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Poems not by me

Poems not by me

"In English, we've been learning about poetry. We have been reading modern poems which don't rhyme and are quite boring and old poems which do rhyme and are much better."

From ​Emmabella's Christmas Alphabet

Here are some of the poems quoted and mentioned in the Alphabet books. Click on the titles to read the poems.
The Tyger by William Blake
A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man by John Betjeman
A Subaltern's Love-song by John Betjeman
A Shropshire Lad XL by A E Housman
Slough by John Betjeman

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