List Of Poems For Children List Of Poems For Children Coquí Drum Dream Girl Peering Up From Mud A Blank White Page Eating Words Great Horned Owl If Jaguar Mosquitoes Ode to My Shoes The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound Room with a View Words are Birds To Catch a Fish Ostrich and Lark The Dentist and the Crocodile And Later . . . The Day After Labor Day First Saturday in June Guess Moon My Place Nature Knows Its Math Ode to Teachers Old Love Suprise Porcupines Big Dreams Budding Scholars Barrel Racer Bat Patrol Carousel He Laughed with a Laugh Jack Signing on a Crew Tests You Go to My Head Carole Robertson Cedar Waxwings Unmasked Cookie My Pa Oh, Fly The Regal Eagle Taking One for the Team Swimming to the Rock The Fourth of July Parade Help Wanted Katie Kissed Me My Lemonade Stand On Mother’s Day Swing Arachis Hypogaea Bedside Reading Green-Thumb Boy Watkins Laundry and Apothecary Songs for the People To One Coming North Church Commercial Break Firefly Group Home Before Miss Edna’s House Occasional Poem Parents Poem April Fool flag Football Dreams Genetics A Girl Named Jack Lessons On Paper The Right Way To Speak What Everybody Knows Now I Like Harlem Hopscotch Spanglish Personal Poem An Irish Airman foresees his Death Ode to the Hotel Near the Children’s Hospital Negative The Impossible Replication of Desire Blackberry-Picking Try to Praise the Mutilated World The Ball Poem Night Nurse There Are Birds Here A Bird, came down the Walk – (359) Mix a Pancake And the Ghosts Auto-Lullaby A Boat Burn Lake Dawn From “Bestiary” In the Low Countries “A monster owl” Monsters “My hat” Poem Trust Uppity The Witch Has Told You a Story “Yes, I live inside the piano” Jook Joint Saturday Night Lady Day Swim, Girl, Swim You Learn By Living This Is Just To Say América Photo of a Man on Sunset Drive: 1914, 2008 The One About the Robbers Dirty Face Openin’ Night When I am Gone The Promise Trees This Most Perfect Hill The Beak of the Pelican Benny Said, Ruby Said First Girls in Little League Baseball First Men on the Moon Mosquito One Cow, Two Moos Said the Toad Snake Song Tom Tigercat Vinegar What to Wear Where Doors Poem for Haruko Autumn’s Way Grand Slam The Giant Water Bug The Mayfly The Termites The Ticks Song of the Son Evolution of My Block The Owl Snowy Owl Near Ocean Shores Figs from Thistles: First Fig The Cowboy Turn Off the TV! Migrations I Am Offering this Poem Fifth Grade Autobiography History Lesson Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary Childhood When I Was One-and-Twenty George Moses Horton, Myself The Hunting of the Snark ‘Early to bed’ [even with insects] ‘Fire in the window’ ‘The Moon came late’ [mosquito at my ear] [My mother saw the green tree toad] Poor Crow! There is no Frigate like a Book (1286) Boy and Egg Weighing In “Find Work” About the Teeth of Sharks The Adventures of a Turtle The Animal Store Apollo Baby Ate a Microchip Blind Curse Caged Bird Casey at the Bat Choices The Day Lady Died December 26 December Substitute The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee Dream Song 14 Encounter Famous For the young who want to Frederick Douglass The Frog Good Morning, Dear Students Halloween Party Here Where Coltrane Is Hey, Ma, Something’s under My Bed I, Too If— [if mama / could see] The Kindergarten Concert Learning to love America Legacies The Legend Lift Every Voice and Sing Little Boy Blue Lunchbox Love Note My Brother My Brother’s Bear My Doggy Ate My Homework My Papa’s Waltz My Violin Napoleon A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096) Nikki-Rosa On the Gift of a Book to a Child Ozymandias Perfect Phenomenal Woman The Powwow at the End of the World The Raven The Red Wheelbarrow Snow Day Swimming Ool Sympathy Thanksgiving Magic Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird To an Athlete Dying Young The Whale Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo Willie’s Wart The Workforce The Yak In a Station of the Metro Across the Border Annabel Lee Baa, Baa, Black Sheep The Bamboo Ladder Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face “Because he swings so neatly through the trees,” Bed in Summer The Best Game the Fairies Play A Blessing The Bogeyman “A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett …” Brother Catch a Little Rhyme Caterpillars The Charge of the Light Brigade Color Concord Hymn The Creature in the Classroom The Cremation of Sam McGee Deep in Our Refrigerator The Destruction of Sennacherib Don’t Worry if Your Job Is Small The Dong with a Luminous Nose Dust of Snow Eating Together Facing It Fireflies in the Garden Fish Fog The Folk Who Live in Backward Town Forty Little Polliwogs Freddie George Washington’s Birthday: Wondering God’s Grandeur Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes The Hedgehog Herbert Glerbett Here Is the Beehive “Hey, diddle, diddle,” “Hickory, dickory, dock,” The Highwayman “Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314) “Hot-cross buns!” “How awkward when playing with glue” “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck … ” “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,” “Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top,” “Hush little baby, don’t say a word,” I Eat My Peas with Honey I Found a Four-Leaf Clover I Left My Head I Love to Do My Homework I’m Fond of Frogs I’m Glad I’m Me I Wave Good-bye When Butter Flies If Not for the Cat If We Must Die If You Catch a Firefly “If you’re fond of road-blocks, this one can’t be beat:” [in Just-] “It’s raining, it’s pouring … ” “Itsy bitsy spider” Jabberwocky Jack and Jill “Jack be nimble,” John Henry kitchenette building “Ladybird, ladybird,” The Lake Isle of Innisfree The Lamb Leap Year Poem Light the Festive Candles Little Bo-Peep Little Boy Blue Little Jack Horner Little Miss Muffet Little Robin Redbreast [little tree] The Little Turtle “Mary had a little lamb,” “Mary, Mary, quite contrary” Mending Wall Michael O’Toole Mine The Monsters in My Closet Moo, Moo, Brown Cow from A Moral Alphabet Mr. Nobody My First Best Friend My Frog Is a Frog My Shadow The Negro Speaks of Rivers Noisy Noisy O Captain! My Captain! Ode on a Grecian Urn On Being Brought from Africa to America On Virtue The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Ox Cart Man “Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man,” “A peanut sat on a railroad track …” “Pease porridge hot,” “Polly, put the kettle on,” Poor Old Lady Poorly Dressed Pumberly Pott’s Unpredictable Niece The Quangle Wangle’s Hat “Quick! quick! …” A Red, Red Rose Richard Cory “Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,” “Ring around the rosy,” The Road Not Taken A Rocket in My Pocket The Secret Shoes A Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Sing a Song of Sixpence So We’ll Go No More a Roving Song of Myself (1892 version) Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble” “Star light, star bright,” Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening A Student’s Prayer Sunflakes Suzanna Socked Me Sunday The Swing A Teacher’s Lament Tender-heartedness Thanksgiving Day [“Over the river and through the wood”] Theme for English B Theme in Yellow “There was a crooked man,” There was a little girl There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ There was an Old Man on the Border There was an Old Man with a Beard There was an Old Person of Nice “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.” This Little Piggy Those Winter Sundays “The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,” Too Many Daves The Toothless Wonder The Tropics in New York The Twelve Days of Christmas Twickham Tweer Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Two Little Dickie Birds Two Old Crows The Tyger the vacant lot A Visit from St. Nicholas The Walrus and the Carpenter We Real Cool We Wear the Mask The Wheels on the Bus When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer “When in your neighborhood you hear a neigh,” Who Has Seen the Wind? Willie Winkie Windigo A Wolf Is at the Laundromat The Worm Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Yankee Doodle A Young Lady of Lynn The Bean Eaters