Some Suggestions for Grade 6 poems

The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People

Joseph Campbell The Blind Man at the Dair The Planter's Daughter The Old Woman of the Roads Desmond Egan Still Life with Ashtray Requiem for the Croppies Seamus Heaney The Diviner Seamus Heaney The Forge Sea Brendan Kennelly Lightning Tara Badger Louis MacNeice County Sligo Eilean Ni Chuilleanain Evidence Seumas O'Sullivan The Lamplighter Padraic Pearse The Wayfarer The Painting WB Yeats The Song of the Old Mother

Something Beginning with P (O'Brien Press)

Patrick Chapman Robot Kid Padraig J Daly Leaving for a Nursing Home Moyra Donaldson I'm Not Stupid Desmond Egan Hideout Matthew Geden A Cigarette in an Ashtray Anto's Inferno Do You Know What the Sea is Able to do? Fred Johnston The Game Oops Julie O'Callaghan Me in a Tree Mary O'Donnell Old Witch, Young Witch John O'Donnell On Water Nessa O'Mahony Bee-Chasing Frank Ormsby The Rabbit Mark Roper Van Gogh's Yellow Chair Gerard Smyth In the Bakery Grace Wells The Recipe for Happiness Joseph Woods Lion King Enda Wyley Bully

Miscellaneous

Gabriel Fitzmaurice Kissing on the Telly Gabriel Fitzmaurice I Forgot Gabriel Fitzmaurice Splat Gabriel Fitzmaurice Poem for John Gabriel Fitzmaurice Poem for Nessa, Five Years Old Gabriel Fitzmaurice Scary Stories Nora Hopper Chesson The Sunflower (Nora Hopper's father was Irish and she was part of the literary revival, so we'll count her as Irish!) Valentin Iremonger The Toy Horse John Irvine Saint Fiacre John B Keane To Charles Lynch Thomas Kinsella The Laundress Audrey Meredith House Full Hedgehog J D Murphy Reflections on the Sartorial Excesses of Animals John D Sheridan Spring Song Oscar Wilde Les Silhouettes Oscar Wilde The Painting