The Paintbox Spell of Creation The Beautiful Morning Song New Child The Twins Contents E V Rieu Kathleen Raine W H Davies Sylvia Plath George Mackay Brown Henry S Leigh maggie and milly and molly and may E E Cummings Bed in Summer The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson A Boy’s Song A Spell for Sleeping Annabel Lee Dorothy Dances The Stolen Child The Wild Trees Tartary Cats Furry Bear The Man in the Wilderness James Hogg Alastair Reid Edgar Allan Poe Louis Untermeyer W B Yeats Laurie Lee Walter de la Mare Eleanor Farjeon A A Milne Anon 1 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 23 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 39 40
The Answers The Jabberwocky The Wild Swans at Coole The Tale of Custard the Dragon The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Something told the wild geese The Fish The Flower-Fed Buffaloes Oliphaunt Pegasus The Birds The Donkey Lobster Quadrille Lone Dog The Panther Amulet The Tyger Windy Nights Moonlit Apples Robert Clairmont Lewis Carroll W B Yeats Ogden Nash Edward Lear Rachel Field Marianne Moore Vachel Lindsay J R R Tolkien Eleanor Farjeon Samuel Taylor Coleridge G K Chesterton Lewis Carroll Irene McCleod Rainer Maria Rilke Ted Hughes William Blake Robert Louis Stevenson John Drinkwater 41 42 46 48 52 55 56 58 59 60 62 63 64 66 67 68 70 72 73
Daffodils Song of Myself Fern Hill Until I Saw the Sea The Night Mail Cargoes Recuerdo She Walks in Beauty William Wordsworth Walt Whitman Dylan Thomas Lilian Moore W H Auden John Masefield Edna St Vincent Millay George Gordon Lord Byron He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W B Yeats How Do I Love Thee Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 18 A Birthday This Is Just To Say William Shakespeare Christina Rossetti William Carlos Williams The War Song of Dinas Vawr Thomas Love Peacock Break of Day in the Trenches The General Death Be Not Proud On His Blindness High Flight Isaac Rosenberg Siegfried Sassoon John Donne John Milton John Gillespie Magee Jr 74 76 77 80 82 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 94 95 96 97 98
So We’ll Go No More A-Roving George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh Hunt Stevie Smith Amy Lowell John Donne W H Auden Ralph Waldo Emerson William Wordsworth Wallace Stevens Robert Frost Andrew Marvell Rudyard Kipling Alfred Noyes William Shakespeare Alfred Lord Tennyson Jenny Kiss’d Me Pad Pad Burnt Offering Meditation XVII Song Music My Heart Leaps Up The Man with the Blue Guitar The Road Not Taken The Garden If The Highwayman All the World’s a Stage The Poet’s Song Indices and Acknowledgements Front endpaper A Book Emily Dickinson Back endpaper Dreams Langston Hughes 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 110 111 112 114 120 122 124
