Among School ChildrenBY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and to sing,To study reading-books and history,To cut and sew, be neat in everythingIn the best modern way—the children’s eyesIn momentary wonder stare uponA sixty-year-old smiling public man. II IContinue reading “Among School Children : W B Yeats : : School Poems : :”
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Please Mrs Butler : Allan Ahlberg : : Children’s Poems : :
Please Mrs ButlerBy Allan Ahlberg Please Mrs ButlerThis boy Derek DrewKeeps copying my work, Miss.What shall I do? Go and sit in the hall, dear.Go and sit in the sink.Take your books on the roof, my lamb.Do whatever you think. Please Mrs ButlerThis boy Derek DrewKeeps taking my rubber, Miss.What shall I do? Keep itContinue reading “Please Mrs Butler : Allan Ahlberg : : Children’s Poems : :”