All Your Favourite Poems

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold
My love is like a red red rose
My heart leaps up when I behold
The dong with a luminous nose

They also serve who only stand and wait
So was it when my life began
I am the master of my fate
I am Popeye the sailor man

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That drops upon the place beneath
My head is bloody but unbowed
I wish I’d looked after my teeth

My name is Ozymandias; king of kings
So in mine earthly house I am
I know why the caged bird sings
I do not like green eggs and ham


1. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats
2. A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns
3. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold – William Wordsworth
4. The Dong With A Luminous Nose – Edward Lear

5. On His Blindness – John Milton
6. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold – William Wordsworth
7. Invictus - William Ernest Henley
8. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man – Sammy Lerner

9. Daffodils - William Wordsworth
10. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
11. Invictus - William Ernest Henley
12. Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth – Pam Eyres

13. Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. St. Agnes' Eve - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
15. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
16. Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss


From John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme