Songs &
Poems
Poems and song lyrics help
learn new vocabulary in English. The ones featured here are
accompanied by audio links and activities.
The Great American Songbook describes the most popular
songs written for musicals in the 20th Centrury. These
songs by Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and
George and Ira Gershwin are sometimes called standards
American
Songbook
Comic Poems
Edward Lear (1812-88) is one of the most popular English comic poets. He wrote comic verse for children (including ‘The Owl and the Pussy Cat’) and limericks - or 'nonsense' - poems including
There was an Old Man with a Beard
There was a Young Lady whose Chin
There was a an Old Man with a Nose
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
Belloc is most famous for his 'Cautionary Verse'. These are comic poems about what happens to naughty children.
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