Category: Top Poems for Children by Famous Authors
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“Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
“Hope is the thing with feathers” By Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard, And sore must be the storm, That could abash the little bird That kept so many…
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A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
By Christina Georgina Rossetti My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water’d shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is…
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The seedling By Paul Laurence Dunbar
By Paul Laurence Dunbar 1. As a quiet little seedlingLay within its darksome bed,To itself it fell a-talking,And this is what it said: 2. “I am not so very robust,But I’ll do the best I can;”And the seedling from that momentIts work of life began. 3. So it pushed a little leafletUp into the light…
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Sunset by: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sunset By: Paul Laurence Dunbar The river sleeps beneath the sky, And clasps the shadows to its breast; The crescent moon shines dim on high; And in the lately radiant west The gold is fading into gray. Now stills the lark his festive lay, And mourns with me the dying day. While in the south…
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A Song from the Suds by Louisa May Alcott
A Song from the Sudsby: Louisa May Alcott Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,While the white foam rises high,And sturdily wash and rinse and wring,And fasten the clothes to dry.Then out in the free fresh air they swing,Under the sunny sky. I wish we could wash from our hearts and soulsThe stains of the…
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The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fightO’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,O…
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When the Frost is on the Pumpkin
By Jame Whitcomb Riley When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock,And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey-cock,And the clackin’ of the guineys, and the cluckin’ of the hens,And the rooster’s hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;O, it’s then’s the times a feller is a-feelin’…
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The Boatman
The Boatman “Ferry me across the water,Do, boatman, do.”“If you’ve a penny in your purseI’ll ferry you.” “I have a penny in my purse,And my eyes are blue;So, ferry me across the water,Do, boatman, do!” “Step into my ferry-boat,Be they black or blue,And for the penny in your purseI’ll ferry you.” by: Christina Georgina Rossetti
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A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not…
