I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

from ‘He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ by W. B. Yeats

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you

from ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling

That Man to Man the warld o’erShall brithers be for a’ that.

from ‘A Man’s a Man for a’ That’ by Robert Burns

Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark from ‘Sonnet CXVI’ by William Shakespeare

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy!O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled in his joy. from ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness;It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

from ‘Love is Like a Dizziness’ by James Hogg

i carry your heart with me( i carry it in my heart ) from ‘i carry your heart with me( i carry it in’ by e.e. cummings

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

‘Celia Celia’ by Adrian Mitchell

For I have known them all already, known them all –Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T. S. Eliot

When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.

from ‘Warning’ by Jenny Joseph

The dead don’t go till you do, loved ones. The dead are still here holding our hands.

from ‘Darling’ by Jackie Kay

A poem’s cool, a poem’s real,A poem can tell just how you feel.It can cheer you up, it can make you strong,Wherever you go, take a poem along.

from ‘How to Carry a Poem’ by Diana Hendry

Look to the living, love them, and hold on.

from ‘Disenchantments’ by Douglas Dunn

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I promise to think before I speak.I promise to speak before I think.I promise to spink before I theak.I promise to know when to stop.

from ‘Beliefs and promises’ by John Hegley

7 April 1852

Went to the Zoo.I said to Him – Something about that Chimpanzee over there

reminds me of you.

‘Mrs Darwin’ by Carol Ann Duffy

There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, ‘It is just as I feared! – Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!’

from ‘A Book of Nonsense’ by Edward Lear

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tucked in my pocketa charm against sudden chillsarduous taskslike silk-lined leather glovesI carry you with me

from ‘Friend’ by Susie Maguire

Agus dé as ciall dhan Ghealaich?

And what is the meaning of the Moon?

from ‘Iolair, Brù-Dhearg, Giuthas’/‘Eagle, Robin, Pine’ by Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh