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Great Britain, Faber and Faber Limited, 2001.
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| Description |
142pRed Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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| Contents |
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
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| Standard Number |
0571205836 Hb.
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