Year Four Poetry Challenge! Thanks to Reach Academy Feltham for producing this challenge. Contents Ozymandias | Leisure | From a Railway Carriage | We Refugees | Sonnet 116 | Life Doesn’t Frighten Me | Stop all the Clocks | The Rainy Day | The Naming of Cats | Question Time | Dad Fell into the…
Michael Rosen’s Poems about Kids Use the menu icon top left to choose a poem. Michael Rosen’s Poems and Stories for Kids’ Part 1 Michael Rosen’s Poems and Stories for Kids’ Part 2 Michael’s Book “The Hypnotiser” is out of print and is not being reprinted. This is a great way to experience the poems…
My age is three hundred and seventy-two, And I think, with the deepest regret, How I used to pick up and voraciously chew The dear little boys whom I met. I’ve eaten them raw, in their holiday suits; I’ve eaten them curried with rice; I’ve eaten them baked, in their jackets and boots, And found…
Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant. No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. (Dear me! I am not certain quite That even now I’ve got it right.) Howe’er it was, he got his trunk Entangled in the telephunk. The more he tried to get it…
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, “‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” “Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is…
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe— Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. ‘Where are you going, and what do you wish?’ The old moon asked the three. ‘We have come to fish for the herring-fish That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of…
https://youtu.be/TPns1gOdBZ0 January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow. February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil. April brings the primrose sweet, Scatters daisies at our feet. May brings flocks of pretty lambs, Skipping by their fleecy dams. June brings tulips, lilies,…
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out Through the blinds and the windows and bars; And high overhead and all moving about, There were thousands of millions of stars. There ne’er were such thousands of leaves on a tree, Nor of people in church or the Park, As the crowds of the stars…
What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain’s brink. What is red? A poppy’s red In its barley bed. What is blue? The sky is blue Where the clouds float through. What is white? A swan is white Sailing in the light. What is yellow? Pears are yellow, Rich and ripe and mellow.…