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IGCSE Poetry
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Contents
Head of English 3
War Photographer 4
Recognition 5
Stealing 6
Foreign 7
Originally 8
In Mrs Tilscher's Class 9
We Remember Your Childhood Well 10
The Darling Letters 11
In Your Mind 12
The Good Teachers 13
Valentine 14

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Prayer 15

A Child's Sleep 16

Death of a Teacher 17

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 A Child's Sleep

I stood at the edge of my child's sleep,

hearing her breathe;
although I could not enter there,
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Her slee was a small wood, I .
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And she was the spirit that lives
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From Meeting Midnight (1999)

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