of the French Camp
Robert Browning Chapter
25: Robinson Crusoe's Wise Sayings
Ian McMillan Chapter
26: Into my Heart an Air that Kills
A. E. Housman Chapter
27: o by the by
E. E. Cummings Chapter
28: Desiderata
Max Ehrmann Chapter
29: Dancing with Life
Shauna Darling Robertson Chapter
30: Facing It
Yusef Komunyakaa Unit
5: May Chapter
1: Verses said to be written on the Union
Jonathan Swift Chapter
2: The Merry Month of May
Thomas Dekker Chapter
3: Tartary
Walter de la Mare Chapter
4: Back in the Playground Blues
Adrian Mitchell Chapter
5: The Song of the Banana Man
Evan Jones Chapter
6: Buckingham Palace
A. A. Milne Chapter
7: The Pobble Who Has No Toes
Edward Lear Chapter
8: Impromptu on Charles II
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Chapter
9: What the teacher said when asked: What er we avin for geography, Miss?
John Agard Chapter
10: For my Niece
Kate Tempest Chapter
11: from Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe Chapter
12: On a Lane in Spring
John Clare Chapter
13: The Lanyard
Billy Collins Chapter
14: Rondeau
Leigh Hunt Chapter
15: from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot Chapter
16: Instructions
Neil Gaiman Chapter
17: A Handsome Young Fellow Called Frears
Michael Palin Chapter
18: Matilda: Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death
Hilaire Belloc Chapter
19: Oranges and Lemons
Anon. Chapter
20: The Mouse's Tale
Lewis Carroll Chapter
21: Friends
Polly Clark Chapter
22: Today Is Very Boring
Jack Prelutsky Chapter
23: A Tragic Story
William Makepeace Thackeray Chapter
24: Buddha
Tony Mitton Chapter
25: from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde Chapter
26: Full Moon
Vita Sackville
West Chapter
27: God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins Chapter
28: I Am
John Clare Chapter
29: from Everest Climbed
Ian Serraillier Chapter
30: Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou Chapter
31: The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy Unit
6: June Chapter
1: from Greensleeves
Anon. Chapter
2: Bee! I'm Expecting You!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
3: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
4: Coming
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Chapter
5: Balloons
Sylvia Plath Chapter
6: Song of the Dying Gunner AA1
Charles Causley Chapter
7: The Throstle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
8: A London Plane
Tree
Amy Levy Chapter
9: I Lost a World
the Other Day!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
10: My Shadow Robert
Louis Stevenson Chapter
11: The End
A. A. Milne Chapter
12: On Turning Ten
Billy Collins Chapter
13: The Pleasures of Friendship
Stevie Smith Chapter
14: The Battle of Naseby
Thomas Babington Macaulay Chapter
15: from Prayer Before Birth
Louis MacNeice Chapter
16: Ecce Puer
James Joyce Chapter
17: The Way Things Are
Roger McGough Chapter
18: from The Field of Waterloo
Sir Walter Scott Chapter
19: Father's Hands
Paul Cookson Chapter
20: Refugees
Brian Bilston Chapter
21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare Chapter
22: Recessional
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Land of the Bumbley Boo
Spike Milligan Chapter
24: The Fiddler of Dooney
W. B. Yeats Chapter
25: My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear
Charles Causley Chapter
26: The Naming Of Cats
T. S. Eliot Chapter
27: The Land of Blue
Laura Mucha Chapter
28: A Bird Came Down the Walk
Emily Dickinson Chapter
29: Originally
Carol Ann Duffy Chapter
30: Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Unit
7: July Chapter
1: Remembered More for His Beard Now
Philip Ardagh Chapter
2: Amelia Earhart
Mandy Coe Chapter
3: Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
4: For You O Democracy
Walt Whitman Chapter
5: The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth Chapter
6: Rain in Summer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Checking Out Me History
John Agard Chapter
8: Miracles
Walt Whitman Chapter
9: Travel
Edna St Vincent Millay Chapter
10: The Magic of the Mind
Clive Webster Chapter
11: The Duel
Eugene Field Chapter
12: Jerusalem (from Milton)
William Blake Chapter
13: The Argument of His Book
Robert Herrick Chapter
14: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats Chapter
15: Seven Times One: Exultation
Jean Ingelow Chapter
16: Particle Poems: 3
Edwin Morgan Chapter
17: The School Boy
William Blake Chapter
18: To You
Langston Hughes Chapter
19: Harlem Hopscotch
Maya Angelou Chapter
20: Morning Song
Sara Teasdale Chapter
21: Little White Lily
George MacDonald Chapter
22: The Law of the Jungle
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Mermaid
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
24: The Merman
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
25: Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
26: Watching My Dog Sleep
Kate Tempest Chapter
27: from Psalm 137 Chapter
28: 'next to of course god america i'
E. E. Cummings Chapter
29: The Dug
Out
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
30: Heat
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Chapter
31: A Flea and a Fly
Ogden Nash Unit
8: August Chapter
1: Casabianca
Felicia Hemans Chapter
2: Casabianca (A Parody)
Spike Milligan Chapter
3: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
John Keats Chapter
4: Minnie and Winnie
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
5: Meg Merrilies
John Keats Chapter
6: The Horses
Edwin Muir Chapter
7: The Meadow Mouse
Theodore Roethke Chapter
8: from A Song About Myself
John Keats Chapter
9: The Fairy School under the Loch
John Rice Chapter
10: I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child
Robert Graves Chapter
11: Verses written to the Queen of England
Mary, Queen of Scots Chapter
12: Manly Sports
Marion Bernstein Chapter
13: Shakespeare at School
Wendy Cope Chapter
14: from Macbeth
William Shakespeare Chapter
15: from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
16: Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden Chapter
17: My Last Duchess
Robert Browning Chapter
18: Don't Let That Horse
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Chapter
19: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas Chapter
20: How Many Seconds in a Minute?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
21: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Arthur Hugh Clough Chapter
22: Who Would True Valour See
John Bunyan Chapter
23: The Rainy Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
24: So, We'll Go No More a
Roving
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
25: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls (from The Princess)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
26: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
William Shakespeare Chapter
27: Trees
Mark Haddon Chapter
28: from The Task
William Cowper Chapter
29: No More Auction Block
Anon. Chapter
30: Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan Chapter
30: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea
Christina Rossetti Unit
9: September Chapter
1: Bomber's Moon
Mike Harding Chapter
2: But I Can't
W. H. Auden Chapter
3: This is the House That Jack Built
Anon. Chapter
4: Hornbeacon High
Sarah Crossan Chapter
5: Please Mrs Butler
Allan Ahlberg Chapter
6: Reading the Classics
Brian Patten Chapter
7: The Lesson
Edward Lucie
Smith Chapter
8: An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: Take a Poem
James Carter Chapter
10: Pleasant Sounds
John Clare Chapter
11: The Right Word
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
12: The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams Chapter
13: Plums
Gillian Clarke Chapter
14: from Annus Mirabilis
John Dryden Chapter
15: The Mummy
Edwin Morgan Chapter
16: Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Chapter
17: Harriet Tubman
Eloise Greenfield Chapter
18: Joy
Hugo Williams Chapter
19: Prologue
Patience Agbabi Chapter
20: Ars Poetica
Archibald MacLeish Chapter
21: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries
Walt Whitman Chapter
22: An Old Woman of the Roads
Padraic Colum Chapter
23: Digging
Edward Thomas Chapter
24: Autumn Fires
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
25: Something Told the Wild Geese
Rachel Field Chapter
26: Wild Geese
Mary Oliver Chapter
27: The Railway Children
Seamus Heaney Chapter
28: Barrier
Rachel Rooney Chapter
29: Autumn Rain
D. H. Lawrence Chapter
30: Thirty Days Hath September
Anon. Chapter
10: October Chapter
1: The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost Chapter
2: Moonlit Apples
John Drinkwater Chapter
3: Crab
Apples
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
4: Santa Filomena
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
5: Autumn
T. E. Hulme Chapter
6: from The Tyndale Bible Chapter
7: from 1777
Amy Lowell Chapter
8: Thumbprint
Eve Merriam Chapter
9: Malala
Michaela Morgan Chapter
10: Give
Simon Armitage Chapter
11: Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Lament of an Arawak Child
Pamela Mordecai Chapter
13: The Wild Swans at Coole
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: William the Conqueror, 1066
Anon. Chapter
15: At Senlac Hill, 15 October 1066
David Harmer Chapter
16: Not Only
Brian Patten Chapter
17: The Secret Song
Margaret Wise Brown Chapter
18: from Who Do You Think You Are?
Carl Sandburg Chapter
19: Digging
Seamus Heaney Chapter
20: Diary of a Church Mouse
John Betjeman Chapter
21: The Night at Trafalgar
Thomas Hardy Chapter
22: The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
23: A Country Boy Goes to School
George Mackay Brown Chapter
24: Owl Poem
John Hegley Chapter
25: from Henry V
William Shakespeare Chapter
26: Love After Love
Derek Walcott Chapter
27: Paper Boats
Rabindranath Tagore Chapter
28: Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow?
Anon. Chapter
29: Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
30: In the Dark, Dark Wood
Anon. Chapter
31: from Hallowe'en
John Kendrick Bangs Unit
11: November Chapter
1: from The Devil's Thoughts
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
2: Television
Roald Dahl Chapter
3: The First Men on Mercury
Edwin Morgan Chapter
4: The Last Laugh
Wilfred Owen Chapter
5: Please to Remember
Walter de la Mare Chapter
6: November Night
Adelaide Crapsey Chapter
7: The Dead
Rupert Brooke Chapter
8: The Leader
Roger McGough Chapter
9: Here Dead We Lie
A. E. Housman Chapter
10: The African Lion
A. E. Housman Chapter
11: In Flanders Fields
John McCrae Chapter
12: Dreamers
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
13: An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: My First Day at School
Michaela Morgan Chapter
15: Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
16: from Epitaphs of the War
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
17: Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
Elizabeth I Chapter
18: Tell as a Marksman
were forgotten
Emily Dickinson Chapter
19: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Chapter
20: from The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran Chapter
21: In Memoriam
E. A. Mackintosh Chapter
22: Disabled
Wilfred Owen Chapter
23: Signs of the Times
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
24: Prayer for Earth
Myra Cohn Livingston Chapter
25: Benediction
James Berry Chapter
26: Immigrant
Fleur Adcock Chapter
27: Nuns Fret Not at their Convent's Narrow Room
William Wordsworth Chapter
28: Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare Chapter
29: Sports Report
Gareth Owen Chapter
30: Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
Robert Louis Stevenson Unit
12: December Chapter
1: Rosa Parks
1st December 1955
Joseph Coelho Chapter
2: Napoleon
Miroslav Holub Chapter
3: The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
4: The Witch
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
5: Mary Celeste
Judith Nicholls Chapter
6: On Raglan Road
Patrick Kavanagh Chapter
7: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell Chapter
8: Embarkation, 1942
John Jarmain Chapter
9: Some Questions You Might Ask
Mary Oliver Chapter
10: Refugee Blues
W. H. Auden Chapter
11: Don't Quit
John Greenleaf Whittier Chapter
12: The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
13: The Oxen
Thomas Hardy Chapter
14: Antarctica
Derek Mahon Chapter
15: little tree
E. E. Cummings Chapter
16: Forecasts
Jean Kenward Chapter
17: Christmas is Coming
Anon. Chapter
18: The Computer's First Christmas Card
Edwin Morgan Chapter
19: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Phillips Brooks Chapter
20: Winter
Time
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
21: Puzzle
Philip Waddell Chapter
22: The Year's Midnight
Gillian Clarke Chapter
23: Just Doing My Job
Clare Bevan Chapter
24: Saturday Night at the Bethlehem Arms
Gareth Owen Chapter
25: I Saw a Stable
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
26: Reindeer Report
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
27: Dear True Love
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
28: from Paradise Lost
John Milton Chapter
29: The Year
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
30: from The Tempest
William Shakespeare Chapter
31: Ring Out, Wild Bells (from In Memoriam)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Index
ii: Index of First Lines Index
iii: Index of Poets and Translators Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements
i: Introduction Unit
1: January Chapter
1: Promise
Jackie Kay Chapter
2: Infant Joy
William Blake Chapter
3: Poem for a New Year
Matt Goodfellow Chapter
4: Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain
A. A. Milne Chapter
5: from Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare Chapter
6: The Three Kings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Dawn
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
8: Life
Charlotte Brontë Chapter
9: The Pulley
George Herbert Chapter
10: Letter to N. Y.
Elizabeth Bishop Chapter
11: Dust of Snow
Robert Frost Chapter
12: Occasional Poem
Jacqueline Woodson Chapter
13: The Midnight Skaters
Roger McGough Chapter
14: To Science
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
15: from I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapter
16: The Burial of Sir John Moore
Charles Wolfe Chapter
17: from Elegy on Captain Cook
Anna Seward Chapter
18: January
William Carlos Williams Chapter
19: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Emily Dickinson Chapter
20: Days
Philip Larkin Chapter
21: A Colossal Glossary
Paul Muldoon Chapter
22: Human Family
Maya Angelou Chapter
23: The Distance
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
24: Friendship
Cole Porter Chapter
25: To a Mouse
Robert Burns Chapter
26: Ballad of the Totems
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Chapter
27: First They Came for the Jews
Martin Niemöller Chapter
28: Yonder See the Morning Blink
A. E. Housman Chapter
29: from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare Chapter
30: Rain
Spike Milligan Chapter
31: Peas
Anon. Unit
2: February Chapter
1: Days
Tony Mitton Chapter
2: from February
John Clare Chapter
3: A Giant Firefly
Kobayashi Issa Chapter
4: All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
J. R. R. Tolkien Chapter
5: Spellbound
Emily Brontë Chapter
6: A Riddle
Jonathan Swift Chapter
7: A Winter Bluejay
Sara Teasdale Chapter
8: An Unusual Cat
Poem
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: It Was Long Ago
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
10: Colouring In
Jan Dean Chapter
11: The Missile
Michael Leunig Chapter
12: Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson Chapter
13: Shrove Tuesday
Celia Warren Chapter
14: Valentine
Wendy Cope Chapter
15: All You Need Is Love
John Lennon and Paul McCartney Chapter
16: Lettuce Marry
Anon. Chapter
17: It's No Use
Sappho Chapter
18: from The Great Lover
Rupert Brooke Chapter
19: Rainbow
John Agard Chapter
20: A Summing Up
Charles Mackay Chapter
21: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Anon. Chapter
22: The Little Mute Boy
Federico García Lorca Chapter
23: There Is No Frigate Like a Book
Emily Dickinson Chapter
24: She Was Poor, But She Was Honest
Billy Bennett Chapter
25: First Sight
Philip Larkin Chapter
26: The Poetry Grand National
Roger Stevens Chapter
27: Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter
28: In Tenebris
Ford Madox Ford Chapter
29: My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth Unit
3: March Chapter
1: from Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas Chapter
2: The Bright Field
R. S. Thomas Chapter
3: Extinct
Mandy Coe Chapter
4: Holi
Chrissie Gittins Chapter
5: The River in March
Ted Hughes Chapter
6: Young Lambs
John Clare Chapter
7: To My Sister
William Wordsworth Chapter
8: Warning
Jenny Joseph Chapter
9: The Battle of the Sexes
Liz Brownlee Chapter
10: Remember
Christina Rossetti Chapter
11: Mothering Sunday
George Hare Leonard Chapter
12: Human Affection
Stevie Smith Chapter
13: Here Comes the Sun
George Harrison Chapter
14: Green Rain
Mary Webb Chapter
15: To Daffodils
Robert Herrick Chapter
16: Go and Catch a Falling Star
John Donne Chapter
17: Ich Am of Irlaunde
Anon. Chapter
18: Meeting at Night
Robert Browning Chapter
19: Historical Associations
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
20: A Morning Song
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
21: Spring
Christina Rossetti Chapter
22: Spring
William Blake Chapter
23: Sonnet 98
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: The Frog and the Nightingale
Vikram Seth Chapter
25: Today
Billy Collins Chapter
26: I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood Chapter
27: Ballad of the Bread Man
Charles Causley Chapter
28: I Watched a Blackbird
Thomas Hardy Chapter
29: Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
A. E. Housman Chapter
30: The Cherry
Tree Carol
Anon. Chapter
31: Easter Day
Oscar Wilde Unit
4: April Chapter
1: April Fool
Louis MacNeice Chapter
2: The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll Chapter
3: The Jumblies
Edward Lear Chapter
4: Who Killed Cock Robin?
Anon. Chapter
5: First Word (After Helen Keller)
Rachel Rooney Chapter
6: The People of the Eastern Ice
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
7: from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter
8: Home
Thoughts from Abroad
Robert Browning Chapter
9: The Ballad of Semmerwater
William Watson Chapter
10: Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep
Mary Elizabeth Frye Chapter
11: In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Dear Yuri
Brian Moses Chapter
13: The Song of Wandering Aengus
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: The Woods and Banks
W. H. Davies Chapter
15: Ode to the Loss of the Titanic
Geoffrey Hill Chapter
16: Will Ye No Come Back Again?
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne Chapter
17: from The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot Chapter
18: Waste Land Limericks
Wendy Cope Chapter
19: Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter
20: I Had a Dove
John Keats Chapter
21: from The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Rupert Brooke Chapter
22: The Woodspurge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chapter
23: from Richard II
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: Incident of the French Camp
Robert Browning Chapter
25: Robinson Crusoe's Wise Sayings
Ian McMillan Chapter
26: Into my Heart an Air that Kills
A. E. Housman Chapter
27: o by the by
E. E. Cummings Chapter
28: Desiderata
Max Ehrmann Chapter
29: Dancing with Life
Shauna Darling Robertson Chapter
30: Facing It
Yusef Komunyakaa Unit
5: May Chapter
1: Verses said to be written on the Union
Jonathan Swift Chapter
2: The Merry Month of May
Thomas Dekker Chapter
3: Tartary
Walter de la Mare Chapter
4: Back in the Playground Blues
Adrian Mitchell Chapter
5: The Song of the Banana Man
Evan Jones Chapter
6: Buckingham Palace
A. A. Milne Chapter
7: The Pobble Who Has No Toes
Edward Lear Chapter
8: Impromptu on Charles II
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Chapter
9: What the teacher said when asked: What er we avin for geography, Miss?
John Agard Chapter
10: For my Niece
Kate Tempest Chapter
11: from Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe Chapter
12: On a Lane in Spring
John Clare Chapter
13: The Lanyard
Billy Collins Chapter
14: Rondeau
Leigh Hunt Chapter
15: from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot Chapter
16: Instructions
Neil Gaiman Chapter
17: A Handsome Young Fellow Called Frears
Michael Palin Chapter
18: Matilda: Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death
Hilaire Belloc Chapter
19: Oranges and Lemons
Anon. Chapter
20: The Mouse's Tale
Lewis Carroll Chapter
21: Friends
Polly Clark Chapter
22: Today Is Very Boring
Jack Prelutsky Chapter
23: A Tragic Story
William Makepeace Thackeray Chapter
24: Buddha
Tony Mitton Chapter
25: from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde Chapter
26: Full Moon
Vita Sackville
West Chapter
27: God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins Chapter
28: I Am
John Clare Chapter
29: from Everest Climbed
Ian Serraillier Chapter
30: Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou Chapter
31: The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy Unit
6: June Chapter
1: from Greensleeves
Anon. Chapter
2: Bee! I'm Expecting You!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
3: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
4: Coming
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Chapter
5: Balloons
Sylvia Plath Chapter
6: Song of the Dying Gunner AA1
Charles Causley Chapter
7: The Throstle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
8: A London Plane
Tree
Amy Levy Chapter
9: I Lost a World
the Other Day!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
10: My Shadow Robert
Louis Stevenson Chapter
11: The End
A. A. Milne Chapter
12: On Turning Ten
Billy Collins Chapter
13: The Pleasures of Friendship
Stevie Smith Chapter
14: The Battle of Naseby
Thomas Babington Macaulay Chapter
15: from Prayer Before Birth
Louis MacNeice Chapter
16: Ecce Puer
James Joyce Chapter
17: The Way Things Are
Roger McGough Chapter
18: from The Field of Waterloo
Sir Walter Scott Chapter
19: Father's Hands
Paul Cookson Chapter
20: Refugees
Brian Bilston Chapter
21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare Chapter
22: Recessional
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Land of the Bumbley Boo
Spike Milligan Chapter
24: The Fiddler of Dooney
W. B. Yeats Chapter
25: My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear
Charles Causley Chapter
26: The Naming Of Cats
T. S. Eliot Chapter
27: The Land of Blue
Laura Mucha Chapter
28: A Bird Came Down the Walk
Emily Dickinson Chapter
29: Originally
Carol Ann Duffy Chapter
30: Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Unit
7: July Chapter
1: Remembered More for His Beard Now
Philip Ardagh Chapter
2: Amelia Earhart
Mandy Coe Chapter
3: Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
4: For You O Democracy
Walt Whitman Chapter
5: The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth Chapter
6: Rain in Summer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Checking Out Me History
John Agard Chapter
8: Miracles
Walt Whitman Chapter
9: Travel
Edna St Vincent Millay Chapter
10: The Magic of the Mind
Clive Webster Chapter
11: The Duel
Eugene Field Chapter
12: Jerusalem (from Milton)
William Blake Chapter
13: The Argument of His Book
Robert Herrick Chapter
14: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats Chapter
15: Seven Times One: Exultation
Jean Ingelow Chapter
16: Particle Poems: 3
Edwin Morgan Chapter
17: The School Boy
William Blake Chapter
18: To You
Langston Hughes Chapter
19: Harlem Hopscotch
Maya Angelou Chapter
20: Morning Song
Sara Teasdale Chapter
21: Little White Lily
George MacDonald Chapter
22: The Law of the Jungle
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Mermaid
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
24: The Merman
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
25: Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
26: Watching My Dog Sleep
Kate Tempest Chapter
27: from Psalm 137 Chapter
28: 'next to of course god america i'
E. E. Cummings Chapter
29: The Dug
Out
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
30: Heat
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Chapter
31: A Flea and a Fly
Ogden Nash Unit
8: August Chapter
1: Casabianca
Felicia Hemans Chapter
2: Casabianca (A Parody)
Spike Milligan Chapter
3: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
John Keats Chapter
4: Minnie and Winnie
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
5: Meg Merrilies
John Keats Chapter
6: The Horses
Edwin Muir Chapter
7: The Meadow Mouse
Theodore Roethke Chapter
8: from A Song About Myself
John Keats Chapter
9: The Fairy School under the Loch
John Rice Chapter
10: I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child
Robert Graves Chapter
11: Verses written to the Queen of England
Mary, Queen of Scots Chapter
12: Manly Sports
Marion Bernstein Chapter
13: Shakespeare at School
Wendy Cope Chapter
14: from Macbeth
William Shakespeare Chapter
15: from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
16: Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden Chapter
17: My Last Duchess
Robert Browning Chapter
18: Don't Let That Horse
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Chapter
19: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas Chapter
20: How Many Seconds in a Minute?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
21: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Arthur Hugh Clough Chapter
22: Who Would True Valour See
John Bunyan Chapter
23: The Rainy Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
24: So, We'll Go No More a
Roving
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
25: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls (from The Princess)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
26: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
William Shakespeare Chapter
27: Trees
Mark Haddon Chapter
28: from The Task
William Cowper Chapter
29: No More Auction Block
Anon. Chapter
30: Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan Chapter
30: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea
Christina Rossetti Unit
9: September Chapter
1: Bomber's Moon
Mike Harding Chapter
2: But I Can't
W. H. Auden Chapter
3: This is the House That Jack Built
Anon. Chapter
4: Hornbeacon High
Sarah Crossan Chapter
5: Please Mrs Butler
Allan Ahlberg Chapter
6: Reading the Classics
Brian Patten Chapter
7: The Lesson
Edward Lucie
Smith Chapter
8: An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: Take a Poem
James Carter Chapter
10: Pleasant Sounds
John Clare Chapter
11: The Right Word
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
12: The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams Chapter
13: Plums
Gillian Clarke Chapter
14: from Annus Mirabilis
John Dryden Chapter
15: The Mummy
Edwin Morgan Chapter
16: Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Chapter
17: Harriet Tubman
Eloise Greenfield Chapter
18: Joy
Hugo Williams Chapter
19: Prologue
Patience Agbabi Chapter
20: Ars Poetica
Archibald MacLeish Chapter
21: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries
Walt Whitman Chapter
22: An Old Woman of the Roads
Padraic Colum Chapter
23: Digging
Edward Thomas Chapter
24: Autumn Fires
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
25: Something Told the Wild Geese
Rachel Field Chapter
26: Wild Geese
Mary Oliver Chapter
27: The Railway Children
Seamus Heaney Chapter
28: Barrier
Rachel Rooney Chapter
29: Autumn Rain
D. H. Lawrence Chapter
30: Thirty Days Hath September
Anon. Chapter
10: October Chapter
1: The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost Chapter
2: Moonlit Apples
John Drinkwater Chapter
3: Crab
Apples
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
4: Santa Filomena
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
5: Autumn
T. E. Hulme Chapter
6: from The Tyndale Bible Chapter
7: from 1777
Amy Lowell Chapter
8: Thumbprint
Eve Merriam Chapter
9: Malala
Michaela Morgan Chapter
10: Give
Simon Armitage Chapter
11: Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Lament of an Arawak Child
Pamela Mordecai Chapter
13: The Wild Swans at Coole
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: William the Conqueror, 1066
Anon. Chapter
15: At Senlac Hill, 15 October 1066
David Harmer Chapter
16: Not Only
Brian Patten Chapter
17: The Secret Song
Margaret Wise Brown Chapter
18: from Who Do You Think You Are?
Carl Sandburg Chapter
19: Digging
Seamus Heaney Chapter
20: Diary of a Church Mouse
John Betjeman Chapter
21: The Night at Trafalgar
Thomas Hardy Chapter
22: The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
23: A Country Boy Goes to School
George Mackay Brown Chapter
24: Owl Poem
John Hegley Chapter
25: from Henry V
William Shakespeare Chapter
26: Love After Love
Derek Walcott Chapter
27: Paper Boats
Rabindranath Tagore Chapter
28: Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow?
Anon. Chapter
29: Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
30: In the Dark, Dark Wood
Anon. Chapter
31: from Hallowe'en
John Kendrick Bangs Unit
11: November Chapter
1: from The Devil's Thoughts
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
2: Television
Roald Dahl Chapter
3: The First Men on Mercury
Edwin Morgan Chapter
4: The Last Laugh
Wilfred Owen Chapter
5: Please to Remember
Walter de la Mare Chapter
6: November Night
Adelaide Crapsey Chapter
7: The Dead
Rupert Brooke Chapter
8: The Leader
Roger McGough Chapter
9: Here Dead We Lie
A. E. Housman Chapter
10: The African Lion
A. E. Housman Chapter
11: In Flanders Fields
John McCrae Chapter
12: Dreamers
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
13: An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: My First Day at School
Michaela Morgan Chapter
15: Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
16: from Epitaphs of the War
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
17: Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
Elizabeth I Chapter
18: Tell as a Marksman
were forgotten
Emily Dickinson Chapter
19: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Chapter
20: from The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran Chapter
21: In Memoriam
E. A. Mackintosh Chapter
22: Disabled
Wilfred Owen Chapter
23: Signs of the Times
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
24: Prayer for Earth
Myra Cohn Livingston Chapter
25: Benediction
James Berry Chapter
26: Immigrant
Fleur Adcock Chapter
27: Nuns Fret Not at their Convent's Narrow Room
William Wordsworth Chapter
28: Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare Chapter
29: Sports Report
Gareth Owen Chapter
30: Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
Robert Louis Stevenson Unit
12: December Chapter
1: Rosa Parks
1st December 1955
Joseph Coelho Chapter
2: Napoleon
Miroslav Holub Chapter
3: The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
4: The Witch
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
5: Mary Celeste
Judith Nicholls Chapter
6: On Raglan Road
Patrick Kavanagh Chapter
7: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell Chapter
8: Embarkation, 1942
John Jarmain Chapter
9: Some Questions You Might Ask
Mary Oliver Chapter
10: Refugee Blues
W. H. Auden Chapter
11: Don't Quit
John Greenleaf Whittier Chapter
12: The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
13: The Oxen
Thomas Hardy Chapter
14: Antarctica
Derek Mahon Chapter
15: little tree
E. E. Cummings Chapter
16: Forecasts
Jean Kenward Chapter
17: Christmas is Coming
Anon. Chapter
18: The Computer's First Christmas Card
Edwin Morgan Chapter
19: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Phillips Brooks Chapter
20: Winter
Time
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
21: Puzzle
Philip Waddell Chapter
22: The Year's Midnight
Gillian Clarke Chapter
23: Just Doing My Job
Clare Bevan Chapter
24: Saturday Night at the Bethlehem Arms
Gareth Owen Chapter
25: I Saw a Stable
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
26: Reindeer Report
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
27: Dear True Love
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
28: from Paradise Lost
John Milton Chapter
29: The Year
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
30: from The Tempest
William Shakespeare Chapter
31: Ring Out, Wild Bells (from In Memoriam)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Index
ii: Index of First Lines Index
iii: Index of Poets and Translators Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements
Introduction
i: Introduction Unit
1: January Chapter
1: Promise
Jackie Kay Chapter
2: Infant Joy
William Blake Chapter
3: Poem for a New Year
Matt Goodfellow Chapter
4: Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain
A. A. Milne Chapter
5: from Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare Chapter
6: The Three Kings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Dawn
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
8: Life
Charlotte Brontë Chapter
9: The Pulley
George Herbert Chapter
10: Letter to N. Y.
Elizabeth Bishop Chapter
11: Dust of Snow
Robert Frost Chapter
12: Occasional Poem
Jacqueline Woodson Chapter
13: The Midnight Skaters
Roger McGough Chapter
14: To Science
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
15: from I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapter
16: The Burial of Sir John Moore
Charles Wolfe Chapter
17: from Elegy on Captain Cook
Anna Seward Chapter
18: January
William Carlos Williams Chapter
19: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Emily Dickinson Chapter
20: Days
Philip Larkin Chapter
21: A Colossal Glossary
Paul Muldoon Chapter
22: Human Family
Maya Angelou Chapter
23: The Distance
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
24: Friendship
Cole Porter Chapter
25: To a Mouse
Robert Burns Chapter
26: Ballad of the Totems
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Chapter
27: First They Came for the Jews
Martin Niemöller Chapter
28: Yonder See the Morning Blink
A. E. Housman Chapter
29: from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare Chapter
30: Rain
Spike Milligan Chapter
31: Peas
Anon. Unit
2: February Chapter
1: Days
Tony Mitton Chapter
2: from February
John Clare Chapter
3: A Giant Firefly
Kobayashi Issa Chapter
4: All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
J. R. R. Tolkien Chapter
5: Spellbound
Emily Brontë Chapter
6: A Riddle
Jonathan Swift Chapter
7: A Winter Bluejay
Sara Teasdale Chapter
8: An Unusual Cat
Poem
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: It Was Long Ago
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
10: Colouring In
Jan Dean Chapter
11: The Missile
Michael Leunig Chapter
12: Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson Chapter
13: Shrove Tuesday
Celia Warren Chapter
14: Valentine
Wendy Cope Chapter
15: All You Need Is Love
John Lennon and Paul McCartney Chapter
16: Lettuce Marry
Anon. Chapter
17: It's No Use
Sappho Chapter
18: from The Great Lover
Rupert Brooke Chapter
19: Rainbow
John Agard Chapter
20: A Summing Up
Charles Mackay Chapter
21: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Anon. Chapter
22: The Little Mute Boy
Federico García Lorca Chapter
23: There Is No Frigate Like a Book
Emily Dickinson Chapter
24: She Was Poor, But She Was Honest
Billy Bennett Chapter
25: First Sight
Philip Larkin Chapter
26: The Poetry Grand National
Roger Stevens Chapter
27: Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter
28: In Tenebris
Ford Madox Ford Chapter
29: My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth Unit
3: March Chapter
1: from Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas Chapter
2: The Bright Field
R. S. Thomas Chapter
3: Extinct
Mandy Coe Chapter
4: Holi
Chrissie Gittins Chapter
5: The River in March
Ted Hughes Chapter
6: Young Lambs
John Clare Chapter
7: To My Sister
William Wordsworth Chapter
8: Warning
Jenny Joseph Chapter
9: The Battle of the Sexes
Liz Brownlee Chapter
10: Remember
Christina Rossetti Chapter
11: Mothering Sunday
George Hare Leonard Chapter
12: Human Affection
Stevie Smith Chapter
13: Here Comes the Sun
George Harrison Chapter
14: Green Rain
Mary Webb Chapter
15: To Daffodils
Robert Herrick Chapter
16: Go and Catch a Falling Star
John Donne Chapter
17: Ich Am of Irlaunde
Anon. Chapter
18: Meeting at Night
Robert Browning Chapter
19: Historical Associations
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
20: A Morning Song
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
21: Spring
Christina Rossetti Chapter
22: Spring
William Blake Chapter
23: Sonnet 98
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: The Frog and the Nightingale
Vikram Seth Chapter
25: Today
Billy Collins Chapter
26: I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood Chapter
27: Ballad of the Bread Man
Charles Causley Chapter
28: I Watched a Blackbird
Thomas Hardy Chapter
29: Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
A. E. Housman Chapter
30: The Cherry
Tree Carol
Anon. Chapter
31: Easter Day
Oscar Wilde Unit
4: April Chapter
1: April Fool
Louis MacNeice Chapter
2: The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll Chapter
3: The Jumblies
Edward Lear Chapter
4: Who Killed Cock Robin?
Anon. Chapter
5: First Word (After Helen Keller)
Rachel Rooney Chapter
6: The People of the Eastern Ice
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
7: from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter
8: Home
Thoughts from Abroad
Robert Browning Chapter
9: The Ballad of Semmerwater
William Watson Chapter
10: Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep
Mary Elizabeth Frye Chapter
11: In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Dear Yuri
Brian Moses Chapter
13: The Song of Wandering Aengus
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: The Woods and Banks
W. H. Davies Chapter
15: Ode to the Loss of the Titanic
Geoffrey Hill Chapter
16: Will Ye No Come Back Again?
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne Chapter
17: from The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot Chapter
18: Waste Land Limericks
Wendy Cope Chapter
19: Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter
20: I Had a Dove
John Keats Chapter
21: from The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Rupert Brooke Chapter
22: The Woodspurge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chapter
23: from Richard II
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: Incident of the French Camp
Robert Browning Chapter
25: Robinson Crusoe's Wise Sayings
Ian McMillan Chapter
26: Into my Heart an Air that Kills
A. E. Housman Chapter
27: o by the by
E. E. Cummings Chapter
28: Desiderata
Max Ehrmann Chapter
29: Dancing with Life
Shauna Darling Robertson Chapter
30: Facing It
Yusef Komunyakaa Unit
5: May Chapter
1: Verses said to be written on the Union
Jonathan Swift Chapter
2: The Merry Month of May
Thomas Dekker Chapter
3: Tartary
Walter de la Mare Chapter
4: Back in the Playground Blues
Adrian Mitchell Chapter
5: The Song of the Banana Man
Evan Jones Chapter
6: Buckingham Palace
A. A. Milne Chapter
7: The Pobble Who Has No Toes
Edward Lear Chapter
8: Impromptu on Charles II
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Chapter
9: What the teacher said when asked: What er we avin for geography, Miss?
John Agard Chapter
10: For my Niece
Kate Tempest Chapter
11: from Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe Chapter
12: On a Lane in Spring
John Clare Chapter
13: The Lanyard
Billy Collins Chapter
14: Rondeau
Leigh Hunt Chapter
15: from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot Chapter
16: Instructions
Neil Gaiman Chapter
17: A Handsome Young Fellow Called Frears
Michael Palin Chapter
18: Matilda: Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death
Hilaire Belloc Chapter
19: Oranges and Lemons
Anon. Chapter
20: The Mouse's Tale
Lewis Carroll Chapter
21: Friends
Polly Clark Chapter
22: Today Is Very Boring
Jack Prelutsky Chapter
23: A Tragic Story
William Makepeace Thackeray Chapter
24: Buddha
Tony Mitton Chapter
25: from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde Chapter
26: Full Moon
Vita Sackville
West Chapter
27: God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins Chapter
28: I Am
John Clare Chapter
29: from Everest Climbed
Ian Serraillier Chapter
30: Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou Chapter
31: The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy Unit
6: June Chapter
1: from Greensleeves
Anon. Chapter
2: Bee! I'm Expecting You!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
3: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
4: Coming
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Chapter
5: Balloons
Sylvia Plath Chapter
6: Song of the Dying Gunner AA1
Charles Causley Chapter
7: The Throstle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
8: A London Plane
Tree
Amy Levy Chapter
9: I Lost a World
the Other Day!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
10: My Shadow Robert
Louis Stevenson Chapter
11: The End
A. A. Milne Chapter
12: On Turning Ten
Billy Collins Chapter
13: The Pleasures of Friendship
Stevie Smith Chapter
14: The Battle of Naseby
Thomas Babington Macaulay Chapter
15: from Prayer Before Birth
Louis MacNeice Chapter
16: Ecce Puer
James Joyce Chapter
17: The Way Things Are
Roger McGough Chapter
18: from The Field of Waterloo
Sir Walter Scott Chapter
19: Father's Hands
Paul Cookson Chapter
20: Refugees
Brian Bilston Chapter
21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare Chapter
22: Recessional
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Land of the Bumbley Boo
Spike Milligan Chapter
24: The Fiddler of Dooney
W. B. Yeats Chapter
25: My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear
Charles Causley Chapter
26: The Naming Of Cats
T. S. Eliot Chapter
27: The Land of Blue
Laura Mucha Chapter
28: A Bird Came Down the Walk
Emily Dickinson Chapter
29: Originally
Carol Ann Duffy Chapter
30: Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Unit
7: July Chapter
1: Remembered More for His Beard Now
Philip Ardagh Chapter
2: Amelia Earhart
Mandy Coe Chapter
3: Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
4: For You O Democracy
Walt Whitman Chapter
5: The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth Chapter
6: Rain in Summer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Checking Out Me History
John Agard Chapter
8: Miracles
Walt Whitman Chapter
9: Travel
Edna St Vincent Millay Chapter
10: The Magic of the Mind
Clive Webster Chapter
11: The Duel
Eugene Field Chapter
12: Jerusalem (from Milton)
William Blake Chapter
13: The Argument of His Book
Robert Herrick Chapter
14: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats Chapter
15: Seven Times One: Exultation
Jean Ingelow Chapter
16: Particle Poems: 3
Edwin Morgan Chapter
17: The School Boy
William Blake Chapter
18: To You
Langston Hughes Chapter
19: Harlem Hopscotch
Maya Angelou Chapter
20: Morning Song
Sara Teasdale Chapter
21: Little White Lily
George MacDonald Chapter
22: The Law of the Jungle
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Mermaid
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
24: The Merman
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
25: Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
26: Watching My Dog Sleep
Kate Tempest Chapter
27: from Psalm 137 Chapter
28: 'next to of course god america i'
E. E. Cummings Chapter
29: The Dug
Out
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
30: Heat
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Chapter
31: A Flea and a Fly
Ogden Nash Unit
8: August Chapter
1: Casabianca
Felicia Hemans Chapter
2: Casabianca (A Parody)
Spike Milligan Chapter
3: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
John Keats Chapter
4: Minnie and Winnie
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
5: Meg Merrilies
John Keats Chapter
6: The Horses
Edwin Muir Chapter
7: The Meadow Mouse
Theodore Roethke Chapter
8: from A Song About Myself
John Keats Chapter
9: The Fairy School under the Loch
John Rice Chapter
10: I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child
Robert Graves Chapter
11: Verses written to the Queen of England
Mary, Queen of Scots Chapter
12: Manly Sports
Marion Bernstein Chapter
13: Shakespeare at School
Wendy Cope Chapter
14: from Macbeth
William Shakespeare Chapter
15: from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
16: Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden Chapter
17: My Last Duchess
Robert Browning Chapter
18: Don't Let That Horse
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Chapter
19: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas Chapter
20: How Many Seconds in a Minute?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
21: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Arthur Hugh Clough Chapter
22: Who Would True Valour See
John Bunyan Chapter
23: The Rainy Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
24: So, We'll Go No More a
Roving
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
25: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls (from The Princess)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
26: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
William Shakespeare Chapter
27: Trees
Mark Haddon Chapter
28: from The Task
William Cowper Chapter
29: No More Auction Block
Anon. Chapter
30: Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan Chapter
30: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea
Christina Rossetti Unit
9: September Chapter
1: Bomber's Moon
Mike Harding Chapter
2: But I Can't
W. H. Auden Chapter
3: This is the House That Jack Built
Anon. Chapter
4: Hornbeacon High
Sarah Crossan Chapter
5: Please Mrs Butler
Allan Ahlberg Chapter
6: Reading the Classics
Brian Patten Chapter
7: The Lesson
Edward Lucie
Smith Chapter
8: An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: Take a Poem
James Carter Chapter
10: Pleasant Sounds
John Clare Chapter
11: The Right Word
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
12: The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams Chapter
13: Plums
Gillian Clarke Chapter
14: from Annus Mirabilis
John Dryden Chapter
15: The Mummy
Edwin Morgan Chapter
16: Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Chapter
17: Harriet Tubman
Eloise Greenfield Chapter
18: Joy
Hugo Williams Chapter
19: Prologue
Patience Agbabi Chapter
20: Ars Poetica
Archibald MacLeish Chapter
21: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries
Walt Whitman Chapter
22: An Old Woman of the Roads
Padraic Colum Chapter
23: Digging
Edward Thomas Chapter
24: Autumn Fires
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
25: Something Told the Wild Geese
Rachel Field Chapter
26: Wild Geese
Mary Oliver Chapter
27: The Railway Children
Seamus Heaney Chapter
28: Barrier
Rachel Rooney Chapter
29: Autumn Rain
D. H. Lawrence Chapter
30: Thirty Days Hath September
Anon. Chapter
10: October Chapter
1: The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost Chapter
2: Moonlit Apples
John Drinkwater Chapter
3: Crab
Apples
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
4: Santa Filomena
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
5: Autumn
T. E. Hulme Chapter
6: from The Tyndale Bible Chapter
7: from 1777
Amy Lowell Chapter
8: Thumbprint
Eve Merriam Chapter
9: Malala
Michaela Morgan Chapter
10: Give
Simon Armitage Chapter
11: Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Lament of an Arawak Child
Pamela Mordecai Chapter
13: The Wild Swans at Coole
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: William the Conqueror, 1066
Anon. Chapter
15: At Senlac Hill, 15 October 1066
David Harmer Chapter
16: Not Only
Brian Patten Chapter
17: The Secret Song
Margaret Wise Brown Chapter
18: from Who Do You Think You Are?
Carl Sandburg Chapter
19: Digging
Seamus Heaney Chapter
20: Diary of a Church Mouse
John Betjeman Chapter
21: The Night at Trafalgar
Thomas Hardy Chapter
22: The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
23: A Country Boy Goes to School
George Mackay Brown Chapter
24: Owl Poem
John Hegley Chapter
25: from Henry V
William Shakespeare Chapter
26: Love After Love
Derek Walcott Chapter
27: Paper Boats
Rabindranath Tagore Chapter
28: Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow?
Anon. Chapter
29: Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
30: In the Dark, Dark Wood
Anon. Chapter
31: from Hallowe'en
John Kendrick Bangs Unit
11: November Chapter
1: from The Devil's Thoughts
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
2: Television
Roald Dahl Chapter
3: The First Men on Mercury
Edwin Morgan Chapter
4: The Last Laugh
Wilfred Owen Chapter
5: Please to Remember
Walter de la Mare Chapter
6: November Night
Adelaide Crapsey Chapter
7: The Dead
Rupert Brooke Chapter
8: The Leader
Roger McGough Chapter
9: Here Dead We Lie
A. E. Housman Chapter
10: The African Lion
A. E. Housman Chapter
11: In Flanders Fields
John McCrae Chapter
12: Dreamers
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
13: An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: My First Day at School
Michaela Morgan Chapter
15: Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
16: from Epitaphs of the War
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
17: Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
Elizabeth I Chapter
18: Tell as a Marksman
were forgotten
Emily Dickinson Chapter
19: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Chapter
20: from The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran Chapter
21: In Memoriam
E. A. Mackintosh Chapter
22: Disabled
Wilfred Owen Chapter
23: Signs of the Times
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
24: Prayer for Earth
Myra Cohn Livingston Chapter
25: Benediction
James Berry Chapter
26: Immigrant
Fleur Adcock Chapter
27: Nuns Fret Not at their Convent's Narrow Room
William Wordsworth Chapter
28: Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare Chapter
29: Sports Report
Gareth Owen Chapter
30: Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
Robert Louis Stevenson Unit
12: December Chapter
1: Rosa Parks
1st December 1955
Joseph Coelho Chapter
2: Napoleon
Miroslav Holub Chapter
3: The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
4: The Witch
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
5: Mary Celeste
Judith Nicholls Chapter
6: On Raglan Road
Patrick Kavanagh Chapter
7: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell Chapter
8: Embarkation, 1942
John Jarmain Chapter
9: Some Questions You Might Ask
Mary Oliver Chapter
10: Refugee Blues
W. H. Auden Chapter
11: Don't Quit
John Greenleaf Whittier Chapter
12: The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
13: The Oxen
Thomas Hardy Chapter
14: Antarctica
Derek Mahon Chapter
15: little tree
E. E. Cummings Chapter
16: Forecasts
Jean Kenward Chapter
17: Christmas is Coming
Anon. Chapter
18: The Computer's First Christmas Card
Edwin Morgan Chapter
19: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Phillips Brooks Chapter
20: Winter
Time
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
21: Puzzle
Philip Waddell Chapter
22: The Year's Midnight
Gillian Clarke Chapter
23: Just Doing My Job
Clare Bevan Chapter
24: Saturday Night at the Bethlehem Arms
Gareth Owen Chapter
25: I Saw a Stable
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
26: Reindeer Report
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
27: Dear True Love
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
28: from Paradise Lost
John Milton Chapter
29: The Year
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
30: from The Tempest
William Shakespeare Chapter
31: Ring Out, Wild Bells (from In Memoriam)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Index
ii: Index of First Lines Index
iii: Index of Poets and Translators Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements
i: Introduction Unit
1: January Chapter
1: Promise
Jackie Kay Chapter
2: Infant Joy
William Blake Chapter
3: Poem for a New Year
Matt Goodfellow Chapter
4: Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain
A. A. Milne Chapter
5: from Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare Chapter
6: The Three Kings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Dawn
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
8: Life
Charlotte Brontë Chapter
9: The Pulley
George Herbert Chapter
10: Letter to N. Y.
Elizabeth Bishop Chapter
11: Dust of Snow
Robert Frost Chapter
12: Occasional Poem
Jacqueline Woodson Chapter
13: The Midnight Skaters
Roger McGough Chapter
14: To Science
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
15: from I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapter
16: The Burial of Sir John Moore
Charles Wolfe Chapter
17: from Elegy on Captain Cook
Anna Seward Chapter
18: January
William Carlos Williams Chapter
19: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Emily Dickinson Chapter
20: Days
Philip Larkin Chapter
21: A Colossal Glossary
Paul Muldoon Chapter
22: Human Family
Maya Angelou Chapter
23: The Distance
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
24: Friendship
Cole Porter Chapter
25: To a Mouse
Robert Burns Chapter
26: Ballad of the Totems
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Chapter
27: First They Came for the Jews
Martin Niemöller Chapter
28: Yonder See the Morning Blink
A. E. Housman Chapter
29: from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare Chapter
30: Rain
Spike Milligan Chapter
31: Peas
Anon. Unit
2: February Chapter
1: Days
Tony Mitton Chapter
2: from February
John Clare Chapter
3: A Giant Firefly
Kobayashi Issa Chapter
4: All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
J. R. R. Tolkien Chapter
5: Spellbound
Emily Brontë Chapter
6: A Riddle
Jonathan Swift Chapter
7: A Winter Bluejay
Sara Teasdale Chapter
8: An Unusual Cat
Poem
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: It Was Long Ago
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
10: Colouring In
Jan Dean Chapter
11: The Missile
Michael Leunig Chapter
12: Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson Chapter
13: Shrove Tuesday
Celia Warren Chapter
14: Valentine
Wendy Cope Chapter
15: All You Need Is Love
John Lennon and Paul McCartney Chapter
16: Lettuce Marry
Anon. Chapter
17: It's No Use
Sappho Chapter
18: from The Great Lover
Rupert Brooke Chapter
19: Rainbow
John Agard Chapter
20: A Summing Up
Charles Mackay Chapter
21: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Anon. Chapter
22: The Little Mute Boy
Federico García Lorca Chapter
23: There Is No Frigate Like a Book
Emily Dickinson Chapter
24: She Was Poor, But She Was Honest
Billy Bennett Chapter
25: First Sight
Philip Larkin Chapter
26: The Poetry Grand National
Roger Stevens Chapter
27: Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter
28: In Tenebris
Ford Madox Ford Chapter
29: My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth Unit
3: March Chapter
1: from Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas Chapter
2: The Bright Field
R. S. Thomas Chapter
3: Extinct
Mandy Coe Chapter
4: Holi
Chrissie Gittins Chapter
5: The River in March
Ted Hughes Chapter
6: Young Lambs
John Clare Chapter
7: To My Sister
William Wordsworth Chapter
8: Warning
Jenny Joseph Chapter
9: The Battle of the Sexes
Liz Brownlee Chapter
10: Remember
Christina Rossetti Chapter
11: Mothering Sunday
George Hare Leonard Chapter
12: Human Affection
Stevie Smith Chapter
13: Here Comes the Sun
George Harrison Chapter
14: Green Rain
Mary Webb Chapter
15: To Daffodils
Robert Herrick Chapter
16: Go and Catch a Falling Star
John Donne Chapter
17: Ich Am of Irlaunde
Anon. Chapter
18: Meeting at Night
Robert Browning Chapter
19: Historical Associations
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
20: A Morning Song
Eleanor Farjeon Chapter
21: Spring
Christina Rossetti Chapter
22: Spring
William Blake Chapter
23: Sonnet 98
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: The Frog and the Nightingale
Vikram Seth Chapter
25: Today
Billy Collins Chapter
26: I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood Chapter
27: Ballad of the Bread Man
Charles Causley Chapter
28: I Watched a Blackbird
Thomas Hardy Chapter
29: Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
A. E. Housman Chapter
30: The Cherry
Tree Carol
Anon. Chapter
31: Easter Day
Oscar Wilde Unit
4: April Chapter
1: April Fool
Louis MacNeice Chapter
2: The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll Chapter
3: The Jumblies
Edward Lear Chapter
4: Who Killed Cock Robin?
Anon. Chapter
5: First Word (After Helen Keller)
Rachel Rooney Chapter
6: The People of the Eastern Ice
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
7: from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter
8: Home
Thoughts from Abroad
Robert Browning Chapter
9: The Ballad of Semmerwater
William Watson Chapter
10: Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep
Mary Elizabeth Frye Chapter
11: In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Dear Yuri
Brian Moses Chapter
13: The Song of Wandering Aengus
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: The Woods and Banks
W. H. Davies Chapter
15: Ode to the Loss of the Titanic
Geoffrey Hill Chapter
16: Will Ye No Come Back Again?
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne Chapter
17: from The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot Chapter
18: Waste Land Limericks
Wendy Cope Chapter
19: Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter
20: I Had a Dove
John Keats Chapter
21: from The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Rupert Brooke Chapter
22: The Woodspurge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chapter
23: from Richard II
William Shakespeare Chapter
24: Incident of the French Camp
Robert Browning Chapter
25: Robinson Crusoe's Wise Sayings
Ian McMillan Chapter
26: Into my Heart an Air that Kills
A. E. Housman Chapter
27: o by the by
E. E. Cummings Chapter
28: Desiderata
Max Ehrmann Chapter
29: Dancing with Life
Shauna Darling Robertson Chapter
30: Facing It
Yusef Komunyakaa Unit
5: May Chapter
1: Verses said to be written on the Union
Jonathan Swift Chapter
2: The Merry Month of May
Thomas Dekker Chapter
3: Tartary
Walter de la Mare Chapter
4: Back in the Playground Blues
Adrian Mitchell Chapter
5: The Song of the Banana Man
Evan Jones Chapter
6: Buckingham Palace
A. A. Milne Chapter
7: The Pobble Who Has No Toes
Edward Lear Chapter
8: Impromptu on Charles II
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Chapter
9: What the teacher said when asked: What er we avin for geography, Miss?
John Agard Chapter
10: For my Niece
Kate Tempest Chapter
11: from Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe Chapter
12: On a Lane in Spring
John Clare Chapter
13: The Lanyard
Billy Collins Chapter
14: Rondeau
Leigh Hunt Chapter
15: from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot Chapter
16: Instructions
Neil Gaiman Chapter
17: A Handsome Young Fellow Called Frears
Michael Palin Chapter
18: Matilda: Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death
Hilaire Belloc Chapter
19: Oranges and Lemons
Anon. Chapter
20: The Mouse's Tale
Lewis Carroll Chapter
21: Friends
Polly Clark Chapter
22: Today Is Very Boring
Jack Prelutsky Chapter
23: A Tragic Story
William Makepeace Thackeray Chapter
24: Buddha
Tony Mitton Chapter
25: from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde Chapter
26: Full Moon
Vita Sackville
West Chapter
27: God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins Chapter
28: I Am
John Clare Chapter
29: from Everest Climbed
Ian Serraillier Chapter
30: Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou Chapter
31: The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy Unit
6: June Chapter
1: from Greensleeves
Anon. Chapter
2: Bee! I'm Expecting You!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
3: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
4: Coming
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Chapter
5: Balloons
Sylvia Plath Chapter
6: Song of the Dying Gunner AA1
Charles Causley Chapter
7: The Throstle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
8: A London Plane
Tree
Amy Levy Chapter
9: I Lost a World
the Other Day!
Emily Dickinson Chapter
10: My Shadow Robert
Louis Stevenson Chapter
11: The End
A. A. Milne Chapter
12: On Turning Ten
Billy Collins Chapter
13: The Pleasures of Friendship
Stevie Smith Chapter
14: The Battle of Naseby
Thomas Babington Macaulay Chapter
15: from Prayer Before Birth
Louis MacNeice Chapter
16: Ecce Puer
James Joyce Chapter
17: The Way Things Are
Roger McGough Chapter
18: from The Field of Waterloo
Sir Walter Scott Chapter
19: Father's Hands
Paul Cookson Chapter
20: Refugees
Brian Bilston Chapter
21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare Chapter
22: Recessional
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Land of the Bumbley Boo
Spike Milligan Chapter
24: The Fiddler of Dooney
W. B. Yeats Chapter
25: My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear
Charles Causley Chapter
26: The Naming Of Cats
T. S. Eliot Chapter
27: The Land of Blue
Laura Mucha Chapter
28: A Bird Came Down the Walk
Emily Dickinson Chapter
29: Originally
Carol Ann Duffy Chapter
30: Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Unit
7: July Chapter
1: Remembered More for His Beard Now
Philip Ardagh Chapter
2: Amelia Earhart
Mandy Coe Chapter
3: Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
4: For You O Democracy
Walt Whitman Chapter
5: The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth Chapter
6: Rain in Summer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
7: Checking Out Me History
John Agard Chapter
8: Miracles
Walt Whitman Chapter
9: Travel
Edna St Vincent Millay Chapter
10: The Magic of the Mind
Clive Webster Chapter
11: The Duel
Eugene Field Chapter
12: Jerusalem (from Milton)
William Blake Chapter
13: The Argument of His Book
Robert Herrick Chapter
14: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats Chapter
15: Seven Times One: Exultation
Jean Ingelow Chapter
16: Particle Poems: 3
Edwin Morgan Chapter
17: The School Boy
William Blake Chapter
18: To You
Langston Hughes Chapter
19: Harlem Hopscotch
Maya Angelou Chapter
20: Morning Song
Sara Teasdale Chapter
21: Little White Lily
George MacDonald Chapter
22: The Law of the Jungle
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
23: The Mermaid
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
24: The Merman
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
25: Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
26: Watching My Dog Sleep
Kate Tempest Chapter
27: from Psalm 137 Chapter
28: 'next to of course god america i'
E. E. Cummings Chapter
29: The Dug
Out
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
30: Heat
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Chapter
31: A Flea and a Fly
Ogden Nash Unit
8: August Chapter
1: Casabianca
Felicia Hemans Chapter
2: Casabianca (A Parody)
Spike Milligan Chapter
3: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
John Keats Chapter
4: Minnie and Winnie
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
5: Meg Merrilies
John Keats Chapter
6: The Horses
Edwin Muir Chapter
7: The Meadow Mouse
Theodore Roethke Chapter
8: from A Song About Myself
John Keats Chapter
9: The Fairy School under the Loch
John Rice Chapter
10: I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child
Robert Graves Chapter
11: Verses written to the Queen of England
Mary, Queen of Scots Chapter
12: Manly Sports
Marion Bernstein Chapter
13: Shakespeare at School
Wendy Cope Chapter
14: from Macbeth
William Shakespeare Chapter
15: from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
16: Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden Chapter
17: My Last Duchess
Robert Browning Chapter
18: Don't Let That Horse
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Chapter
19: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas Chapter
20: How Many Seconds in a Minute?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
21: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Arthur Hugh Clough Chapter
22: Who Would True Valour See
John Bunyan Chapter
23: The Rainy Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
24: So, We'll Go No More a
Roving
George Gordon, Lord Byron Chapter
25: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls (from The Princess)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter
26: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
William Shakespeare Chapter
27: Trees
Mark Haddon Chapter
28: from The Task
William Cowper Chapter
29: No More Auction Block
Anon. Chapter
30: Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan Chapter
30: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea
Christina Rossetti Unit
9: September Chapter
1: Bomber's Moon
Mike Harding Chapter
2: But I Can't
W. H. Auden Chapter
3: This is the House That Jack Built
Anon. Chapter
4: Hornbeacon High
Sarah Crossan Chapter
5: Please Mrs Butler
Allan Ahlberg Chapter
6: Reading the Classics
Brian Patten Chapter
7: The Lesson
Edward Lucie
Smith Chapter
8: An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse
Wendy Cope Chapter
9: Take a Poem
James Carter Chapter
10: Pleasant Sounds
John Clare Chapter
11: The Right Word
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
12: The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams Chapter
13: Plums
Gillian Clarke Chapter
14: from Annus Mirabilis
John Dryden Chapter
15: The Mummy
Edwin Morgan Chapter
16: Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Chapter
17: Harriet Tubman
Eloise Greenfield Chapter
18: Joy
Hugo Williams Chapter
19: Prologue
Patience Agbabi Chapter
20: Ars Poetica
Archibald MacLeish Chapter
21: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries
Walt Whitman Chapter
22: An Old Woman of the Roads
Padraic Colum Chapter
23: Digging
Edward Thomas Chapter
24: Autumn Fires
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
25: Something Told the Wild Geese
Rachel Field Chapter
26: Wild Geese
Mary Oliver Chapter
27: The Railway Children
Seamus Heaney Chapter
28: Barrier
Rachel Rooney Chapter
29: Autumn Rain
D. H. Lawrence Chapter
30: Thirty Days Hath September
Anon. Chapter
10: October Chapter
1: The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost Chapter
2: Moonlit Apples
John Drinkwater Chapter
3: Crab
Apples
Imtiaz Dharker Chapter
4: Santa Filomena
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
5: Autumn
T. E. Hulme Chapter
6: from The Tyndale Bible Chapter
7: from 1777
Amy Lowell Chapter
8: Thumbprint
Eve Merriam Chapter
9: Malala
Michaela Morgan Chapter
10: Give
Simon Armitage Chapter
11: Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy Chapter
12: Lament of an Arawak Child
Pamela Mordecai Chapter
13: The Wild Swans at Coole
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: William the Conqueror, 1066
Anon. Chapter
15: At Senlac Hill, 15 October 1066
David Harmer Chapter
16: Not Only
Brian Patten Chapter
17: The Secret Song
Margaret Wise Brown Chapter
18: from Who Do You Think You Are?
Carl Sandburg Chapter
19: Digging
Seamus Heaney Chapter
20: Diary of a Church Mouse
John Betjeman Chapter
21: The Night at Trafalgar
Thomas Hardy Chapter
22: The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chapter
23: A Country Boy Goes to School
George Mackay Brown Chapter
24: Owl Poem
John Hegley Chapter
25: from Henry V
William Shakespeare Chapter
26: Love After Love
Derek Walcott Chapter
27: Paper Boats
Rabindranath Tagore Chapter
28: Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow?
Anon. Chapter
29: Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti Chapter
30: In the Dark, Dark Wood
Anon. Chapter
31: from Hallowe'en
John Kendrick Bangs Unit
11: November Chapter
1: from The Devil's Thoughts
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter
2: Television
Roald Dahl Chapter
3: The First Men on Mercury
Edwin Morgan Chapter
4: The Last Laugh
Wilfred Owen Chapter
5: Please to Remember
Walter de la Mare Chapter
6: November Night
Adelaide Crapsey Chapter
7: The Dead
Rupert Brooke Chapter
8: The Leader
Roger McGough Chapter
9: Here Dead We Lie
A. E. Housman Chapter
10: The African Lion
A. E. Housman Chapter
11: In Flanders Fields
John McCrae Chapter
12: Dreamers
Siegfried Sassoon Chapter
13: An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
W. B. Yeats Chapter
14: My First Day at School
Michaela Morgan Chapter
15: Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
16: from Epitaphs of the War
Rudyard Kipling Chapter
17: Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
Elizabeth I Chapter
18: Tell as a Marksman
were forgotten
Emily Dickinson Chapter
19: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Chapter
20: from The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran Chapter
21: In Memoriam
E. A. Mackintosh Chapter
22: Disabled
Wilfred Owen Chapter
23: Signs of the Times
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chapter
24: Prayer for Earth
Myra Cohn Livingston Chapter
25: Benediction
James Berry Chapter
26: Immigrant
Fleur Adcock Chapter
27: Nuns Fret Not at their Convent's Narrow Room
William Wordsworth Chapter
28: Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare Chapter
29: Sports Report
Gareth Owen Chapter
30: Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
Robert Louis Stevenson Unit
12: December Chapter
1: Rosa Parks
1st December 1955
Joseph Coelho Chapter
2: Napoleon
Miroslav Holub Chapter
3: The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
4: The Witch
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
5: Mary Celeste
Judith Nicholls Chapter
6: On Raglan Road
Patrick Kavanagh Chapter
7: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell Chapter
8: Embarkation, 1942
John Jarmain Chapter
9: Some Questions You Might Ask
Mary Oliver Chapter
10: Refugee Blues
W. H. Auden Chapter
11: Don't Quit
John Greenleaf Whittier Chapter
12: The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe Chapter
13: The Oxen
Thomas Hardy Chapter
14: Antarctica
Derek Mahon Chapter
15: little tree
E. E. Cummings Chapter
16: Forecasts
Jean Kenward Chapter
17: Christmas is Coming
Anon. Chapter
18: The Computer's First Christmas Card
Edwin Morgan Chapter
19: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Phillips Brooks Chapter
20: Winter
Time
Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter
21: Puzzle
Philip Waddell Chapter
22: The Year's Midnight
Gillian Clarke Chapter
23: Just Doing My Job
Clare Bevan Chapter
24: Saturday Night at the Bethlehem Arms
Gareth Owen Chapter
25: I Saw a Stable
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Chapter
26: Reindeer Report
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
27: Dear True Love
U. A. Fanthorpe Chapter
28: from Paradise Lost
John Milton Chapter
29: The Year
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Chapter
30: from The Tempest
William Shakespeare Chapter
31: Ring Out, Wild Bells (from In Memoriam)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Index
ii: Index of First Lines Index
iii: Index of Poets and Translators Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements