Poetry speaks to children

First book / Rita Dove --

The quarrel / Maxine Kumin --

Letter to Bee / Emily Dickinson --

Hurt no living thing / Christina Rossetti --

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost --

Wolf / Billy Collins --

The tiger who wore white gloves / Gwendolyn Brooks --

from "The adventures of Isabel" / Ogden Nash --

On a flimmering floom you shall ride / Carl Sandburg --

El chicle / Ana Castillo --

The dentist and the crocodile / Roald Dahl --

Bear song / Kay Ryan --

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll --

Sneeze / Maxine Kumin --

Mrs. Mitchell's underwear / Dennis Lee --

Okay, brown girl, okay / James Berry --

Vowel owl (Roger) / John Hollander --

Magic words / Anonymous Inuit Poet, trans. by Edward Field --

The unwritten / W.S. Merwin --

Crayons : a rainbow poem / Jane Yolen --

Gas / C.K. Williams --

Knitted things / Karla Kuskin --

from Macbeth / William Shakespeare --

Frodo's song in Bree / J.R.R. Tolkien --

Eagle poem / Joy Harjo --

The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes --

I rise, I rise / Anonymous Osage poet --

Verses from "The elephant's child" / Rudyard Kipling --

Alphabet, pt. 1 / Seamus Heaney --

John Smith and his son, John Smith / Wallace Stevens --

About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi --

Dinosaur diets / Jane Yolen --

My sister saw a dinosaur / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Joey / Brad Leithauser --

Rabbit / Mary Ann Hoberman --

At last / James Stevenson --

Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to His Royal Highness / Alexander Pope --

Balloons / William Jay Smith --

Hide and seek / Robert Graves.

Every time I climb a tree / David McCord --

The reason I like chocolate / Nikki Giovanni --

Trips / Nikki Giovanni --

Mommies / Nikki Giovanni --

Lineage / Margaret Walker --

Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali --

Good luck gold / Janet S. Wong --

The secret song / Margaret Wise Brown --

Why? / James Stevenson --

The question / Karla Kuskin --

First grade / William Stafford --

Crying / Galway Kinnell --

Art class / X.J. Kennedy --

How to paint a donkey / Naomi Shihab Nye --

Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes --

Working with mother / Myra Cohn Livingston --

A faery song / W.B. Yeats --

The unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Paul Muldoon --

The lion and the lily / Elizabeth Spires --

hist whist / E.E. Cummings --

The ghost and Jenny Jemima / Dennis Lee --

from "The raven" / Edgar Allan Poe --

Sheep party / John Fuller --

Jamacian song / James Berry --

Halfway down / A.A. Milne --

Count to ten and we'll be there / Rita Dove --

opposite poem 4 / Richard Wilbur --

opposite poems 7 and 20 / Richard Wilbur --

from "The tale of Custard the Dragon" / Ogden Nash --

Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros --

Lies, all lies / William Cole --

Which is the best? / James Stevenson --

Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer --

The testing tree, pt. 1 / Stanley Kunitz --

Skating in the wind / Kristine O'Connell George --

A poem for Jesse / Sonia Sanchez --

To P.J. / Sonia Sanchez --

Valentine / Donald Hall --

Summer / W.D. Snodgrass --

Winter / W.D. Snodgrass --

The sun has a tail / Emanuel di Pasquale --

Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni --

I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz --

The tyger / William Blake --

Conversation with a mouse / Robert Bly --

On turning ten / Billy Collins --

How to stay up late / X.J. Kennedy --

Flashlight / X.J. Kennedy --

Maturity / X.J. Kennedy --

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Eugene Field --

Little / Dorothy Aldis --

Two in bed / Abram Bunn Ross --

Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman ---

The land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson --

from "The bed book" / Sylvia Plath --

The coming of teddy bears / Dennis Lee.