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1986. AN ENORMOUS YES in memoriam Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
1988. Anthology of Latin American Poets in London by Maria Eugenia Bravo et al
1987. Axed Between the Ears edited by David Kitchen
2008. The Big Green Poetry Machine edited by Annabel Cook
1968. Flutes and Cymbals edited by Leonard Clark
1987. The Metaphysical Poets selected and edited by Helen Gardner
1957. The Modern Poet's World
2010. Past Poets - Future Voices. 2010 Poetry Competition for 11-18 year-olds
1954. The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse
1993. Poems for the Very Young by Michael Rosen
1929. Poets and Poetry. Senior Book 1

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Chambers, Harry (ed.), 'AN ENORMOUS YES in memoriam Philip Larkin (1922-1985), first published in 1986 in Great Britain in paperback, 68pp, ISBN 0905291859. Sorry, out of stock, but click image to access prebuilt Amazon search for this title
1986, Peterloo Poets, pbk
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About this book: Published in 1986 in paperback by Peterloo Poets, 68pp, ISBN 0905291859, this book is a tribute to the late poet Philip Larkin, who died on 2nd December, 1985, the year prior to this publication and hence its title 'An Enormous Yes, In Memoriam Philip Larkin, 1922-1985)'.

It contains the following materials - a mixture of poems from other poets, poems from Larkin himself, tributes, doodles, sketches and black and white plates (photos).

Contents:
POEMS:
Anthony Thwaite: The Anaesthetic From Which None Came Round
Vernon Scannell: In Memoriam P.A.L. 2.12.85
David Sutton: Place-Names
Robert Hall: Larkin
Meg Peacocke: Stopping the Diary
R.A. Maitre: Dodging the Toad
R. A. Maitre: Veiled Questions
Harry Chambers: Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
William Scammell: Larkin's Dead
Andrew Motion: This Is Your Subject Speaking


TRIBUTES:
Peter Levi: The English Wisdom of a Master Poet
Craig Raine: Closing Lines on a Life
David Selzer: Touchstones



MATERIALS BY PHILIP LARKIN
Two Unpublished Poems
Some Doodles
Fiction and the Reading Public
Not the Place's Fault
I Remember, I Remember
(on) The Whitsun Weddings
On Poetry
Point of No Return
Aubade


1988, El Grupo de Escritores Latinoamericanos, pbk
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About this book: This concise Anthology of the Latin American Poets in London constitutes a landmark in our living and our staying in this remote land. The time we have been here has not been indifferent to our lives but, on the contrary, there are noticeable and deep furrows in the path we have been treading. So, this collection of poems even if they could be unassuming, braing voices from Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay that reveal with great strength personal experiences which are highly representative and authentic. These poems bring the survivor in each person who has written them, and also the hidden face which has been concealed by a fathomless silence lasting very, very long years

Contents:
Preface by Roberto Rivera-Reyes
MARIA EUGENIA BRAVO:
Sobre Exilios y derrotas (on Exiles and Defeats)
Circo Romano (Roman Circus)
Salmo (Psalm)
Sobre Redford, la Schneider y otras cuestriones (on Robert Redford, Maria Schneider and other matters)

ALFREDO CORDAL:
La investidura de 'El Dorado' (The Investiture of 'El Dorado')
La Case visitada (The Haunted House)
El loco del Taro (The Fool of the Tarot)
Pueblo Nuestro (Our People)

EDGARDO DURAN RESTREPO:
Y comio igual que ayer (And he ate as yesterday)
En carrilera (En route)
Mujer? 0 Sueno (Lady? or Dream?)

RICARDO GARCIA CURBELO:
Carta a mi Pueblo (Letter to my Town)
El Irracional (The Irrational)

CARLOS GONGORA:
En el Templo Mayor (At the Main Temple)
Inicio (Beginning)

ENRIQUE PARADA:
Te dejo estas lineas (I leave you these lines I have so thought about)
Tu vivias detras de los jardines (You lived behind the summer gardens)

SERGIO REGULES:
En mi sueno (in my dream)
Aqui estoy (Here I stand)
Uruguay campeon del mundo (Uruguay, World Champions)

ROBERTO RIVERA-REYES:
Los Molinos de Don Quijote (Don Quixote's Watermills)
La Primavera de Michae Dolan (Michal Dolan's Spring)
Cisne de Cuello Negro (Black-Necked Swan)
Ven Seamos (So Let's Live)

JORGE SALGADO ROCHA
Cuatro de Septiembre (Fourth of September)
Nostalgia dividida (Separation)
Regalos para ti (Presents for you)
Retorno (Going back)

PEDRO SARDUY
Especulaciones en Paris (Speculations in Paris)

PEDRO SERRANO
El Cortesano (The Courtier)
La Sirena (The Mermaid)































Kitchen, David. 'Axed Between The Ears', published in 1987 in Great Britain in paperback by Heinemann Educational Publishers, 102pp, ISBN 0435145304. Condition: Brand New. Price: £2.50, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)
1987, Heinemann, pbk
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About this book: At the heart of this book are poems that school children of secondary school age have chosen as great poetry - ones that evoked strong positive responses from pupils. Some of the poems work when properly introduced and performed; when the teacher has a streak of the dramatic about them and enhances the poem with some performance such as The Farmer's Wife and Gresford Disaster! Suggestions for written or oral work have been included to save the teacher time setting related work.

This book essentially meets the need for a collection of poems that your children will like and will respond to; a collection of poems that they should have in their collection because they are such good poems. Combined with the additional thought-provoking exercises set throughout the book (for teachers to use essentially and containing questions; essays; set work, etc), this book provides a perfect base for discussing poetry in the classroom

Includes the poems:
Run the Film Backwards by Sydney Carter
The Choice by Dorothy Parker
The Playground by Michael Rosen
'Not Wanted' by anonymous
Peerless Jim Driscoll by Vernon Scannell
Streemin by Roger McGough
First Day by J. I. Jones
The Lesson by Roger McGough
Declaration of Intent by Steve Turner
Mabel by Stewart Henderson
Friday Nights by Philomena Broderick
Friends by Elizabeth Jennings
The Farmer's Wife by Anonymous
Green Man in the Garden by Charles Causley
'Petronella' by Jeffrey Grenfell-Hill
Save It for the Kids by Mick Johnson
A Sequence of Poems for my Daughter, Christmas '83 by Debi Hinton
First Love by Mary Dorcey
Riddles (anonymous)
Love Grows Old Too by Roger Palmer
Old Age Report by Adrian Mitchell
Beautiful Old Age by D. H. Lawrence
In Oak Terrace by Tony Connor
Geriatric Ward by Phoebe Hesketh
The Inheritor by Herbert Williams
Brain Damaged by Margot Stewart
Pneumoconiosis by Duncan Bush
The Gresford Disaster by Anonymous
Daily London Recipe by Steve Turner
Song of the Wagondriver by B. S. Johnson
A Danish Pastry Lament by Stewart Henderson
A Working Mum by Sally Flood
Meditation on the A30 by John Betjeman
Quiet Fun by Harry Graham
In the Cemetery by Thomas Hardy
Notting Hill Polka by W. Bridges-Adam
Ianto the Undertaker by Bryn Griffiths
Freedom (Holloway, Spring 1969) by Pat Arrowsmith
Parent's Sayings by Michael Rosen
Poor, but Honest (an old music hall song, author unknown)
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
Nice Men by Dorothy Byrne
A Girl's Song by Leslie Norris
Hedgehog by Anthony Thwaite
Our Budgie by Harri Webb
Travelling Through the Dark by William Stafford
Death of a Cat by Anthony Thompson
A Case of Murder by Vernon Scannell
The Dog Lovers by Spike Milligan
Song of the Battery Hen by Edwin Brock
Lone Dog by Irene McLeod
Vegetarian Verse by David Brazier
Killing A Whale by David Gill
Dumb Insolence by Adrian Mitchell
What's the Matter? Or How to Do Nothing and Lose Everything by Michael Rosen
The National Union of Children by Roy Fuller
The National Association of Parents by Roy Fuller
Nooligan by Roger McGough
Atrocities by Siegfried Sassoon
Green Beret by Ho Thien
The Identification by Roger McGough
Kill The Children by James Simmons
First Blood by John Stallworthy
Plug In, Turn On, Look Out by Peter Roche
Requirements in the Shelter by Adrian Mitchell
The Appeal by Steve Turner
The Diet by Maureen Burge
Eat, Drink and Be Sick by Pam Ayres
The Hayes, Cardiff (for Robert Oats) by Geraint Jarman
Never Again by Harri Web
Adrian Henri's Talking After Christmas Blues by Adrian Henri
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine
After We've Gone by Fran Landesman








































Cook, Annabel (ed.), "The Big Green Poetry Machine", published in 2008 in Great Britain in paperback, 143pp, ISBN 9781844317219
2008, Young Writers, pbk
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About this book: Young Writers' Big Green Poetry Machine is a showcase for our nation's most brilliant young poets to share their thoughts, hopes and fears for the planet they call home. Young Writers was established in 1991 to nurture creativity in our children and young adults, to give them an interest in poetry and an outlet to express themselves. Seeing their work in print will encourage them to keep writing as they grow and become our poets of tomorrow. The poems included in this compilation are from the schools: Annfield Plain Junior School, Stanley; Bothal Middle School, Ashington; Browney Primary School, Durham; Bullion Lane Primary School, Chester-le-Street; Cockton Hill Junior School, Bishop Auckland; Durham Lane Primary School, Eaglescliffe; Percy Main Primary School, North Shields; Seaburn Dene Primary School, Sunderland; Seaton Sluice County Middle School, Whitley Bay; The Avenue Primary School, Nunthorpe; Trimdon Junior School, Trimdon Village; Whinstone Primary School, Ingleby Barwick

Poems included are:
Annfield Plain Junior School, Annfield Plain, Durham
Being Homeless by Jonthan Bell
Litter by Jack Storey
Mum Can I? by Amber Reay
Homeless by Michaela McDonald
Homeless by Nathan John Cox

Bothal Middle School, Ashington
The Rainforests by Joshua Strachan
The Green Class by Jill Waddle, Natalie Adamson & Amy Johnston
Deadly Humans by Sarah-Louise Walden
My Once Beautiful Earth by Samantha Brown
Dear Humans by Toni Pringle
We Humans by Laurie Gillespie
If Everyone Cared by Katherine Pegg
I've Got A Cold by Stephanie Williamson & Ruth Candlish
World Destruction by Ellen Thompson
Poison by Ellie Lyall
What's Wrong With Us? by Matthew Bolton
Global Warming by Amy Thompson & George Warren
Out on the Street by Connor Emery
Wasting the Only World by Georgia McCormack
Please Stop It by Leigh-Anne Williams
The Once-Loved Earth by Jemma McGaughey
Big Green Death by Rebecca Stone
Dumping's Happening Everywhere by Daniel Burns
Litter by Alix Gibson & Lauren Lewicki
Life on Earth by Andrew Bushby & Ryan Hill
So What Should We Do? by Jake Tomlin
Why Should I Care? by Sean Charlton
Crying by Hannah Lightley
Global Warming (Why?) by Faith Pritchard
Animals in Danger by Sarah Whittle & Kate Leah Angus
What's Happening to Our World? by Alexandra Gibson & Elle Dunning
The Park Owner's Letter by Ross McGowan
Saving the Planet by Craig Wooldridge
Destroyed World by Courtney Hewitson
Wasted World by Lois Mordue & Katy Gibson
For Let by Stephanie Palmer & Claire Anderson
Farewell Earth by Scott Yeowart & Nathan Bate
Homeless Ain't Bad by Jordan Bate
World Elimination by Robert Emery
Litter by Becky Kelly & Abbie Dodds
Have A Heart by Robyn Dixon & Kirstin McMillan
Don't Leave Me Alone by Alex Page & Liam Cuttler
A Dangerous Mix-Up by Shannon Elliott & Chloé Cuthbertson

Browney Primary School, Durham
Walk to School by Jordan Blackburn
Recycling by Lucy Stidwell
Recycle by Terence Hathaway
Walking by Jack Stidwell
Bins by Katy Newman
Bins by Aaron Reid
Environment by Sean Atkins
Bins by Eve Ridley
Save Trees and Forests by Michael Bowey
Recycling by Matthew Holden

Bullion Primary School, Chester-le-Street, Durham
Our Environment by Dominic Radcliffe
Exhaust Fumes by Josh Davidson & Bruce Burdon
Crazy World by Jasmine Lish
Help the World by Charlotte Glassey
Environment by Abbey Tague
Cars by Owen Pendlington
Our World by Jordyn Dickinson

Cockton Hill Junior School, Bishop Auckland
Hiding from War by Ella Nicole Smith
Don't Chop And The Trees Won't Drop by Matthew Sage
Litter Disease! By Danielle Ball
Useful Trees by Abbey Chester
Trees by Steven Peverley
Animals by Charlie Douthwaite
Help Trees by Bradley Wilson-Dando
Graffiti by Ryan Baker
R-Reduce, R-Reuse- R-Recycle by Bradley Elgie
Trees by Cameron Weir
Recycling by Claire-Louise Ashford
Tree Poem by Aimee Hillary
Don't Throw Litter by Sam Stevens
Recycling by Rebecca Breden
Pollution Aaron Swainston
Electricity by Isobel McDonagh
Poor People's Poem by Amy Dowson
Trees by Natasha Latcham
Recycle Everyone by Jade Paterson
How to Save the Trees by Laura Eales
Trees by Sara Winter
Litter Rap by Megan Kennedy

Durham Lane Primary School, Eaglescliffe
The Deadly War by Nathan Dale
Wars are Wrong! by Zachary McAskill & Ben Llewellyn
Litter is Shameful by Grace Brown & Nina Marshall
Be an Eco-Warrior by Megan Furr & Emily McGuckin
Save The Animals by Princedeep Randhaws & Hasnain Khan
The Disease Poem by Liam Davis & Matthew Upson
Be An Eco Friend by Patrick Carroll & Graham Dodds
Mad Litter by Bailey Peacock Farrell & Alex Close
Drip Drop! by Antonia Phillips, Annabelle Lamond & Shauna McGahan
The Climate Change by Holly Chapman & Lauren Speight

Percy Main Primary School, North Shields
Freedom For Life by Amyleigh Stewart & Robyn Watler

Seaburn Dene Primary School, Sunderland
Our World by Thomas Hand
Think by Rebecca Hargate
What Is Going To Happen? by Dominic Shepherd
Think Of A World by Denys Gardner
Disasters and Extinction by Daniel Atchison
War by Tom Whiffen
What Litter Is Doing To The World by Lillie Keeling
We're All Destroying The World by Sam Johnson
The World Is Dying by Jack Teasdale
What Have We Done by Carla Topliff
Why Can't We Change? by Rebecca Louise Ridley
What Have We Done by Jessica Green
What Will Happen To The World? by Haydn Evans
Animals And Extinction by James Robson
What Have We Done To The World? by Adam Coombs
What Have We Done? by Mae Heskett
Where Are The Animals? by Philip Jones
What Is There? by Amy Lamming
What's The Matter With That? by Shelley Nicholson
The World by David Parnaby
Homeless by Molly Mae Lloyd

Seaton Sluice County Middle School, Whitley Bay
Rainforests by Lauren Brough
A Dark Day by Katie Pearson
Home by Rachel Davison
Extinction by Jessica McCafferty
Extinction by Steven Doris
Global Warming by Aimee Pearson
War by Ayrton Browning
Disease by Joseph Woods
Pollution by Jasmine Common
Pollution by Amber Wakenshaw
Homeless by Lewis Devlin
Save the Rainforest by Laura Davies
The Tiger by Charlotte Harris
Rainforest by Sophie Brownlee
Protect the Animal Kingdom by Evan Johnson
Rainforest Rescue by Liam Carroll
In the Jungle by Carl Howes
Homelessness by Ryan Armiger
Stop and Think! by Olivia Jarvis
Guess Who? by Darcey Hannah Falconer
Endangered Animals by Lauren Devlin
Rainforest by Charlie Turney
Recycle, Reuse, Reduce the Waste We Use by Emma Bentley
The World by Lucy Thompson
Racism by Chloe Tweedy
The Tree and Swan by Kate Foster
Animals by Daniel McDougal
Litter by Christina Kelly
Save the World by Zoe Fox
Save Our World by Carl Larmouth
Save Our World by David Homer
The Green Machine by Jenny Marshall
E is For Endangered by Robert Lydon
The World by Harry Pearson
Poem Mix by Michael John Maley
Danger! by Callum Martin
Litter by Dean Leon Hindmarch
Untitled by Nathan Knight
Save Our World by Jennifer Taylor
War is Bad by Thomas Bushell
Wooden it Be Good by Luke Whatmore
Litter, Litter by James Cleghorn
Pollution by Adam Render
Could Be Fun by Jordan-Lee Hall
War by Jamie McCafferty
Climate Change by Adam Duxfield
Untitled by Rachel Swarbrick
Big Green Machine by Melissa Smith
Stop Before You Chop! by Amy Bentley
The World Is Coming To An End by Sarah Bennett
Litter by Rachael Burgess
Soon Extinction Will Come by Jessica Maley
Our Planet Near Disaster by Chloe Miller
Pollution by Tom James Ramsay
Rainforests in Danger by Robyn Connelly
Animals Extinction by Emma Doris
Disease by Cameron Dunbar
Homeless and Pollution by Emily Clark
The Homeless by Steven Simpson
Endangered by Georgia Nunn
Save The Animals by Kayleigh Wright
Poverty and Disease by Zoe Frances Martin
What We Could Lose by Emily Stewart
What is the World Today? by Joseph Dungworth
The Eco Way by Kelly Dawn Hilton
Rainforests Need Help! by Leonie the Stuart
Extinction by Harry Green
Recycling Is Now Big In Our Town by Blaise Charlton-Baird
Animals in Extinction by Sean Fulton
Recycle It by Kyle Hall
Bitter Litter by Jessica Govan
Rainforest by Bridie Nicole Knights
Extinction by Scott Carlisle
Pollution and The Homeless by Jessica Nicole Wood
Extinction by Tammi Berresford
Littering by Jennifer Drake-Browning
Being Homeless by Alannah Willis Harvey
Don't Drop It, Bin It by Jane Roberts
Save The Earth That We Now Stand! By Shannon LIttle
Bottles by Chantelle Lucas
Change Our World by Christopher Kennedy
Litter by Marcus Matthewson
The Truth by Lauren Hindmarch
Rain by Daniel James Meredith

The Avenue Primary School, Nunthorpe
Affecting the World by Paul O'Malley
Recycling! by Grace Forster
War by Matthew Wood
Help! By William Freeman
Recycling! by Laura Simpson
Litter by Jacob Segrave
Make Our World A Better Place! by Rebecca Palmer
How to Stop War! by Alex Luke Morrell
Thick Toxic Smoke by Joe Cairns
Litter by Matthew Bennison
Help Our World by Liam Reveley-Collins
War by Ethan Walker
Keep the World Alive by Labib Uddin
The Eco War by Rebecca Jackson
The Power of Rainforests by Matthew James Bradley
Not Recycling by Lucy Chambers
Racism! by Katie Iley
Why Not Help? by Joe Morley
Do Your Part by Luke Goddard
Show You Care by Philippa Elizabeth Stone
Show That You Care! by Molly Ryan
Don't Litter by Emily Heslington
Recycle, Recycle, Recycle by Rebecca Anne Moy
Litter by Alexa Jayne Singleton
Help the World! by Abbie May Rodgers
Save Our Planet by Rachel Harrison
Destroying The World by Ryan Derek Emmerson Iley
The World Will Soon Vanish by Shafik Rehman
Falling Trees by Bethany Taylor

Trimdon Junior School, Trimdon Village
Go Green by Kaitlin Behan
Recycle It by Laura Robson-Cross
Litter, Litter by Beth Donaldson & Ellie-Mae Flint
Environmentally Friendly by Sophie Storey
Will It Ever Stop? by Laura-Beth Mitchell
Pollution Song by Lucy Atkinson

Whinstone Primary School
Things Happening in the World by Ben Pearson
What We Don't See by Jamie Connor
Global Warming's Taking Its Toll
Save The World by Callum Frost & Joe Caygill
Green Day Poem by Charlie Scales
Global Warming by Jack Bankhurst
Pollution by Olivia Rich
Flood by James Raymond Knott
Animals by Joseph Tomlin
The Whale by Jack Horrocks
Save The World by Abbie Manning
Litter by Jack Christopher Thrower
Whales! by Georgia Helliwell
The Black Death by Zack Thomas
Really Recycling by Jordan Martin
Car Pollution by Evie Hollis
Consequences! by Sophie Patterson
Global Warming by Sarah McCarthy
Save The World! by Amber Khan
Pollution by Abdul Hamid Rauf
Save The World by Sonia Mansouri
The Whales' Poem by Corinne Kerr
Extinction by Daisy Hearfield
Floods by Mathew Clasper
Elephant LIfe! by Rachel Stabler
Eco - Haikus by Ben Doherty
The World's Terror by Luke Parkin
Save The Planet by Bethany Clay
Save Our World by Fenella Pinkney
Save Our Earth by Mariko Yanagisawa
The Terror of the Earth by Daniel Gavaghan
Fire! By Grace Autumn Patricia Riley
Earth's Energy by Jay Collier
Lungs of The Earth by Christopher Dodds
Save The Earth by Logan Brennan
Save Our World Today by Sonia Hussein
Global Warming Scares by Danny Barry

















































































 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clark, Leonard (selected by; editor); Hughes, Shirley (illustrator). Flutes and Cymbals: Poetry for the Young, published in 1968 in Great Britain, in hardback with dustjacket, 104pp, ISBN 0370010906. Condition: Good, but slightly worn and vintage condition; The dustjacket and book both show signs of age and use - the dj has had the price clipped from the front flap and it has wear to the edges, particularly the top and bottom of the spine and the top back edge where it is creased and suffering from tiny little rips to the edge. There's a 1cm tear on the back bottom edge. Price: £8.99, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard price (£2.80 for UK buyers; more for overseas customers)
1975, The Bodley Head, hbk
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About this book/synopsis: Flutes and Cymbals is a poetry book designed to give pleasure to both eye and ear, a book for young (not very young) children to possess themselves, as well as a book from which parents and teachers will read aloud. Given that it's aimed at the slightly older child, there are no nursery rhymes in here, but there are many poems and extracts of longer poems more fitted to their age and experience. It contains a wide range of poems by past and present [1968] poets. The compiler, Leonard Clark, who has experience as a teacher, poet and editor of many poetry anthologies, writes in his introduction, 'The general aim has been to provide sensation but to avoid sensationalism, sentiment but not sentimentality, toughness but not violence and horror, genuine poetry rather than poetic propaganda.' He explains his choice of authors and the effect of poetry on children who are becoming more fully aware of the world around them, and how this necessarily limited election may well provide an introduction to a much wider range of poetry at a later stage in their development. Even so, a look at the contents list whill show how ably Leonard Clark has varied and extended his selection. For her illustrations in this book, Shirley Hughes was named as runner-up for the Library Association's 1968 Kate Greenaway Medal

Contents:
Words and Music
Extract from The Lotus Easters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Romance by W. J. Turner
Music by John Fletcher
Spanish Folk Song Translated by S. de Madrariaga
Extract from The Hill of Vision by James Stephens
A Counting-Out Rhyme by Anonymous
Introduction from Songs of Innocence by William Blake
Talk by D. H. Lawrence
The Pilgrim by John Bunyan

Town and Country
Town and Country by Thomas Moult
Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Extract from Chaucer's Thames by William Morris
Extract from Grongar Hill by John Dyer
Extract from The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Evening Over the Forest by Beatrice Mayor
Up at Piccadilly, o! by Anonymous
Sowing by Edward Thomas
Extract from Evening by P. B. Shelley
Extract from Beleaguered Cities by F. L. Lucas

Around the Year
Winter the Huntsman by Osbert Sitwell
Extract from Cold Blows the Wind by John Hamilton
Snow Harvest by Andrew Young
Extract from Tardy Spring by George Meredith
Old Dan'l by L. A. G. Strong
The Youthful Spring by Thomas Carew
Extract from On a May Morning by John Milton
Extract from The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise by Emily Dickinson
Summer by Richard Aldington
Extract from The Greenwood by W. L. Bowles
Extract from The Shower by Henry Vaughan
Extract from Choric Song by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Extract from To Autumn by John Keats
Autumn by John Clare

Wind and Water
Extract from Jardins sous la Pluie by John Redwood-Anderson
And it was Windy Weather by James Stephens
Extract from Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Noah by Siegfried Sassoon
The Wind and the Rain by W. W. Gibson
The Brook by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham
The Pool in the Rock by Walter de la Mare
Trade Winds by John Masefield
Cambridge by Frances Cornford

Home and Away
Extract from The Manor Farm by Edward Thomas
Extract from Wander-Thirst by Gerald Gould
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nurse's Song by William Blake
Who's In by Elizabeth Fleming
My Heart's in the Highlands by Robert Burns
The Winter Trees by Clifford Dyment
The Emigrant by John Masefield

Man and Beast
Kindness to Animals by Anonymous
Double Dutch by Walter de la Mare
Extract from Badger by John Clare
Sheep by W. H. Davies
Oliphaunt by J. R. R. Tolkien
Extract from Fidelity by William Wordsworth
I have a Fawn by Thomas Moore
Extract from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Extract from The Chameleon by James Merrick
When the Animals were let out of the Ark after the Flood (14th Century)
The Boy Fishing by E. J. Scovell

Long Ago
The Creation - extract from Metamorphoses by Ovid (Translated by Rolfe Humphries)
Riding Together by William Morris
The Knight's Tomb by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Extract from Flodden by Sir Walter Scott
The Discovery by J. C. Squire
The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore
Lord Randal by Anonymous
Meg Merrilies by John Keats
The Dismantled Ship by Walt Whitman
The Sands of Dee by Charles Kingsley

Christmas and Other Feasts
At Christmas by Anonymous
Extract from Hot Cake by Shu Hsi (translated by Arthur Waley)
An Old Grace by Anonymous
Extract from Christmas Time by Sir Walter Scott
A Rhyme for Shrove Tuesday by Anonymous
Pancakes by Christina Rossett
Bring us in Good Ale by Anonymous
Nose, Nose, Jolly Red Nose, by Beaumont and Fletcher
Busy, Curious, Thirsty Fly by Anonymous
Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll

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  • The Metaphysical Poets [top]
    Introduced and edited by Helen Gardner
    This selection 1st published in 1957
    Reprinted 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1965
    Revised edition published in 1966 and reprinted in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971
    3rd (revised) edition published in 1972 and reprinted in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 (twice), 1982, 1983 and 1984
    Published in Penguin Classics in 1985, 1986 and
    Reprinted in 1987 in Great Britain by Penguin Classics in paperback, 331pp, ISBN 014042038x

About this book/synopsis: In this important and influential anthology, Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'. Characterised by a pungent concentration of thought and a sinewy strength of style, these poems are among the most challenging and beautiful in the English language

Contents:
Introduction; Notes on the Text; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition

Sir Walter Ralegh
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
'What is our Life?'

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
Caelica: Sonnets 87 and 88
Chorus Sacerdotum

Robert Southwell
Marie Magdalens Complaint
The Burning Babe
New Heaven, New Warre

William Shakespeare
The Phoenix and the Turtle

William Alabaster
Upon the Ensignes of Christes Crucifyinge

Sir Henry Wotton
A Hymn to my God in a night of my late Sicknesse
On his Mistris, the Queen of Bohemia
Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset

John Donne
Satyre: Of Religion
Elegie: His Picture
Elegie: On his Mistris
Elegie: To his Mistris Going to Bed
Also: The Calme, The Flea, The Good-Morrow; Song: 'Goe, and catche a falling starre'; The Undertaking; The Sunne Rising; The Canonization; Song: 'Sweetest love, I do not goe; Aire and Angels; The Anniversarie; Twicknam Garden; Loves Growth; The Dreame; A Valediction: of Weeping; Loves Alchymie; A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies day; The Apparition; A Valediction: forbidding mourning; The Extasie; Loves Deitie; The Will; The Relique; The Expiration; To Mr Rowland Woodward; AND:
Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations
1. 'As due by many titles I resigne'
2. 'Oh my blacke Soule! now thou are summoned'
3. 'This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint'
4. 'At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow'
5. 'If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree'
6. 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee'
Holy Sonnet: 'Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you'
Holy Sonnet: 'Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt'
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany
Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
A Hymne to God the Father

Ben Jonson
Epitaph on S. P.
My Picture left in Scotland
A Hymne to God the Father

Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury
To his Watch, when he could not sleep
Elegy over a Tomb
Sonnet of Black Beauty
An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever?

Aurelian Townshend
To the Countesse of Salisbury
Youth and Beauty
A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime
Song: 'Though regions farr devided'
To the Lady May
Upon Kinde and True Love

Sir Francis Kynaston
To Cynthia. On concealement of her beauty
To Cynthia. On her changing

Henry King
Sonnet: 'Tell me no more how fair she is'
The Surrender
The Exequy
Sic Vita
My Midnight Meditation
A Contemplation upon Flowers

Francis Quarles
On Those That Deserve it
On Zacheus
A Forme of Prayer
Wherefore hidest thou thy face
My beloved is mine, and I am his

George Herbert
The Agonie; Redemption; Easter-wings; Affliction; Prayer; The Temper; Jordan (I); Deniall; Vanitie; Vertue; The Pearl; Man; Life; Mortification; Jordan (II); Dialogue; The Collar; The Pulley; The Flower; Aaron; The Forerunners; Discipline; Death; Love

Thomas Carew
An Elegie upon the death of Dr John Donne
Mediocritie in love rejected
To my inconstant Mistris
Perswasions to enjoy
Boldnesse in love
Elegy on Maria Wentworth
To Ben. Jonson
To a Lady that desired I would love her
Song: 'Aske me no more where Jove bestowes'
To Master George Sands

Owen Felltham
Song: 'When, Dearest, I but think on thee'

William Habington
Against them who lay unchastity to the sex of Women
Nox nocti indicat Scientiam
Song: 'Fine young folly, though you were'

Thomas Randolph
An Elegie
Upon his Picture
On a maide of honour

Sir William Davenant
To the Queene, entertain'd at night
For the Lady, Olivia Porter
Song: 'The Lark now leaves his watry Nest'
Endimion Porter and Olivia
The Philosopher and the Lover
The Souldier going to the Field

Edmund Waller
To my young Lady, Lucy Sidney
The selfe-banished
Song: 'Goe lovely Rose'
Of my lady Isabella playing on the Lute
An Apologie for having loved before
Of the Last Verses in the Book

Sir Richard Fanshawe
An Ode upon His Majesties Proclamation
The Fall

John Milton
On Shakespear
On the University Carrier
On Time

Sir John Suckling
Song: 'Why so pale and wan fond Lover?'
Sonnet: 'Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white
Sonnet: 'Oh! for some honest Lovers ghost'
Song: 'Out upon it, I have lov'd'

Sidney Godolphin
Constancye
Song: 'Or love me lesse, or love me more'
Song: 'Noe more unto my thoughts appeare'
Hymn: 'Lord when the wise men came from farr'

William Cartwright
To Chloe who wish'd her self young enough for me
A New-years-gift to Brian Lord Bishop of Sarum
On the Queens Return from the Low Countries

Richard Crashaw
Wishes to his (supposed Mistresse)
On Hope, by way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw
And he answered them nothing
To our Lord, upon the Water made Wine
The Weeper
An Hymne of the Nativity, sung as by the Shepheards
Hymn to Sainte Teresa
Charitas Nimia: or the Deare Bargain
A Letter to the Countess of Denbigh

John Cleveland
To the State of Love, or the Senses Festival
The Antiplatonick
Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford
Drinking
Hymn to Light

Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going to the Warres
To Amarantha, That she would dishevell her haire
Gratiana dauncing and singing
The Scrutinie
The Grass-hopper
To Althea, from Prison

Andrew Marvell
A Dialogue between The Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure
On a Drop of Dew
The Coronet
Eyes and Tears
Bermudas
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
The Nymph complaining for the death of her Faun
To his Coy Mistress
The Fair Singer
The Definition of Love
The Picture of little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
The Mower to the Glo-Worms
The Garden
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland

Henry Vaughan
Regeneration
The Showre
The Retreate
'Come, come, what doe I here?'
The Morning-watch
'Silence, and stealth of dayes! 'tis now'
Peace
The Dawning
The World
Man
'I walkt the other day (to spend my hour)'
'They are all gone into the world of light!'
Cock-crowing
The Starre
The Night
The Water-fall
Quickness

Thomas Stanley
The Magnet
The Repulse
La Belle Confidente

John Hall
The Call
An Epicurean Ode
On an Houre-glasse

Thomas Traherne
On News
Shadows in the Water

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
The Mistress
A Song: 'Absent from thee I languish still'
A Song of a Young Lady. To her Ancient Lover
Love and Life
Upon Nothing

Thomas Heyrick
On a Sunbeam
On the Death of a Monkey

Richard Leigh
The Eccho
Sleeping on her Couch

John Norris of Bemerton
Hymn to Darkness

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Published as part of the poetry bookshelf series. The book contains an anthology of poems aimed at exhibiting the variety, scope and characteristic idiom of the poetry of the first half of the 20th Century and its roots in the later 19th Century. It offers representative examples of the work of some 45 English and American poets. It has an introductory essay on the function of poetry in the world of today and with its full explanatory comments on individual poems, this volume is complete in itself. It is a complementary volume to 'The Poets World', which by the 1950s had established itself as one of the most representative annotated selection of English Poets.

Contents:
The book looks at the poets included in alphabetical order and they are listed below:

Wystan Hugh Auden
Who's Who
Culture
The Capital

George Barker
My Joy, My Jockey, My Gabriel
To My Mother

John Betjeman
Indoor Games Near Newbury

Edmund Blunden
The Recovery
Another Altar
In my time
Report on Experience
To our Catchment board

Norman Cameron
Central Europe
Steep, Stone Steps

Roy Campbell
The Zebras
The Zulu Girl
On Some South African Novelists

Edward Estlin Cummings
the Cambridge Ladies
what if a much of a which of a wind
it's over a (see just
you shall above all things be glad and young

William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
I am the Poet Davies, William
The Bust
The Tugged Hand

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
The Bead Mat
The Feckless Dinner Party

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
Faith is a Fine Invention
The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean
I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Thomas Stearns Eliot/T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Animula
Lines for an old Man

William Empson
To an Old Lady

D. J. Enright
University Examinations in Egypt

James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
To a Poet A Thousand Years hence

Robert Frost
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
Too Anxious for Rivers

David Gascoyne
Snow in Europe

Robert Graves
Lost Acres
On Dwelling
The Poets
The Great-grandmother
Lollocks

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
I Look into my Glass
At a Lunar Eclipse
A Broken Appointment
The Self-Unseeing
The House of Hospitalities
After a Journey
Where the Picnic Was
Heredity

John Heath Strauss
Don Juan Muses

Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Starlight Night
The Windhover
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark

Alfred Edward Housman
Her strong enchantments failing
When first my way to fair I took
Tell me not here, it needs not saying
Fancy's Knell

Elizabeth Jennings
The Enemies

David Herbert Lawrence
Letter from town: the almond tree
Discord in Childhood
Baby Running Barefoot
Snake
Humming-bird
Let Us Be Men
The Optimist

Alun Lewis (1915-1944)
In Hospital: Poona

Cecil Day Lewis
Nearing Again the Legendary Isle

Louis Macniece
Brother Fire
Entirely

Charles Madge
Fortune

Edward Muir
Merlin
The Return
The Animals

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). War poet, died in action.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Futility
Anthem for Doomed Youth

Ezra Pound
A Pact
Salutation
A Girl

Frank Templeton Prince
To a Man on his Horse

Kathleen Raine
The Moment

John Crowe Ransom
Old Man Playing with Children
Winter Remembered
Piazza Piece
Blue Girls
Dead Boy

Lynette Roberts
The Seasons

Siegfried Sassoon
Devotion to Duty
Brevities
Eulogy of my House
Gloria Mundi

Martin Seymour-Smith
Green Wall my Grave

Edith Sitwell
How Many Heavens
Girl and Butterfly

Stephen Spender
My Parents Kept me from Children who were Rough
Shapes of Death Haunt Life

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
The Hunchback in the Park
Fern Hill

Edward Thomas (1877-1917)
Tears
February Afternoon

Arthur Waley
Business Men
Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch'ien Fu
Illness
The Harper of Chao
Madly Singing in the Mountains
The Red Cockatoo

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
September 1913
Sailing to Byzantium
Stream and Sun at Glendalough

Andrew Young
A Prehistoric Camp
Cuckoos
A Windy Day

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About this book [from back cover]: With their fertile imaginations and naturally inquisitive minds, young adults are most definitely the voices of the future. Taking their inspiration from the poetry of past masters such as Shakespeare and Wilfred Owen, our talented writers tackle complex poetic forms such as the sonnet, giving them a fresh modern outlook. Showing their levels of maturity and capability, they explore timeless thems such as love and war, as well as giving their own unique insight into the next generation's life. Full of energy, enthusiasm and creativity, we are sure you'll agree that this entertaining anthology is a keepsake to enjoy time and time again.

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There! by Keeley Bishop;The Monster by Kefren Milne; The Darkness by James Blackshaw Dobbins; Dying London by Alexander Hitchman; And There She Lay by Bethany Stevens; Now And Then by Kelsey Webb; The Spiritual Jungle by Sam Mansell; My Love For You by Peter Lee; Scared by Gemma Dooley; The Secrets by James Bourke; Ghost by Jess Waghorn; Haunted House by Callum Dawson-Williams; Crying Forever by Lauren McLean; Crystal Clear by Chloe-May Barton; Dan The Man and His Ice Cream Van by Henry Noble; If I Had A Horse by Alice Jones; My Dog Molly by Daniel Bristow; No Man's Land by Katie Bishop and Amber Kirk; You're My Best Friend by Jazmin Qunta and Kirsty Russell; My Mum by Bethany Carreras; Don't Give Up by Jacob Andreassen; The New Boy by Elaine Kemp; True Friends by Ellie Wyatt; Friends by Jack French; Friends by Angus Knowler; A True Friend Is...by Billie Allbury-Smith; What Is It? by Lianna Wallace; Friendship by Laura Wells and Amie Chattenton; My Dog by Charlotte Lavender; If I Could by Michael Welbourne; Together by Hannah Tyler; If You Call Me by Adam Shallcross; A Day On A Sunny Beach by Paige Souten; The Performer by Aimee Miller; What Is It? by Gemma Lawrance; The Concert by Lauren Butler; My Family by Toby Patey-Ford; Love by Emma Clark; A Love Poem by Molly Palmer; The Daffodils by Charlotte Pursey; Autumn Days by Charley Bray; Now You're Gone! by Rebecca Harding; Just Because by Shawni James Vickery; The World by Laura Szandrowycz; My Poem by Tobiasz Nadworny; Fish by Samara Edwards; The Tragic Story of Tom Mullaney by Lucy Meilack; Stieg Larsson by Elly Ambridge; The Iceland Volcano by Alex Von Barnholt; Only Once by Jessica Kraft; The Story of Joe by Sophie-Rose McDonagh; Apart At Last...But Together Forever by Emily Simpson; Conjoined Twins by Leyla Owen; Don't Mind Me, I Live Here by Skye Ostermeyer; Government by Jess Douglas; Friends by Richard Crawley; My Teddy by Darrian George-Johnson; The Voices by Xyla Jacobs; Clowns by Caity Hicks; Missing! by Emma Prince; Alone! by Charlotte Louise Helene Lawrence; I Want To Live The World For Someone by Charlie Basham; The Night by Jeremiah Patel; I Wonder Why by Olivia Sutherland; That Little Bird by Dannii Laine; Holding On by Shannon Johnson; Trapped by Katie Chaplin; Stronger! by Shannon Sewell; Childhood! by Chelsea Chatfield; A Day At School by Candice Sobers; Young Love by Eloise Wells; A Day At School by Owen Lander; Sins of Our Fathers by Ryan Allington; Everlasting Love by Ellen Day; I Am Onica by Onica Hussain; Miracles by Chloe Wright; Can You Guess? 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Cohen, J. M. (compiled by), 'The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse', published in 1952 in Great Britain by Penguin Books, 315pp, no ISBN. Fair condition - vintage, wholly intact and readable, but worn. Price: £3.00, not including post and packing
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About this book: J. M. Cohen selected from the "last three centuries", which is the three hundred years prior to this book's original publication in 1952 (excepting Skelton) and the poems included are split up into the following groupings: Birds, Beasts and Humans; Unlikely Stories; For Various Occasions; Protests and Expostulations; Whims and Oddities; Rigmaroles and Nonsense; Burlesque and Parody; Street Corner Songs.

Poems included are:

Birds, Beasts, and Humans:
At Elinor Rumming's Ale-house by John Skelton
On Otho by Anon
How the First Hielandman was Made by Anon
On a German Tour by Richard Porson
Sir Hudibras, His Passing Worth by Samuel Butler
Hypocrisy by Samuel Butler
The China-Mender by Thomas Hood
Dr. Douglas's Marriage with Miss Mainwaring by W. L. Mansel
Cheltenham Waters by Anon
The White Knight tells his Tale by Lewis Carroll
The Old Waiter from Wapping by Walter Parkle
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
The Pobble who has no Toes by Edward Lear
The Young Lady in White by Edward Lear
The Megalopsychiad by A. D. Godley
On a Tired Housewife by Anon
Henry King who chewed bits of string, and was early cut off in dreadful agonies by Hilaire Belloc
Matilda who told lies, and was burned to death by Hilaire Belloc
Lord Lundy by Hilaire Belloc
The Microbe by Hilaire Belloc
On Lady Poltagrue, a Public Peril by Hilaire Belloc
On His Books by Hilaire Belloc
Polka by Edith Sitwell
I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside by Edith Sitwell
Forgive Me, Sire by Norman Cameron
Elegy for Mr. Goodbeare by Sir Osbert Sitwell
What Mrs Southern Liked by Sir Osbert Sitwell
A Caliban by Geoffrey Taylor
Epigram of Straw by Geoffrey Taylor
What's the Use? by Ogden Nash
Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T. S. Eliot
Buttons by Walter de La Mare
Archy the Cockroach Says by Don Marquis
The Lesser Lynx by E. V. Rieu
Slug by John Pudney
Horny Hogan: A Feelthy Pome by Robert Lowry
The Turtle by Ogden Nash
Samson Agonistes by Ogden Nash

Unlikely Stories:
A Carman's Account of a Law-Suit by Sir David Lindesay
Epitaph on a Welsh Man by Anon
All's Well That Ends Well by Anon
Nullum, Stimulum Ignoris by Anon
Scylla Toothlesse by Anon
The Doctor Prescribes by Anon
Paulo Purganti and his Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair by Matthew Prior
Hans Carvel by Matthew Prior
On Hall's Death: An Epigram by Matthew Prior
Bibo: An Epigram by Matthew Prior
The Knife-Grinder by George Canning
Of All the Men by Thomas Moore
An Actor by Peter Pinda (John Wolcot)
On Uncle Peter Dan'els by Anon
On a Hampshire Grenadier by Anon
Misadventures at Margate: A Legend of Jarvis's Jetty by R. H. Barham
The Sorrows of Werther by W. M. Thackeray
Plain Language from Truthful James by Bret Harte
The Heathen Chinee by Bret Harte
On Johnny Cole by Anon
On Mary Ann by Anon
The Two Bachelors by Edward Lear
The Young Lady of Lucca by Edward Lear
The Young Lady of Tyre by Edward Lear
Muddled Metaphors by Thomas Hood
A Syllogizing Philosopher by Geoffrey Taylor
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe by H. C. Bunner
Epitaph on a Geologist by Anon
Hans Breitmann's Barty by C. G. Leland
On a Wag in Mauchline by Robert Burns
The Owl-Critic by J. T. Fields
The Japanese by Ogden Nash
The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell' by Sir W. S. Gilbert
Tender Heartedness by Harry Graham
Misfortunes Never Come Singly by Harry Graham
The Encounter by Edgell Rickword
Mother Goose's Garland by Archibald Macleish
Willie's Epitaph by Anon
Martyrs: Modern Style: Vide 'Totem and Tabu' by Edgell Rickword
Miss Twye by Gavin Ewart

For Various Occasions
Report of an Adjudged Case: Not To Be Found In Any of the Books by William Cowper
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 by William Cowper
Quin's Soliloquy: On Seeing Duke Humphry At St. Albans in David Garrick
Holy Willie's Prayer by Robert Burns
Sonnet by Thomas Hood
Ode to St. Swithin: 'The Rain It Raineth Every Day' by Thomas Hood
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy by Thomas Hood
The Old Loony of Lyme by Anon
Garden Fancies: Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis by Robert Browning
A Practical Answer by Shirley Brooks
On a Magazine Sonnet by R. H. Loines
Beer by C. S. Calverley
Ode to Tobacco by C. S. Calverley
Lines on Hearing the Organ by C. S. Calverley
Lovers, and a Reflexion by C. S. Calverley
The Schoolmaster: Abroad With His Son by C. S. Calverley
A Woice of the Wicious by C. P.
On Mary Ann Lowder by Anon
In Memoriam Examinatoris Cuiusdam by A. D. Godley
The Bards by Walter de la Mare
Culture in the Slums: Ballade and Envoy by W. E Henley
The Lady with Technique by Hughes Mearns
Frustrated Male by Hughes Mearns
Reveille by Hughes Mearns
The Practical Joker by Sir W. S. Gilbert
Nightmare by Sir W. S. Gilbert
The Young Lady from Wantage Anon
Wine and Water by G. K Chesterton
Ballade of an Anti-Puritan by G. K. Chesterton
Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton
Ballade of Vain Delight by E. C. Bentley
Ballade of Plain Common Sense by E. C. Bentley
Student by Gavin Ewart
Ambitionist by Gavin Ewart
The Schoolmaster Abroad by Sir Owen Seaman
The Crimes of Lizzie Borden by Anon
Ballade of Soporific Absorption by Sir J. C. Squire
In Committee by Robert Graves
Wellcome, to the Caves of Arta! by Robert Graves
The Board Meets by John Gloag
Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing (First Series; 2nd Series) by Samuel Hoffenstein
Family Court by Ogden Nash
A Bas Ben Adhem by Ogden Nash
Lather As You Go by Ogden Nash
Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden by John Betjeman
The Archaeological Picnic from John Betjeman
Song of the Open Road by Ogden Nash
The Sniffle by Ogden Nash
Lines on Facing Forty by Ogden Nash

Protests and Expostulations
A Curse on the Cat by John Skelton
Against Garnesche by John Skelton
Doctos of the Vintrie by John Skelton
On My Joyful Departure from the City of Cologne by S. T. Coleridge
Mrs. Frances Harris's Petition, 1699 by Jonathan Swift
Satire Upon the Heads; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring by Thomas Gray
An Expostulation by Isaac Bickerstaff
On a Certain Methodist-Teacher Being Caught in Bed With His Maid by Anon
Rich and Poor; or Saint and Sinner by T. L. Peacock
All Saints by Edmund Yates
On Moll Batchelor by Anon
The Song Against Grocers by G. K. Chesterton
Lines to a Don by Hilaire Belloc
A Glass of Beer by James Stephens
Johnny Dow by Anon
On Miss Arabella Young by Anon
The Pessimist by B. J. King
How Beastly the Bourgeois is by D. H. Lawrence
The Oxford Voice by D. H. Lawrence
Next to of Course God by E. E. Cummings
A Politician by E. E. Cummings
England Expects by Ogden Nash
Two Footnotes by W. H. Auden

Whims and Oddities
A New Song of New Similies by John Gay
The Campaign 1768 by Capt. T.
To a Friend by Anon
To an Acquaintance by Anon
On Cloe by George Granville, Lord Lansdowne
Mrs Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
Extempore: on the death of Edward Purdon by Oliver Goldsmith
To A Living Author by Anon
The March to Moscow by Robert Southey
Faithless Nellie Gray by Thomas Hood
Mary's Ghost: A Pathetic Ballad by Thomas Hood
Epitaph On A Doctor of Divinity by Richard Porson
On the Learning of the Germans by Richard Porson
Under-Currents by Sandys Wason
Town by Sandys Wason
The Young Person of Mullion by Sandys Wason
The Old Priest of Benares by Sandys Wason
Poetical Economy by Harry Graham
Baby by Harry Graham
Nobody Loses All the Time by E. E. Cummings
A Glimpse into the Great Beyond by Edgell Rickword
Requiem by Ogden Nash
The Anatomy of Humour by Morris Bishop
We Have Been Here Before by Morris Bishop
Note on Intellectuals by W. H. Auden
Mythology by Lawrence Durrell
Reflexions on Ice-Breaking by Ogden Nash
Arizona Nature Myth by James Michie

Rigmaroles and Nonsense
Philip Sparrow's Funeral by John Skelton
Three Jovial Huntsmen by Anon
On John Grubb by Anon
If All the World were Paper by Anon
Epilogus Incerti Authoris by Richard Corbet
On Tadlow by Abel Edwards
Warning to Parents by Anon (sung to the tune of 'Chevy Chase')
From The Westminster Drollery, 1671 by Anon
Receipt for Stewing Veal, attributed to Alexander Pope
Three Young Rats by Anon
On Certain Ladies by Alexander Pope
Epigram by Alexander Pope
The Great Panjandrum by Samuel Foote
Rhyme for a Simpleton by Anon
The House that Jack Built by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Man of Words by Anon
Nonsense Verses by Charles Lamb
In the Dumps by Anon
She Is Far from the Land by Thomas Hood
A Nocturnal Sketch by Thomas Hood
Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad-House by Anon
A Polka Lyric by Barclay Philips
Upon St. George for England by Anon
Evidence Read at the Trial of the Knave of Hearts by Lewis Carroll
Humpty Dumpty's Recitation by Lewis Carroll
The Voice of the Lobster by Lewis Carroll
The Mad Gardener's Song by Lewis Carroll
Lines by a Humanitarian by Anon
The Old Person of Fratton by Anon
Malum Opus by J. A. Morgan
A False Gallop of Analogies by W. St. Leger
The Old Man Who Said 'Hush' by Edward Lear
The Old Man with a Beard by Edward Lear
I Wish I Were (American Folk Song)
Motor Bus by A. D. Godley
Infant Innocence by A. E. Housman
The Common Cormorant by Anon
Peas by Anon
Poems by Philip O'Connor
Boston by Anon

Burlesque and Parody
Imitation of Chaucer by Alexander Pope
Fatal Constancy; or Love in Tears. Act III & IV. The Palmy Grove; The Hero Solus by William Whitehead
If You Have Seen by Thomas Moore
The Elderly Gentleman by George Canning
On Captain Francis Grose, the celebrated Antiquarian by Robert Burns
Crabbe-wise by James Smith
On Grizel Grim by Robert Burns
On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire by Robert Burns
Saragossa (In Imitation of Thomas Moore) by H. S. Leigh
'Twas Ever Thus by H. S. Leigh
Only Seven: A Pastoral Story After Wordsworth by H. S. Leigh
The Prater: An Epigram by Matthew Prior
In Memoriam Technicam by Thomas Hood, Jr
The Old Man from Dunoon by Anon
Ballad by C. S. Calverley
On a Lady's Sporting a Somerset by L. Sterne (?)
Father William by Lewis Carroll
To R. K. (1891) by J. K. Stephen
Sincere Flattery of R. B. by J. K. Stephen
Sincere Flattery of W. W. (Americanus) by J. K. Stephen
On the College of Wadham at Oxford being insured from Fire after a Member had been suspected of an unnatural Crime by Anon
The Baby in the House by Shirley Brooks
A 'Prize' Poem by Shirley Brooks
Poem by a Perfectly Furious Academician by Shirley Brooks
Salad by Mortimer Collins
King Arthur Growing Very Tired Indeed by Mortimer Collins
Epitaph on a Taylor's Wife by Anon
On Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams by Robert Burns
After Dilettane Concetti by H. O. Traill
Rondel by Anon
On a General Election by Hilaire Belloc
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Pin by Anon
The Chemist to his Love by Anon
A Strike among the Poets by Anon
The Modern Hiawatha by Anon
The Young Man of Montrose by Arnold Bennett
The Shropshire Lad's Cousin (An Even Gloomier Fellow Than His Celebrated Relative) by Samuel Hoffenstein
Mr. Walter de La Mare Makes the Little Ones Dizzy by Samuel Hoffenstein
Mr. W. H. Davies Snares Nature in a Few Felicitous by Samuel Hoffenstein
A Description of Maidenhead by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
On the Upright Judge, who condemned the Drapier's Printer by Jonathan Swift
A Recent Discovery by William Plomer
I Wot What Not by Ewart Milne
Diamond Cut Diamond by Ewart Milne
Burlesque of Lope de Vega; Lines in Ridicule of Certain Poems Published in 1777; Imitation of the Style of... by Samuel Johnson

Street Corner Songs
The Ploughman's Wooing by Anon
Unfortunate Miss Bailey by Anon
On Mr. Churchill's Death by J. C.
The Ratcatcher's Daughter by Anon
On Mendax by Anon
Epigram: Intended to Allay Party Spirit by John Byrom
She was poor but she was honest by Anon
Death of my Aunt - Irish Folk Song
A Leary Mot by Anon, c. 1811
On a Full-Length Portrait of Beau Marsh by Lord Chesterfield
A True Maid by Matthew Prior
Under the Drooping Willow Tree by Anon
The Man in the Wilderness by Anon
Bung Your Eye by Anon
L----y H---d W---e by Anon
Epigram by David Garrick
Epitaph on Lady Vane's Lap Dog Veny; At the Time of the Publication of her Memoirs, under the name of Lady Frail by John Wilkes
Polly Perkins by Anon
On Joe by P. Dodd
On the Collar of Tiger, Mrs Dingley's Lap-dog by Jonathan Swift
A Note on the Latin Gerunds by Richard Porson
On my Gude Auntie by Anon
Darky Sunday School by Anon
Aunt Eliza by Harry Graham
The Firefly by Ogden Nash
The Man on the Flying Trapeze by Anon
Roman Wall Blues by W. H. Auden
Charlie Piecan by F. Murray and F. Leigh
Wot Cher! Or, Knocked 'Em In The Old Kent Road by Anon
The Top of the Dixie Lid by Anon. (1914-18 War)













































































































































































































Rosen, Michael; Graham, Bob. 'Poems for the Very Young', published in 1993 in Great Britain by Kingfisher Books, in hardback, 77pp, ISBN 1856971163. Condition: fair or acceptable - has dents and scuffs on the outside and a bit of pen on a few of the inside pages. Price: £2.20, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)
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About this book/synopsis: Poems for the Very Young is a wonderfully varied collection of poems chosen by Michael Rosen and illustrated with wit and exuberance by Bob Graham. Its contents range from the hilariously funny to the thought-provoking, from playground rhymes and nonsense verse to poems by favourite writers, classic and modern. Imaginative and entertaining, this is an inspiring first poetry anthology for children and grown-up to share. As Michael Rosen says in his introduction - poetry is probably the most physical you can get with a language - playing with words and sounds and showing how beautiful the language can be, and how amazing it can sound when mixed up and rearranged - it's a way of discovering and understanding the structure and usage of language and words around you. It conveys feelings, ideas and observation and little readers should sing, shout and chant these poems whilst running their fingers and eyes over the brilliant pictures from Bob Graham

Poems Included are (front to back):
Wakey, Wakey by Anon
The Dustman by Clive Sansom
I can put my socks on by Tony Bradman
Buttons by W. Kingdon-Ward
Hair by Max Fatchen
Up to the Ceiling by Charles Thomson
To Market, To Market by Anon
Sugarcake Bubble by Grace Nichols
One, two, three, four by Anon
When Jacky's a good boy by Anon
The Barber by Anon
The Window Cleaner by M. Long
Mrs Peck-Pigeon by Eleanor Farjeon
Man Fat by Anon
Jump or Jiggle by Evelyn Beyer
Hare Song (Traditional North American)
What a sad sight-dead butterflies by Shiki Japan
Whisky Frisky by Anon
Cats by Eleanor Farjeon
Three Mice by Charlotte Druitt Cole
Jack Sprat's pig by Anon
Froggie, froggie by Anon
The Kangaroo (Traditional Australian)
Jumble Jingle by Laura E. Richards
What are you? (Traditional Catch-Rhyme)
Can you keep a secret by Anon
Oliver Twist (Traditional)
Acker Backer (Traditional)
Up and Down (Traditional)
Lily Lee by Isobel Best
What's Your Name (Traditional)
So-So Joe by John Agard
Little boy, little boy (Traditional)
Doctor Stickles by Sheree Fitch
Hugh, Hugh by Dennis Lee
Anna Elise, she jumped with surprise by Anon
Honey Bear by Elizabeth Lang
Grandad's dinners by Joan Poulson
Kitty by Doug Macleod
Happy birthday by Anon
Tippety, tippety tin by Anon
Hog Dogs Forever by Sonja Dunn
Zelba Zinnamon by Sheree Fitch
Chocolate Milkshake by Tania Mead
If You're No Good at Cooking by Kit Wright
Spaghetti! Spaghetti! by Jack Prelutsky
A Man said to me by Anon
I am running in a circle by Jack Prelutsky
Fire by Anon
Did you see my wife by Anon
My little old man and I fell out by Anon
Little Jumping Joan by Anon
Mrs Brown by Anon
The Rat Catcher (Traditional)
Dan, Dan by Anon
The Songster by Stevie Smith
Little Tee-Wee by Anon
Mabel Murple by Sheree Fitch
Boo Hoo by Arnold Spilka
Bibblibonty by Rose Fyleman
De Bottleman by John Agard
Sugar Train by George Watson
Portrait of a Motorcar by Carl Sandburg
The Hill Was Steep by Raj Tanday
Freewheeling on a bike by Robert Gray
Goodness Gracious by Margaret Mahy
Nicholas Naylor by Charles Causley
If You Ever by Anon
"Splash," said a raindrop by Anon
April Rain Song by Langston Hughes
Rain, Rain by Anon
Rinses in the Rain by Michael Rosen
In the Rain by René Cloke
An umbrella and a raincoat by Buson, Japan
Small talk by Duncan Ball
Sand by John Foster
I Can't Take the Sun No More, Man by Linval Quinland
Peter's Pop Kept a Lollipop Shop by Anon
Snow Thoughts by John Cunliffe
Footprints in the Snow by Gavin Ewart
I see Dinah Price by Anon
The More it Snows by A. A. Milne
The North Wind Doth Blow by Anon
The Kitty Ran Up the Tree by Dennis Lee
Beetle by Sylvia Gerdtz
My Gerbil by Rik Martin
A Little Talk by Anon
Someone Stole the Hedgehog by Wilbur G. Howcroft
The Diners in the Kitchen by James Whitcomb Riley
My Puppy by Aileen Fisher
There Was a Little Dog and He Had a Little Tail by Anon
Ping-Pong by Eve Merriam}
I Won't by Michell Magorian
Piggy to Joey by Stevie Smith
I Have None by Afua Cooper
In the Garden by Anon
Today I Saw a Little Worm by Spike Milligan
Janey Mac by Anon
A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
Visiting by Jonathan Always
I Love My Belt by Jasmine Lehal
A Mum Calls for Her Children by Alexander Mthombeni
Fairy Story by Stevie Smith
Whipper-Snapper, Rooty-Tooty by Willard R. Espy
Me and My Grannie by Traditional Scottish
After a Bath by Aileen Fisher
Go to Bed, Tom by Anon
Diddle, diddle by Anon
The Moon by Ki Ellwood-Friery
Silverly by Dennis Lee
Late Last Night by Michael Rosen
The Falling Star by Sara Teasdale
Song by Traditional Philippines

Index of Titles and First Lines; Index of Poets; Acknowledgements





























































Lay, E. J. S. 'Poets and Poetry. Senior Book I', published in 1931 in Great Britain by Macmillan & Co., 144pp, no ISBN. Condition: Fair or acceptable condition with creasing and rubbing to the cover and school library stamps (in blue ink) throughout. There are some other minor marks on the cover and pages. The book is wholly intact & readable. Price: £4.00, not including post and packing
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  • Poets and Poetry. Senior Book I [top]
    Compiled and written by E. J. S. Lay
    First published in 1929 in Great Britain in paperback
    Reprinted in 1930 (twice) in Great Britain in paperback
    Reprinted in 1931 in Great Britain in paperback by Macmillan and Co., 144pp, no ISBN

About this book:
This book was first published in 1929 as a teaching aid to help children with poetry in situations where the teacher did not have time to prepare materials for the children to study poetry from. Rather than leave the reader to guess at the organisation of this book, the poems in this book are arranged in groups with those in each group being linked by a common subject or thought. There are notes at the beginning of each section that the compiler E. J. S. Lay hopes will create the right atmosphere for the reader to study the poems
Contents:
1. The Poetry of Earth
My Garden by T. E. Brown
The Thistle by Laurence Binyon
The Linnet by Walter de la Mare
An Evening Falls by James Stephens
Follow, Follow, Follow by James Stephens
A Town Window by John Drinkwater
The Late, Last Rook by Ralph Hodgson
Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
The Bells of Youth by "Fiona Macleod" (William Sharp)
Richmond Park by Patrick R. Chalmers
2. The Song
Cargoes by John Masefield
The War-Song of the Vikings by "Fiona Macleod" (William Sharp)
A Ballad-Maker by Padraic Colum
Two Red Roses Across The Moon by William Morris
Jerusalem by William Blake
Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
3. The Lyric
Blow, Bugle, Blow by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
There Rolls the Deep by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Frolic by George Russell (A.E.)
The Scarecrow by Walter de la Mare
The Homecoming of the Sheep by Francis Ledwidge
Days Too Short by William Henry Davies
Blackbird by John Drinkwater
4. Narrative and Descriptive Poems
Sherwood by Alfred Noyes
San Stefano by Sir Henry Newbolt
The Supper by Walter De La Mare
A Smuggler's Song by Rudyard Kipling
The Knight's Leap by Charles Kingsley
5. Of Fancy
The Faun's Song from Callirrhoe by Michael Field
The Dancing Seal by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
In the Orchard by James Stephens
Tartary by Walter de la Mare
The Setting-Out of Queen Mab by Michael Drayton
The Arming of Pigwiggen by Michael Drayton
6. Of Home Thoughts
Home Thoughts, From Abroad by Robert Browning
England by Walter de la Mare
The South Country by Hilaire Belloc
The Little Waves of Breffny by Eva Gore-Booth
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
Home Thoughts in Laventie by Edward Wyndham Tennant
7. Of Bells
The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe
The Bells of Shandon by Francis Mahony
St. Mary's Bells by John Masefield
The Belfry by Laurence Binyon
Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
8. Narratives of Events
Duke William's Falcon by Dorothy Margaret Stuart
The Fugitive by Dorothy Margaret Stuart
Puck's Song by Rudyard Kipling
Gillespie by Sir Henry Newbolt
Lines by J. C. Squire
Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
A Jacobite's Epitaph by Lord Macaulay
The Bowyer by Dorothy Margaret Stuart
9. The Spirit of Contentment
Song from "Pippa Passes" by Robert Browning
I Trust in Nature by Robert Browning
To-Morrow by John Collins
Leisure by William Henry Davies
Laugh and Be Merry by John Masefield
Street Lanterns by Mary E. Coleridge
Wander-Thirst by Gerald Gould
A Thanksgiving by Edward Shillito
10. Whimsical and Miscellaneous
Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
The Kilkenny Cats by Alfred Perceval Graves
The Duke of Plaza-Toro by Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
The Song of the Wooden-Legged Fiddler by Alfred Noyes
'How They Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix' by Robert Browning
A Thanksgiving to God by Robert Herrick
From "Song to David" by Christopher Smart
11. For Your Notebook
Verses from the Poems

















































 



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