Poems about Children

• Old Farmer Jack

  Old farmer Jack gazed on his wheat,
  And feared the frost would nip it.

  by C J Dennis 12 lines, 1 comment
• The Looking Glass

  When I look into the looking glass
    I'm always sure to see -

  by C J Dennis 8 lines, 1 comment
• There are holes in The Sky

  There are holes in the sky
  Where the rain gets in

  by Spike Milligan 5 lines
• Sick

  Sick "I cannot go to school today,"
  Said little Peggy Ann McKay.

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 31 lines
• "A boat beneath a sunny sky"

  A boat  beneath a sunny sky,
  Lingering onward dreamily

  by Lewis Carroll 26 lines, 5 comments
• The Morning Walk

  When Anne and I go out a walk,
  We hold each other's hand and talk

  by A.A. Milne 9 lines
• Pinkle Purr

  Tattoo was the mother of Pinkle Purr,
  A little black nothing of feet and fur;

  by A.A. Milne 24 lines, 2 comments
• Jonathan Jo

  Jonathan Jo
  Has a mouth like an "O"

  by A.A. Milne 19 lines
• I had a hippopotamus

  I had a hippopotamus; I kept him in a shed
  And fed him upon vitamins and vegetable bread.

  by Patrick Barrington 38 lines, 3 comments
• There was an Old Woman

  There was an old woman
  Liv'd under a hill,

  by Anonymous British 4 lines, 2 comments
• The Secret

  There is no treasure
  in all the world

  by Eiluned Lewis 28 lines, 3 comments
• Vegetables

  Eat a tomato and you'll turn red
  (I don't think that's really so);

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 7 lines
• Drinking Wine

  I made my home amidst this human bustle,
  Yet I hear no clamour from the carts and horses.

  by Tao Chien 10 lines, 4 comments
• George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions.

  When George's Grandmamma was told
  That George had been as good as gold,

  by Hilaire Belloc 34 lines
• The Pig's Tale

  Little Birds are dining
  Warily and well,

  by Lewis Carroll 143 lines
• Baby

  Where did you come from, baby dear?
  Out of the everywhere into here.

  by George MacDonald 34 lines, 2 comments
• Dog-Gerel

  I sat beside a lady fair,
      A lady grave and sweet;

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 40 lines, 2 comments
• Little Jack Horner

  Little Jack Horner
  Sat in a corner,

  by Anonymous British 6 lines, 1 comment
• The Little Jumping Girls

  JUMP–jump–jump–
  Jump away

  by Kate Greenaway 24 lines
• Jack Sprat

  Jack Sprat
  Could eat no fat,

  by Anonymous British 5 lines
• We have a Little Garden

  WE have a little garden,
  A garden of our own,

  by Beatrix Potter 9 lines, 2 comments
• Charles Augustus Fortescue, Who always Did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune.

  The nicest child I ever knew
  Was Charles Augustus Fortescue.

  by Hilaire Belloc 32 lines, 1 comment
• The Orange Tree

  The young girl stood beside me.    
  I Saw not what her young eyes could see:

  by John Shaw Neilson 48 lines, 2 comments
• Fairies

  They don’t believe in fairies,
  Those old folk wide and staid,

  by Alice Guerin Crist 33 lines, 4 comments
• The Dragon Fly

  A dragon fly upon my knee
  Is sitting looking up at me.

  by Dorothy Keeley Aldis 8 lines, 1 comment
• A Midsummer Noon in the Australian Forest

  Not a bird disturbs the air!
  There is quiet everywhere;

  by Charles Harpur 46 lines, 4 comments
• Prince Tatters

  Little Prince Tatters has lost his cap!
  Over the hedge he threw it;

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 26 lines, 7 comments
• Dirty Jim

  THERE was one little Jim,
  'Tis reported of him,

  by Jane Taylor 26 lines, 1 comment
• Look at all those monkeys!

  Look at all those monkeys
  Jumping in their cage.

  by Spike Milligan 18 lines
• A light exists in spring

  A light exists in spring
    Not present on the year

  by Emily Dickinson 23 lines, 2 comments

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