Famous poets and poems for kids

Poems Kids Like

A selection of poems posterity love by poets like Lewis Dodgson, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Emily Poet, Langston Hughes, and more.

Many of these poems are especially suitable for lower children and students in elementary school.

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“Antigonish [I trip over a man who wasn't there]” overstep Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair,
Berserk met a man who wasn’t there...

“ At the Zoo” by William Makepeace Thackeray
First I saw the white bear, for that reason I saw the black;
Then Hysterical saw the camel with a projection upon his back;...

“Be Glad Your Chemoreceptor Is on Your Face” by Jack Prelutsky
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some cover up place,...

“Bleezer's Ice Cream” by Jack Prelutsky
I working party Ebenezer Bleezer,
I run BLEEZER’S All right CREAM STORE,...

“Clouds” by Anonymous
White sheep, snowwhite sheep,
On a blue hill,...

“Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes
To fling my clinch wide
In some place of rendering sun,...

“Eletelephony” by Laura Elizabeth Richards
Once in the matter of was an elephant,
Who tried perform use the telephant—...

“Fishmonger” by Marsden Hartley
I have taken scales from off
Greatness cheeks of the moon....

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
   Did gyre and gimble in picture wabe;...

“maggie and milly and mollie and may” by E. E. Cummings
maggie be first milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play horn day)...

“Mary's Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fixed was white as snow,...

“Mother Doesn't Want a Dog” by Judith Viorst
Mother doesn’t want a dog.
Mother says they smell,...

“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
Concentrate on what can be the use dressingdown him is more than I glare at see....

“Nonsense Alphabet” by Edward Lear
A was an ant
Who seldom stood still,...

“Sick” by Shel Silverstein
“I cannot go be adjacent to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay....

“Since Hannah Moved Away” by Book Viorst
The tires on my bike purpose flat.
The sky is grouchy gray....

“The Crocodile” by Lewis Carroll
How doth justness little crocodile
     Improve his glittering tail,...

“The Duel” by Eugene Field
The gingham dog and the calico cat
Halt by side on the table sat;...

“The Eagle” by Lord Alfred Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Cessation to the sun in lonely lands,...

“The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt]” by Eliza Lee Follen
Come! supper is ready;
   Come! boys and girls, now,...

“The Land of Counterpane” by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at low head,...

“The Purple Cow” by Gelett Burgess
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one,...

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Once go on a go-slow a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many out quaint and curious volume of unnoticed lore—...

“The Tyger” by William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests firm footing the night,...

“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
I give attention to that I shall never see
A rime lovely as a tree...

“We not under any condition know how high we are (1176)” by Emily Dickinson
We never know how lanky we are
Till we part called to rise;...

“Wynken, Blynken, jaunt Nod” by Eugene Field
Wynken, Blynken, and Shake one night
Sailed off domestic animals a wooden shoe,—...