Poems from a Green and Blue Planet (Mordecai Pamela C., Coolidge Susan, Rudd-Mitchell David) ; Hodder & Stoughton, 2019

Introduction
SUN SHINES
Aximu's Awakening PAMELA C. MORDECAI
Chorus DAVID RUDD-MITCHELL
New Every Morning SUSAN COOUDGE
From The Rubaiyat OMAR KHAYYAM
From A Light Exists in Spring EMILY DICKINSON
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
Sun and Flowers MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN
The Sun JOHN DRINKWATER
The Rooks JANE EUPHEMIA BROWNE
Envoi KATE SEYMOUR MACLEAN
From Strange Meetings HAROLD MONRO
From How Clear, How Lovely Bright A. E. HOUSMAN
Everything Is Going to Be All Right DEREK MAHON
High .Flight JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE
From The Sun Rising JOHN DONNE
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,
September 3, 1802 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The People Could Fly GRACE NICHOLS
Picture a Vacuum KAE TEMPEST
A Hymn to the Evening PHILLIS WHEATLEY
Leisure WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Everyone Sang
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Eternity WILLIAM BLAKE
Robin Redbreast WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
Count That Day Lost GEORGE ELIOT
A Little Song of Life LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE
This Ray TRISKA HAMID
WIND BLOWS
Legend of the First Wind JOELLE TAYLOR
Emily Hurricane ALAN SMITH
White Sheep ANONYMOUS
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH
Two Old Crows VACHEL LINDSAY
Words EDWARD THOMAS
Who Has Seen the Wind? CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
The Thrush FAY INCHFAWN
Prophecy ELINOR WYLIE
The Roaring Frost ALICE MEYNELL
Silent Messenger LISA LUXX
Wallcracks MAYSUN BINT BAHDAL
Answer to a Child's Question SAMUEL TAYLOR
COLERIDGE
The South Wind ANONYMOUS
Thunder ELIZABETH BISHOP
An Autumn Greeting GEORGE COOPER
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
A Lark LAURENCE ALMA-TADEMA
The Storm SARA COLERIDGE
The Wind ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The Eagle ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
How Can One Sell the Air? CHIEF SEATTLE
Dis Breeze VALERIE BLOOM
The Wind Shifts WALLACE STEVENS
Tin Roof N11 AYIKWEI PARKES
Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH
Once I Saw a Little Bird ANONYMOUS
From Touch Him If You Dare JULIANA HORATIA EWING
Someone Is Saved by Listening to the Nightingale
GIOVANNI QUESSEP
Baby Seeds ANONYMOUS
Summer Wind WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
From A Make-Believe GEORGE MACDONALD
From Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World WILLIAM
BRIGHTY RANDS
You'll Never Walk Alone OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Birdland ANONYMOUS
WATER FLOWS
With One Breath (Just One Breath!) SIMON MOLE
Ariel's Song WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Community Rain
Song
OODGEROO NOONUCCAL (KATH WALKER)
Rain on Dry Ground CHRISTOPHER FRY
Waterfall Haiku MATSUO BASHO
A Green Land Full of Rivers SABRINA MAHFOUZ
Mail Drop PAUL CAMERON BROWN
Until I Saw the Sea LILIAN MOORE
The Poet and the Brook JULIANA HORATIA EWING
Song of the Rain KHALIL GIBRAN
The Woodpecker ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS
A Sea-Song SOPHIE M. HENSLEY
Little Fish D. H. LAWRENCE
Big Swimming EDWIN FORD PIPER
Rainfall EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
From Wet Weather Talk JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
The Crocodile LEWIS CARROLL
Beachcomber GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
The Deserted House MARY COLERIDGE
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod EUGENE FIELD
Dancing YANG KUEI-FEI
The Maidive Shark HERMAN MELVILLE
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Duck's Ditty KENNETH GRAHAME
A Beach on a Foggy Day JADE ANOUKA
From The Scallop Shell DORA SIGERSON SHORTER
Little Raindrops JANE EUPHEMIA BROWNE
Tsunami JOYDEB AND MOYNA CHITRAKAR
The Sea BARRY CORNWALL
Laguna PRATYUSHA
The Jumblies EDWARD LEAR
Ghazal with Rain and Birds SHAZEA QURAISHI
Sea Fever JOHN MASEFIELD
EARTH SPINS
The Spinning Earth AILEEN FISHER
Mother OAKLEY FLANAGAN
The Worm RALPH BERGENGREN
Counting-Out Rhyme EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage LORD BYRON
Enjoy the Earth TRADITIONAL YORUBA
Pleasant Sounds JOHN CLARE
Epigram for the Bald ANONYMOUS
Song PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Laverton Incident JACK DAVIS
Autumn Evening MATSUO BASHO
At Night I Talk to the Giant's Finger STEPHEN
LIGHTBOWN
The Shadow of a Tree WEST AFRICAN PROVERB
Once Upon a Time MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
Anything! HOLLIE MCNISH
Readjustment SUSAN COOLIDGE
The Way Through the Woods RUDYARD KIPLING
From Ode Number 7 from Book 4 HORACE
Wood Between the Worlds IONA LEE
Climbing AMY LOWELL
The Oak ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Love is This Swamp DEANNA RODGER
The Statue ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
The Bashful Earthquake OLIVER HERFORD
bolitude ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN
Peace and Pancakes ADRIAN MITCHELL
Interim LOLA RIDGE
Upon the Mountain's Distant Head WILLIAM CULLEN
BRYANT
My Voice PARTAW NADERI
My Heart's in the Highlands ROBERT BURNS
I Sing of Change NIYI OSUNDARE
I Am / I Say (children's choral song) SABRINA
MAHFOUZ
Earth Song A. F. HARROLD The Months SARA
COLERIDGE
A Song of a Navajo Weaver BERTRAND N. O. WALKER
FIRE LEAPS
Bright Spark MICHAELA MORGAN
Rainforest JUDITH WRIGHT
Fire and Ice ROBERT FROST
Fire in the Window MARY MAPES DODGE
The Falling Star SARATEASDALE
From Life EMILY DICKINSON
We the Fire Crowned Flares HAFSAH ANEELA BASHIR
Paper MONA ARSHI
The Tyger WILLIAM BLAKE
Fire DOROTHEA MACKELLAR
My Light with Yours EDGAR LEE MASTERS
Thunder ANNA AKHMATOVA
An Olive Fire ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE
All in June WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES
First Fig EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
The Lights at Carney's Point ALICE MOORE DUNBAR-
NELSON
From Home MARIETTA HOLLEY
The Fire of Drift-Wood
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
Midsummer WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
From The Aurora Australis MARY HANNAY FOOTT
Flame Life MAHD AL-AADIYYA
Across the Border SOPHIE JEWETT
Flint CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Autumn Fires ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
From The Firemen's Ball VACHEL LINDSAY
LIFE GROWS
Stream of Life RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Flowering Tree Haiku MATSUO BASHO
From The Last Rose of Summer THOMAS MOORE
The Snail's Monologue CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
If I Were a Rose SABRINA MAHFOUZ
A Toadstool Comes Up in a Night CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
The Bluebell ANNE BRONTE
We Have a Little Garden BEATRIX POTTER
Greek Proverb ANONYMOUS
Tall Nettles EDWARD THOMAS
Triolet G. K. CHESTERTON
О Dandelion ANONYMOUS
Twinshoots SAFIYYA BINT KHALID AL-BAHILIYYA
The Blackbird HUMBERT WOLFE
Nature Poem TALIA RANDALL
I Went to the Animal Fair ANONYMOUS
How Pigeons Growl DEAN ATTA
Winnebago Proverb TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN
To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No W.B. YEATS
The Microbe HILAIRE BELLOC
With Birds You're Never Lonely RAYMOND ANTROBUS
From Lines to a Shamrock - A Song of Exile NORA
PEMBROKE
A Scherzo (A Shy Person's Wishes) DORA GREENWELL
How to Cut a Pomegranate IMTIAZ DHARKER
I Dunno ANONYMOUS
From Antidote LUKA LESSON
Sonnet 15 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Soft White Feather Lying on the Grass
MONIZA ALVI
Rose and the Lily ANONYMOUS
Don't Cry, Caterpillar GRACE NICHOLS
A Guinea Pig ANONYMOUS
Sunflower MARJORIE LOTFI GILL
The Seedling PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Hurt No Living Thing CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
The Little Green Man Addresses a Leaf JOHN AGARD
Shuffle Monster DEAN ATTA
ICE CHILLS
De VALERIE BLOOM
From The Farewell Glacier NICK DRAKE
From Snow-Bound JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
From Love's Labour's Lost WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Wild Peaches ELINOR WYLIE
White Fields JAMES STEPHENS
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
A Couplet ITIMAD AR-RUMAIKIYYA
From London Snow ROBERT BRIDGES
Dust of Snow ROBERT FROST
February Twilight SARATEASDALE
A Snow Man ANONYMOUS
Christmas Roses LIZZIE LAWSON
Snowflakes LEROY F. JACKSON
Snow in the Suburbs THOMAS HARDY
Describing Snow in the Aftermath VANESSA KISUULE
In the Garden ANONYMOUS
On the Hard Crest ANNA AKHMATOVA
Up in the Morning Early ROBERT BURNS
From With Solid Drops IBN KHAFAJAH
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ROBERT
FROST
From Snow ELIZA COOK
The Last Snow Leopard SABRINA MAHFOUZ
Jack Frost CELIA THAXTER
Snow Pie Time SALENA GODDEN
The Skaters JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
The Quiet Snow RAYMOND KNISTER
Something Told the Wild Geese RACHEL FIELD
Winter-Lull D. H. LAWRENCE
A Windflower LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE
The Elephant is Walking on the River Thames IMTIAZ
DHARKER
Snow Fox Liz BROWNLEE
From Frost at Midnight SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Thaw HENRY DAVID THOREAU Snow EDWARD
THOMAS
MOON RISES
The Moon Haiku NIKYU Dancing Disk in the Sky HIBAQ.
OSMAN
Scottish Proverb ANONYMOUS
Five Little Owls ANONYMOUS
From Drifting Flowers of the Sea SADAKICHI
HARTMANN
From Summer in London HELEN LEAH REED
Seal Lullaby RUDYARD KIPLING
Night WILLIAM BLAKE
November Night ADELAIDE CRAPSEY
From A Midsummer Night's Dream WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
Weather Proverb ANONYMOUS
Spellbound EMILY BRONTE
What If the Moon Is a Refugee? SALENA GODDEN
Bedtime THOMAS HOOD
The Fog F. R. MCCREARY
If You Were an Owl MARYMAPES DODGE
The Wind and the Moon GEORGE MACDONALD
Birch Trees JOHN RICHARD MORELAND
I Had a Boat MARY COLERIDGE
From The Starlight Night GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The Crescent Moon AMY LOWELL
The Algonquin Calendar of Changing Moons CHERYL
MOSKOWITZ
Summer Stars CARL SANDBURG
From The Bat JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
Night Comes BEATRICE SCHENK DE REGNIERS
The Moon ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
From On the Road to the Sea CHARLOTTE MEW
Cushlamochree LUCY COATS
The Mother Moon LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Morning Song SARATEASDALE
My Brilliant Image HAFEZ
Index of first lines
Index of poets
Acknowledgements