Most people don’t realize that in addition to being a fine writer, Roald Dahl was also a gifted comic poet. His children’s books are full of songs and poetry, and he even wrote three books devoted to nothing but verse. Here are all of his poems (that I know of) with links to further information. Note: poems without a title are referred to by their first line.
- “‘I look and smell,’ Aunt Sponge declared…”
- “A Hand in the Bird”
- “A Little Nut-Tree”
- “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp”
- “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”
- “As I Grow Old…”
- “Attention, please! Attention, please…”
- “Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop…”
- “Aunt Spiker was thin as a wire…”
- “Aunt Sponge was terrifically fat…”
- “BUNGO BUNI…”
- “Cinderella”
- “Dear friends, we surely all agree…”
- “Dick Whittington and His Cat”
- “Down they go…”
- “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”
- “Hansel and Gretel”
- “Hello, you great Knid! Tell us, how do you do…”
- “Hey Diddle Diddle”
- “Hot and Cold”
- “I’ve eaten many strange and scrumptious dishes in my time…”
- “If you are old and have the shakes…”
- “In the quelchy quaggy sogmire…”
- “Jack and the Beanstalk”
- “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf”
- “Mary, Mary”
- “My friends, this is the Centipede, and let me make it known…”
- “My teacher wasn’t half as nice as yours seems to be…”
- “Oh alleluia and hooray…”
- “Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious…”
- “Oh, hooray for the storm and the rain…”
- “Once upon a time…”
- “Physical Training”
- “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
- “St. Ives”
- “St. Valentine’s Day”
- “The Ant-Eater”
- “The Cow”
- “The Crocodile”
- “The Dentist and the Crocodile”
- “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
- “The Lion”
- “The most important thing we’ve learned…”
- “The Nurse’s Song”
- “The Pig”
- “The Porcupine”
- “The Price of Debauchery”
- “The Scorpion”
- “The Three Little Pigs”
- “The Toad and the Snail”
- “The Tortoise and the Hare”
- “The Tummy Beast”
- “There’s no earthly way of knowing…”
- “Veruca Salt, the little brute…”
- “We may see a Creature with forty-nine heads…”
- “Where Art Thou, Mother Christmas?”