Poems for Children - The Classics

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	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 ~William Brighty Rands
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

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