A family of poems: my favorite poetry for children

The early morning / Hilaire Belloc --

Me / Walter de la Mare --

First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

This is just to say / William Carlos Williams --

To P.J. (2 yrs. old who sed write a poem for me in Portland Oregon) / Sonia Sanchez --

The reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni --

Michael is afraid of the storm / Gwendolyn Brooks --

"Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson --

I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore --

The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats --

Has my heart gone to sleep? / Antonio Machado --

The road not taken / Robert Frost --

Psalm 23: 1-6 / Holy Bible --

There was an old man of West Dumpet / Edward Lear --

There was an old man of Blackheath / Anonymous --

The little old man who wasn't there / William Hughes Mearns --

Moses / Anonymous --

Happiness / A.A. Milne --

"Amelia mixed the mustard" / A.E. Housman --

Careless Willie / Anonymous --

To a fellow poet / Joseph Brodsky --

Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes --

The people upstairs / Ogden Nash --

Falling in love is like owning a dog / Taylor Mali --

Today is very boring / Jack Prelutsky --

The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens --

Some opposites / Richard Wilbur --

Epigram: engraved on the collar of a dog / Alexander Pope --

Roger the dog / Ted Hughes --

The song of the mischievous dog / Dylan Thomas --

The porcupine / Ogden Nash --

The sloth / Theodore Roethke --

Peacockfeather / Rainer Maria Rilke --

Ode to the goose / Luo Binwang --

Mr. Mistoffelees / T.S. Eliot --

An old silent pond / Basho --

Farewell! like a bee / Basho --

The frog / Hilaire Belloc --

The little turtle / Vachel Lindsay --

Little Trotty Wagtail / John Clare --

"Hurt no living thing" / Christina Rossetti --

The last word of a bluebird as told to a child / Robert Frost --

Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell --

The crocodile / Lewis Carroll --

The tyger / William Blake --

Hunting-song of the Seeonee Pack / Rudyard Kipling --

Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg --

Elephant / Anonymous --

The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 / Holy Bible --

April rain song / Langston Hughes --

in Just- / e.e. cummings --

Pippa's song / Robert Browning --

The pasture / Robert Frost --

The daffodils / William Wordsworth --

Ariel's song / William Shakespeare --

The rose family / Robert Frost --

"And what is so rare as a day in June" / James Russell Lowell --

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" / William Shakespeare --

Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti --

These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson --

Thoughts / Jacqueline Bouvier --

Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field --

Ode to a pair of socks / Pablo Neruda --

Snow in the suburbs / Thomas Hardy --

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost --

little tree / e.e. cummings --

Iriquois prayer / Anonymous --

Sea joy / Jacqueline Bouvier --

maggie and milly and molly and may / e.e. cummings --

Sea shell / Amy Lowell --

"Full fathom five" from the Tempest, Act 1, sc., 1 / William Shakespeare --

The octopus / Ogden Nash --

The mock turtle's song / Lewis Carroll --

A jelly-fish / Marianne Moore --

Seashell / Federico Garcia Lorca --

The fish / Elizabeth Bishop --

Sea-fever / John Masefield --

The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson --

This is the key / Anonymous --

A fairy in armor / Joseph Rodman Drake --

The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear --

Good hotdogs / Sandra Cisneros --

The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams --

Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

Goblin feet / J.R.R. Tolkien --

The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats --

Scaffolding / Seamus Heaney --

Song of the open road / Walt Whitman --

The rider / Naomi Shihab Nye --

"Do not be afraid of no" / Gwendolyn Brooks --

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