Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Animals Poem - 1: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear Poem - 2: The Kitten at Play - William Wordsworth Poem - 3: The Cat and the Moon - W. B. Yeats Poem - 4: Maggie - Anon. Poem - 5: The Duel - Eugene Field Poem - 6: Old Mother Hubbard - Anon Poem - 7: An Alphabet of Questions - Charles Edward Carryl Poem - 8: Measles in the Ark - Susan Coolidge Poem - 9: Old Noah’s Ark - Anon Poem - 10: There Was an Old Lady - Anon Poem - 11: The Lion and the Unicorn - Anon Poem - 12: The Law of the Jungle - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 13: The Tyger - William Blake Poem - 14: On the Grasshopper and Cricket - John Keats Poem - 15: Way Down South - Anon Poem - 16: The Spider and the Fly - Mary Botham Howitt Poem - 17: Against Idleness and Mischief - Isaac Watts Poem - 18: How Doth the Little Crocodile - Lewis Carroll Poem - 19: Hey Diddle Diddle - Anon Poem - 20: Three Blind Mice - Anon Poem - 21: Hickory, Dickory, Dock - Anon Poem - 22: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep - Anon Poem - 23: Mary Had a Little Lamb - Sarah Josepha Hale Poem - 24: The Mouse, the Frog and the Little Red Hen - Anon Poem - 25: A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go - Anon Poem - 26: Five Little Speckled Frogs - Anon Poem - 27: A Song of Toad - Kenneth Grahame Poem - 28: The Shark - Lord Alfred Douglas Poem - 29: The Lobster Quadrille - Lewis Carroll Poem - 30: The Donkey - Anon Poem - 31: The Plaint of the Camel - Charles Edward Carryl Unit - 2: Counting Poem - 1: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Anon Poem - 2: One Potato - Anon Poem - 3: Thirty Days Hath September - Anon Poem - 4: Three Little Ghostesses - Anon Poem - 5: One, Two, Three, Four, Five - Anon Unit - 3: Nature Poem - 1: The Months - Sara Coleridge Poem - 2: Child’s Song in Spring - Edith Nesbit Poem - 3: Seven Times One: Exultation - Jean Ingelow Poem - 4: I Saw - Anon Poem - 5: Daffodils - William Wordsworth Poem - 6: Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde Poem - 7: What is Pink? - Christina Rossetti Poem - 8: I Asked the Little Boy Who Cannot See - Anon Poem - 9: Lavender’s Blue - Anon Poem - 10: Little Robin Redbreast - Anon Poem - 11: She Sells Seashells - Anon Poem - 12: I Had a Little Nut Tree - Anon Poem - 13: The Mulberry Bush - Anon Poem - 14: Banyan Tree - Anon Unit - 4: People Poem - 1: Pat- a- cake - Anon Poem - 2: Little Miss Muffet - Anon Poem - 3: Peter Piper - Anon Poem - 4: Simple Simon - Anon Poem - 5: Little Jack Horner - Anon Poem - 6: Little Boy Blue - Anon Poem - 7: Each Peach Pear Plum - Anon Poem - 8: Do You Know the Muffin Man? - Anon Poem - 9: Doctor Foster - Anon Poem - 10: Betty Botter - Anon Poem - 11: Jack and Jill - Anon Poem - 12: Polly and Sukey - Anon Poem - 13: Rosy Apple - Anon Poem - 14: Monday’s Child - Anon Poem - 15: Daisy - Anon Poem - 16: Old King Cole - Anon Poem - 17: Humpty Dumpty - Anon Poem - 18: Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me? - Anon Poem - 19: Bobby Shaftoe - Anon Poem - 20: There Was a Princess Long Ago - Anon Poem - 21: Brown Girl in the Ring - Anon Poem - 22: Waltzing Matilda - Banjo Paterson Poem - 23: The School Boy - William Blake Poem - 24: from The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning Poem - 25: La Belle Dame sans Merci - John Keats Poem - 26: Lochinvar - Sir Walter Scott Unit - 5: Nonsense Poem - 1: Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll Poem - 2: Tweedle- dum and Tweedle- dee - Anon Poem - 3: Beautiful Soup - Lewis Carroll Poem - 4: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat - Lewis Carroll Poem - 5: You Are Old, Father William - Lewis Carroll Poem - 6: The Mad Gardener’s Song - Lewis Carroll Poem - 7: The Sugar-Plum Tree - Eugene Field Poem - 8: Wynken, Blynken and Nod - Eugene Field Poem - 9: There Was an Old Man with a Beard - Edward Lear Poem - 10: The Man in the Wilderness - Anon Poem - 11: The Jumblies - Edward Lear Poem - 12: The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll Poem - 13: The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Edward Lear Unit - 6: Places Poem - 1: I Remember, I Remember - Thomas Hood Poem - 2: From a Railway Carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 3: The Big Ship Sails on the Alley, Alley O - Anon Poem - 4: A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea - Anon Poem - 5: Pop Goes the Weasel! - Anon Poem - 6: The Bells of London - Anon Poem - 7: London Bridge Is Falling Down - Anon Unit - 7: Fairies, Mermaids and Witches Poem - 1: Fire, Burn; and Cauldron, Bubble - William Shakespeare Poem - 2: Overheard on a Saltmarsh - Harold Monro Poem - 3: The Mermaid - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 4: The Merman - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 5: The Forsaken Merman - Matthew Arnold Unit - 9: Night Poem - 1: Star Light, Star Bright - Anon Poem - 2: Bed-time - Anon Poem - 3: Hush, Little Baby - Anon Poem - 4: Sweet and Low ( from The Princess) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 5: The Star - Jane Taylor Poem - 6: A Cradle Song - Thomas Dekker Poem - 7: A Cradle Song - Thomas Dekker Poem - 8: My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 9: Escape at Bedtime - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 10: The Land of Story Books - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 11: I Had a Boat - Mary Coleridge Poem - 12: Windy Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 13: The Land of Counterpane - Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 14: Minnie and Winnie - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 15: Teddy Bear - Anon Poem - 16: I See the Moon - Anon Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines