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POEMS FOR CHILDREN

THE CLASSICS/
OTHER CHILDREN'S WRITERS

Blonde Boy Reading

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These are poems by poets other than myself for whom their copyright is out of date now, or from whom I have asked permission to reproduce their work for you.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

HOPKINS, Gerard Manley - Pied Beauty 
   See also:
Brindled Beauty
KIPLING, Rudyard -  If
   
Seal Lullaby - Rudyard Kipling
       See also: - If 

LEAR, Edward- and some of his limericks

       - The Duck and the Kangaroo
MASEFIELD, John  - Sea Fever
        See also:  Shorthand Fever
                and:   Shopping Fever
           "                    "      - The West Wind

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

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






 

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