Hiding / Dorothy Aldis
The creation / Cecil Francis Alexander
Life doesn't frighten me / Maya Angelou
Song for a young girl's puberty ceremony / Anonymous
Song for the sun that disappeared behind the rainclouds / Anonymous
A visit from Mr. Fox / Anonymous
Do you carrot all for me? / Anonymous
Monday's child is fair of face / Anonymous
Mr. Nobody / Anonymous
I shall not pass this way again / Anonymous
Somebody's mother / Anonymous
The cats of Kilkenny / Anonymous
Cowboy's lament / Anonymous
Good sportsmanship / Richard Armour
Pachycephalosaurus / Richard Armour
Song form / Amiri Baraka
It would melt / Matsuo Bashō
The old pond / Matsuo Bashō
The frog / Hilaire Belloc
The witch of Willowby Wood / Rowena Bennett
The gingerbread man / Rowena Bennett
The ball poem / John Berryman
The fish / Elizabeth Bishop
Cirque d'hiver / Elizabeth Bishop
Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop
Piping down the valleys / William Blake
The shepherd / William Blake
The tyger / William Blake
The little black boy / William Blake
The divine image / William Blake
Spring equinox / Peter Blue Cloud
Hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven / Gwendolyn Brooks
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here / Robert Burns
A tethered horse / Yosa Buson
I go / Yosa Buson
That snail / Yosa Buson
The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon, Lord Byron
So, we'll go no more a roving / George Gordon, Lord Byron.
The castle in the fire / Mary Jane Carr
The crocodile / Lewis Carroll
Father William / Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll
Little Trotty Wagtail / John Clare
Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth
The garden year / Sara Coleridge
I saw a man pursuing the horizon / Stephen Crane
Incident / Countee Cullen
Heritage / Countee Cullen
in just-spring / E.E. Cummings
Maggie and milly and molly and may / E.E. Cummings
Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings
Souvenir of the ancient world / Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Looking for poetry / Carlos Drummond de Andrade
The elephant / Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Some one / Walter de la Mare
The ride-by-nights / Walter de la Mare
The new suit / Nidia Sanabria de Romero
I met a king this afternoon! / Emily Dickinson
There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you? / Emily Dickinson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson
A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson
The morns are meeker than they were / Emily Dickinson
I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson
A bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson
Freedom / Wimal Dissanayake
Hold fast your dreams / Louise Driscoll
America / Henry Dumas
Macavity: the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot.
Over the garden wall / Eleanor Farjeon
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Eugene Field
Little boy blue / Eugene Field
General store / Rachel Field
Skyscrapers / Rachel Field
A summer morning / Rachel Field
Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field
Some people / Rachel Field
Bouquets / Robert Francis
Mending wall / Robert Frost
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
The road not taken / Robert Frost
Dust of snow / Robert Frost
Mice / Rose Fyleman
A short story / David Escobar Galindo
Mr. Lizard is crying / Federico García Lorca
Silly song / Federico García Lorca
Plowing: a memory / Hamlin Garland
I'd love to be a fairy's child / Robert Graves
The dance / Daniel Halpern
The reminder / Thomas Hardy
The man he killed / Thomas Hardy
The new toy / Thomas Hardy
The oxen / Thomas Hardy
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney
Scaffolding / Seamus Heaney
Napoleon / Miroslav Holub
God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman
When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman
The sea gypsy / Richard Hovey
Miss Blues'es child / Langston Hughes
Mother to son / Langston Hughes
My brother Bert / Ted Hughes
Roger the dog / Ted Hughes
Abou Ben Adhem / James Henry Leigh Hunt.
Don't worry, spiders / Kobayashi Issa
Don't kill that fly! / Kobayashi Issa
Under the evening moon / Kobayashi Issa
For you fleas too / Kobayashi Issa
Even with insects / Kobayashi Issa
Climb Mount Fuji / Kobayashi Issa
Mosquito at my ear / Kobayashi Issa
Bats / Randall Jarrell
Autumn evening / Robinson Jeffers
Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers
Minnows / John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
Mother's nerves / X.J. Kennedy
Trees / Joyce Kilmer
The house with nobody in it / Joyce Kilmer
Crying / Galway Kinnell
Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell
Daybreak / Galway Kinnell
The way through the woods / Rudyard Kipling
If ... / Rudyard Kipling
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
Snake / D.H. Lawrence
The owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear
Viewing the waterfall at Mount Lu / Li Po
The children's hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sea fever / John Masefield
In Flanders fields / John McCrae
Spring in New Hampshire / Claude McKay
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee / Mildred Plew Meigs
How to eat a poem / Eve Merriam
Fly / W.S. Merwin
The last one / W.S. Merwin
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay
First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz
The sun / Czeslaw Milosz
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
A jelly-fish / Marianne Moore
I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore
Child's song / Sir Thomas Moore
The minstrel boy / Sir Thomas Moore
Animal crackers / Christopher Morley
The plumpuppets / Christopher Morley
The wonder / Thylias Moss.
Experiment degustatory / Ogden Nash
The parsnip / Ogden Nash
Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash
The pit ponies / Leslie Norris
Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes
The highwayman / Alfred Noyes
What I tell him / Simon Ortiz
Try, try again / T.H. Palmer
Snow is falling / Boris Pasternak
Exclamation / Octavio Paz
from The bed book / Sylvia Plath
Giraffe / Stanley Plumly
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
The raven / Edgar Allan Poe
The bells / Edgar Allan Poe
Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe
In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound
The little box / Vasko Popa
The spaghetti nut / Jack Prelutsky
Homework! Oh, homework! / Jack Prelutsky
Little Orphant Annie / James Whitcomb Riley
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The lady and the bear / Theodore Roethke
The bat / Theodore Roethke
The sloth / Theodore Roethke
My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke
The meadow mouse / Theodore Roethke
The monotony song / Theodore Roethke
Caterpillar / Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti
Precious stones / Christina Rossetti
Remember / Christina Rossetti
What is pink? / Christina Rossetti
Transformations / Tadeusz Rózewicz
Ballad of orange and grape / Muriel Rukeyser
The message of the rain / Norman H. Russell.
Fog / Carl Sandburg
Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg
Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott
The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert Service
Lobster / Anne Sexton
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sick / Shel Silverstein
Stone / Charles Simic
Great infirmities / Charles Simic
A theory / Charles Simic
Fork / Charles Simic
For I will consider my cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens
Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens
Good and bad children / Robert Louis Stevenson
The land of story books / Robert Louis Stevenson
My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson
The land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson
The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson
Twinkle twinkle little star / Jane Taylor
The falling star / Sara Teasdale
The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The brook / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Songs / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sweet and low / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
A shooting star / Edith M. Thomas
The owl / Edward Thomas
First Thanksgiving of all / Nancy Byrd Turner.
America for me / Henry Van Dyke
How doth the little busy bee / Isaac Watts
Chairs in snow / E.B. White
O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
This is just to say / William Carlos Williams
Poem / William Carlos Williams
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
Spring and all / William Carlos Williams
When I grow up / William Wise
Choosing shoes / Ffrida Wolfe
Written in March / William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth
Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth
Daffodils / William Wordsworth
The kitten at play / William Wordsworth
A blessing / James Wright
Escape / Elinor Wylie
The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
To a squirrel at Kyle-Na-No / William Butler Yeats
The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats
An Irish airman foresees his death / William Butler Yeats
He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats
Epitaph for a Concord boy / Stanley Young.