Grade 5
Poetry

John George Brown Tough Customers 1881 Oil on canvas 76 x 63.5 cm Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on deposit at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza INV. Nr. (CTB.1987.23)

Table of Contents

The Pleiades.
The Happy Farmer
The Hayloft
Lazy Ned
Try, Try Again
The Spider and the Fly
Our House
Out in the Fields With God
The Grasshopper
There is No Frigate Like a Book
I Never Saw a Moor
To Think
Shaker Poem
The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
Ode to the Northeast Wind

Ozymandias

Destruction of Sennacherib

Horatius at the Bridge

History in Verse: 1 –The Ancient World –
From Creation to the Fall of Rome (476 A.D.)

The Seven Days – [Creation]
Ozymandias (Shelley) – [Ancient Egypt]
Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron) – [c. 700 B.C.)]
Rivers of Babylon (Byron) – [c. 600 B.C.]
Song of the Galley Slaves – [Ancient Greece]
How Big was Alexander? (Jones) – [356-323 B.C.]
Horatius (Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome) – [360 B.C.]
Caractacus (Barton) – [50 A.D.]
Boadicea (Cowper) – [62 A.D.]

History in Verse:  The Modern World

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae