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POEMS FOR CHILDREN

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THE CLASSICS/

OTHER CHILDREN'S WRITERS

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These are poems by poets other than myself for whom their copyright is out of date now, or from whom I have asked permission to reproduce their work for you.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

DAVIES, W H - Leisure

     See also: What Life is This?

DE LA MARE, Walter - The Listeners

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

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LEAR, Edward- and some of his limericks

       - The Duck and the Kangaroo

MILLIGAN, Spike: - In the Land of the Bumbley Boo

MASEFIELD, John - 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 1

               and:  By the Waterfalls of Ilkley 2

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