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Tables of Contents for One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Mystery
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9
1
Valerie Worth
The Word Party
10
1
Richard Edwards
Whatif
11
1
Shel Silverstein
What's What
12
2
Alastair Reid
The Boyhood of Dracula
14
1
Gareth Owen
Not My Day
15
1
Russell Hoban
The Pancake Collector
16
1
Jack Prelutsky
The Frog Prince
17
1
Phoebe Hesketh
Alice and the Frog
18
2
Brain Morse
A Spell for Midnight
20
1
Hal Summers
Spell Against Sorrow
21
1
Kathleen Raine
The Listeners
22
2
Walter de la Mare
Welsh Incident
24
2
Robert Graves
Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest
26
2
Sylvia Plath
Mary Celeste
28
2
Judith Nicholls
Great Black-Backed Gulls
30
1
John Heath-Stubbs
They Call to One Another
31
1
George Barker
Everyone Sang
32
1
Siegfried Sassoon
Animals
The Animals' Arrival
33
1
Elizabeth Jennings
The Tickle Rhyme
34
1
Ian Serraillier
The Example
34
1
W. H. Davies
Considering the Snail
35
1
Thom Gunn
The Sloth
36
1
Theodore Roethke
Something Told the Wild Geese
37
1
Rachel Field
Don't Call Alligator Long-Mouth Till You Cross River
38
1
John Agard
Trophy
38
2
Gillian Clarke
We are Going to See the Rabbit
40
2
Alan Brownjohn
Song of the Battery Hen
42
1
Edwin Brock
The Snare
43
1
James Stephens
Cat's Funeral
44
1
E. V. Rieu
The Thought-Fox
45
1
Ted Hughes
Dog Body and Cat Mind
46
1
Jenny Joseph
Poem
47
1
William Carlos Williams
Horses on the Camargue
48
2
Roy Campbell
Horses
50
1
Edwin Muir
The Donkey
51
1
G. K. Chesterton
Fetching Cows
52
1
Norman MacCaig
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
53
1
Vachel Lindsay
Caring for Animals
54
1
Jon Silkin
Childhood
For a Five-year-old
55
1
Fleur Adcock
It Was Long Ago
56
2
Eleanor Farjeon
The Game of Life
58
1
Roy Fuller
When I Was Christened
59
1
David McCord
Adventures of Isabel
60
2
Ogden Nash
Father Says
62
1
Michael Rosen
Playgrounds
63
1
Berlie Doherty
Where's Everybody?
64
1
Allan Ahlberg
Truth
65
1
Barrie Wade
Car Wash
66
1
Jackie Kay
The Tunnel
67
1
Brian Lee
Tich Miller
68
1
Wendy Cope
Televised
69
1
Maya Angelou
The Shoes
70
2
John Mole
Into My Heart
72
1
A. E. Housman
Fern Hill
73
2
Dylan Thomas
By St Thomas Water
75
2
Charles Causley
I Wish I Were...
77
1
Rabindranath Tagore
Lost Days
78
1
Stephen Spender
A Child's Calendar
79
1
George Mackay Brown
Revelation
80
1
Liz Lochhead
Unrecorded Speech
81
1
Anna Adams
A Recollection
82
1
Frances Cornford
The Lesson
83
1
Edward Lucie-Smith
Follower
84
1
Seamus Heaney
The Icing Hand
85
1
Tony Harrison
Piano
86
1
D. H. Lawrence
About Friends
87
1
Brain Jones
Legend
88
2
Judith Wright
Walking Away
90
1
C. Day Lewis
People
The Leader
91
1
Roger McGough
The First Men on Mercury
92
2
Edwin Morgan
Resurrected
94
1
Matthew Sweeney
Pitying Heaven
95
1
Michael Baldwin
About His Person
96
1
Simon Armitage
Men of Terry Street
97
1
Douglas Dunn
Every Day in Every Way
98
1
Kit Wright
The Embankment
99
1
T. E. Hulme
The Man on the Desert Island
100
1
Gerda Mayer
Not Waving but Drowning
101
1
Stevie Smith
Why Brownlee Left
102
1
Paul Muldoon
Hunger
103
1
Laurence Binyon
O What is That Sound
104
1
W. H. Auden
Evans
105
1
R. S. Thomas
Not My Best Side
106
2
U. A. Fanthorpe
Old Woman
108
1
Iain Crichton Smith
Sensitive, Seldom, and Sad
109
1
Mervyn Peake
The Doomed Spaceman
110
1
Ted Walker
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
111
2
Craig Raine
Scenes
For the Record
113
1
Libby Houston
in Just-spring
114
1
E. E. Cummings
April Rain Song
115
1
Langston Hughes
`There Will Come Soft Rains'
115
1
Sara Teasdale
Day of These Days
116
1
Laurie Lee
Midsummer, Tobago
117
1
Derek Walcott
Hard Frost
118
1
Andrew Young
The Midnight Skaters
119
1
Edmund Blunden
Fog
120
1
Carl Sandburg
The More It Snows
120
1
A. A. Milne
On a Night of Snow
121
1
Elizabeth Coatsworth
London Snow
122
1
Robert Bridges
When Skies are Low and Days are Dark
123
1
N. M. Bodecker
The Side Way Back
124
1
Philip Gross
Southbound on the Freeway
125
1
May Swenson
The Day the World Ended
126
2
George MacBeth
Preludes
128
2
T. S. Eliot
Encounter at St Martin's
130
1
Ken Smith
Shadows
131
1
Zaro Weil
Mending Wall
132
2
Robert Frost
Wall
134
2
Norman Nicholson
The Old Ships
136
2
James Elroy Flecker
Posted
138
1
John Masefield
The Sea
139
1
James Reeves
Look, No Hands
140
1
James Berry
War
Drummer Hodge
141
1
Thomas Hardy
Abbey Tomb
142
2
Patricia Beer
The Soldier
144
1
Rupert Brooke
Newscast
144
1
Ian Hamilton
My Boy Jack
145
1
Rudyard Kipling
As the Team's Head-Brass
146
1
Edward Thomas
Anthem for Doomed Youth
147
1
Wilfred Owen
Naming of Parts
148
2
Henry Reed
Vergissmeinnicht
150
1
Keith Douglas
Your Attention Please
151
2
Peter Porter
No More Hiroshimas
153
2
James Kirkup
Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
155
1
Adrian Mitchell
In the Desert Knowing Nothing
156
1
Helen Dunmore
Carriers in the Gulf
157
1
Alan Ross
A poem about Poems about Vietnam
158
1
Jon Stallworthy
Tiananmen
159
1
James Fenton
The Sunlight on the Garden
160
1
Louis MacNeice
Love
I so liked Spring
161
1
Charlotte Mew
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
162
1
Ezra Pound
Like a Flame
163
1
Grace Nichols
First Love
164
1
Brian Patten
Lipservice
164
1
Max Fatchen
Love Poem
165
1
Mick Gowar
Any prince to any princess
166
2
Adrian Henri
A Subaltern's Love-song
168
2
John Betjeman
Tarantella
170
2
Hilaire Belloc
Water
172
1
Robert Lowell
No Sense of Direction
173
2
Vernon Scannell
Valentine
175
1
Carol Ann Duffy
The Highwayman
176
4
Alfred Noyes
An Arundel Tomb
180
2
Philip Larkin
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
182
1
W. B. Yeats
Sometimes
183
1
Sheenagh Pugh
Index of Titles and First Lines
184
3
Index of Authors
187
1
Index of Artists
188
1
Acknowledgements
189