The Random House book of poetry for children

Introduction --

Nature Is : --

Auguries of innocence / William Blake --

All things bright and beautiful / Cecil Frances Alexander --

I'm glad the sky is painted blue / Anonymous --

Universe / Mary Britton Miller --

Measurement / A M Sullivan --

On the Bridge / Kate Greenaway --

Flint / Christina Rossetti --

Wolf Cry / Lew Sarett --

Secret song / Margaret Wise Brown --

Last rites / Christina Rossetti --

Trees / Sara Coleridge --

Crocus / Walter Crane --

Dandelion / Hilda Conkling --

Ferns / Gene Baro --

Birch trees / John Richard Moreland --

Wind-wolves / William D Sargent --

Wind / James Reeves --

Mountain wind / Barbara Kunz Loots --

Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson --

Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti --

Mountain brook / Elizabeth Coatsworth --

River winding / Charlotte Zolotow --

Water's edge / Lillian Morrison --

Mud / Polly Chase Boyden --

Muddy puddle / Dennis Lee --

Sea shell / Amy Lowell --

Sea / Anonymous --

Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore --

Rain has silver sandals / May Justus --

Rain clouds / Elizabeth-Ellen Long --

To walk in warm rain / David McCord --

Rhyme / Elizabeth Coatsworth --

More it snows / A A Milne --

First snow / Marie Louise Allen --

When all the world is full of snow / N M Bodecker --

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost --

Snowflake / Walter de la Mare --

Check / James Stephens --

Moon's the north wind's cooky / Vachel Lindsay --

Star / Jane Taylor --

Night comes / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers --

Night / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Silver / Walter de la Mare --

Night is a big black cat / G Orr Clark --

Four Seasons : --

Months / Sara Coleridge --

Four seasons / Anonymous --

January / John Updike --

Martin Luther King / Myra Cohn Livingston --

Lincoln / Nancy Byrd Turner --

Ground hog day / Lilian Moore --

Beyond winter / Ralph Waldo Emerson --

Valentine / Shel Silverstein --

Ice / Charles G D Roberts --

Washington / Nancy Byrd Turner --

Smells / Kathryn Worth --

February twilight / Sara Teasdale --

Paper dragons / Susan M Schmeltz --

Maple feast / Frances Frost --

When / Dorothy Aldis --

Daylight saving time / Phyllis McGinley --

March / Elizabeth Coatsworth --

March wind / Anonymous --

Wearing of the green / Aileen Fisher --

Spring rain / Marchette Chute --

Ode to spring / Walter R Brooks --

Easter / Joyce Kilmer --

Spring is / Bobbi Katz --

On mother's day / Aileen Fisher --

Spring / Karla Kuskin --

Good-by my winter suit / N M Bodecker --

Moment in summer / Charlotte Zolotow --

Rocket in my pocket / Anonymous --

Maytime magic / Mable Watts --

Summer / Frank Asch --

Joyful / Rose Burgunder --

October / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --

October / Maurice Sendak --

August / John Updike --

Harvest home / Arthur Guiterman --

This is Halloween / Dorothy Brown Thompson --

Lazy witch / Myra Cohn Livingston --

Thanksgiving magic / Rowena Bastin Bennett --

12 October / Myra Cohn Livingston --

Thanksgiving / Ivy O Eastwick --

Thanksgiving day / L Maria Child --

Light the festive candles / Aileen Fisher --

Children's Carol / Eleanor Farjeon --

Winter moon / Langston Hughes --

I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford --

Merry Christmas / Aileen Fisher --

From : a Christmas package / David McCord --

Visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore --

Dogs And Cats And Bears And Bats : --

Waltzer in the house / Stanley Kunitz --

Mice / Rose Fyleman --

Chipmunk's song / Randall Jarrell --

To a squirrel at kyle-na-no / William Butler Yeats --

Rabbit / Elizabeth Madox Roberts --

Hedgehog / J J Bell --

Bat / Theodore Roethke --

Bat / Frank Jacobs --

Sloth / Theodore Roethke --

Camel / Alan Brownjohn --

Camel's complaint / Charles Edward Carryl --

Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg --

Hippopotamus / Jack Prelutsky --

Holding hands / Lenore M Link --

Oliphaunt / JRR Tolkien --

Wolf / Georgia Roberts Durston --

Beside the line of elephants / Edna Becker --

Four little foxes / Lew Sarett --

Grandpa bear's lullaby / Jane Yolen --

Lesser lynx / E V Rieu --

Polar bear / Gail Kredenser --

Lion / Jack Prelutsky --

Lion / William Jay Smith --

Leopard / Gretchen Kreps --

Seal / William Jay Smith --

Performing seal / Rachel Field --

Donkey / Anonymous --

Wild, the free / Lord Byron --

Mandrill / Conrad Aiken --

Ode to the pig : his tail / Walter R Brooks --

Pig /Roland Young --

Hairy dog / Herbert Asquith --

Pig is never blamed / Babette Deutsch --

Cow / Ogden Nash --

Roger the dog / Ted Hughes --

Lone dog / Irene McLeod --

Sunning / James S Tippett --

Bliss / Eleanor Farjeon --

I've got a dog / Anonymous --

His highness's dog / Anonymous --

Cat of cats / William Brighty Rands --

Cat in despondency / Anonymous --

Cats of kilkenny / Anonymous --

Country barnyard / Elizabeth Coatsworth --

Cats / Eleanor Farjeon --

Cat / Mary Britton Miller --

Little things / James Stephens --

Feather or fur / John Becker --

Cat's menu / Richard Shaw --

Ways Of Living Things : --

Hey, Bug! / Lilian Moore --

Hurt no living thing / Christina Rossetti --

Green stems / Margaret Wise Brown --

Bug sat in a silver flower / Karla Kuskin --

Crickets / Valerie Worth --

Praying mantis / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating / Walter R Brooks --

Wasps / Dorothy Aldis --

Flea / Roland Young --

Bug in a jug / Anonymous --

Bug / Marjorie Barrows --

Oh the toe-test! / Norma Farber --

When mosquitoes make a meal / Else Holmelund Minarik --

Cockroaches / Kaye Starbird --

Dragonfly / Eleanor Farjeon --

Fireflies in the garden / Robert Frost --

Caterpillar / Christina Rossetti --

Tickle rhyme / Ian Serraillier --

Ladybug / Joan Walsh Anglund --

Codfish / Anonymous --

Wee little worm / James Whitcomb Riley --

Flattered flying fish / E V Rieu --

Long gone / Jack Prelutsky --

Shark / Lord Alfred Douglas --

Fishes' evening song / Dahlov Ipcar --

Sally and Manda / Alice B Campbell --

Lizard / John Gardner --

Boa / J J Bell --

Brontosaurus / Gail Kredenser --

Desert tortoise / Byrd Baylor --

Frog / Hilaire Belloc --

Crocodile / Lewis Carroll --

Samuel / Bobbi Katz --

Tree frog / John Travers Moore --

Hummingbird / Michael Flanders --

Polliwog / Arthur Guiterman --

Baby talk / Anna Bird Stewart --

Canary / Ogden Nash --

Ducks' ditty / Kenneth Grahame --

Duck / Richard Digance --

Blackbird / Humbert Wolfe --

Sea gull / Elizabeth Coatsworth --

Sandpiper / Frances Frost --

Sandpiper / Witter Bynner --

Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field --

Hen / Lord Alfred Douglas --

Night heron / Frances Frost --

Vulture / Hilaire Belloc --

Sparrow hawk / Russell Hoban --

Eagle / Alfred Tennyson --

City, Oh City!: --

Just for one day / Lillian Morrison --

Riveter / Mabel Watts --

Gift with the wrappings off / Mary Elizabeth Counselman --

City, city / Marci Ridlon --

Sing a song of subways / Eve Merriam --

Things to do if you are a subway / Bobbi Katz --

Flowers are a silly bunch / Arnold Spilka --

Rudolph is tired of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks --

That May morning / Leland B Jacobs --

Umbilical / Eve Merriam --

Sunrise / Frank Asch --

People / Elizabeth Madox Roberts --

People upstairs / Ogden Nash --

Zebra / Judith Thurman --

Crowds / Virginia Schonborg --

Concrete mixers / Patricia Hubbell --

They've all gone south / Mary Britton Miller --

Pigeons / Lilian Moore --

Sing a song of people / Lois Lenski --

Stickball / Virginia Schonborg --

Sad song about Greenwich village / Frances Park --

Fog / Carl Sandburg --

Alley cat school / Frank Asch --

Open hydrant / Marci Ridlon --

April rain song / Langston Hughes --

City lights / Rachel Field --

Rainy nights / Irene Thompson --

City / Langston Hughes --

Frightening / Claudia Lewis --

Where are you now? / Mary Britton Miller --

Foghorns / Lilian Moore --

City dump / Felice Holman --

Cockpit in the clouds / Dick Dorrance.

Children, Children Everywhere : --

Hug o' war / Shel Silverstein --

Advice to small children / Edward Anthony --

Joke / Anonymous --

Changing / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Somebody / Anonymous --

I saw a little girl I hate / Arnold Spilka --

Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry / Clyde Watson --

Love / William Jay Smith --

I love you / Anonymous --

Question / Anonymous --

I hate Harry / Miriam Chaikin --

Puzzle / Arnold Spilka --

John, Tom, and James / Charles Henry Ross --

Double-barreled ding-dong-bat / Dennis Lee --

Yip-yap rattletrap / Clyde Watson --

Tag along / Nina Payne --

Ten kinds / Mary Mapes Dodge --

There was a little girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --

Two people / E V Rieu --

Read this with gestures / John Ciardi --

Table manners / Gelett Burgess --

Jack / Charles Henry Ross --

Bubble gum / Nina Payne --

Did you? / William Cole --

Why run? / Norah Smaridge --

Story of Augustus who would not have any soup / Heinrich Hoffman --

Eat-it-all Elaine / Kaye Starbird --

Tired Tim / Walter de la Mare --

Wendy in winter / Kaye Starbird --

Tony baloney / Dennis Lee --

Fernando / Marci Ridlon --

Queenie / Leland B Jacobs --

Jessica Jane / May Justus --

Follow the leader / Kathleen Fraser --

Freddy / Dennis Lee --

Girls can, too! / Lee Bennett Hopkins --

No girls allowed / Jack Prelutsky --

Little Clotilda / Anonymous --

We're racing, racing down the walk / Phyllis McGinley --

Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / E E Cummings --

Wrestling / Kathleen Fraser --

Measles / Kaye Starbird --

Barbershop / Martin Gardner --

Wiggly giggles / Stacy Jo Crossen and Natalie Anne Covell --

Since Hanna moved away / Judith Viorst --

Lullaby / Lewis Carroll --

What in the world? / Eve Merriam --

Me I Am!: --

My name is / Pauline Clarke --

Me / Walter de la Mare --

My father owns the butcher shop / Anonymous --

I am Rose / Gertrude Stein --

Me / Karla Kuskin --

Every time I climb a tree / David McCord --

Reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni --

Mark's fingers / Mary O'Neill --

When I was lost / Dorothy Aldis --

Keziah / Gwendolyn Brooks --

Just me / Margaret Hillert --

How to get there / Bonnie Nims --

Wolf / Osage Indian --

Dust of snow / Robert Frost --

Sulk / Felice Holman --

If no one ever marries me / Laurence Alma-Tadema --

Broom balancing / Kathleen Fraser --

About feet / Margaret Hillert --

On the skateboard / Lillian Morrison --

I can fly / Felice Holman --

Basketball / Nikki Giovanni --

Basketball star / Karama Fufuka --

Song / Ruth Krauss --

Growing up / Harry Behn --

Marrog / R C Scriven --

Everybody says / Dorothy Aldis --

Stupid old myself / Russell Hoban --

Don't tell me that I talk too much! / Arnold Spilka --

Surprises / Jean Conder Soule --

If we didn't have birthdays / Dr Seuss --

History / Myra Cohn Livingston --

I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz --

I'm really not lazy / Arnold Spilka --

Winter clothes / Karla Kuskin --

I'm nobody! who are you? / Emily Dickinson --

Yawning / Eleanor Farjeon --

Rhinos purple, hippos green / Michael Patrick Hearn --

One day when we went walking / Valine Hobbs --

Home! You're Where It's Warm Inside : --

Wrong start / Marchette Chute --

Mother's nerves / X J Kennedy --

John / N M Bodecker --

Waking / Lilian Moore --

Mother doesn't want a dog / Judith Viorst --

Amelia mixed the mustard / A E Housman --

I wish I could meet the man that knows / John Ciardi --

Some things don't make any sense at all / Judith Viorst --

First tooth / Charles and Mary Lamb --

Bringing up babies / Roy Fuller --

Six weeks old / Christopher Morley --

Help! / X J Kennedy --

Lil' bro' / Karama Fufuka --

My brother / Marci Ridlon --

Leave me alone / Felice Holman --

Myra song / John Ciardi --

Let other share / Edward Anthony --

In the motel / X J Kennedy --

Rules / Karla Kuskin --

Runaway / Bobbi Katz --

Soap / Martin Gardner --

What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday / John Ciardi --

They're calling / Felice Holman --

Going up / John Travers Moore --

Up in the pine / Nancy Dingman Watson --

Homework / Jane Yolen --

Homework / Russell Hoban --

Hot line / Louella Dunann --

I'm alone in the evening / Michael Rosen --

Winning of the TV west / John T Alexander --

Middle of the night / Karla Kuskin --

Our house / Dorothy Brown Thompson --

Two people / Eve Merriam --

I'm Hungry!: --

My mouth / Arnold Adoff --

This is just to say / William Carlos Williams --

Tomorrow's the fair / Anonymous --

Turtle soup / Lewis Carroll --

Oodles of noodles / Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr --

Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi --

Egg thoughts / Russell Hoban --

Pie problem / Shel Silverstein --

Meg's Egg / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Celery / Ogden Nash --

Taste of purple / Leland B Jacobs --

Chocolate cake / Nina Payne --

Patience / Bobbi Katz --

My little sister / William Wise --

Little bits of soft-boiled egg / Fay Maschler --

Chocolate, chocolate / Arnold Adoff --

Thousand hairy savages / Spike Milligan --

I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous --

Accidentally / Maxine W Kumin --

I raised a great hullabaloo / Anonymous --

Twickham tweer / Jack Prelutsky --

Worm / Ralph Bergengren --

Pizza / Ogden Nash --

Soliloquy of a tortoise / E V Rieu --

Mr Pratt / Myra Cohn Livingston --

Sneaky Bill / William Cole --

Some People I Know : --

Some people / Rachel Field --

People / Charlotte Zolotow --

Routine / Arthur Guiterman --

Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes --

Smart / Shel Silverstein --

One misty, moisty morning / Anonymous --

Thoughts on talkers / Walter R Brooks --

My brother Bert / Ted Hughes --

Grandpapa / Harry Graham --

Growing old / Rose Henderson --

Grandpa dropped his glasses / Leroy R Jackson --

Manners / Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer --

Uncle / Harry Graham --

Miss Norma Jean Pugh / Mary O'Neill --

Godmother / Phyllis B Morden --

Too many dayes / Dr Seuss --

Little boy and the old man / Shel Silverstein --

Tombstone / Lucia M and James L Hymes, Jr --

Air traveler / Lillian Morrison --

House-for sale / Leonard Clark --

Jittery Jim / William Jay Smith --

On a bad singer / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --

Doctor Emmanuel / James Reeves --

Hog-calling competition / Morris Bishop --

Old Quin queeribus / Nancy Byrd Turner --

There was on old man with a beard / Edward Lear --

Jonathan Bing / Beatrice Curtis Brown --

Poor old lady / Anonymous --

Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty / Anonymous --

Solomon Grundy / Anonymous --

Mr Kartoffel / James Reeves --

Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Roald Dahl --

Sugar lady / Frank Asch --

Lord Cray / Edward Gorey --

Together / Paul Engle --

Opposite of two / Richard Wilbur --

Sir Smasham uppe / E V Rieu --

Nonsense! Nonsense!: --

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll --

Toot! toot! / Anonymous --

Higglety, pigglety, pop! / Samuel Goodrich --

On the ning nang nong / Spike Milligan --

Common cormorant / Christopher Isherwood --

McIntosh apple / Steven Kroll --

Lobsters and the fiddler crab / Frederick J Forster --

Butterfly's ball / William Roscoe --

Contrary waiter / Edgar Parker --

Whoops! / Anonymous --

Way down south / Anonymous --

Duel / Eugene Field --

Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear --

Hare and the pig / L J Bridgman --

Alligator / Mary Macdonald --

Lizard / Theodore Roethke --

Serpent / Theodore Roethke --

Shark / J J Bell --

I had a little pig / Anonymous --

Ants at the Olympics / Richard Digance --

Animal fair / Anonymous --

Purple cow / Gelett Burgess --

I asked my mother / Anonymous --

Algy met a bear / Anonymous --

Walrus / Michael Flanders --

Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash --

Alligator pie / Dennis Lee --

Beela by the sea / Leroy R Jackson --

You must never bath in the Irish stew / Spike Milligan --

Did you ever go fishing? / Anonymous --

Sensitive, seldom and sad / Mervyn Peake --

Josephine / Alexander Resnikoff --

Folk who live in backward town / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Father William / Lewis Carroll --

Johnnie crack and flossie snail / Dylan Thomas --

Snail's dream / Oliver Herford --

Twins / Henry S Leigh --

New vestments / Edward Lear --

Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece / Jack Prelutsky --

Don't worry if your job is small / Anonymous --

Number nine, Penwiper mews / Edward Gorey --

Tender-heartedness / Harry Graham --

Jimmy Jet and his TV set / Shel Silverstein --

Young lady of Lynn / Anonymous --

Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky.

Alphabet Stew : --

Fly and a flea in a flue / Anonymous --

Cow / Jack Prelutsky --

Tutor / Carolyn Wells --

Weather / Anonymous --

Two witches / Alexander Resnikoff --

Antonio / Laura E Richards --

Habits of the hippopotamus / Arthur Guiterman --

Bluffalo / Jane Yolen --

Moses / Anonymous --

Puffin / Robert Williams Wood --

Eletelephony / Laura E Richards --

Mr Bidery's spidery garden / David McCord --

Ptarmigan / Anonymous --

Banananananananana / William Cole --

Clickbeetle / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Sing me a song of teapots and trumpets / N M Bodecker --

Modern Hiawatha / George A Strong --

Misnomer / Eve Merriam --

To be or not to be / Anonymous --

Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail / Jack Prelutsky --

Have you ever seen? / Anonymous --

Waiters / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Atrocious pun / Anonymous --

Wild flowers / Peter Newell --

J's the jumping jay-walker / Phyllis McGinley --

Poetry / Eleanor Farjeon --

Lumps / Judith Thurman --

Word / Emily Dickinson --

Yak / Jack Prelutsky --

Feelings about words / Mary O'Neill --

Where Goblins Dwell : --

Some one / Walter del la Mare --

Ghosts / Harry Behn --

Something is there / Lilian Moore --

Horseman / Walter de la Mare --

Hist whist / e e Cummings --

What's that? / Florence Parry Heide --

Green candles / Humbert Wolfe --

Witch! the witch! / Eleanor Farjeon --

Song of the witches / William Shakespeare --

Owl / Sylvia Read --

Wanted-a witch's cat / Shelagh McGee --

Eight witches / B J Lee --

Witches' menu / Sonja Nikolay --

Queen Nefertiti / Anonymous --

Colonel Fazackerley / Charles Causley --

Song of the ogres / W H Auden --

Three ghostesses / Anonymous --

Darkling elves / Jack Prelutsky --

Elf and the dormouse / Oliver Herford --

Bogeyman / Jack Prelutsky --

Troll / Jack Prelutsky --

Wendigo / Ogden Nash --

Father and mother / X J Kennedy --

Fairies / William Allingham --

Great auk's ghost / Ralph Hodgson --

Pumpkin / Robert Graves --

Seven ages of elf-hood / Rachel Field --

Unicorn / William Jay Smith --

How to tell goblins from elves / Monica Shannon --

Little man / Hughes Mearns --

Gumble / Michael Dugan --

Slithegadee / Shel Silverstein --

Bogus-boo / James Reeves --

Wrimples / Jack Prelutsky --

Ms Whatchamacallit thingamajig / Miriam Chaikin --

Spangled pandemonium / Palmer Brown --

Creature in the classroom / Jack Prelutsky --

Dinky / Theodore Roethke --

Plumpuppets / Christopher Morley --

Could it have been a shadow? / Monica Shannon --

Land Of Potpourri : --

Happy thought / Robert Louis Stevenson --

Our washing machine / Patricia Hubbell --

Introduction to songs of innocence / William Blake --

No holes marred / Suzanne Douglass --

Steam shovel / Charles Malam --

Toaster / William Jay Smith --

Tin frog / Russell Hoban --

Driving to the beach / Joanna Cole --

My nose / Dorothy Aldis --

From : the bed book / Sylvia Plath --

Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg --

What is pink? / Christina Rossetti --

What is orange? / Mary O'Neill --

To be answered in our next issue / Anonymous --

Base stealer / Robert Francis --

What is red? / Mary O'Neill --

Who's in / Elizabeth Fleming --

Library / Barbara A Huff --

Knockout / Lillian Morrison --

Foul shot / Edwin A Hoey --

Yellow / David McCord --

Football game / Alice Van Eck --

Maps / Dorothy Brown Thompson --

If once you have slept on an island / Rachel Field --

Train song / Diane Siebert --

Travel / Edna St Vincent Millay --

Flight plan / Jane Merchant --

To an aviator / Daniel Whitehead Hicky --

Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket / Patricia Hubbell --

From a railway carriage / Robert Louis Stevenson --

Toad / Robert S Oliver --

This little pig built a spaceship / Frederick Winsor --

Dreams / Langston Hughes --

Far trek / June Brady --

How strange it is / Claudia Lewis --

Paint box / E V Rieu --

Keep a poem in your pocket / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers --

To dark eyes dreaming / Zilpha Keatley Snyder --

Index of titles --

Index of first lines --

Index of authors --

Index of subjects --

About the author/illustrator.