Category: Top Poems for Children by Famous Authors
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In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields reflects on fallen soldiers, urging the living to remember their sacrifice and continue the fight for freedom.
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Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti, a 19th-century poet, is celebrated for her heartfelt poetry inspired by nature and faith, influencing many.
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Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me
A prayer expressing gratitude to Jesus for care and protection, seeking forgiveness and blessings for loved ones and eternal rest.
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“The Queen of Hearts”
The speaker is puzzled by Flora’s consistent ability to hold the Queen of Hearts while playing cards, suggesting mystery and skill.
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Uphill By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Uphill By Christina Georgina Rossetti Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide…
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Summer By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Summer By Christina Georgina Rossetti Winter is cold-hearted,Spring is yea and nay,Autumn is a weathercockBlown every way:Summer days for meWhen every leaf is on its tree; When Robin’s not a beggar,And Jenny Wren’s a bride,And larks hang singing, singing, singing,Over the wheat-fields wide,And anchored lilies ride,And the pendulum spiderSwings from side to side, And blue-black…
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Signs of Spring by Mary Austin
Signs of Spring Cream-cups, butter-cups, Dandelions and sedges; Blackbirds in the poplar row, Sparrows in the hedges; Fruit-buds in the orchard Swelling with the rain; All the close-fed pasture-lands Growing green again. Poppies on the river-bluff Soon will wake from sleeping; Home along the foothills Woolly clouds a-creeping.
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Winter Turning
Winter Turning By Amy Lowell Snow is still on the ground,But there is a golden brightness in the air.Across the river,Blue,Blue, Sweeping widely under the archesOf many bridges,Is a spire and a dome,Clear as though ringed with ice-flakes,Golden, and pink, and jocund. On a near-by steeple,A golden weather-cock flashes smartly,His open beak “Cock-a-doodle-dooing”Straight at the…
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I’m Nobody! Who are You?”
I’m Nobody! Who are You?” By Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you?Are you – Nobody – too?Then there’s a pair of us!Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!How dreary – to be – Somebody!How public – like a Frog –To tell your name – the livelong June –To an admiring Bog! Synopsis Emily Dickinson’s…
