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Previous Poems (alphabetical order by author)

Anonymous - I give you this one thought to keep - in loving memory of my mother

Anonymous - Titanic - a folk song often sung by scouts and guides

A R Ammons - Eyesight

William Blake - The Tiger

William Cullen Bryant - June

Robert Burns - Halloween

G K Chesterton - The Donkey

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part one)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part two)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part three)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part four)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part five)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part six)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (part seven)

Adapted from a poem by Sarah Coleridge - The Months

T. S. Elliot - The Song of the Jellicles

T S Eliot - The Waste Land (an extract)

Robert Frost - Asking for Roses

Felicia Hemans - Casabianca (aka The Boy Stood on the burning deck)

Helen Hunt Jackson - September

John Keats - To Autumn

Rudyard Kipling - Tommy

Philip Larkin - The School in August

Major Henry Livingston Jr. (1748-1828) - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' or 'Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas'

Amy Lowell - Late September

Edgar Allan Poe - A Dream Within A Dream

John Godfrey Saxe - The Blind Men and the Elephant

William Shakespeare - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Dame Edith Sitwell - By the Lake

Walt Whitman – From Song of Myself

Ella Wheeler Wilcox  - Love and the Seasons

William Wordsworth - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

William Butler Yeats - The Fiddler of Doone