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POEMS BY CLASSIC  POETS/

OTHER CHILDREN'S POETS

These are poems by poets other than myself for whom their copyright is out of date now, or from whom I have asked permission to reproduce their work for you.  I hope you like my choice.

ALEXANDER, Cecil Frances - The Field Mouse
ANONYMOUS - Mr Nobody
     See also:   It's  Poor Mr Nobody Again
BETJEMAN, John: - How to Get on in Society
     See also: Do Come for Tea Dear
BYRON, Lord - She Walks in Beauty
     See also:  The Perfect Beau
CARROLL, Lewis - Jabberwocky
      See also:  Brave, Brave, Sledderclob
CARROLL, Lewis - The Lobster Quadrille
     See also:  Will You Dance a Little Faster?
DAVIES, W H - Leisure
     See also: What Life is This?
DE LA MARE, Walter - The Listeners
    See also:  'Is Anyone There?'
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN  - The Nightmare Song
     See also: The Insomniac Poet
HEANEY, Seamus - Blackberry Picking
    See also: Blackberrying
HOPKINS, Gerard Manley - Pied Beauty
     See also: Brindled Beauty
KIPLING, Rudyard -  If
     See also: - If
and: Seal Lullaby - Rudyard Kipling



 

LEAR, Edward- and some of his limericks
       - The Duck and the Kangaroo
    MILLIGAN, Spike: - In the Land of the Bumbley Boo
MASEFIELD, John  - Sea Fever
        See also:  Shorthand Fever
                and:   Shopping Fever
           "                    "      - The West Wind
PRELUTSKY, Jack:   - Bleezer's Ice Cream
        See also:  Lucky to be Alive
WORDSWORTH, William - Daffodils (The)
YEATES, William Butler - Down By the Salley Gardens
      See also:  By the Waterfalls of Ilkley Moor 1
               and:  By the Waterfalls of Ilkley Moor 2
YEATES, William Butler - When You Are Old

See also my poem:  Thank You Walter de la Mare