First Form Poetry
Stopping By the Woods: Robert Frost
Limericks from This Singing World
Any from A Child’s Garden of Verses: Stevenson
Any of Pooh’s songs from Winnie the Pooh: AA Milne
At The Seaside: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swing: Robert Louis Stevenson
Mice: Rose Fyleman Sunning: James S. Tippett
Eletelephoney: Laura Elizabeth Richards
Animal Crackers: Christopher Morley
Any from Now We are Six: AA Milne
All Things Bright and Beautiful: Cecil Frances Alexander
The Shepherd: William Blake
The Lamb: William Blake
On Another’s Sorrow: William Blake
The Last Word of a Bluebird: Robert Frost
The Germ: Ogden Nash
From Snow in the Suburbs: Thomas Hardy
Beatrix Potter: When the Dew Falls Silently, Once I Saw a Little Bird, The Man in the Wilderness, The Little Black Rabbit, Tommy Tittle-mouse, Apply Dapply
Margaret Wise Brown: We Have a Little Garden In the Woods High on a Hill, Sleepy, Creepy Squirrel, Good-bye Little Bunny Good-bye
Dust of Snow: Robert Frost
Some One: Walter de la Mare
God is the Maker of the World: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bee! I’m Expecting You! Emily Dickinson
The Eagle: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Forgiven: AA Milne
A Morning Hymn: Christopher Smart
Rising in the Morning: Hugh Rhodes
The Land of Counterpane: Robert Louis Stevenson
My Shadow: Robert Louis Stevenson
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle: Henry Charles Beeching
Little Things: Julia Fletcher Carney
The Violet: Jane Taylor
The Village Blacksmith: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ode on a Grecian Urn: John Keats
From Isthmian Odes: Pindar, translated by Geoffrey S. Conway
The First Olympic Ode, excerpt from Pythian: Pindar
Aeneid Book 1 Lines 195 to 207: Virgil, Dryden’s translation
The Iliad, Book 9, lines 499-505: Homer
The Convert: G.K. Chesterton
Forms of Heroes: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ozymandias: Percy Bysshe Shelly
The Windhover: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty: Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Lake Isle of Innisfree: William Butler Yeats
Jabberwocky: Alice in Wonderland Blow,
Bugle, Blow: Alfred Tennyson
Sonnet 116: Shakespeare
Second & Third Form Poetry
WH Auden
Wendell Berry
William Blake
Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickenson
John Donne
T.S. Elliot
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Robert Frost
George Herbert
Robert Herrick
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Langston Hughes
Ben Jonson
John Keats
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Allen Poe
Ezra Pound
Christina Rossetti
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
William Butler Yeats
Phillis Wheatley
William Wordsworth
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