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English Poems List

Garde : VI - Term : I

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 The Crocodile Lewis Carroll
2 Trees Sara Coleridge
3 I Dream of Spices Raj Arumugam

Garde : VI - Term : II

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Team Work Edgar A. Guest
2 From a Railway Carriage Robert Louis Stevenson

Garde : VI - Term : III

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Indian Seasons Nisha Dyrene
2 A Tragic Story William Makepeace Thackeray

Garde : VII - Term : I

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 The Computer Swallowed Grandma Anonymous
2 The Listeners Walter de la Mare
3 Your Space David Bates

Garde : VII - Term : II

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 The Poem of Adventure George Krokos
2 Wandering Singers Sarojini Naidu
 Garde : VII - Term : III

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Sea Fever John Masefi eld
2 Courage Edgar Albert Guest

Garde : VIII

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Special Hero Christina M Kerschen
2 My Hobby: Reading Arunachalam Chandrasekharan
3 Making Life Worth While George Eliot
4 A Thing of Beauty John Keats
5 Fire Work Night Enid Blyton
6 Lessons in Life Brigette Bryant & Daniel Ho
7 My Computer Needs A Break Shanthini Govindan

Garde : IX

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
2 A Poison Tree William Blake
3 On Killing a Tree Gieve Patel
4 The Spider and the Fly Mary Botham Howitt
5 The River Caroline Ann Bowles
6 The Comet Norman Littleford
7 The Stick-together Families Edgar Albert Guest

Garde : X

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Life Henry Van Dyke
2 The Grumble Family Lucy Maud Montgomery
3 I am Every Woman Rakhi Nariani Shirke
4 The Ant and the Cricket Adapted from Aesop’s fables
5 The Secret of the Machines Rudyard Kipling
6 No Men Are Foreign James Falconer Kirkup
7 The House on Elm Street Nadia Bush
 Garde : XI

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Once Upon A Time Gabriel Okara
2 Confessions of Born Spectator Ogden Nash
3 Lines Written in the Early Spring William Wordsworth
4 Macavity - The Mystery Cat T.S. Eliot
5 Everest is Not The Only Peak Kulothungan
6 The Hollow Crown William Shakespeare

Garde : XII

Poem Poem Name Author Name

Number
1 Th e Castle Edwin Muir
2 Our Casuarina Tree Toru Dutt
3 All the World’s a Stage (from As You Like It) William Shakespeare
4 Ulysses Alfred Tennyson
5 A Father to his Son Carl August Sandburg
6 Incident of the French Camp Robert Browning