IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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There are 114 poems

"Hey, diddle, diddle,"
By Anonymous

"Hickory, dickory, dock,"
By Anonymous

"Hot-cross buns!"
By Anonymous

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,"
By Anonymous

"Hush little baby, don't say a word,"
By Anonymous

"Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top,"
By Anonymous

"It's raining, it's pouring,"
By Anonymous

"Itsy bitsy spider"
By Anonymous

"Jack be nimble,"
By Anonymous

"Ladybird, ladybird,"
By Anonymous

"Mary had a little lamb,"
By n/a

"Mary, Mary, quite contrary"
By Anonymous

"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,"
By Anonymous

"Pease porridge hot,"
By Anonymous

"Polly, put the kettle on,"
By Anonymous

"Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,"
By Anonymous

"Ring around the rosy,"
By Anonymous

"Sing a song of sixpence,"
By Anonymous

"Star light, star bright,"
By Anonymous

"The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,"
By Anonymous

"There was a crooked man,"
By Anonymous

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe."
By Anonymous

“How awkward when playing with glue”
By Constance Levy

A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore

A Wolf Is at the Laundromat
By Jack Prelutsky

At the Sea-Side
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
By Anonymous

Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
By Jack Prelutsky

Bed in Summer
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Catch a Little Rhyme
By Eve Merriam

Color
By Christina Rossetti

December 26
By Kenn Nesbitt

Deep in Our Refrigerator
By Jack Prelutsky

Dilly Dilly Piccalilli
By Clyde Watson

Fish
By Mary Ann Hoberman

Forty Little Polliwogs
By Anonymous

Good Morning, Dear Students
By Kenn Nesbitt

Happy Birthday, Silly Goose!
By Clyde Watson

Hats
By William Jay Smith

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
By Anonymous

Herbert Glerbett
By Jack Prelutsky

Here Is the Beehive
By Anonymous

Hey, Ma, Something’s under My Bed
By Joan Horton

I Found a Four-Leaf Clover
By Jack Prelutsky

I Knew a Man
By Clyde Watson

I Left My Head
By Lilian Moore

I Wave Good-bye When Butter Flies
By Jack Prelutsky

If You Catch a Firefly
By Lilian Moore

Jack and Jill
By Anonymous

Leap Year Poem
By Anonymous

Let the Fall Leaves Fall
By Clyde Watson

Light the Festive Candles
By Aileen Fisher

Little Bo-Peep
By Anonymous

Little Boy Blue
By Anonymous

Little Jack Horner
By Anonymous

Little Miss Muffet
By Anonymous

Little Orphant Annie
By James Whitcomb Riley

Lunchbox Love Note
By Kenn Nesbitt

Michael O’Toole
By Phil Bolsta

Moo, Moo, Brown Cow
By Anonymous

Moon
By William Jay Smith

My Brother’s Bear
By Bruce Lansky

My Doggy Ate My Homework
By Dave Crawley

My Frog Is a Frog
By Jack Prelutsky

My Shadow
By Robert Louis Stevenson

My Violin
By Bruce Lansky

Norman Norton’s Nostrils
By Colin West

Pick Me Up
By William Jay Smith

Poorly Dressed
By Bruce Lansky

Pumberly Pott’s Unpredictable Niece
By Jack Prelutsky

Shoes
By Anonymous

Sing a Song of Sixpence
By Anonymous

Soft Falls the Snow
By Clyde Watson

Some Opposites
By n/a

Spring
By Karla Kuskin

Sunflakes
By Frank Asch

Suzanna Socked Me Sunday
By Jack Prelutsky

Talented Family
By Kenn Nesbitt

Tender-heartedness
By Harry Graham

Thanksgiving Magic
By Rowena Bastin Bennett

The Animal Store
By Rachel Field

The Bamboo Ladder
By Anonymous

The Bogeyman
By Jack Prelutsky

The Considerate Soft-Shelled Phizzint
By Shel Silverstein

The Folk Who Live in Backward Town
By Mary Ann Hoberman

The Hedgehog
By J. J. Bell

The Kindergarten Concert
By Robert Pottle

The Land of Counterpane
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Little Turtle
By Vachel Lindsay

The Naughty Boy
By John Keats

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Razor-Tailed Wren
By Shel Silverstein

The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt

The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Toothless Wonder
By Phil Bolsta

The Wheels on the Bus
By Anonymous

There Was a Little Turtle
By Anonymous

There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

This Little Piggy
By Anonymous

Twickham Tweer
By Jack Prelutsky

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
By Jane Taylor

Two Little Dickie Birds
By Anonymous

Two Old Crows
By Vachel Lindsay

Wee Willie Winkie
By Anonymous

What the Winds Bring
By Edmund Clarence Stedman

Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rossetti

Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo
By John Ciardi

Yankee Doodle
By Anonymous