Contents
What's Poetry?
Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins
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Poem for a Dead Poet - Roger McGough
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Poem Talks - Paul Lyalls
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Genius - Martin Glynn
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Me!
I Am Rose - Gertrude Stein
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Me - Walter de la Mare
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Me - Elizabeth Swados
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I Am - Sherman Alexie
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My Family - anonymous
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Wha Me Mudder Do - Grace Nichols
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Squeezes - Brian Patten
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I Did a Bad Thing Once - Allan Ahlberg
Chivvy - Michael Rosen
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If You Don't Put Your Shoes on before I Count Fifteen -
Michael Rosen
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Whole Duty of Children - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Parent - Ogden Nash
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Teevee - Eve Merriam
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De More de Merrier - Opal Palmer Adisa
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Gran, Can You Rap? - Jack Ousbey
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Grandpa - Berlie Doherty
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Home! You're Where it's Warm Inside - Jack Petrulsky
Poem - Langston Hughes
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I'm Nobody! Who Are You? - Emily Dickinson
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Valentine - Shel Silverstein
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Friends - Elizabeth Jennings
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maggie and milly and molly and may - E. E. Cummings
Who Is de Girl? - John Agard
Brian - Doug MacLeod
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Deliberate - Amy Uyematsu
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Drearnin'
A Very Valentine - Gertrude Stein
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I Love You - anonymous
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Mashed Potato / Love Poem - Sidney Hoddes
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Happy Poem - James Carter
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Love Is . . . - Adrian Henri
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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear
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Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe
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How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Bounty - William Shakespeare
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Weeping Willow - Patrick Lewis
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Two People - Eve Merriam
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Dreams - Langston Hughes
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The Rose that Grew from Concrete - Tupac Shakur
Harlem - Langston Hughes
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To Make a Prairie - Emily Dickinson
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Eldorado - Edgar Allan Poe
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Nightening - Michael Dugan
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The Wolf Outside - James Carter
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Senses!
Ifs Raining - Heidi B. Roemer
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Sit a While - Siv Cedering
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Umbilical - Eve Merriam
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Electric Guitars - J a m e s Carter
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Street Music - Arnold Adoff
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City - Langston Hughes
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Sunrise - Frank Asch
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Fog - Carl Sandburg
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Hamburger Haiku - anonymous
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If I Were a . . . - Karla Kuskin
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Jack Sprat Could Eat no Fat - traditional
August - Mary Oliver
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Tornado - Jill Townsend
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Wild Things?
Mice - Rose Fyleman
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The Mouse's Tale - Lewis Carroll
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My Cat - anonymous
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Tabby - Elizabeth Swados
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Dachshund - Patrick Lewis
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Diamond Willow (excerpt) - Helen Frost
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To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No - William Butler Yeats
The Bat - Frank Jacobs
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The Eagle - Alfred Tennyson
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The Camel - Ogden Nash
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Hippopotamus - Ogden Nash
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The African Lion - A. E. Housman
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Oliphaunt - J. R. R. Tolkien
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Long Gone - Jack Petrulsky
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Skool!
The Schoolkids' Rap - John Foster
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Absent - Bernard Young
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Sick - Shel Silverstein
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Bad Report—Good Manners - Spike Milligan
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Principal's Office (excerpt) - Young MC
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For Word - Benjamin Zephaniah
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A Word - Emily Dickinson
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According to My Mood - Benjamin Zephaniah
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Lashondra Scores - Patrick Lewis
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Dream Team - Frances Nagle
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Boys'Game - Eric Finney
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Three Football Haiku - Tony Mitton
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Football Out-Of-Focus - Daphne Kitching
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Celebrate!
Come to My Party - Heidi B. Roemer
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Oth Birthday Poem - J a m e s Carter
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Calendar - Myra Cohn Livingston
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Four Seasons - anonymous
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Spring - Prince Redcloud
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Summer - Frank Asch
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Stay, June, Stay! (excerpt) - Christina Rossetti
l(a - E. E. Cummings
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Do Witches Have? - Jane Yolen
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Count Dracula-John Foster
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The Witch's Cauldron-Jane Yolen
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Christmas Is Coming - traditional
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Just before Christmas - Kit Wright
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The Year - Felice Holman
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What a Laugh!
Shaun Short's Shorts - John Foster
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Peter Piper - traditional
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Really? - Michael Rosen
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One Fine Day - traditional
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One Bright September Morning - traditional
There Was a Young Lad - anonymous
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There Was an Old Man - Edward Lear
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Riddle - John Cotton
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Guess - Berlie Doherty
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Appendix
Annotations
The Poets
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Acknowledgements
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Index of Titles and First Lines
The Editor
The Illustrator
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