Poems to Live Your Life By

Musings
'The isle is full of noises' William Shakespeare
from The Tempest 'There is a pleasure in a
pathless wood' George Gordon, Lord Byron
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
Freedom Olive Runner
Adlestrop Edward Thomas
Cargoes John Masefield
Youth
The Minister for Exams Brian Patten
The Great Escape Chris Riddell
Thirteen Kae Tempest
I Am Very Bothered Simon Armitage
Smoke Signals Phoebe Bridgers
Family
Walking Away Cecil Day Lewis
Outgrown Penelope Shuttle
Digging Seamus Heaney
Tissue Imtiaz Dharker
Eden Rock Charles Causley
Safe Sounds Carol Ann Duffy
Bright Star John Keats
Love
I Miss You A. F. Harrold
Something Rhymed Jackie Kay
There is a Field Rumi
Suzanne Leonard Cohen
He Wishes for the Cloths of
Heaven W. B. Yeats
Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare
Invitation to Love Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sun Has Burst the Sky Jenny Joseph A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
Valentine Carol Ann Duffy
Love Letter Nick Cave
The Whitsun Weddings Philip Larkin
Imaginings
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll
Witch Work Neil Gaiman
The Listeners Walter de la Mare
Orphee Neil Gaiman
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nature
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats
Moon-Whales Ted Hughes
The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Language of Cat Rachel Rooney
War
Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen
The General Siegfried Sassoon
There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale
Endings
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith
Let Me Die a Youngman's
Death Roger McGough
Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night Dylan Thomas
'Because I could not stop for
Death' Emily Dickinson
'To be, or not to be' William Shakespeare
from Hamlet
'Tomorrow, and tomorrow and
tomorrow' William Shakespeare
from Macbeth
Index of First Lines Index of Poets Acknowledgements
About Chris Riddell