POEMS FOR THE MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOL
This Index - painstakingly compiled by Peter Morris - has turned out to be a great help for colleagues looking for a poem or a passage to recite with a particular age group/class.
POEMS FOR THE MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOL
Index of First Lines & Titles
Suggested Class Levels
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Class 4 |
page |
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A Boy's Song |
10 |
|
A scarecrow stood in a field |
11 |
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After Christmas it's time |
7 |
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All along the backwater |
36 |
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And it came to pass |
114 |
|
As Wet As a Fish |
35 |
|
Blackberries |
11 |
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Buttercups and Daisies |
32 |
|
By the moon we sport |
43 |
|
Check |
6 |
|
Chickens |
36 |
|
Children born of fairy stock |
43 |
|
Choosing Their Names |
36 |
|
Clowns |
53 |
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Come quickly, come quickly |
36 |
|
Come Unto These Yellow Sands |
115 |
|
Come watch the chuckling chickens |
36 |
|
Cuckoo |
36 |
|
Cuckoo Song |
8 |
|
Ducks' Ditty |
36 |
|
Fishes |
36 |
|
Freckled fishes, flirting, flitting |
36 |
|
General Store |
66 |
|
Grasshopper Green |
35 |
|
Hie Away |
10 |
|
How do you like to go |
52 |
|
How Far Is It to Bethlehem |
20 |
|
How Many Seconds |
5 |
|
I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child |
43 |
|
I have a little shadow |
52 |
|
I Sing of a Maiden |
20 |
|
I will lift up mine eyes |
113 |
|
In the beginning God created |
113 |
|
In the beginning was the Word |
113 |
|
It's funny how beetles |
71 |
|
It's funny, my puppy |
36 |
|
Jangling our jam-jars |
11 |
|
Last night the carol-singers came |
20 |
|
Little children skip |
71 |
|
Low on his fours the lion |
35 |
|
March has searched |
8 |
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Michael the victorious |
19 |
|
Mincemeat |
20 |
|
My Shadow |
52 |
|
No house of stone |
32 |
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Oh please give us picture-books |
28 |
|
Oh what a wintry morning! |
15 |
|
Our old cat |
36 |
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Out in the garden, up in a tree |
35 |
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Over wintry wind-whipped waves |
36 |
|
Poor tired Tim! |
72 |
|
Psalm 23 |
113 |
|
Psalm 121 |
113 |
|
Rainy Day |
28 |
|
Sea Fairies |
44 |
|
Seagulls |
36 |
|
Seeds |
7 |
|
Silver Moon Sailing |
6 |
|
Sing a song of mincemeat |
20 |
|
Sing a song of people |
65 |
|
Skipping |
71 |
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Someday I'm going to have |
66 |
|
Someone Came Knocking |
53 |
|
Song in the Wood |
52 |
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Sorrow on the acres |
16 |
|
The Blackbird |
35 |
|
The Carol-Singers |
20 |
|
The door is shut fast |
35 |
|
The Elements |
32 |
|
The Fairies |
43 |
|
The feathers of the willow |
12 |
|
The Lord is my shepherd |
113 |
|
The night was creeping |
6 |
|
The Peace of God |
100 |
|
The Road to Town |
66 |
|
The Scarecrow |
11 |
|
The Swing |
52 |
|
The Urchins' Dance |
43 |
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They're hiding by the pebbles |
44 |
|
This way this way |
52 |
|
Thistles |
32 |
|
Thou Michael the victorious |
19 |
|
Though the threat of thirst |
32 |
|
Tired Tim |
72 |
|
Unstooping |
35 |
|
Up the airy mountain |
43 |
|
Upside Down |
71 |
|
Water Is a Lovely Thing |
26 |
|
Where the pools are bright |
10 |
|
Who's In? |
35 |
|
Winter |
15 |
|
Winter Field |
16 |
|
You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue |
115 |
|
Zing goes the cymbal |
53 |