Room 17

We have been enjoying reading poems together each morning. This page will be added to as we learn more poems. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Mrs Mitchell’s Underwear

Mrs Mitchell’s underwear
Is dancing on the line;
Mrs Mitchell’s underwear
Has never looked so fine.

Mrs Mitchell hates to dance -
She says it’s not refined,
But Mrs Mitchell’s underwear
Is prancing on the line.

With a polka-dotted polka
And a tangled tango too,
Mrs Mitchell’s underwear
Is like a frilly zoo.

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Hurt No Living Thing

Hurt no living thing;
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.
By Christina Rossetti

Why?

Why is it…
While other people
Are thinking about all kinds of
Important things…
I am thinking about
What it would be like
To jump barefoot
Into an open box
Of jelly doughnuts?
By James Stevenson

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Brother

I had a little brother
And I brought him to my mother
And I said I want another
Little brother for a change.

But she said don’t be a bother
So I took him to my father
And I said this little bother
Of a brother’s very strange.

But he said one little brother
Is exactly like another
And every little brother
Misbehaves a bit he said.

So I took the little bother
From my mother and my father
And I put the little bother
Of a brother back to bed.
By Mary Ann Hoberman
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In The Fashion

A lion has a tail and a very fine tail,
And so has an elephant and so has a whale,
And so has a crocodile and so has a quail -
They’ve all got tails but me.

If I had a sixpence I would buy one;
I’d say to the shopman, “Let me try one,”
I’d say to the elephant, “This is my one.”
They’d all come round to see.

Then I’d say to the lion, “Why, you’ve got a tail!
And so has the elephant and so has the whale!
And, look! There’s a crocodile! He’s got a tail!
You’ve all got tails like me!”
By A.A. Milne

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