Foreword by James EngellIntroductionMary Had a Little Lamb / Mother GooseThe Silly Lambe / Edmund SpenserSonnet No. 155 / William ShakespeareTemper Rising / John DonneAcademia Lost / John MiltonThe School Steps / George HerbertTo Mary, To Get Out On Time / Robert HerrickAnnus Horribilis / John DrydenAn Essay on Lambs / Alexander PopeThe Vanity of Ovine Hubris / Samuel JohnsonThe Book of Hell / William BlakeExpulsion and Result / William WordsworthThe Crime of the Urchin Mary / Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhy do I hate this horrid place / Emily BrontThe Revolt of a Lamb / Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to Cologne / John KeatsMy Man, Fred / George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Clover Eater / Alfred, Lord TennysonFriedrich Schlafbewirken's Excogitation / Robert BrowningThe Deserted Lamb / Matthew ArnoldMistress Mary / Dante Gabriel RossettiHymn to the Lamb / Algernon Charles SwinburneA Shropshire Lamb / A. E. HousmanThe Lambkin: To Lady Mary / Gerard Manley HopkinsLamby / Rudyard KiplingAt School / Thomas HardyLoco Lamb and the Schoolman / William Butler YeatsLamb / D. H. LawrenceLittle Gaffer / T. S. EliotA Refusal to Bleat and Moan About Being Expelled from School / Dylan ThomasThe Anxiety of Age / W. H. AudenSchool Going / Philip LarkinSecond Thoughts About Mary / Stevie SmithAcknowledgementsDedication