Poems for January by Gabby Morgan

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The New Year
Anon

I am the little New Year, ho ho !
Here I come tripping it over the snow.
Shaking my bells with a merry din –
So open your doors and let me in!

Presents I bring for each and all –
Big folks, little folks, short and tall;
Each one from me a treasure may win –
So open your doors and let me in!

Some shall have silver and some shall have gold,
Some shall have new clothes and some shall have old;
Some shall have brass and some shall have tin –
So open your doors and let me in !

Some shall have water and some shall have milk,
Some shall have satin and some shall have silk!
But each from me a present may win –
So open your doors and let me in !
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Some One
By Walter de la Mare.

Some one came knocking
At my wee, small door;
Some one came knocking
I’m sure – sure – sure;
I listened, I opened,
I looked to left and right,
But nought there was a-stirring
In the still dark night;
Only the busy beetle
Tap-tapping in the wall,
Only from the forest
The screech-owl’s call
Only the cricket whistling
While the dewdrops fall,
So I know not who came knocking
At all, at all, at all.
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Snowdrops
By Mary Vivian.

I like to think
That long ago,
There fell to earth
Some flakes of snow
Which loved this cold
Grey world of ours
So much, they stayed
As snowdrop flowers.
…………………

Tony O.
Anon

Over the bleak and barren snow
A voice there came a-calling;
‘Where are you going to, Tony O!
Where are you going this morning?

‘I am going where there are rivers of wine
The mountains bread and honey;
There Kings and Queens do mind the swine,
And the poor have all the money.’