Anthology of the English-speaking World's Best Poems
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Children's Poetry

An Anthology of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry

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A selection of the some of the best poetry written for kids, but equally pleasurable to adults.

  • AA Milne - "Disobedience"
  • AA Milne - "The Friend"
  • AA Milne - "The King's Breakfast"
  • AA Milne - "Lines and Squares"
  • AA Milne - "Us Two"
  • AA Milne - "Vespers"
  • Anon - "Mr Nobody"
  • Anon - "Sir Patrick Spens"
  • Clement Clarke Moore - "The Night Before Christmas"
  • Dr Seuss - "The Cat in the Hat"
  • Edward Lear - "The Jumblies"
  • Edward Lear - "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
  • Edward Lear - "The Pobble Who Has No Toes"
  • Hilaire Belloc - "Matilda"
  • Hilaire Belloc - "Tarantella"
  • Hughes Mearns - "Antigonish"
  • HW Longfellow - "The Childrens hour"
  • John Masefield - "Cargoes"
  • John Masefield - "Sea-Fever"
  • Lewis Carroll - "The Crocodile"
  • Lewis Carroll - "Father William"
  • Lewis Carroll - "Jabberwocky"
  • Lewis Carroll - "The Lobster Quadrille"
  • Lewis Carroll - "Walrus and the Carpenter"
  • Lewis Carroll - "You Are Old, Father William"
  • Mary Howitt - "The Spider And The Fly"
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ozymandias"
  • Roald Dahl - "The Dentist and the Crocodile"
  • Roald Dahl - "Television"
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - "From a Railway Carriage"
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - "The Land of Nod"
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - "Requiem"
  • Shel Silverstein - "Bear In There"
  • Thomas Hood - "November"
  • TS Eliot - "Bustopher Jones"
  • TS Eliot - "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats"
  • TS Eliot - "Macavity, The Mystery Cat"
  • Walter De La Mare - "The Listeners"
  • WH Auden - "Night Mail"
  • William Blake - "The Tyger"

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