Children

Children's Poetry

This is a collection of classical poems for children to read online with a selection to print. Most of the poems for print are lightly illustrated and can be used for individual student copies or posted on your bulletin or literature board in the classroom. There is a large variety of decorative papers on the market that you may want to try to further enhance the visual display of the poetry.

Children's Poems Online		Children's Poems to Print
Above the Bright Blue Sky ~Albert Midlane		Above the Bright Blue Sky ~Albert Midlane
A Light Exists in Spring ~Emily Dickinson
All Things Bright and Beautiful ~Cecil Frances Alexander
An Alphabet ~Edward Lear
At The Seaside ~Robert Louis Stevenson
At The Zoo ~William Makepeace Thackeray
An Autumn Greeting ~Anonymous
The Baby Dance ~Ann Taylor
Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear? ~George MacDonald
A Baby Sermon ~George MacDonald		A Baby Sermon ~George MacDonald
Bed in Summer ~Robert Louis Stevenson		Bed in Summer ~Robert Louis Stevenson
What Does the Bee Do? ~Christina Rossetti		What Does the Bee Do? ~Christina Rossetti
The Blind Boy ~Colley Cibber
Buttercups and Daisies ~Mary Howitt		Buttercups and Daisies ~Mary Howitt
The Canary ~Elizabeth Turner
Caterpillar ~Christina Rossetti
A Child's Evening Prayer ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer to a Child's Question ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Land of Counterpane ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Covetousness ~Peter Idley
The Cow ~Robert Louis Stevenson		The Cow ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Once in Royal David's City ~Cecil Frances Alexander
Now the Day is Over ~Sabine Baring-Gould		Now the Day is Over ~Sabine Baring-Gould
Whole Duty of Children ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Eletelephony ~Laura Richards		Eletelephony ~Laura Richards
Evening (In words of one syllable) ~Thomas Miller		Evening (In words of one syllable) ~Thomas Miller
An Evening Hymn ~Thomas Ken
The Exhortation of a Father to His Children ~Robert Smith
The Father's Vineyard ~Anonymous
Ferry Me Across the Water ~Christina Rossetti
The Story of Fidgety Philip ~Heinrich Hoffman
The Field Mouse ~Cecil Frances Alexander		The Field Mouse ~Cecil Frances Alexander
God to be First Served ~Robert Herrick
The First Tooth ~Charles and Mary Lamb
Flint ~Christina Rossetti		Flint ~Christina Rossetti
Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild ~Charles Wesley
Our Saviour's Golden Rule ~Isaac Watts
Good Night and Good Morning ~Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
The Migration of the Grey Squirrels ~William Howitt
A Guinea Pig ~Anonymous
Happy Thought ~Robert Louis Stevenson
What are Heavy? ~Christina Rossetti
Humpty Dumpty's Song ~Lewis Carroll
The Story of Johnny Head-in-the-Air ~Heinrich Hoffman
To His Son Benedict from the Tower of London ~John Hoskyns
There was a Little Girl ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		There was a Little Girl ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Little Things ~Julia A. Carney
Looking Forward ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Mary's Lamb ~Sarah Hale
A Morning Hymn ~Christopher Smart
Morning Prayer ~Ogden Nash
Old Mother Hubbard ~Sarah Catherine Marine
My Mother ~Ann Taylor
There was a Naughty Boy ~John Keats
Nonsenses ~Edward Lear
The Little Doll ~Charles Kingsley
The Rainbow ~Christina Rossetti
A Riddle ~Christina Rossetti
Rising in the Morning ~Hugh Rhodes
Robin Redbreast ~William Allinghamn
The Rooks ~Jane Browne
My Shadow ~Robert Louis Stevenson
The Star ~Jane Taylor
Upon the Swallow ~Robert Herrick
The Lamb ~William Blake
The Sheep ~Ann and Jane Taylor
Time to Rise ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Topsy Turvy World ~Albert Midlane
Trees ~Sarah Coleridge
Tumbling ~Anonymous
Two Little Kittens ~Anonymous
The Vulture ~Hilaire Belloc
What is Pink? ~Christina Rossetti
Where Go the Boats? ~Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wind ~Christina Rossetti
Winter Time ~Robert Louis Stevenson
You are Old, Father William ~Lewis Carroll
Young and Old ~Charles Kingsley