Past, present and future / Emily Bronte Prayer to laughter / John Agard Tartary / Walter de la Mare The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear The cat and the moon / W.B. Yeats January jumps about / George Barker Spell of creation / Kathleen Raine Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins from 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth The wold swans at Coole / W.B. Yeats The galloping cat / Stevie Smith from 'Auguries of innocence' / William Blake The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson The donkey / G.K. Chesterton Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins Horses on the Camargue / Roy Campbell My heart's in the highlands / Robert Burns Home thoughts, from abroad / Robert Browning A Martian send a postcard home / Craig Raine No! / Thomas Hood BC:AD / U.A. Fanthorpe Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge London / William Blake The embankment / T.E. Hulme Summer recorded / Russell Hoban Snake / D.H. Lawrence The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsey Adlestrop / Edward Thomas Waving at trains / Roger McGough The night mail / W.H. Auden from 'The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald Sonnet LX / William Shakespeare Death, be not proud / John Donne To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold An arundel tomb / Philip Larkin Noah / Roy Daniells Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith The lady of Shalott / Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lake Isle of Innistree / W.B. Yeats Song / Christina Rossetti Song / W.H. Auden To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick Leisure / W.H. Davies Naming of parts / Henry Reed Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Legend / Judith Wright Jim who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion / Hilaire Belloc Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash By St Thomas Water / Charles Causley Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas Follower / Seamus Heaney Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas The woman of water / Adrian Mitchell Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc The trees / Philip Larkin Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman The way through the woods / Rudyard Kipling Hawk roosting / Ted Hughes Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley The road not taken / Robert Frost The terrible path / Brian Patten Uphill / Christina Rossetti Stoppng by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost You are old, Father William / Lewis Carroll I am / John Clare On his blindness / John Milton The tiger / William Blake A small dragon / Brian Patten Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll Hunter trials / John Betjeman Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott The horn / James Reeves The highwayman / Alfred Noyes The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron Abbey Tomb / Patricia Beer Innocent's song / Charles Causley Say this city has ten million souls W.H. Auden In time of 'The breaking of Nations' / Thomas Hardy There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale April rain song / Langston Hughes maggie and milly and molly and may / E.E. Cummings Sea-fever / John Masefield On this island / W.H. Auden Cargoes / John Masefield A smuggler's song / Rudyard Kipling The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman Casabianca / Felicia D. Hemans La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats The listeners / Walter de la Mare The Hansel and Gretel house / Gerda Mayer To any reader / Robert Louis Stevenson
