30 great poems everyone should know

We’re delighted to bring you a collection of 30 wonderful poems from the new iF Poems app - and we want you to write the next great one in our young poet competition

	November 2011	Remember Jabberwocky? Your kids should too We’re delighted to bring you 30 wonderful poems - and we want you to write the next great one in our young poet competition Post a comment
		We’ll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron So, we’ll go no more a-roving Post a comment
		I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear... Post a comment
		Poor Old Lady by Anon Poor old lady, she swallowed a fly... Post a comment
		Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone... Post a comment
		Crossing The Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sunset and evening star... Post a comment
		The Song of Mr Toad by Kenneth Grahame The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame... Post a comment
		If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you... Post a comment
		Remember by Christina Rossetti Remember me when I am gone away... Post a comment
		Daffodils by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud... Post a comment
		The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea... Post a comment
		Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan... Post a comment

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The Tyger by William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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The Elephant by Hilaire Belloc

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more...
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The Song of Mr Toad by Kenneth Grahame

The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame...
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To Autumn by John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun...