ISBN:

• 9780192761200
• 019276120X

Description: 159 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Target Audience Note: 4.8

Notes: Includes indexes.

Contents:

• Past, present and future / Emily Bronte
• Prayer to laughter / John Agard
• Tartary / Walter de la Mare
• The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear
• The cat and the moon / W.B. Yeats
• January jumps about / George Barker
• Spell of creation / Kathleen Raine
• Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins
• from 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth
• The wold swans at Coole / W.B. Yeats
• The galloping cat / Stevie Smith
• from 'Auguries of innocence' / William Blake
• The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The donkey / G.K. Chesterton
• Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Horses on the Camargue / Roy Campbell
• My heart's in the highlands / Robert Burns
• Home thoughts, from abroad / Robert Browning
• A Martian send a postcard home / Craig Raine
• No! / Thomas Hood
• BC:AD / U.A. Fanthorpe
• Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• London / William Blake
• The embankment / T.E. Hulme
• Summer recorded / Russell Hoban
• Snake / D.H. Lawrence
• The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsey
• Adlestrop / Edward Thomas
• Waving at trains / Roger McGough
• The night mail / W.H. Auden
• from 'The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald
• Sonnet LX / William Shakespeare
• Death, be not proud / John Donne
• To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
• Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
• An arundel tomb / Philip Larkin
• Noah / Roy Daniells
• Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith
• The lady of Shalott / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Lake Isle of Innistree / W.B. Yeats
• Song / Christina Rossetti
• Song / W.H. Auden
• To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
• Leisure / W.H. Davies
• Naming of parts / Henry Reed
• Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Legend / Judith Wright
• Jim who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion / Hilaire Belloc
• Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash
• By St Thomas Water / Charles Causley
• Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
• Follower / Seamus Heaney
• Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
• The woman of water / Adrian Mitchell
• Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc
• The trees / Philip Larkin
• Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman
• The way through the woods / Rudyard Kipling
• Hawk roosting / Ted Hughes
• Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The road not taken / Robert Frost
• The terrible path / Brian Patten
• Uphill / Christina Rossetti
• Stoppng by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
• You are old, Father William / Lewis Carroll
• I am / John Clare
• On his blindness / John Milton
• The tiger / William Blake
• A small dragon / Brian Patten
• Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
• Hunter trials / John Betjeman
• Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott
• The horn / James Reeves
• The highwayman / Alfred Noyes
• The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron
• Abbey Tomb / Patricia Beer
• Innocent's song / Charles Causley
• Say this city has ten million souls
• W.H. Auden
• In time of 'The breaking of Nations' / Thomas Hardy
• There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale
• April rain song / Langston Hughes
• maggie and milly and molly and may / E.E. Cummings
• Sea-fever / John Masefield
• On this island / W.H. Auden
• Cargoes / John Masefield
• A smuggler's song / Rudyard Kipling
• The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold
• O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman
• Casabianca / Felicia D. Hemans
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats
• The listeners / Walter de la Mare
• The Hansel and Gretel house / Gerda Mayer
• To any reader / Robert Louis Stevenson.

LCCN: 95052205

Control Number: 65447

Subjects:

• Children's poetry, American.
• Children's poetry, English.

Genre: Poetry

Other Authors:

• Harrison, Michael, 1939-, compiler.
• Stuart-Clark, Christopher, compiler.