Celebrity
A E HOUSEMAN: A Shropshire Lad
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
W H AUDEN: Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
W H AUDEN: Musee des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong
JOHN BETJEMAN: Christmas
The bells of waiting Advent ring
JOHN BETJEMAN: Slough
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
JOHN BETJEMAN: Summoned by Bells
Walking from school is a consummate art
ROBERT BURNS: A Man's a Man for a' that
Is there for honesty poverty
ROBERT BURNS: Address to a Haggis
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face
ROBERT BURNS: Auld Lang Syne
And for auld lang syne, my jo
ROBERT BURNS: Tam o' Shanter
When chapman billies leave the street
ROBERT BURNS: To A Mouse
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie
G K CHESTERTON: Lepanto
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun
DAN PAGIS: Scrawled in Pencil in a Sealed Railway Car
here in this transport
DYLAN THOMAS: Do not go gentle into that good night
Do not go gentle into that good night
DYLAN THOMAS: from Under Milk Wood
It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black
T S ELIOT: Journey of the Magi
A cold coming we had of it
ELIZABETH BISHOP: One Art
The art of losing isn’t hard to master
EMMA LAZARUS: The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
GOETHE: The last stanza of Faust
Alles Vergängliche / Ist nur ein Gleichnis
Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW: A Psalm of Life
Tell me not, in mournful numbers
JAMES JOYCE: The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty
JOHN KEATS: Bright star!
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
LEWIS CARROLL: Jabberwocky
’Twas brillig and the slithy toves
LYTE: Abide With Me
Abide with me: fast falls the eventide
PHILIP LARKIN: An Arundel Tomb
Side by side, their faces blurred
PHILIP LARKIN: Church Going
Once I am sure there's nothing going on
PHILIP LARKIN: Dockery and Son
Dockery was junior to you
PHILIP LARKIN: Going Going
I thought it would last my time
PHILIP LARKIN: The Whitsun Weddings
That Whitsun, I was late getting away
PHILIP LARKIN: This be the Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad
PHILIP LARKIN: Toads
Why should I let the toad work / Squat on my life?
REBECCA ELSON: We Astronomers
We astronomers are nomads
ROBERT BROWNING: Home Thoughts from Abroad
O, to be in England / Now that April's there
ROBERT W SERVICE: Maternity
There once was a Square, such a square little Square
ROGER McGOUGH: Goodbat Nightman
God bless all policemen
RUDYARD KIPLING: Gunga Din
You may talk o' gin and beer
RUDYARD KIPLING: If-
If you can keep your head when all about you
RUDYARD KIPLING: L'Envoi
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried
RUDYARD KIPLING: Mandalay
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea
RUDYARD KIPLING: Recessional
God of our fathers, known of old
RUDYARD KIPLING: The Children's Song
Land of our birth, we pledge to thee
RUDYARD KIPLING: The Female of the Species
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride
RUDYARD KIPLING: The Ladies
I've taken my fun where I've found it
RUDYARD KIPLING: The Road Through The Woods
They shut the road through the woods
RUDYARD KIPLING: Tommy
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o'beer
RUPERT BROOKE: The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me
SCHILLER: Ode to Joy
Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning
SHAKESPEARE: Dirge from Cymbeline
Fear no more the heat of the sun
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet 29
When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet 33
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet 55
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
SHAKESPEARE: Venus and Adonis
EVEN as the sun with purple-colour'd face
SHELLEY: Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
SHELLEY: To a Skylark
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
SPIKE MILLIGAN: The ABC
’Twas midnight in the schoolroom
SPIKE MILLIGAN: The Soldiers at Lauro
Young are our dead
SYLVIA PLATH: Ariel
Stasis in darkness
T S ELIOT: Ash Wednesday
Because I do not hope to turn again
T S ELIOT: Four Quartets
Time present and time past
T S ELIOT: Macavity
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw
T S ELIOT: The Hippopotamus
The broad-backed hippopotamus / Rests on his belly in the mud
T S ELIOT: The Hollow Men
We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men
T S ELIOT: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Let us go then, you and I
T S ELIOT: The Waste Land
April is the cruellest month, breeding
THOMAS GRAY: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
TONY HARRISON: Long Distance II
Though my mother was already two years dead
TONY HARRISON: v
Next millennium you'll have to search quite hard
W B YEATS: Among School Children
I walk through the long schoolroom questioning
W B YEATS: Byzantium
The unpurged images of day recede
W B YEATS: I made my song a coat
I made my song a coat / covered with embroideries
W B YEATS: The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
W B YEATS: Sailing to Byzantium
That is no country for old men. The young
W B YEATS: The Cap and Bells
The jester walked in the garden
W B YEATS: The Cat and the Moon
The cat went here and there
WENDY COPE: A Nursery Rhyme
Because time will not run backwards
WENDY COPE: Emily Dickinson
Higgledy-piggledy / Emily Dickinson
WENDY COPE: Engineers' Corner
We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints
WENDY COPE: From Strugnell's Rubaiyat
Awake! for Morning on the Pitch of Night
WENDY COPE: From Strugnell's Sonnets
The expense of spirits is a crying shame
WENDY COPE: Reading Scheme
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.
WENDY COPE: Strugnell's Haiku
The cherry blossom / in my neighbors garden - Oh!
WENDY COPE: Triolet
I used to think all poets were Byronic
WENDY COPE: Unrhymed Verse
People tell you all the time / Poems do not have to rhyme
WENDY COPE: Waste Land Limericks
In April one seldom feels cheerful
WILFRED OWEN: Anthem for Doomed Youth
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
WILLIAM BLAKE: The Clod and the Pebble
Love seeketh not itself to please
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY: Invictus
Out of the night that covers me
WILLIAM McGONAGALL: The Tay Bridge Disaster
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!


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