Because a Fire Was in My Head
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Because a Fire Was in My Head

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Because a Fire Was in My Head

About this book

A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination.
We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to see a dark night filled with fireworks and bonfires. In their many different ways - through their sounds, rhythms, stories, surprises and jokes - these poems will set the fireworks crackling in our own heads.
Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John Lennon, Jo Shapcott and Lewis Carroll. Once read, they won't be forgotten - some even beg to be learned by heart. This is anthology will form the cornerstone to a lifetime's enjoyment of poetry.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
eBook ISBN
9780571303120
Year
2013

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Praise
  4. Title Page
  5. Faber Classics
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. Because a Fire was in My Head
  10. Windy Nights
  11. Thaw
  12. The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
  13. Mother Parrot’s Advice to her Children
  14. ‘I eat my peas with honey’
  15. The Heavenly City
  16. The Song of Wandering Aengus
  17. Oranges and Lemons
  18. Dance to Your Daddie
  19. Smile
  20. One
  21. Everyone Sang
  22. I Sat Belonely
  23. Little Trotty Wagtail
  24. ‘I’m not frightened of Pussy Cats’
  25. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
  26. A Small Dragon
  27. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  28. Loveliest of Trees
  29. The Way Through the Woods
  30. The Lonely Scarecrow
  31. ‘There was an Old Man with a Beard’
  32. Lullaby
  33. The Last Word of a Bluebird
  34. My Story
  35. from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  36. Fairy Story
  37. Human Affection
  38. Autobiography
  39. ‘When the sun rises’
  40. The Silver Swan
  41. The Arrow and the Song
  42. Friends
  43. Watch Your French
  44. Daddy Fell into the Pond
  45. The Frog
  46. The Man in the Wilderness
  47. By St Thomas Water
  48. ‘There was a man of double deed’
  49. The Fly
  50. ‘To every thing there is a season’
  51. I Remember, I Remember
  52. My Brother Bert
  53. Cat in the Tumble Drier
  54. Birds, Bags, Bears and Buns
  55. Night Mail
  56. ‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone’
  57. Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me?
  58. Dog
  59. ‘When icicles hang by the wall’
  60. On the Ning Nang Nong
  61. The Bold Bad Bus
  62. Cargoes
  63. The Jungle Husband
  64. Jabberwocky
  65. The Yarn of the ‘Nancy Bell’
  66. ‘How doth the little crocodile’
  67. The Duck
  68. From Hereabout Hill
  69. Fern Hill
  70. Pippa’s Song
  71. The Mower
  72. The Spider and the Fly
  73. Snail
  74. Overheard on a Saltmarsh
  75. Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
  76. Dahn the Plug’ole
  77. Toad
  78. ‘Round about the cauldron go’
  79. ‘She sells sea shells’
  80. A Boy in a Snow Shower
  81. ‘There was a naughty boy’
  82. Matilda
  83. The Camel
  84. Pride
  85. The Song of the Jellicles
  86. ‘My mother said’
  87. Old Meg
  88. The Fairies
  89. from The Pied Piper
  90. I Saw a Jolly Hunter
  91. To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no
  92. I Had a Dove
  93. The Sloth
  94. The Donkey
  95. Dis fighting
  96. O What is that Sound
  97. ‘Break, break, break’
  98. Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience
  99. Ariel’s Dirge
  100. Sea-Fever
  101. Back In The Playground Blues
  102. Futility
  103. Timothy Winters
  104. ‘Every Night and Every Morn’
  105. The Listeners
  106. A Smugglers’ Song
  107. Prelude
  108. Escape at Bedtime
  109. Lake Isle of Innisfree
  110. ‘All the world’s a stage’
  111. Acknowledgements
  112. Index of Poets
  113. About the Author and Illustrator
  114. Copyright