Poems to Live Your Life By

MUSINGS 'The isle is full of noises' from The Tempest — William Shakespeare 'There is a pleasure in a pathless wood' from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — George Gordon, Lord Byron The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost Freedom — Oliver Runner Adlestrop — Edward Thomas Cargoes — John Masefield YOUTH The Minister for Exams — Brian Patten The Great Escape — Chris Riddell Thirteen — Kate Tempest I Am Very Bothered — Simon Armitage Smoke Signals — Phoebe Bridgers FAMILY Walking Away — Cecil Day Lewis Outgrown — Penelope Shuttle Digging — Seamus Heaney Tissue — Imtiaz Dharker Eden Rock — Charles Causley Safe Sounds — Carol Ann Duffy Bright Star — John Keats LOVE I Miss You — A. F. Harrold Something Rhymed — Jackie Kay There is a Field — Rumi Suzanne — Leonard Cohen He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven — W. B. Yeats Sonnet 18 — William Shakespeare Invitation to Love — Paul Laurence Dunbar The Sun Has Burst the Sky — Jenny Joseph A Birthday — Christina Rossetti Valentine — Carol Ann Duffy Love Letter — Nick Cave The Whitsun Weddings — Philip Larkin IMAGININGS Jabberwocky — Lewis Carroll Witch Work — Neil Gaiman The Listeners — Walter de la Mare Orphee — Neil Gaiman The Lady of Shalott — Alfred, Lord Tennyson NATURE Ode to a Nightingale — John Keats Moon-Whales — Ted Hughes The Windhover — Gerard Manley Hopkins The Language of Cat — Rachel Rooney WAR Dulce et Decorum Est — Wilfred Owen The General — Siegfried Sassoon There Will Come Soft Rains — Sara Teasdale ENDINGS Not Waving but Drowning — Stevie Smith Let Me Die a Youngman's Seath — Roger McGough Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night — Dylan Thomas 'Because I could not stop for Death' — Emily Dickinson 'To be, or not to be' from Hamlet — William Shakespeare 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow' from Macbeth — William Shakespeare Index of First Lines Index of Poets Acknowledgements About Chris Riddell