Childhood Poems – MADHU MALTI

Television : Ronald Dahl : :

Roald DahlTelevision The most important thing we’ve learned,So far as children are concerned, 2Is never, NEVER, NEVER letThem near your television set – 4Or better still, just don’t installThe idiotic thing at all. 6In almost every house we’ve been,We’ve watched them gaping at the screen. 8They loll and slop and lounge about,And stare until theirContinue reading “Television : Ronald Dahl : :”

In Mrs Tilscher’s Class : Carol Ann Duffy : : Childhood : :

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayerutters itself. So, a woman will lifther head from the sieve of her hands and stareat the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. Some nights, although we are faithless, the truthenters our hearts, that small familiar pain;then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youthin theContinue reading “In Mrs Tilscher’s Class : Carol Ann Duffy : : Childhood : :”

First Day at School : Roger McGough : : Childhood Poems : :

First Day At School : : By Roger MC Gough : : A millionbillionwillion miles from homeWaiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)Why are they all so big, other children?So noisy? So much at home theyMust have been born in uniformLived all their lives in playgroundsSpent the years inventing gamesThat don’t let meContinue reading “First Day at School : Roger McGough : : Childhood Poems : :”

I Remember, I Remember : Thomas Hood : : Childhood Poems : :

I Remember, I RememberBY THOMAS HOODI remember, I remember,The house where I was born,The little window where the sunCame peeping in at morn;He never came a wink too soon,Nor brought too long a day,But now, I often wish the nightHad borne my breath away! I remember, I remember,The roses, red and white,The vi’lets, and theContinue reading “I Remember, I Remember : Thomas Hood : : Childhood Poems : :”

I Remember, I Remember : Philips Larkin : ( 1 ) : : Poem Reading : Tom O’Bedlam : ( 2 ) : : Childhood Poems : :

https://youtu.be/i5C3wth2v_w I Remember, I Remember Coming up England by a different lineFor once, early in the cold new year,We stopped, and, watching men with number platesSprint down the platform to familiar gates,“Why, Coventry!” I exclaimed. “I was born here.” 5 I leant far out, and squinnied for a signThat this was still the town thatContinue reading “I Remember, I Remember : Philips Larkin : ( 1 ) : : Poem Reading : Tom O’Bedlam : ( 2 ) : : Childhood Poems : :”

Fern Hill : Dylan Thomas : : Childhood Poems : :

Fern HillDylan Thomas – 1914-1953 Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughsAbout the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes,And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple townsAndContinue reading “Fern Hill : Dylan Thomas : : Childhood Poems : :”

Discord In Childhood : D H Lawrence : : Childhood Poems : :

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930). Amores. 1916. 4. Discord in Childhood OUTSIDE the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips, 1And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree 2 Shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship’s 3Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously. 4 Within the house two voices arose in anger,Continue reading “Discord In Childhood : D H Lawrence : : Childhood Poems : :”

The Child’s Faith Is New : Emily Dickinson : : Childhood Poems : :

The Child’s faith is new : Emily Dickinson : : 637 The Child’s faith is new—Whole—like His Principle—Wide—like the SunriseOn fresh Eyes—Never had a Doubt—Laughs—at a Scruple—Believes all shamBut Paradise— Credits the World—Deems His DominionBroadest of Sovereignties—And Caesar—mean—In the Comparison—Baseless Emperor—Ruler of Nought—Yet swaying all— Grown bye and byeTo hold mistakenHis pretty estimatesOf Prickly ThingsHeContinue reading “The Child’s Faith Is New : Emily Dickinson : : Childhood Poems : :”