Classic Poems to Read with Year 4 into Year 5
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Title
‘Cats Sleep Anywhere’
‘Five Eyes’
‘The Listeners’
‘Please to Remember’
‘Remember, Remember the 5th of November’
‘Someone’
‘The Old House’
‘Friends’
‘Frost’
‘If’
‘They Shut the Road Through the Woods’
‘Jabberwocky’
‘The Owl and the Pussycat’
‘Miracles’
‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening’
‘The Highwayman’
‘The Tyger’
‘A Tiger Tale’ (modern comparison)
‘Wind’
‘Wind’ by Andrew Corlett and ‘Wind’ by Pie
Corbett as modern comparisons
‘Witches Spell’ from ‘Macbeth’
‘Bed in Summer’
‘Land of Nod’
‘A Child’s Evening Prayer’
‘Albert and the Lion’ - monologue
‘The Coming of the Iron Man’ – (Prose /
Poetry)
‘At Nine of Night I Opened my Door’
Author
Eleanor Farjeon
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare
Anonymous
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare
Elizabeth Jennings
Valerie Bloom
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Lewis Carroll
Edward Lear
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Edward Noyes
William Blake
John Bennett
Christina Rossetti
Andrew Corlett and Pie Corbett
William Shakespeare
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ted Hughes.
Charles Causley