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  There was an old woman named Towl ref1

  There was once a line ref1

  They shut the road through the woods ref1

  They went to sea in a Sieve, they did ref1

  This is just to say ref1

  Though she doesn’t know it ref1

  Three Turkeys fair their last have breathed ref1

  Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air ref1

  To celebrate ref1

  Today we went out of school ref1

  Tyger! Tyger! burning bright ref1

  Uncle Edward was colour-blind ref1

  Up the airy mountain ref1

  Way down Geneva ref1

  We are the Workhouse children ref1

  ‘We did sums at school, Mummy – ref1

  Welcome to St Judas ref1

  We’ve been at the seaside all day ref1

  What is pink? A rose is pink ref1

  What with getting in the way of the packing ref1

  When as the rye reach to the chin ref1

  When daisies pied and violets blue ref1

  When Grandmamma fell off the boat ref1

  When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ref1

  When I am dead, my dearest ref1

  When I come home from school he doesn’t bark ref1

  When I come out of the bathroom ref1

  When I heard the learn’d astronomer ref1

  When I live in a Cottage ref1

  When my baby brother ref1

  When you teach me ref1

  Where can I find seven small girls to be pets ref1

  Who would be (A merman bold) ref1

  Who would be (A mermaid fair) ref1

  Wings whispered about her hair ref1

  Yes. I remember Adlestrop – ref1

  You live in the hollow of a stranded whale ref1

  Index of Poets

  Adcock, Fleur ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Agard, John ref1

  Ahlberg, Allan ref1

  Allingham, William ref1

  Alma-Tadema, Laurence ref1

  Anon. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Ardagh, Philip ref1

  Auden, W. H. ref1, ref2, ref3

  Barrett Browning, Elizabeth ref1

  Belloc, Hilaire ref1, ref2

  Bernos de Gasztold,

  Carmen ref1

  Bethell, Mary Ursula ref1

  Betjeman, John ref1

  Bevan, Clare ref1, ref2, ref3

  Blake, William ref1

  Calder, Dave ref1

  Campion, Thomas ref1

  Carey, Henry ref1

  Carter, James ref1, ref2

  Causley, Charles ref1, ref2

  Chatterjee, Debjani ref1

  Coe, Mandy ref1, ref2, ref3

  Coelho, Joseph ref1

  Cope, Wendy ref1, ref2

  Cornford, Frances ref1

  Coward, Noel ref1

  Crane, Nathalia ref1

  Cummings, E. E. ref1

  De la Mare, Walter ref1

  Dean, Jan ref1

  Dickinson, Emily ref1

  Drinkwater, John ref1

  Duffy, Carol Ann ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Eliot, T. S. ref1

  Fanthorpe, U. A. ref1, ref2

  Farjeon, Eleanor ref1

  Field, Rachel ref1

  Fleming, Marjory ref1, ref2

  Floyd, Gillian ref1

  Foster, John ref1, ref2

  Fyleman, Rose ref1

  Gibson, Wilfrid ref1

  Godden, Rumer, tr. ref1

  Graham, Harry ref1

  Green, Mary ref1

  Harmer, David ref1

  Henri, Adrian ref1

  Hood, Thomas ref1, ref2

  Housman, A. E. ref1

  Hughes, Ted ref1, ref2

  Hulme, T. E. ref1

  Jennings, Elizabeth ref1, ref2

  Joseph, Jenny ref1, ref2

  Kay, Jackie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Keats, John ref1, ref2

  Kipling, Rudyard ref1

  Klein, Robin ref1

  Lear, Edward ref1, ref2

  McLoughland, Beverly ref1

  Magee, Wes ref1

  Marlowe, Christopher ref1

  Mew, Charlotte ref1

  Meynell, Alice ref1

  Milton, John ref1

  Monro, Harold ref1

  Nagle, Frances ref1

  Nash, Ogden ref1

  Noyes, Alfred ref1

  O’Callaghan, Julie ref1

  Parelkar, Ruhee ref1

  Patten, Brian ref1

  Peele, George ref1

  Plath, Sylvia ref1, ref2, ref3

  Pope, Alexander ref1

  Rawnsley, Irene ref1, ref2

  Rice, John ref1

  Rich, Adrienne ref1

  Rossetti, Christina ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Scannell, Vernon ref1

  Shakespeare, William ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Smart, Christopher ref1

  Smith, Stevie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Spenser, Edmund ref1

  Stevenson, Robert

  Louis ref1, ref2

  Swinger, Marian ref1

  Taggard, Genevieve ref1

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Thesen, Sharon ref1

  Thomas, Edward ref1

  Whitehead, David ref1

  Whitman, Walt ref1

  Williams, William Carlos ref1

  Wordsworth, William ref1, ref2

  Wright, James ref1

  Wright, Kit ref1

  Yeats, W. B. ref1, ref2, ref3

  First published 2011 by Macmillan Children’s Books

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  Acknowledgements

  The compiler and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to use copyright material:

  Fleur Adcock, ‘Tunbridge Wells’, ‘Sidcup, 1940’, ‘Halfway Street, Sidcup’, ‘St Gertrude’s, Sidcup’ and ‘Drury Goodbyes’ all from Poems 1960–2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000); John Agard, ‘Spell to Bring a Smile’ copyright © John Agard; Allan Ahlberg, ‘It Is a Puzzle’, by permission of the Penguin Group Ltd; Philip Ardagh, ‘St Judas Welcomes Author Philip Arder’, by permission of the author; W. H. Auden, ‘Stop All the Clocks’ and ‘The More Loving One’ from Collected Works, copyright © 1976, 1991, the Estate of W. H. Auden; Hilaire Belloc, ‘Grandmamma’s Birthday’ and ‘Tarantella’ from Complete Verse by Hilaire Belloc (copyright © Hilaire Belloc is reproduced by permission of PFD [www.pfd.co.uk] on behalf of Hilaire Be