Greatest Children's Poems Ever Written


Simple Simon
Anonymous

Sing a Song of Sixpence
Anonymous

There Was a Crooked Man
Anonymous

There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Anonymous

This Little Piggy
Anonymous

Wee Willie Winkie
Anonymous

A Farewell
Charles Kingsley

Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti

Caterpillar
Christina Rossetti

Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?
Christina Rossetti

Hopping frog, hop here and be seen
Christina Rossetti

Lie a-bed
Christina Rossetti

Lullaby, oh, lullaby!
Christina Rossetti

Eldorado
Edgar Allan Poe

Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Eugene Field

Little Boy Blue
Eugene Field

Count That Day Lost
George Eliot

Baby
George Macdonald

Children
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Children’s Hour
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arrow and the Song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Boy’s Song
James Hogg

The Violet
Jane Taylor

Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll

Of Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

The Lobster Quadrille
Lewis Carroll

A Boy’s Thanksgiving Day
Lydia Maria Child

The House That Jack Built
Randolph Caldecott

The Year’s at the Spring
Robert Browning

Foreign Lands
Robert Louis Stevenson

Where Go the Boats?
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Land of Counterpane
Robert Louis Stevenson

Windy Nights
Robert Louis Stevenson

Bed in Summer
Robert Louis Stevenson

My Shadow
Robert Louis Stevenson

Looking-glass River
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fairy Bread
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Unseen Playmate
Robert Louis Stevenson

My Ship and I
Robert Louis Stevenson

My Kingdom
Robert Louis Stevenson

Picture-books in Winter
Robert Louis Stevenson

My Treasures
Robert Louis Stevenson

Block City
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Land of Story-books
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Little Land
Robert Louis Stevenson

Night and Day
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nest Eggs
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Flowers
Robert Louis Stevenson

My Bed is a Boat
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Swing
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Cow
Robert Louis Stevenson

Young Night Thought
Robert Louis Stevenson

Whole Duty of Children
Robert Louis Stevenson

Pirate Story
Robert Louis Stevenson

Looking Forward
Robert Louis Stevenson

A Good Play
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Land of Nod
Robert Louis Stevenson

A Good Boy
Robert Louis Stevenson

Escape at Bedtime
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wind
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sun’s Travels
Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer Sun
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Gardener
Robert Louis Stevenson

Historical Associations
Robert Louis Stevenson

To Any Reader
Robert Louis Stevenson

If
Rudyard Kipling

The Months
Sara Coleridge

Mary’s Lamb
Sarah Josepha Hale

Jim Jay
Walter de la Mare

The Lamb
William Blake

Night
William Blake

Three Things to Remember
William Blake

Laus Infantium
William Canton

Written in March: While Resting on the Bridge...
William Wordsworth

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