POETRY COLLECTION 2
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Compiled by
FIONA WATERS
Illustrated by
ZARA SLATTERY
EVANS BROTHERS LIMITED
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CONTENTS
The Seasons and Country Life
I So Liked Spring Charlotte Mew 2
Home Thoughts from Abroad Robert
Browning 2
Adlestrop Edward Thomas fl
Mushrooms Sylvia Plath 10
Reading a Bonfire, Top to Bottom
Geoffrey Summerfield II
The Way Through the Woods
Rudyard Kipling 12
Song of the Open Road R.D. Fairburn 13
Autumn Song Ted Hughes 14
Winter Christina Rossetti 15
It is Snowing Afua Cooper 16
Explorer Alan Brownjohn 17
Hearth and Home
For Sale W.H. Davies I?
A Striking Old Man Alasdair Ashton IS?
Posting Letters Gregory Harrison 20
The Empty House Russell Hoban 22
Door Has Two Faces Keith Bosley 23
The Trees are Down Charlotte Mew 2 4
The Darkening Garden Anon 25
Wind and Storms
Big Fears John Rice 26
Morning After a Storm
William Wordsworth 2 ?
Petals Anon 2 ?
Hurricane Dionne Brand 2<?
Ancient Man and the Landscape
There Are No People Song
Navaho Tribe 30
Landscape as Werewolf William Dunlop 31
The Flint/eara Kenward 32
Windy Gap £>a wd Campbell 33
Through That Door John Cotton 34
Magic and Enchantment
The Alchemist Gareth Owen 3 6
Green Man in the Garden
Charles Causley 37
Old Men of Magic Dionne Brand 32
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows
William Shakespeare 32
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Overheard on a Saltmarsh Harold Monro 3Q
Witches Gather Benjonson 40
Mrs McQueen Judith Nicholls 41
Now the hungry lion roars
William Shakespeare 42
Fear of the Dark Vernon Scannell 42
Rumour Harold Monro 4-3
Hide and Seek Vernon Scannell 44
The Face at the Window Berlie Doherty 4 5
Prince Kano Edward Lowbury 4 6
Unwelcome Mary Coleridge 41
Prayers, Spirits and Gods
Captive's Song Omaha Tribe 4%
Solitude Ella Wheeler Wilcox 42
The Thanksgivings Iroquois Tribe 4Q
Gaelic Blessing Traditional 50
Prayer for Peace St Francis ofAssisi 50
A Different Kind of SundayJames Berry 50
Three Rusty Nails Roger McGough 52
The Bishop's Mistake Anon 5 3
The Moon ...
Is the Moon Tired? Christina Rossetti 5 4
Applemoon Rose Flint 55
. . . and Stars
Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way
Nancy Willard 56
The Song of the Stars
Passamaquoddy Tribe 57
The Twilight Fabiola Smolowik 5%
Sleep, Dreams and the Night
Different Dreams Karla Kuskin 5<7
Fever Dream Edward Lowbury 60
I Am the One Opal Palmer Adisa 61
Magic Story of Falling Asleep
Nancy Willard bl
Music, Sounds and Words
The First Music Elizabeth Jennings 62
Steelband Dancing/o&n Lyons 6 3
529 1983 Gerda Mayer 6 4
The Great Sphinx By The Nile
Barry Buckingham 6 4
Ouch !Anon 65
The Song of the Homeworkers
Trevor Millum 66
Be Nice To Rhubarb Max Fatchen 67
The English Language Harry Hemsley 62
Surnames James Smith 70
Words Are Waiting Mikejubb 72
Baggin'/o/bn Wright 72
Have You Ever Thought
Jacqueline Brown 14
Rant About Pants Lindsay MacRae IB
Books and Poets
Poetry is What? Adrian Mitchell 76
According to My Mood
Benjamin Zephaniah 76
The Uncertainty of the Poet Wendy Cope 11
The Poet Edward Lowbury 12
Voetry ]ump-\Jp John Agard 12
Nonsense
The Doze James Reeves 20
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 2\
People
The Statue Edith Roseveare 22
The Visit Jackie Kay 22
Lance-corporal Dixon Linda Newton 24
Sassenachs/«c&fe Kay 24
Brennan on the Moor Anon 26
Don't Barrie Wade 21
Why Dorothy Wordsworth is Not as Famous
as Her Brother Lynn Peters 22
The Richest Poor Man in the Valley
Lindsay MacRae 2Q
The Dilemmas of AIDS James Sykes 40
Conversation with an Angel
Wanda Barford 41
Tullynoe: Tete-a-Tete in the Parish Priest's
Parlour Paul Durcan 42
I Wish I Were Rabindranath Tagore 43
Shopping Jenny Boult 4 4
Haircut Michael Harrison 45
Dread-lock Style Lesley Miranda 46
The Feet Tom Wayman 47
Dentist Karina Bailey 4 ?
Breathless Wilfrid Noyce 100
Food
Egg Thoughts Russell Hoban 102
The Pawpaw
Edward Kamau Brathwaite 103
Everyday Things Jean Ayer 104
Leisure W.H. Davies 105
In Love . . .
My True Love Sir Philip Sidney 106
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W. B. Yeats 106
Sonnet Christina Rossetti 107
My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
William Shakespeare 107
Lochinvar Sir Walter Scott \02
Growing Pain Vernon Scannell 110
First Kiss Joan Poulson 111
The Lady of Shalott Alfred,
Lord Tennyson 112
What My Lady Did Roger McGough \\2
On A Painted Woman Percy Bysshe
Shelley 114
Down in the Valley American Spiritual 120
. . . and Out of Love
It Isn't the Same m.m.s 121
Sandwriting Edward Lowbury \22
When Love is Done Francis William
Bourdillon \23
Jenny Kissed Me Leigh Hunt \23
I Have Lived and I Have Loved Anon \24
The Host of the Air W. B. Yeats 124
The Death of Romeo and Juliet Anon 126
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth 127
Time is too slow for those who wait
Anon 127
The Sea and Sailors
Three Fishers Went Sailing Charles
Kingsley \22
The Alice Jean Robert Graves \22
The Press-Gang Anon 130
Cargoes John Masefield 131
Storm at Sea Kevin Crossley-Holland 131
Mary Celeste Judith Nicholls \32
Sailor Langston Hughes 134
Uncle Roderick Norman MacCaig \34
Parting at Morning Robert Browning 135
O Lord! Methought what pain it was to
drown William Shakespeare 135
Souvenir from Weston-Super-Mare Libby
Houston 136
The Fringe of the Sea A.L. Hendriks 131
Rooks Love Excitment Ted Hughes 167
Blackbird Christopher Leach \62
Heron Leonard Clark 164
The Sculptor Kim Garrard 170
Song of the Battery Hen Edwin Brock 170
Penguins Albert Rowe 172
Christmas
Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson
Family
My Sister Jane Ted Hughes X73
New Baby Jackie Kay 174
The Trick John Mole 175
Sunday Fathers Michael Harrison 176
High Noon at Barking Odeon
Lindsay MacRae Ml
The Passing of the Telegram Charlotte
Mitchell \12
Just Like a Man Anon 174
Aunt Sue's Stories Langston Hughes \20
Jeopardy Sue Cowling \2\
Washday Battles Geoffrey Summerfield \22
The Family Book Brian Moses \23
Dad Can't Dance Lindsay MacRae \24
Richard Caroline Allen l2S
Mum Dad and Me James Berry \26
Sauce Pauline Stewart \21
The Visitors Barrie Wade \22
Abigail Kaye Starbird l?4
Manco the Peruvian Chief Redmond
Phillips 140
Sugarfields Barbara Mahone 141
Bearhugs Roger McGough 142
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Talking Turkeys!! Benjamin Zephaniah 140
Preparations Anon 142
Christmas Daybreak Christina Rossetti \43
The Donkey's Christmas Anon 144
African Christmas John Press 145
I'm Not Old Enough Yet Jackie Kay 146
Animals
Noah Roy Daniells 146
Poor Beasts! Anon 147
A Child's Pet W.H. Davies \42
A Fellow Mortal John Masefield 144
Hedgehog Roy Holland 150
Squirrels John Mole 151
Piglet Tessa Hart 152
Travelling Through the Dark William
Stafford 153
Jungle Animals
The Giraffe Charlotte Last 154
An Elephant Remembers Theresa Heine 153
Zebra Gilroy Fisher 156
The Thing About Aardvarks Lindsay MacRae
Mythical Creatures
Monster Alphabet Robert Fisher \S2
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 154
The Roc Edward Lowbury 160
Cats and Dogs
Greedy Dog James Hurley 161
Family Holiday Raymond Wilson 162
Stories / Patrick Lewis 163
Milking Song Anne Bell 164
Cool Cat Mikejubb 165
Flying Creatures
The Fly William Blake 166
War
Refugee Lindsay MacRae 143
Calling the Roll Nathaniel Graham
Shepherd 144
Futility Wilfred Owen 146
Hiroshima Anon 146
Family Feeling Charles Causley 147
Terrorist's Wife Angela Greene 14?
The Dug-Out Siegfried Sassoon 144
Duke et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen 200
No Return Susan Skinner 201
The Hero Siegfried Sassoon 202
Conservation
The Righteous Mother Eden Philpotts 203
We Are Going to See the Rabbit Alan
Brownjohn 204
Fifteen Million Plastic Bags Adrian
Mitchell 206
City Life
Behind the Story Eric Millward 207
Summer Solstice, New York City
Sharon Olds 202
Shopping Trolleys Jenny Boult 210
Tulips on the Roundabout Stanley Cook 211
High Street Smells James Kirkup 212
On Lord Ila's Improvements, Near Houslow
Heath Philip Stanhope 214
The City People Meet Themselves
Rosanne Flynn 215
London William Blake 216
The Jeely Piece Song Adam McNaughtan
2\1
Down and Out, Paddington Station
Christine Boothroyd 2\2
Decomposition Zulfikar Ghose 214
Street Boy Gareth Owen 220
Man's inhumanity
Clown Phoebe Hesketh 220
Foodless Children Maldwyn Davies 22\
Travelling Child Jacqueline Brown 222
Civil Lies Benjamin Zephaniah 223
Blackness Glyne Walrond 2 2 4
Skin Pauline Stewart 225
Circles Carl Sandberg 225
Travelling
Our Allotment Pauline Stewart 226
Sleeping Compartment Norman MacCaig
221
Hot Air Balloon Philip Gross 222
The Tourists Riad Nourallah 224
Romance /. Turner 230
In Mrs Tilscher's Class Carol Ann Duffy 231
School
An Accident Wes Magee 232
Uniform Jan Dean 233
The Boy Who Ate His Sandwiches Too Early
While on the School Trip Lindsay
MacRae 234
Coming Late Barrie Wade 235
Slow )eanie Rowena Sommerville 236
Remember Me? Ray Mather 231
An Imperial Education Zulfikar Ghose 232
Tall Windows Barrie Wade 240
The Bully Asleep John Walsh 242
Sunstruck Darien Smith 243
Back to School Blues Eric Finney 244
To a Trainee Accountant Michael
Dugan 246
Old Age
Warning Jenny Joseph 241
For My Grandmother Knitting Liz Lochhead
242
Shed in Space Gareth Owen 250
Follower Seamus Heaney 252
The Elephant Table Philip Gross 253
Death
As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo
Anon 254
How Does it Feel? David Scott 255
Yellow Michael O'Loughlin 255
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 256
The Twa Corbies Anon 257
All the world's a stage William
Shakespeare 252
Holy Sonnetjohn Donne 254
Dad Gareth Owen 260
Little Homer's Slate Eugene Field 262
Leave-Taking Cecil Rajendra 263
Grave of a Princess Gina Douthwaite 264
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 265
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm
P Weston and Bert Lee 266
Remember Christina Rossetti 261
You Never See a Bright Yellow Hearse
Henry Normal 262
Dirge for Unwin Philip Gross 270
All That Space Joan Poulson 21\
Death by Sacher Torte Elizabeth Seagar
212
When I am Dead Anon 213
Eternal Love John Lacorte 214
Dying Quietly Pat Moon 275
Up-Hill Christina Rossetti 216
Our revels now are ended William
Shakespeare 211
Index of Authors 27?