Cockcrow to Starlight

by Rumer Godden

Leads the reader through the day from dawn to dusk. The book is a selection of poetry and a picture story book, with the author acting as a guide and scene-setter, particularly for the more challenging poems. The poems come from all over the world and from all ancient Greece to present day.

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Margaret Rumer Godden was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.
A few of her works were co-written with her elder sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh.