ID | 006466 |
Call Number | 821.008/MOR |
Title Proper | Because a fire was in my head |
Other Title Information | 101 poems to remember |
Language | ENG |
Author | Morpurgo, Michael |
Publication | Great Britain, Faber and Faber Limited, 2001. |
Description | 142p Red Spine |
Note | This is an anthology that aims to do two things: to set fire to the imagination and to bring together a collection of memorable poems. And in their many different ways - through their sounds, rhythms, stories, surprises and jokes - these poems will set the fireworks crackling in our own heads. |
Note | Windy Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson Thaw - Edward Thomas The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House - Thomas Hardy Mother Parrot's Advice to her Children - Ganda, Africa 'I eat my peas with honey - Anonymous The Heavenly City - Stevie Smith The Song of Wandering Aengus - W.B.Yeats Oranges and Lemons - Anonymous Dance to Your Daddie - Anonymous Smile - Matthew Sweeney One - James Berry Everyone Sang - Siegfried Sassoon I Sat Belonely - John Lennon Little Trotty Wagtail - John Clare 'I'm not frightened of Pussy Cats' - Spike Milligan The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear A Small Dragon - Brian Patten Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost Loveliest of Trees - A.E. Housman The Way Through the Woods - Rudyard Kipling The Lonely Scarecrow - James Kirkup 'There was an Old Man with a beard' - Edward Lear Lullaby - Anonymous The Last Word of a Bluebird - Robert Frost My Story - Anonymous (translated by Brendan Kennelly) from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fairy Story - Stevie Smith Human Affection - Stevie Smith Autobiography - Louis Macneice 'When the sun rises' - Anonymous The Silver Swan - Anonymous The Arrow and the Song - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Friends - Elizabeth Jennings Watch Your French - Kit Wright Daddy Fell into the Pond - Alfred Noyes The Frog - Anonymous The Man in the Wildreness - Anonymous By St Thomas Water - Charles Causley 'There was a man of double deed' - Anonymous The Fly - William Blake 'To every thing there is a season' - Ecclesiastes I Remember, I Remember - Thomas Hood My Brother Bert - Ted Hughes Cat in the Tumble Drier - Jo Shapcott Birds, Bags, Bears and Buns - Anonymous Night Mail - W.H. Auden 'Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone' - W.H. Auden Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me? - Anonymous Dog - Ted Hughes 'When icicles hang by the wall' - William Shakespeare On the Ning Nang Nong - Spike Milligan The Bold Bad Bus - Wilma Horsburgh Cargoes - John Masefield The Jungle Husband - Stevie Smith Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell' - W.S. Gilbert 'How doth the little crocodile' - Lewis Carroll The Duck - Ogden Nash From Hereabout Hill - Sean Rafferty Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas Pippa's Song - Robert Browning The Mower - Philip Larkin The Spider and the Fly - Mary Howitt Snail - Ted Hughes Overhead on a Saltmarsh - Harold Munro Jonnie Crack and Flossie Snail - Dylan Thomas Dahn the Plug'ole - Anonymous Toad - Norman Maccaig 'Round about the cauldron go' - William Shakespeare 'She sells sea shells' - Anonymous A Boy in a Snow Shower - George Mackay Brown 'There was a naughty boy' - John Keats Matilda - Hilarie Belloc The Camel - Carmen Bernos De Gasztold Pride - Kit Wright The Song of the Jellicles - T.S. Eliot 'My mother said' - Anonymous Old Meg - John Keats The Fairies - William Allingham from The Pied Piper - Robert Browning I Saw a Jolly Hunter - Charles Causley To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no - W.B.Yeats I Had a Dove - John Keats The Sloth - Theodore Roethke The Donkey - G.K. Chesterton Dis Fighting - Benjamin Zephaniah O What is that Sound - W.H. Auden 'Break, break, break' - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience - Charles Causley Ariel's Dirge - William Shakespeare Sea-Fever - John Masefield Back in the Playground Blues - Adrian Mitchell Futility - Wilfred Owen Timothy Winters - Charles Causley 'Every night and every morn' - William Blake The Listeners - Walter De La Mare A Smuggler's Song - Rudyard Kipling Prelude - T.S. Elliot Escape at Bedtime - Robert Louis Stevenson Lake Isle of Innisfree - W.B. Yeats 'All the World's A Stage' - William Shakespeare |
Standard Number | 0571205836 |
Price. Qualification | Rs. 360(Hb) |
Classification Number | 821.008 |
Key Words | Children's poetry, English |