The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children

Preface Rhymes and Nonsense Anonymous: Gray Goose Anonymous: The Boatman Anonymous: I Had a Little Castle Anonymous: The Bellman's Song Anonymous: The Owl Ben Jonson: A Catch Anonymous: The Man in the Wilderness Anonymous: I'll Bark against the Dog-Star Anonymous: The Merry Bells of London Anonymous: Upon Paul's Steeple Anonymous: Trip upon Trenchers Anonymous: A Man of Words Anonymous: White Bird Featherless Anonymous: The Key of the Kingdom Anonymous: The Frog and Mouse Anonymous: Three Young Rats Anonymous: The Fox's Raid Anonymous: The Drunkard and the Pig Anonymous: Black Sheep Anonymous: Sisters Anonymous: There Was a Monkey William Makepeace Thackeray: A Tragic Story Lewis Carroll: The Three Badgers Edward Lear: The Table and the Chair Laura Richards: The Owl and the Eel and the Warming-Pan Edward Lear: Calico Pie James Whitcomb Riley: Craqueodoom Anonymous: The Foolish Boy Anonymous: I Sometimes Think Anonymous: The Common Cormorant Vachel Lindsay: Two Old Crows Anonymous: Clementine Anonymous: The Eddystone Light The Year and Its Seasons Ogden Nash: It's Never Fair Weather Anonymous: A New Year Carol Shu Hsi trans. Arthur Waley: Hot Cake William Shakespeare: Winter John Keats: From The Eve of St Agnes Robert Bridges: London Snow Thomas Hardy: Birds at Winter Nightfall Thomas Hardy: Winter in Durnover Field Robert Graves: Star-Talk Walter de la Mare: The Scarecrow Robert Herrick: Ceremonies for Candlemass Eve Charles Causley: At Candlemass Ivor Gurney: When March Blows William Shakespeare: Spring Thomas Hardy: Weathers John Clare: Spring Christopher Smart: Mirth William Wordsworth: A Summer's Day Emily Dickinson: Answer July Robert Frost: The Oven Bird Ch'eng Hsaio trans. Arthur Waley: Satire on Paying Calls in August Seamus Heaney: Blackberry-Picking Emily Dickinson: The Wind Began to Rock the Grass John Keats: To Autumn Ted Hughes: The Harvest Moon Sylvia Plath: Mushrooms Sir John Betjeman: Harvest Hymn Dave Goulder: The Long and Lonely Winter John Clare: Autumn Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the Wind Begins to Rise Frances Cornford: Acrostic for Guy Fawkes Night Robert Southwell: New Prince, New Pomp Robert Herrick: Ceremonies for Christmas George Herbert: Christmas Journeys and Places Anonymous: The Shepherd Boy's Carol T. S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi Robert Hayden: From Runagate, Runagate James D. Rubadiri: Stanley Meets Mutesa Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken Edward Thomas: The Green Roads Alfred, Lord Tennyson: From The Lady of Shalott Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through the Woods G. K. Chesterton: The Rolling English Road James Elroy Flecker: The Old Ships Emily Dickinson: I Like to See it Lap the Miles W. H. Auden: Night Mail Edward Thomas: Adlestrop Frances Cornford: Travelling Home Stephen Vincent Benet: American Names Robert Louis Stevenson: In the Highlands Elizabeth Bishop: The Map Edward Thomas: If I Should Ever by Chance Edward Thomas: What Shall I Give? Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge T. S. Eliot: Landscapes Spells, Magic and Mystery James Reeves: Spells Anonymous: I Have Four Sisters Beyond the Sea William Shakespeare: Ariel's Songs William Shakespeare: Fairy Songs William Shakespeare: Puck's Epilogue John Donne: Song Sir Walter Scott: Lucy Ashton's Song Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan Walter de la Mare: Song of the Mad Prince William Shakespeare: Witches' Song Ben Jonson: The Witches' Charms Robert Louis Stevenson: Windy Nights Christina Rossetti: From Goblin Market W. B. Yeats: The Stolen Child Anonymous: Two Corpus Christi Carols Anonymous from the Xhosa trans. A. C. Jordan: Thou Great God Strange Tales Anonymous: There was a Lady all Skin and Bone Anonymous: The Wife of Usher's Well Anonymous: Strange Company James Hogg: Kilmeny Returns from the Land of the Spirits John Masefield: The Rider at the Gate Charles Causley: Miller's End Elizabeth Jennings: The Secret Brother Brian Patten: You'd Better Believe Him Robert Hayden: A Road in Kentucky James Whitcomb Riley: Little Orphan Annie Music and Dancing William Shakespeare: How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps John Milton: From Comus John Dryden: From A Song for St Cecilia's Day Percy Bysshe Shelley: Hymn of Pan Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls Lewis Carroll: The Mock Turtle's Song W. B. Yeats: The Fiddler of Dooney Kojo Gyinaye Kyei: The Talking Drums Langston Hughes: Danse Africaine Hilaire Belloc: Tarantella Edith Sitwell: Polka Sydney Carter: Lord of the Dance Battles, Soldiers and Patriots James Elroy Flecker: War Song of the Saracens George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib Sir Walter Scott: Pibroch of Donuil Dhu Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay: A Jacobite's Epitaph Robert Browning: The Patriot Rudyard Kipling: A St Helena Lullaby George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Eve of Waterloo George Gordon, Lord Byron: Napoleon's Farewell Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain! Rudyard Kipling: Tommy Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth Rudyard Kipling: Epitaphs on the War: The Coward Wilfred Owen: Disabled Birds and Beasts Anonymous: The Cuckoo is a Merry Bird Anonymous: Cuckoo, Cuckoo Anonymous: Sweet Suffolk Owl Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Owl John Clare: Autumn Birds Celia Thaxter: The Sandpiper David McCord: Crows Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle Emily Dickinson: The Spider John Clare: The Vixen John Clare: Hares at Play Anthony Thwaite: Hedgehog Oliver Goldsmith: An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Alexander Pope: Epigram on the Collar of a Dog Norman MacCaig: Praise of a Collie Thomas Gray: Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Anonymous from the Gaelic trans. Robin Flower: Pangur Bán W. B. Yeats: The Cat and the Moon T. S. Eliot: The Naming of Cats William Cowper: Epitaph on a Hare Anonymous: Epitaph on a Dormouse Marjory Fleming: Sonnet to a Monkey Hilaire Belloc: The Frog Hilaire Belloc: The Python Rudyard Kipling: Road-Song of the Bandar-Log William Blake: The Tyger Anonymous: Two Yoruba Poems trans. Ulli Beier Anonymous: Dick Turpin's Ride on Black Bess Philip Larkin: At Grass Philip Larkin: First Sight G. K. Chesterton: The Donkey Richard Wilbur: Francis Jammes: A Prayer to go to Paradise with the Donkeys Walt Whitman: The Ox-Tamer Thomas Hardy: The Oxen Charles Causley: Carol of Birds, Beasts and Men Childhood and Youth Ogden Nash: It is indeed Spinach Ogden Nash: Children's Party Sir John Betjeman: Indoor Games near Newbury Sir John Betjeman: Hunter Trials Anonymous from the Yoruba trans. Ulli Beier: Praise of a Child Robert Herrick: To his Saviour, a Child William Blake: The Echoing Green William Blake: Laughing Song Thom Gunn: Baby Song Anonymous from the Yoruba trans. Ulli Beier: Yoruba Lullabies Thomas Dekker: Lullaby Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov trans. Cornford and Salaman: Cossack Lullaby Richard Corbet: To his Son, Vincent Corbet Hugh Peters: Wishes for his Daughter Louis MacNeice: Autobiography Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortti: Palm Leaves of Childhood Peter Abrahams: Me, Colored Frances Cornford: Childhood Richard Wilbur: Boy at the Window Anthony Thwaite: White Snow David McCord: The Game Anonymous: The Birched Schoolboy William Blake: The Schoolboy Robert Frost: Birches Sir Noel Coward: The Boy Actor Anonymous: A Daughter's Song Ogden Nash: Daddy's Home, See You To-morrow John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls Charles Causley: Who? Robert Herrick: Epitaph upon a Child that Died Donald Justice: On the Death of Friends in Childhood Some People William Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Man Anonymous: The Bonnie Earl of Moray Rudyard Kipling: The Looking-Glass Ben Jonson: Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy Colley Cibber: The Blind Boy John O'Keeffe: The Little Plough-Boy Oliver Goldsmith: The Village Schoolmaster William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper Langston Hughes: Negro Padraic Colum: An Old Woman of the Roads Langston Hughes: Aunt Sue's Stories Gwendolyn Brooks: The Ballad of Rudolph Reed Edward Lear: Self-Portrait of Edward Lear W. H. Auden: Edward Lear William Plomer: A Victorian Album Hilaire Belloc: Peter Goole, who Ruined his Father and Mother by his Extravagance E. V. Rieu: Sir Smasham Uppe Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Epigram on a Singer Frances Cornford: Post-Bore Triolet Sir Walter A. Raleigh: Wishes of an Elderly Man John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Impromptu on Charles II Walter Savage Landor: The Georges Thomas Brown: Lines to the Head of his College Seamus Heaney: Follower Love and Lovers' Tales Anonymous: Bridal Morning Anonymous: Western Wind Anonymous from the Latin trans. Helen Waddell: Down from the Brances Anonymous: I Know Where I'm Going Anonymous: The Water is Wide Anonymous: The Cambric Shirt Henry Carey: Sally in Our Alley Robert Louis Stevenson: Romance Louise Bogan: The Crossed Apple William Shakespeare: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old Sir Philip Sidney: My True Love Hath My Heart Anonymous: Hynd Horn Anonymous: The Gay Goshawk Ezra Pound: The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Charles Dibdin: The Lady's Diary Sir Walter Scott: Lochinvar Edith Sitwell: The Little Ghost who Died for Love Anonymous: Frankie and Johnny Lewis Carroll: The King-Fisher's Song Laura Richards: Antonio Sir John Suckling: Who so Pale and Wan? Last Things Anonymous: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Sir Thomas Browne: Evening Hymn William Blake: Night William Shakespeare: Wolsey's Farewell John Milton: On his Blindness John Keats: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be Percy Bysshe Shelley: From Adonais Sir Walter Scott: Proud Maisie Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias William Wordsworth: On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802 A. E. Housman: On Wenlock Edge William Shakespeare: Dirge for Fidele Christina Rossetti: Remember Robert Louis Stevenson: Requiem Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I Climb the Hill William (Johnson) Cory: Heraclitus William Wordsworth: One Christmas-Time Coventry Patmore: A London Fête Emily Dickinson: Because I could Not Stop For Death Sir John Beaumont: To my dear Son, Gervase Beaumont John Oldham: A Quiet Soul John Crowe Ransom: Janet Waking Edwin Muir: The Child Dying Thomas Hardy: Afterwards Thomas Hardy: The Garden Seat Robert Frost: In a Disused Graveyard William Shakespeare: Prospero's Farewell to his Magic William Shakespeare: Macbeth on Lady Macbeth's Death Henry Vaughan: Peace James Elroy Flecker: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence Acknowledgments Notes Index of Authors and Titles Index of First Lines