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The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children

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A lofty ship from Salcombe came 234

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) 277

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain 320

Ah! what pleasant visions haunt me 222

“All honour to him who shall win the prize” 256

Angels, thy old friends, there shall greet thee 302

At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears 300

Ay, Oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven 292

Come, dear children, let us away 265

Full fathom five thy father lies 230

Genseric, King of the Vandals, who, having laid waste seven lands 316

“Hadst thou stayed, I must have fled” 272

Hail to thee, blithe spirit 213

Here’s the tender coming 230

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest 252

I am fever’d with the sunset 227

I come from haunts of coot and hern 222

I’d like now, yet had haply been afraid 303

If there were dreams to sell 283

In his cool hall, with haggard eyes 315

In the pleasant orchard closes 284

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 318

It was roses, roses, all the way 254

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord 247

Nobly, nobly Cape St Vincent to the North-west died away 220

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note 250

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that’s rich and high 231

O for the voice of that wild horn 249

O Mary, go and call the cattle home 278

O, my love is like a red, red rose 313

O my true love’s a smuggler and sails upon the sea 236

O, to be in England 219

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being 229

O young Lochinvar is come out of the West 279

Often I think of the beautiful town 226

On either side the river lie 258

Over meadows purple-flowered 305

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair 218

Ring out wild bells to the wild sky 321

Say not the struggle nought availeth 257

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness 227

Simon Danz has come home again 224

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er 253

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind 248

Tell me where is Fancy bred 301

The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! 243

The splendour falls on castle walls 314

There was a sound of revelry by night 239

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream 224

Thunder of riotous hoofs over the quaking sod 237

’Twas in the good ship Rover 228

Waken, lords and ladies gay 304

Ye have been fresh and green 221

Ye Mariners of England 221

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