A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children

Poems

• 1 The Early Morning by Hilaire Belloc
• 2 Me by Walter de la Mare
• 3 First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 4 Second Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 5 This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
• 6 To P.J. (2 yrs. old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)
• 7 The Reason I Like Chocolate by Nikki Giovanni
• 8 Michael Is Afraid of the Storm by Gwendolyn Brooks
• 9 "Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
• 10 I May, I Might, I Must by Marianne Moore
• 11 The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
• 12 Has My Heart Gone to Sleep? by Antonio Machado
• 13 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
• 14 Psalm 23:1-6 Holy Bible
• 15 There Was an Old Man of West Dumpet by Edward Lear
• 16 There Was an Old Man of Blackheath Anonymous
• 17 The Little Man Who Wasn't There by William Hughes Mearns
• 18 Moses Anonymous
• 19 Happiness by A. A. Milne
• 20 "Amelia Mixed the Mustard" by A. E. Housman
• 21 Careless Willie Anonymous
• 22 To a Fellow Poet by Joseph Brodsky
• 23 Daddy Fell Into the Pond by Alfred Noyes
• 24 The People Upstairs by Ogden Nash
• 25 from Falling in Love Is Like Owning a Dog by Taylor Mali
• 26 Today Is Very Boring by Jack Prelutsky
• 27 The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Wallace Stevens
• 28 Some Opposites by Richard Wilbur
• 29 Epigram: Engraved on the Collar of a Dog by Alexander Pope
• 30 Roger the Dog by Ted Hughes
• 31 The Song of the Mischievous Dog by Dylan Thomas
• 32 The Porcupine by Ogden Nash
• 33 The Sloth by Theodore Roethke
• 34 Peacockfeather by Rainer Maria Rilke
• 35 Ode to the Goose by Luo Binwang
• 36 Mr. Mistoffelees by T. S. Eliot
• 37 An Old Silent Pond by Basho
• 38 Farewell! Like a Bee by Basho
• 39 The Frog by Hilaire Belloc
• 40 The Little Turtle by Vachel Lindsay
• 41 Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare
• 42 "Hurt No Living Thing" by Christina Rossetti
• 43 The Last Word of a Bluebird As Told to a Child by Robert Frost
• 44 Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell
• 45 The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
• 46 The Tyger by William Blake
• 47 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack by Rudyard Kipling
• 48 Buffalo Dusk by Carl Sandburg
• 49 Elephant by Anonymous
• 50 The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• 51 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Holy Bible
• 52 April Rain Song by Langston Hughes
• 53 in Just- by E. E. Cummings
• 54 Pippa's Song by Robert Browning
• 55 The Pasture by Robert Frost
• 56 The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
• 57 Ariel's Song by William Shakespeare
• 58 The Rose Family by Robert Frost
• 59 "And What Is So Rare As a Day in June?" by James Russell Lowell
• 60 "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" by William Shakespeare
• 61 Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti
• 62 These are the days when Birds come back by Emily Dickinson
• 63 Thoughts by Jacqueline Bouvier
• 64 Something Told the Wild Geese by Rachel Field
• 65 from Ode to a Pair of Socks by Pablo Neruda
• 66 Snow in the Suburbs by Thomas Hardy
• 67 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
• 68 A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
• 69 little tree by E. E. Cummings
• 70 Iroquois Prayer Anonymous
• 71 Sea Joy by Jacqueline Bouvier
• 72 maggie and milly and molly and may by E. E. Cummings
• 73 Sea Shell by Amy Lowell
• 74 "Full Fathom Five" by William Shakespeare
• 75 The Octopus by Ogden Nash
• 76 The Mock Turtle's Song by Lewis Carroll
• 77 A Jelly-Fish by Marianne Moore
• 78 Seashell by Frederico Garcia Lorca
• 79 The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
• 80 Sea-Fever by John Masefield
• 81 The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 82 This Is the Key Anonymous
• 83 A Fairy in Armor by Joseph Rodman Drake
• 84 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
• 85 Good Hotdogs by Sandra Cisneros
• 86 The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
• 87 Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 88 Goblin Feet by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 89 The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
• 90 Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney
• 91 from Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
• 92 The Rider by Naomi Shihab Nye
• 93 "Do not be afraid of no" by Gwendolyn Brooks
• 94 When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
• 95 Harlem Night Song by Langston Hughes
• 96 Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 97 "Sweet and Low" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• 98 Silver by Walter de la Mare
• 99 If You'll Only Go to Sleep by Gabriela Mistral
• 100 from The Bed Book by Sylvia Plath
• 101 The Plumpuppets by Christopher Morley
• 102 Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
• 103 The Moon by Jorge Luis Borges
• 104 from Imagine Angels by Guillaume Apollinaire
• 105 Keep a Poem in Your Pocket by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
• 106 The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm by Wallace Stevens