POETRY COLLECTION 2

SUB G6ttlngen 7 205 922422 Compiled by FIONA WATERS

Illustrated by ZARA SLATTERY

EVANS BROTHERS LIMITED CONTENTS The Seasons and Country Life Things That Go Bump in the Night I So Liked Spring Charlotte Mew 2 Overheard on a Saltmarsh Harold Monro 3Q Home Thoughts from Abroad Robert Witches Gather Benjonson 40 Browning 2 Mrs McQueen Judith Nicholls 41 Adlestrop Edward Thomas fl Now the hungry lion roars Mushrooms Sylvia Plath 10 William Shakespeare 42 Reading a Bonfire, Top to Bottom Fear of the Dark Vernon Scannell 42 Geoffrey Summerfield II Rumour Harold Monro 4-3 The Way Through the Woods Hide and Seek Vernon Scannell 44 Rudyard Kipling 12 The Face at the Window Berlie Doherty 45 Song of the Open Road R.D. Fairburn 13 Prince Kano Edward Lowbury 46 Autumn Song 14 Unwelcome Mary Coleridge 41 Winter Christina Rossetti 15 It is Snowing Afua Cooper 16 Prayers, Spirits and Gods Explorer Alan Brownjohn 17 Captive's Song Omaha Tribe 4% Solitude Ella Wheeler Wilcox 42 Hearth and Home The Thanksgivings Iroquois Tribe 4Q For Sale W.H. Davies I? Gaelic Blessing Traditional 50 A Striking Old Man Alasdair Ashton IS? Prayer for Peace St Francis ofAssisi 50 Posting Letters Gregory Harrison 20 A Different Kind of Sunday James Berry 50 The Empty House Russell Hoban 22 Three Rusty Nails Roger McGough 52 Door Has Two Faces Keith Bosley 23 The Bishop's Mistake Anon 53 The Trees are Down Charlotte Mew 24 The Darkening Garden Anon 25 The Moon ... Is the Moon Tired? Christina Rossetti 54 Wind and Storms Applemoon Rose Flint 55 Big Fears John Rice 26 Morning After a Storm ... and Stars William Wordsworth 2? Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way Petals Anon 2? Nancy Willard 56 Hurricane Dionne Brand 2a wd Campbell 33 I Am the One Opal Palmer Adisa 61 Through That Door John Cotton 34 Magic Story of Falling Asleep Nancy Willard bl Magic and Enchantment The Alchemist Gareth Owen 36 Music, Sounds and Words Green Man in the Garden The First Music Elizabeth Jennings 62 Charles Causley 37 Steelband Dancing/o&n Lyons 63 Old Men of Magic Dionne Brand 32 529 1983 Gerda Mayer 64 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows The Great Sphinx By The Nile William Shakespeare 32 Barry Buckingham 64 Ouch !Anon 65 Food The Song of the Homeworkers Egg Thoughts Russell Hoban 102 Trevor Millum 66 The Pawpaw Be Nice To Rhubarb Max Fatchen 67 Edward Kamau Brathwaite 103 The English Language Harry Hemsley 62 Everyday Things Jean Ayer 104 Surnames James Smith 70 Leisure W.H. Davies 105 Words Are Waiting Mikejubb 72 Baggin'/o/bn Wright 72 In Love ... Have You Ever Thought My True Love Sir Philip Sidney 106 Jacqueline Brown 14 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Rant About Pants Lindsay MacRae IB W. B. Yeats 106 Sonnet Christina Rossetti 107 Books and Poets My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Poetry is What? Adrian Mitchell 76 William Shakespeare 107 According to My Mood Lochinvar Sir Walter Scott \02 Benjamin Zephaniah 76 Growing Pain Vernon Scannell 110 The Uncertainty of the Poet Wendy Cope 11 First Kiss Joan Poulson 111 The Poet Edward Lowbury 12 The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Voetry ]ump-\Jp John Agard 12 Lord Tennyson 112 What My Lady Did Roger McGough \\2 Nonsense On A Painted Woman Percy Bysshe The Doze James Reeves 20 Shelley 114 Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 2\ Down in the Valley American Spiritual 120 People ... and Out of Love The Statue Edith Roseveare 22 It Isn't the Same m.m.s 121 The Visit Jackie Kay 22 Sandwriting Edward Lowbury \22 Lance-corporal Dixon Linda Newton 24 When Love is Done Francis William Sassenachs/«c&fe Kay 24 Bourdillon \23 Brennan on the Moor Anon 26 Jenny Kissed Me Leigh Hunt \23 Don't Barrie Wade 21 I Have Lived and I Have Loved Anon \24 Why Dorothy Wordsworth is Not as Famous The Host of the Air W. B. Yeats 124 as Her Brother Lynn Peters 22 The Death of Romeo and Juliet Anon 126 The Richest Poor Man in the Valley She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways Lindsay MacRae 2Q William Wordsworth 127 The Dilemmas of AIDS James Sykes 40 Time is too slow for those who wait Conversation with an Angel Anon 127 Wanda Barford 41 Tullynoe: Tete-a-Tete in the Parish Priest's The Sea and Sailors Parlour Paul Durcan 42 Three Fishers Went Sailing Charles I Wish I Were Rabindranath Tagore 43 Kingsley \22 Shopping Jenny Boult 44 The Alice Jean Robert Graves \22 Haircut Michael Harrison 45 The Press-Gang Anon 130 Dread-lock Style Lesley Miranda 46 Cargoes John Masefield 131 The Feet Tom Wayman 47 Storm at Sea Kevin Crossley-Holland 131 Dentist Karina Bailey 4? Mary Celeste Judith Nicholls \32 Breathless Wilfrid Noyce 100 Sailor Langston Hughes 134 Uncle Roderick Norman MacCaig \34 Parting at Morning Robert Browning 135 Rooks Love Excitment Ted Hughes 167 O Lord! Methought what pain it was to Blackbird Christopher Leach \62 drown William Shakespeare 135 Heron Leonard Clark 164 Souvenir from Weston-Super-Mare Libby The Sculptor Kim Garrard 170 Houston 136 Song of the Battery Hen Edwin Brock 170 The Fringe of the Sea A.L. Hendriks 131 Penguins Albert Rowe 172 Christmas Family Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson My Sister Jane Ted Hughes X73 \32 New Baby Jackie Kay 174 Talking Turkeys!! Benjamin Zephaniah 140 The Trick John Mole 175 Preparations Anon 142 Sunday Fathers Michael Harrison 176 Christmas Daybreak Christina Rossetti \43 High Noon at Barking Odeon The Donkey's Christmas Anon 144 Lindsay MacRae Ml African Christmas John Press 145 The Passing of the Telegram Charlotte I'm Not Old Enough Yet Jackie Kay 146 Mitchell \12 Just Like a Man Anon 174 Animals Aunt Sue's Stories Langston Hughes \20 Noah Roy Daniells 146 Jeopardy Sue Cowling \2\ Poor Beasts! Anon 147 Washday Battles Geoffrey Summerfield \22 A Child's Pet W.H. Davies \42 The Family Book Brian Moses \23 A Fellow Mortal John Masefield 144 Dad Can't Dance Lindsay MacRae \24 Hedgehog Roy Holland 150 Richard Caroline Allen l2S Squirrels John Mole 151 Mum Dad and Me James Berry \26 Piglet Tessa Hart 152 Sauce Pauline Stewart \21 Travelling Through the Dark William The Visitors Barrie Wade \22 Stafford 153 Abigail Kaye Starbird l?4 Manco the Peruvian Chief Redmond Jungle Animals Phillips 140 The Giraffe Charlotte Last 154 Sugarfields Barbara Mahone 141 An Elephant Remembers Theresa Heine 153 Bearhugs Roger McGough 142 Zebra Gilroy Fisher 156 The Thing About Aardvarks Lindsay MacRae War Refugee Lindsay MacRae 143 Calling the Roll Nathaniel Graham Mythical Creatures Shepherd 144 Monster Alphabet Robert Fisher \S2 Futility 146 The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 154 Hiroshima Anon 146 The Roc Edward Lowbury 160 Family Feeling Charles Causley 147 Terrorist's Wife Angela Greene 14? Cats and Dogs The Dug-Out Siegfried Sassoon 144 Greedy Dog James Hurley 161 Duke et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen 200 Family Holiday Raymond Wilson 162 No Return Susan Skinner 201 Stories / Patrick Lewis 163 The Hero Siegfried Sassoon 202 Milking Song Anne Bell 164 Cool Cat Mikejubb 165 Conservation The Righteous Mother Eden Philpotts 203 Flying Creatures We Are Going to See the Rabbit Alan The Fly William Blake 166 Brownjohn 204 Fifteen Million Plastic Bags Adrian An Imperial Education Zulfikar Ghose 232 Mitchell 206 Tall Windows Barrie Wade 240 The Bully Asleep John Walsh 242 City Life Sunstruck Darien Smith 243 Behind the Story Eric Millward 207 Back to School Blues Eric Finney 244 Summer Solstice, New York City To a Trainee Accountant Michael Sharon Olds 202 Dugan 246 Shopping Trolleys Jenny Boult 210 Tulips on the Roundabout Stanley Cook 211 Old Age High Street Smells James Kirkup 212 Warning Jenny Joseph 241 On Lord Ila's Improvements, Near Houslow For My Grandmother Knitting Liz Lochhead Heath Philip Stanhope 214 242 The City People Meet Themselves Shed in Space Gareth Owen 250 Rosanne Flynn 215 Follower 252 London William Blake 216 The Elephant Table Philip Gross 253 The Jeely Piece Song Adam McNaughtan 2\1 Death Down and Out, Paddington Station As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo Christine Boothroyd 2\2 Anon 254 Decomposition Zulfikar Ghose 214 How Does it Feel? David Scott 255 Street Boy Gareth Owen 220 Yellow Michael O'Loughlin 255 Ballad of Dudley Randall 256 Man's inhumanity The Twa Corbies Anon 257 Clown Phoebe Hesketh 220 All the world's a stage William Foodless Children Maldwyn Davies 22\ Shakespeare 252 Travelling Child Jacqueline Brown 222 Holy Sonnetjohn Donne 254 Civil Lies Benjamin Zephaniah 223 Dad Gareth Owen 260 Blackness Glyne Walrond 224 Little Homer's Slate Eugene Field 262 Skin Pauline Stewart 225 Leave-Taking Cecil Rajendra 263 Circles Carl Sandberg 225 Grave of a Princess Gina Douthwaite 264 Requiescat Oscar Wilde 265 Travelling With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm Our Allotment Pauline Stewart 226 P Weston and Bert Lee 266 Sleeping Compartment Norman MacCaig Remember Christina Rossetti 261 221 You Never See a Bright Yellow Hearse Hot Air Balloon Philip Gross 222 Henry Normal 262 The Tourists Riad Nourallah 224 Dirge for Unwin Philip Gross 270 Romance /. Turner 230 All That Space Joan Poulson 21\ In Mrs Tilscher's Class Carol Ann Duffy 231 Death by Sacher Torte Elizabeth Seagar 212 School When I am Dead Anon 213 An Accident Wes Magee 232 Eternal Love John Lacorte 214 Uniform Jan Dean 233 Dying Quietly Pat Moon 275 The Boy Who Ate His Sandwiches Too Early Up-Hill Christina Rossetti 216 While on the School Trip Lindsay Our revels now are ended William MacRae 234 Shakespeare 211 Coming Late Barrie Wade 235 Slow )eanie Rowena Sommerville 236 Index of Authors 27? Remember Me? Ray Mather 231