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Roald Dahl's Poetry, by title

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  • "Augustus Gloop..."
    "Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop!
    The great big greedy nincompoop!
    51 lines, 1 comment
  • "Goldie Pinklesweet..."
    "Attention please! Attention please!
    Don't dare to talk! Don't dare to sneeze!
    140 lines, 65,535 comments
  • "My teacher wasn't half as nice as yours seems to be"
    "My teacher wasn't half as nice as yours seems to be.
    His name was Mister Unsworth and he taught us history.
    9 lines, 3 comments
  • "Veruca Salt..."
    "Veruca Salt, the little brute,
    Has just gone down the garbage chute,
    49 lines
  • "Violet Beauregarde..."
    "Dear friends, we surely all agree
    There's almost nothing worse to see
    65 lines, 1 comment
  • "Wonkavite..."
    "If you are old and have the shakes,
    If all your bones are full of aches,
    28 lines, 6 comments
  • Candy Man
    Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
    Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two
    25 lines, 9 comments
  • Cinderella
    I guess you think you know this story.
    You don't. The real one's much more gory.
    127 lines, 10 comments
  • Down they go...
    Down they go!
    Hail and snow!
    2 lines
  • Excerpt – "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
    "This famous wicked little tale
    Should never have been put on sale
    78 lines, 1 comment
  • Hey diddle diddle
    Hey diddle diddle
    We're all on the fiddle
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • Hot And Cold
    A woman who my mother knows
    Came in and took off all her clothes.
    6 lines, 31 comments
  • I had a little nut-tree,
    I had a little nut-tree,
    Nothing would it bear.
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • I Want It Now
    Gooses, geeses
    I want my geese to lay gold eggs for easter
    47 lines
  • I've Got a Golden Ticket
    I never thought my life could be
    Anything but catastrophe
    46 lines, 1 comment
  • Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
    As soon as Wolf began to feel
    That he would like a decent meal,
    63 lines, 3 comments
  • Mary, Mary, quite contrary
    Mary, Mary, quite contrary
    How does your garden grow?
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • Mike Teavee...
    The most important thing we've learned,
    So far as children are concerned,
    92 lines, 25 comments
  • Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious....
    Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious!
    You are slimy and soggy and squishous!
    4 lines
  • Pure Imagination
    Come with me and you'll be
    In a world of pure imagination
    27 lines, 2 comments
  • St Ives
    As I was going to St Ives
    I met a man with seven wives
    3 lines, 17 comments
  • Television
    The most important thing we've learned,
    So far as children are concerned,
    93 lines, 1 comment
  • The Crocodile
    "No animal is half as vile
    As Crocky–Wock, the crocodile.
    26 lines, 6 comments
  • The Pig
    In England once there lived a big
    A wonderfully clever pig.
    54 lines, 40 comments
  • The Rowing Song
    Round the world and home again
    That's the sailor's way
    20 lines
  • The Three Little Pigs
    The animal I really dig,
    Above all others is the pig.
    94 lines, 5 comments
  • There's no earthly way of knowing
    There's no earthly way of knowing
    Which direction they are going!
    8 lines, 4 comments
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