A Poem for Every Day of the Year

Introduction - i: IntroductionUnit - 1: JanuaryChapter - 1: Promise - Jackie KayChapter - 2: Infant Joy - William BlakeChapter - 3: Poem for a New Year - Matt Goodfellow Chapter - 4: Lines Written by a Bear of Very Little Brain - A. A. MilneChapter - 5: from Twelfth Night - William ShakespeareChapter - 6: The Three Kings - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChapter - 7: Dawn - Ella Wheeler WilcoxChapter - 8: Life - Charlotte BronteChapter - 9: The Pulley - George HerbertChapter - 10: Letter to N. Y. - Elizabeth BishopChapter - 11: Dust of Snow - Robert FrostChapter - 12: Occasional Poem - Jacqueline WoodsonChapter - 13: The Midnight Skaters - Roger McGoughChapter - 14: To Science - Edgar Allan PoeChapter - 15: from I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King, Jr.Chapter - 16: The Burial of Sir John Moore - Charles WolfeChapter - 17: from Elegy on Captain Cook - Anna SewardChapter - 18: January - William Carlos WilliamsChapter - 19: I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose - Emily DickinsonChapter - 20: Days - Philip LarkinChapter - 21: A Colossal Glossary - Paul MuldoonChapter - 22: Human Family - Maya AngelouChapter - 23: The Distance - Eleanor FarjeonChapter - 24: Friendship - Cole PorterChapter - 25: To a Mouse - Robert BurnsChapter - 26: Ballad of the Totems - Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)Chapter - 27: First They Came for the Jews - Martin NiemollerChapter - 28: Yonder See the Morning Blink - A. E. HousmanChapter - 29: from Romeo and Juliet - William ShakespeareChapter - 30: Rain - Spike MilliganChapter - 31: Peas - Anon.Unit - 2: FebruaryChapter - 1: Days - Tony MittonChapter - 2: from February - John ClareChapter - 3: A Giant Firefly - Kobayashi IssaChapter - 4: All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter - J. R. R. TolkienChapter - 5: Spellbound - Emily BronteChapter - 6: A Riddle - Jonathan SwiftChapter - 7: A Winter Bluejay - Sara TeasdaleChapter - 8: An Unusual Cat-Poem - Wendy CopeChapter - 9: It Was Long Ago - Eleanor FarjeonChapter - 10: Colouring In - Jan DeanChapter - 11: The Missile - Michael LeunigChapter - 12: Lift Every Voice and Sing - James Weldon JohnsonChapter - 13: Shrove Tuesday - Celia WarrenChapter - 14: Valentine - Wendy CopeChapter - 15: All You Need Is Love - John Lennon and Paul McCartneyChapter - 16: Lettuce Marry - Anon.Chapter - 17: It's No Use - SapphoChapter - 18: from The Great Lover - Rupert BrookeChapter - 19: Rainbow - John AgardChapter - 20: A Summing Up - Charles MackayChapter - 21: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail - Anon.Chapter - 22: The Little Mute Boy - Federico Garcia LorcaChapter - 23: There Is No Frigate Like a Book - Emily DickinsonChapter - 24: She Was Poor, But She Was Honest - Billy BennettChapter - 25: First Sight - Philip LarkinChapter - 26: The Poetry Grand National - Roger StevensChapter - 27: Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe ShelleyChapter - 28: In Tenebris - Ford Madox FordChapter - 29: My Heart Leaps Up - William WordsworthUnit - 3: MarchChapter - 1: from Under Milk Wood - Dylan ThomasChapter - 2: The Bright Field - R. S. ThomasChapter - 3: Extinct - Mandy CoeChapter - 4: Holi - Chrissie GittinsChapter - 5: The River in March - Ted HughesChapter - 6: Young Lambs - John ClareChapter - 7: To My Sister - William WordsworthChapter - 8: Warning - Jenny JosephChapter - 9: The Battle of the Sexes - Liz BrownleeChapter - 10: Remember - Christina RossettiChapter - 11: Mothering Sunday - George Hare LeonardChapter - 12: Human Affection - Stevie SmithChapter - 13: Here Comes the Sun - George HarrisonChapter - 14: Green Rain - Mary WebbChapter - 15: To Daffodils - Robert HerrickChapter - 16: Go and Catch a Falling Star - John DonneChapter - 17: Ich Am of Irlaunde - Anon.Chapter - 18: Meeting at Night - Robert BrowningChapter - 19: Historical Associations - Robert Louis StevensonChapter - 20: A Morning Song - Eleanor FarjeonChapter - 21: Spring - Christina RossettiChapter - 22: Spring - William BlakeChapter - 23: Sonnet 98 - William ShakespeareChapter - 24: The Frog and the Nightingale - Vikram SethChapter - 25: Today - Billy CollinsChapter - 26: I Remember, I Remember - Thomas HoodChapter - 27: Ballad of the Bread Man - Charles CausleyChapter - 28: I Watched a Blackbird - Thomas HardyChapter - 29: Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now - A. E. HousmanChapter - 30: The Cherry-Tree Carol - Anon.Chapter - 31: Easter Day - Oscar WildeUnit - 4: AprilChapter - 1: April Fool - Louis MacNeiceChapter - 2: The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis CarrollChapter - 3: The Jumblies - Edward LearChapter - 4: Who Killed Cock Robin? - Anon.Chapter - 5: First Word (After Helen Keller) - Rachel RooneyChapter - 6: The People of the Eastern Ice - Rudyard KiplingChapter - 7: from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey ChaucerChapter - 8: Home-Thoughts from Abroad - Robert BrowningChapter - 9: The Ballad of Semmerwater - William WatsonChapter - 10: Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep - Mary Elizabeth FryeChapter - 11: In Time of `The Breaking of Nations' - Thomas HardyChapter - 12: Dear Yuri - Brian MosesChapter - 13: The Song of Wandering Aengus - W. B. YeatsChapter - 14: The Woods and Banks - W. H. DaviesChapter - 15: Ode to the Loss of the Titanic - Geoffrey HillChapter - 16: Will Ye No Come Back Again? - Carolina Oliphant, Lady NairneChapter - 17: from The Waste Land - T. S. EliotChapter - 18: Waste Land Limericks - Wendy CopeChapter - 19: Concord Hymn - Ralph Waldo EmersonChapter - 20: I Had a Dove - John KeatsChapter - 21: from The Old Vicarage, Grantchester - Rupert BrookeChapter - 22: The Woodspurge - Dante Gabriel RossettiChapter - 23: from Richard II - William ShakespeareChapter - 24: Incident of the French Camp - Robert BrowningChapter - 25: Robinson Crusoe's Wise Sayings - Ian McMillanChapter - 26: Into my Heart an Air that Kills - A. E. HousmanChapter - 27: o by the by - E. E. CummingsChapter - 28: Desiderata - Max EhrmannChapter - 29: Dancing with Life - Shauna Darling RobertsonChapter - 30: Facing It - Yusef KomunyakaaUnit - 5: MayChapter - 1: Verses said to be written on the Union - Jonathan SwiftChapter - 2: The Merry Month of May - Thomas DekkerChapter - 3: Tartary - Walter de la MareChapter - 4: Back in the Playground Blues - Adrian MitchellChapter - 5: The Song of the Banana Man - Evan JonesChapter - 6: Buckingham Palace - A. A. MilneChapter - 7: The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Edward LearChapter - 8: Impromptu on Charles II - John Wilmot, Earl of RochesterChapter - 9: What the teacher said when asked: What er we avin for geography, Miss? - John AgardChapter - 10: For my Niece - Kate TempestChapter - 11: from Doctor Faustus - Christopher MarloweChapter - 12: On a Lane in Spring - John ClareChapter - 13: The Lanyard - Billy CollinsChapter - 14: Rondeau - Leigh HuntChapter - 15: from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. EliotChapter - 16: Instructions - Neil GaimanChapter - 17: A Handsome Young Fellow Called Frears - Michael PalinChapter - 18: Matilda: Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death - Hilaire BellocChapter - 19: Oranges and Lemons - Anon.Chapter - 20: The Mouse's Tale - Lewis CarrollChapter - 21: Friends - Polly ClarkChapter - 22: Today Is Very Boring - Jack PrelutskyChapter - 23: A Tragic Story - William Makepeace ThackerayChapter - 24: Buddha - Tony MittonChapter - 25: from The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar WildeChapter - 26: Full Moon - Vita Sackville-WestChapter - 27: God's Grandeur - Gerard Manley HopkinsChapter - 28: I Am - John ClareChapter - 29: from Everest Climbed - Ian SerraillierChapter - 30: Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya AngelouChapter - 31: The Man He Killed - Thomas HardyUnit - 6: JuneChapter - 1: from Greensleeves - Anon.Chapter - 2: Bee! I'm Expecting You! - Emily DickinsonChapter - 3: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - George Gordon, Lord ByronChapter - 4: Coming - Charlotte Perkins GilmanChapter - 5: Balloons - Sylvia PlathChapter - 6: Song of the Dying Gunner AA1 - Charles CausleyChapter - 7: The Throstle - Alfred, Lord TennysonChapter - 8: A London Plane-Tree - Amy LevyChapter - 9: I Lost a World - the Other Day! - Emily DickinsonChapter - 10: My Shadow Robert - Louis StevensonChapter - 11: The End - A. A. MilneChapter - 12: On Turning Ten - Billy CollinsChapter - 13: The Pleasures of Friendship - Stevie SmithChapter - 14: The Battle of Naseby - Thomas Babington MacaulayChapter - 15: from Prayer Before Birth - Louis MacNeiceChapter - 16: Ecce Puer - James JoyceChapter - 17: The Way Things Are - Roger McGoughChapter - 18: from The Field of Waterloo - Sir Walter ScottChapter - 19: Father's Hands - Paul CooksonChapter - 20: Refugees - Brian BilstonChapter - 21: from A Midsummer Night's Dream - William ShakespeareChapter - 22: Recessional - Rudyard KiplingChapter - 23: The Land of the Bumbley Boo - Spike MilliganChapter - 24: The Fiddler of Dooney - W. B. YeatsChapter - 25: My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear - Charles CausleyChapter - 26: The Naming Of Cats - T. S. EliotChapter - 27: The Land of Blue - Laura MuchaChapter - 28: A Bird Came Down the Walk - Emily DickinsonChapter - 29: Originally - Carol Ann DuffyChapter - 30: Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Unit - 7: JulyChapter - 1: Remembered More for His Beard Now - Philip ArdaghChapter - 2: Amelia Earhart - Mandy CoeChapter - 3: Solitude - Ella Wheeler WilcoxChapter - 4: For You O Democracy - Walt WhitmanChapter - 5: The Tables Turned - William WordsworthChapter - 6: Rain in Summer - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChapter - 7: Checking Out Me History - John AgardChapter - 8: Miracles - Walt WhitmanChapter - 9: Travel - Edna St Vincent MillayChapter - 10: The Magic of the Mind - Clive WebsterChapter - 11: The Duel - Eugene FieldChapter - 12: Jerusalem (from Milton) - William BlakeChapter - 13: The Argument of His Book - Robert HerrickChapter - 14: La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John KeatsChapter - 15: Seven Times One: Exultation - Jean IngelowChapter - 16: Particle Poems: 3 - Edwin MorganChapter - 17: The School Boy - William BlakeChapter - 18: To You - Langston HughesChapter - 19: Harlem Hopscotch - Maya AngelouChapter - 20: Morning Song - Sara TeasdaleChapter - 21: Little White Lily - George MacDonaldChapter - 22: The Law of the Jungle - Rudyard KiplingChapter - 23: The Mermaid - Alfred, Lord TennysonChapter - 24: The Merman - Alfred, Lord TennysonChapter - 25: Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan PoeChapter - 26: Watching My Dog Sleep - Kate TempestChapter - 27: from Psalm 137Chapter - 28: `next to of course god america i' - E. E. CummingsChapter - 29: The Dug-Out - Siegfried SassoonChapter - 30: Heat - H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)Chapter - 31: A Flea and a Fly - Ogden NashUnit - 8: AugustChapter - 1: Casabianca - Felicia HemansChapter - 2: Casabianca (A Parody) - Spike MilliganChapter - 3: On the Grasshopper and Cricket - John KeatsChapter - 4: Minnie and Winnie - Alfred, Lord TennysonChapter - 5: Meg Merrilies - John KeatsChapter - 6: The Horses - Edwin MuirChapter - 7: The Meadow Mouse - Theodore RoethkeChapter - 8: from A Song About Myself - John KeatsChapter - 9: The Fairy School under the Loch - John RiceChapter - 10: I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child - Robert GravesChapter - 11: Verses written to the Queen of England - Mary, Queen of ScotsChapter - 12: Manly Sports - Marion Bernstein Chapter - 13: Shakespeare at School - Wendy CopeChapter - 14: from Macbeth - William ShakespeareChapter - 15: from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChapter - 16: Musee des Beaux Arts - W. H. AudenChapter - 17: My Last Duchess - Robert BrowningChapter - 18: Don't Let That Horse - Lawrence FerlinghettiChapter - 19: And Death Shall Have No Dominion - Dylan ThomasChapter - 20: How Many Seconds in a Minute? - Christina RossettiChapter - 21: Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth - Arthur Hugh CloughChapter - 22: Who Would True Valour See - John BunyanChapter - 23: The Rainy Day - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChapter - 24: So, We'll Go No More a-Roving - George Gordon, Lord ByronChapter - 25: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls (from The Princess) - Alfred, Lord TennysonChapter - 26: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun - William ShakespeareChapter - 27: Trees - Mark HaddonChapter - 28: from The Task - William CowperChapter - 29: No More Auction Block - Anon.Chapter - 30: Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan Chapter - 30: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea - Christina RossettiUnit - 9: SeptemberChapter - 1: Bomber's Moon - Mike HardingChapter - 2: But I Can't - W. H. AudenChapter - 3: This is the House That Jack Built - Anon.Chapter - 4: Hornbeacon High - Sarah CrossanChapter - 5: Please Mrs Butler - Allan AhlbergChapter - 6: Reading the Classics - Brian PattenChapter - 7: The Lesson - Edward Lucie-SmithChapter - 8: An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse - Wendy CopeChapter - 9: Take a Poem - James CarterChapter - 10: Pleasant Sounds - John ClareChapter - 11: The Right Word - Imtiaz DharkerChapter - 12: The Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos WilliamsChapter - 13: Plums - Gillian ClarkeChapter - 14: from Annus Mirabilis - John DrydenChapter - 15: The Mummy - Edwin MorganChapter - 16: Old Ironsides - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Chapter - 17: Harriet Tubman - Eloise GreenfieldChapter - 18: Joy - Hugo WilliamsChapter - 19: Prologue - Patience AgbabiChapter - 20: Ars Poetica - Archibald MacLeish Chapter - 21: Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries - Walt WhitmanChapter - 22: An Old Woman of the Roads - Padraic ColumChapter - 23: Digging - Edward ThomasChapter - 24: Autumn Fires - Robert Louis StevensonChapter - 25: Something Told the Wild Geese - Rachel FieldChapter - 26: Wild Geese - Mary OliverChapter - 27: The Railway Children - Seamus HeaneyChapter - 28: Barrier - Rachel RooneyChapter - 29: Autumn Rain - D. H. LawrenceChapter - 30: Thirty Days Hath September - Anon.Chapter - 10: OctoberChapter - 1: The Road Not Taken - Robert FrostChapter - 2: Moonlit Apples - John DrinkwaterChapter - 3: Crab-Apples - Imtiaz DharkerChapter - 4: Santa Filomena - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChapter - 5: Autumn - T. E. HulmeChapter - 6: from The Tyndale BibleChapter - 7: from 1777 - Amy LowellChapter - 8: Thumbprint - Eve MerriamChapter - 9: Malala - Michaela MorganChapter - 10: Give - Simon Armitage Chapter - 11: Drummer Hodge - Thomas HardyChapter - 12: Lament of an Arawak Child - Pamela MordecaiChapter - 13: The Wild Swans at Coole - W. B. YeatsChapter - 14: William the Conqueror, 1066 - Anon.Chapter - 15: At Senlac Hill, 15 October 1066 - David HarmerChapter - 16: Not Only - Brian PattenChapter - 17: The Secret Song - Margaret Wise BrownChapter - 18: from Who Do You Think You Are? - Carl SandburgChapter - 19: Digging - Seamus HeaneyChapter - 20: Diary of a Church Mouse - John BetjemanChapter - 21: The Night at Trafalgar - Thomas HardyChapter - 22: The Village Blacksmith - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChapter - 23: A Country Boy Goes to School - George Mackay BrownChapter - 24: Owl Poem - John HegleyChapter - 25: from Henry V - William ShakespeareChapter - 26: Love After Love - Derek WalcottChapter - 27: Paper Boats - Rabindranath TagoreChapter - 28: Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow? - Anon.Chapter - 29: Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina RossettiChapter - 30: In the Dark, Dark Wood - Anon.Chapter - 31: from Hallowe'en - John Kendrick BangsUnit - 11: NovemberChapter - 1: from The Devil's Thoughts - Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChapter - 2: Television - Roald DahlChapter - 3: The First Men on Mercury - Edwin MorganChapter - 4: The Last Laugh - Wilfred OwenChapter - 5: Please to Remember - Walter de la MareChapter - 6: November Night - Adelaide CrapseyChapter - 7: The Dead - Rupert BrookeChapter - 8: The Leader - Roger McGoughChapter - 9: Here Dead We Lie - A. E. HousmanChapter - 10: The African Lion - A. E. HousmanChapter - 11: In Flanders Fields - John McCraeChapter - 12: Dreamers - Siegfried SassoonChapter - 13: An Irish Airman Foresees his Death - W. B. YeatsChapter - 14: My First Day at School - Michaela MorganChapter - 15: Sympathy - Paul Laurence DunbarChapter - 16: from Epitaphs of the War - Rudyard KiplingChapter - 17: Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock - Elizabeth IChapter - 18: Tell as a Marksman - were forgotten - Emily DickinsonChapter - 19: Abraham Lincoln - Abraham LincolnChapter - 20: from The Prophet - Kahlil GibranChapter - 21: In Memoriam - E. A. MackintoshChapter - 22: Disabled - Wilfred OwenChapter - 23: Signs of the Times - Paul Laurence DunbarChapter - 24: Prayer for Earth - Myra Cohn Livingston Chapter - 25: Benediction - James BerryChapter - 26: Immigrant - Fleur AdcockChapter - 27: Nuns Fret Not at their Convent's Narrow Room - William WordsworthChapter - 28: Sonnet 116 - William ShakespeareChapter - 29: Sports Report - Gareth OwenChapter - 30: Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone - Robert Louis StevensonUnit - 12: DecemberChapter - 1: Rosa Parks - 1st December 1955 - Joseph CoelhoChapter - 2: Napoleon - Miroslav HolubChapter - 3: The Raven - Edgar Allan PoeChapter - 4: The Witch - Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeChapter - 5: Mary Celeste - Judith NichollsChapter - 6: On Raglan Road - Patrick KavanaghChapter - 7: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - Randall JarrellChapter - 8: Embarkation, 1942 - John JarmainChapter - 9: Some Questions You Might Ask - Mary OliverChapter - 10: Refugee Blues - W. H. AudenChapter - 11: Don't Quit - John Greenleaf WhittierChapter - 12: The Bells - Edgar Allan PoeChapter - 13: The Oxen - Thomas HardyChapter - 14: Antarctica - Derek MahonChapter - 15: little tree - E. E. CummingsChapter - 16: Forecasts - Jean KenwardChapter - 17: Christmas is Coming - Anon.Chapter - 18: The Computer's First Christmas Card - Edwin MorganChapter - 19: O Little Town of Bethlehem - Phillips BrooksChapter - 20: Winter-Time - Robert Louis StevensonChapter - 21: Puzzle - Philip WaddellChapter - 22: The Year's Midnight - Gillian ClarkeChapter - 23: Just Doing My Job - Clare BevanChapter - 24: Saturday Night at the Bethlehem Arms - Gareth OwenChapter - 25: I Saw a Stable - Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeChapter - 26: Reindeer Report - U. A. FanthorpeChapter - 27: Dear True Love - U. A. FanthorpeChapter - 28: from Paradise Lost - John MiltonChapter - 29: The Year - Ella Wheeler WilcoxChapter - 30: from The Tempest - William ShakespeareChapter - 31: Ring Out, Wild Bells (from In Memoriam) - Alfred, Lord TennysonIndex - ii: Index of First LinesIndex - iii: Index of Poets and Translators Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements