A children's book of verse

The lonely scarecrow / James Kirkup

The eagle / Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mr Nobody / Anonymous

The highwayman / Alfred Noyes

On the Ning Nang Nong / Spike Milligan

Jack Frost / Cecily Pike

Mrs Moon / Roger McGough

If you should meet a crocodile / Anonymous

Way down south where bananas grow / Anonymous

Up in a basket / Anonymous

The hippopotamus / Jack Prelutsky

The duck / Ogden Nash

The mermaid/The merman / Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sir Nicketty Nox / Hugh Chesterman

The balloon man / Rose Fyleman

The three kings / Henry W. Longfellow

Romance / Gabriel Setoun

Washing / John Drinkwater

The witch / Percy H. Ilott

The big rock candy mountains / Anonymous

Sea-fever / John Masefield

Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti

The serpent / Theodore Roethke

He was a rat / Anonymous

The lobster quadrille / Lewis Carroll

The dustman / Anonymous

The table and the chair / Edward Lear

Fairies / Rose Fyleman

Father William / Lewis Carroll

Cat! / Eleanor Farjeon

The frog and the bird / Vera Hessey

Winter the huntsman / Osbert Sitwell

The traveller / Raymond Wilson

Nothing / Julie Holder

The hag / Robert Herrick

The skippery boo / Earl L. Newton

The moon / Robert L. Stevenson

The witches' call / Clive Sansom

Past, present, future / Emily Brontë

Where lies the land? / A.H. Clough

The fairies / William Allingham

The butterfly's ball / William Roscoe

Meg Merrilees / John Keats

My shadow / Robert L. Stevenson

Johnny Crow's garden / L. Leslie Brooke

Silver / Walter de la Mare

The wind /

Robert L. Stevenson

The fly-away horse / Eugene Field

Bedtime / Thomas Hood

My heart's in the highlands / Robert Burns

Little Trotty Wagtail / John Clare

Calico pie / Edward Lear.

Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott

The tiger / William Blake

The night will never stay / Eleanor Farjeon

From a railway carriage / Robert L. Stevenson

My dog spot / Rodney Bennett

I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth

The owl / Alfred Lord Tennyson

The wind / John Lea

The cowboy's lament / Anonymous

Two witches / Alexander Resnikoff

The song of Mr. Toad / Kenneth Grahame

Someone / Walter de la Mare

Fairy story / Stevie Smith

If pigs could fly / James Reeves

Windy nights / Robert L. Stevenson

The signifying monkey / Anonymous

In the orchard / James Stephens

The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll

The sugar-plum tree / Eugene Field

Frutta di mare / Geoffrey Scott

Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe

My mother said / Anonymous

My dog Tray / Thomas Campbell

Hallowe'en / Leonard Clark

The dark house / Anonymous

Jack Frost / Gabriel Setoun

The rainbow fairies / Anonymous

The little things that happen / Marjorie Wilson

A night with a wolf / Bayard Taylor

A kitten / Eleanor Farjeon

The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear

The white sea-gull / Mary Howitt

The robin / Thomas Hardy

It was long ago / Eleanor Farjeon

Answer to a child's question / Samuel T. Coleridge

The sound of the wind / Christina Rossetti

The pobble who has no toes / Edward Lear

The little wee man / Ian Serraillier

A fairy went a-marketing / Rose Fyleman

The rock-a-by lady / Eugene Field

The north wind doth blow / Anonymous

The Eskimo baby / Lucy Diamond

The kayak / Anonymous

The kitten in the falling snow / James Kirkup

Travel / Robert L. Stevenson

Three jolly huntsmen / Anonymous

The pig's tail / Norman Ault

Ducks' ditty / Kenneth Grahame

The squirrel / Ian Serraillier

A smugglers' song / Rudyard Kipling

Sweet and low / Alfred Lord Tennyson.