![]() But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. ![]() ![]() “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. Table of Contents How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee? The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame An extract from The Wind in the Willows When I Am Dead My Dearest By Christina Rossetti When I Am Dead, My Dearest Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury An extract from Fahrenheit 451 Charlotte’s Web By EB White An extract from Charlotte’s Web No Matter What By Debi Gliori An extract from No Matter What The Tempest By William Shakespeare An extract from The Tempest Intimations of Immortality By William Wordsworth Intimations of Immortality The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams An extract from The Velveteen Rabbit Holy Sonnet X By John Donne Holy Sonnet X An extract from The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint-Exupery An extract from The Little Prince Roads Go Ever On By JRR Tolkien An extract from The Lord of the Rings(’Roads Go Ever On’) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas An extract fromDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Death Is Nothing At All By Henry Scott Holland Death Is Nothing At All An extract from Julius Caeser By William Shakespeare An extract from Julius Caeser Candle On The Water (from Pete’s Dragon) By Walt Disney An extract from Candle on the Water An extract from Winnie the Pooh By AA Milne An extract from Winnie The Pooh Native American poem Anonymous You may also like 5 of the most beautiful poems to read when you need a good cry Native American Poem Funeral Blues By WH Auden An extract from Funeral Blues Cold By Carol Ann Duffy An extract from Cold An extract from Cymbeline By William Shakespeare An extract from Cymbeline Adlestrop By Edward Thomas Adlestrop Gone From My Sight By Henry Van Dyke An extract from Gone From My Sight Not In Vain By Emily Dickinson Not In Vain ![]()
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