Classic poems to read aloud / selected by James Berry ; with line drawings by James Mayhew.

Poets included: John Agard
William Allingham
W.H. Auden
Raymond Barrow
Hilaire Belloc
Ralph Bergengren
James Berry
Laurence Binyon
William Blake
Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Joseph Payne Brennan
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Lord George Byron
Hugh Doston Carberry
Lewis Carroll
Charles Causley
G.K. Chesterton
Chief Plenty Coups
Leonard Clark
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Padraic Colum
William Cowper
Dennis Craig
W.H. Davies
Walter De La Mare
Emily Dickinson
Tove Ditlevsen
John Dryden
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Marriott Edgar
T.S. Eliot
Carol Freeman
Robert Frost
Zulfikar Ghose
Oliver Goldsmith
Thomas Hardy
Seamus Heaney
John Heath-Stubbs
Felicia Hemans
Adrian Henri
Homer
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A.E. Housman
Langston Hughes
Ted Hughes
Randall Jarrell
Elizabeth Jennings
Ebenezer Jones
Evan Jones
John Keats
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rudyard Kipling
Philip Karkin
D.H. Lawrence
Edward Lear
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
George MacBeth
Norman MacCaig
Ian McDonald
Roger McGough
Claude McKay
Una Marson
John Masefield
A.A. Milne
John Milton
Adrian Mitchell
Clement Clarke Moore
Lilian
Marianne Moore
Mervyn Morris
Daisy Myrie
Ogden Nash
Pablo Neruda
Grace Nichols
Brian Patten
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexander Pope
Jack Prelutsky
James Reeves
Michael Rosen
Christina Rossetti
Carl Sandburg
Siegfried Sassoon
Sir Walter Scott
R.C. Scriven
Anne Sexton
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shel Silverstein
Sitting Bull
Sir John Squire
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rabindranath Tagore
Lord Alfred Tennyson
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dylan Thomas
R.S. Thomas
Melvin B. Tolson
Derek Walcott
Walt Whitman
Wiolliam Wordsworth
Judith Wright
Kit Wright
W.B. Yeats.